I can't stand the blues

[Heston]

Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.

[Flex]

Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.

No, taste is taste. Hell, CK has railed against the blues here on more than one occasion. There are a lot of different kids of blues though, not just white man electric blues. I'd think you might be interested in some of the old delta stuff or perhaps some of the blues-punk hybrid (like the Neckbones) stuff that gets kicked around these days.

[Dr. Medulla]

Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.

If it doesn't speak to you, you're not the audience. I can appreciate the historical importance of the blues, but generally it doesn't do anything for me either. Especially, as you mention, the fucking solos. Yay, good for you and your talent, but I'm bored.

[Heston]

Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.

No, taste is taste. Hell, CK has railed against the blues here on more than one occasion. There are a lot of different kids of blues though, not just white man electric blues. I'd think you might be interested in some of the old delta stuff or perhaps some of the blues-punk hybrid (like the Neckbones) stuff that gets kicked around these days.

I thought it was just the Pogues and Johnny Cash that CK railed against.
Nah, I'll never be converted, there's just not enough chord changes or melodic shifts for me, I'm afraid.

[eumaas]

I like some vocal-oriented blues, or where it melts into outsider music.

Overall, though I'm a jazz fan for a reason: gotta mix it up!

[Flex]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

[Wolter]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

[eumaas]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

Yep. Delta and early electric = before the blues got heavily formalized. The solos you'll find in the old stuff are generally weird and bent. Like Hubert Sumlin, who was an influence on Ribot.

[Heston]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?

[eumaas]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?

Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.

[Heston]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?

Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.

It sure doesn't get my mojo working.

What the fuck does mojo mean by the way? They were penny sweets where I'm from.

[Wolter]

Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.

It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?

Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.

It sure doesn't get my mojo working.

What the fuck does mojo mean by the way? They were penny sweets where I'm from.

It's voodoo, honeychile.

[Heston]

What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.

But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?

Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.

It sure doesn't get my mojo working.

What the fuck does mojo mean by the way? They were penny sweets where I'm from.

It's voodoo, honeychile.

I knew it was some Deep-South mumbo jumbo.

[eumaas]

Mojo's a kind of hoodoo charm bag. You put the roots and the concerns in it, and you feed it every week.

[Wolter]

Mojo's a kind of hoodoo charm bag. You put the roots and the concerns in it, and you feed it every week.

Also, you should paint your porch roof haint blue to keep the ghosts away.