if by technical you mean a lot of notes real fast, well, feh... Neil Young is much more powerful and shows more emotion simply riding on one note in Cinnamon Girl
but that's just me, then again i only played in the 70's and 80's so what do i know
Posted on 11/29/2016 7:16:27 PM PST by Mariner
It shouldn't be a surprise, really, but still it's a bit startling to hear just how well the Rolling Stones can play the blues. Strip away the glitz, the oversized stages and the pyrotechnics, and you're left with two terrific guitarists, a frontman who can play an exuberant harp — and a drummer named Charlie Watts. No wonder Blue & Lonesome sounds so solid.
Their first studio album in more than a decade has the simplest of concepts: Put the guys in a studio for three days, give them a songbook heavy on Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf, and play it live, without overdubs. The album is noteworthy for what it is not: It's not a museum piece, not a tribute album, not an exercise in nostalgia, even if at times the sound harkens back to the blues covers that filled the Stones' first few albums.
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I've made thousands of dollars from my musical abilities. I play 5 instruments very well and sing. How many people will pay you to entertain them? I've played for huge crowds and never had a single complaint and have gained many fans. I know what I'm talking about and blues is for beginners. Your statement shows you don't have any clue what you're talking about.
You make me laugh... Enjoy your BB king.
He’s a music snob. The truth is a good blues player can say more, express more emotion and feeling, in one note than any rock shredder or jazz player can in the thousands of notes they play in a song. It foments jealously that someone not “technically” as good a player can move people to tears and they cannot due to the cold, antiseptic, unfeeling dreck they put out. To compensate, they put down what they don’t understand.
Thus, the blues are boring and too simple to them. Whatever makes you feel better, I guess.
You are over looking John Bolton.
First their name stems from a Muddy Waters song.
Second, Mick and Kieith met on the tube when Keith saw Mick carrying some albums including one by Muddy Waters. It was the blues that brought them together.
That sounds like just another way for you to say "I like technical rock and jazz songs better than blues," and then attempting to legitimize it by grafting an unrelated measure to it, in order to give your subjective opinion a whiff of objectivity.
Hooray for "technical" rock and jazz musicians. Yeah, there are some really impressive technical guys out there whose skills are just beyond the ken of mere mortals. But just as often, some of that stuff--and just to be contrarian I'd say most--is wholly without soul of any kind, and speaks to the human psyche as much as a bill of ladling from Ikea does.
The "greatness" of blues or any other genre depends chiefly on what you like, personally, not any measure like "how hard it is to play."
The progression over which Duane Allman solos in "Dreams" consists of two chords--like a D7sus4 or something and a D7--and yet it's so dripping with raw power and emotion and soul it sets your heart on fire. Same can be said about BB King's solo opening over "How Blue Can You Get"...Jimi Hendrix on "Red House"...hell, Jimi Hendrix on "Who Knows" (over one chord)...let's see...anything by Robert Johnson, Big Bill Bronzy...tons of Eric Clapton's work...goes on and on.
All of it might be "easy," technically, to play, but that's not nearly the only metric used to determine musical greatness.
Just say you don't like blues music, dude.
My standing: 30+ years of guitar/bass and other assorted string instruments, currently still gigging.
The blues isn’t really a musical genre; it’s more like endless variations of a single song.
Two younger white folks doing the blues ...... http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joe+bonamassa&view=detail&mid=934678938233C546E963934678938233C546E963&FORM=VIRE
Well, there is more to the blues than just 12 bar blues, even if that is all you will ever hear from your average “bar band” type blues band.
Besides, blues is not about harmonic variation, it’s more about melodic and rhythmic variation. Other forms of music sometimes focus on harmony but use the same rhythms or melody patterns in most songs. You can be boring playing any kind of music, or interesting playing any kind of music. It’s really a matter of the talent of the musician or composer.
They managed just fine deep in the South Side of Chicago, or places in New Orleans where the tourists are routinely shot.
I know what I like, and jazz sucks. You just sound like another blowhard braggart.
I’m always surprised at the number of bitter bragging know-it-alls here on FR. They spend a lot of time bragging about their vast knowledge and expertise, but they come off as whiney losers. They remind me of the most obnoxious guy I ever met. He knew everything about everything, and naturally was a hard-core liberal. He bragged about having more education than a doctor, but he didn’t have a BA. He had some low-level government job, naturally, and a dumb liberal wife. Eventually, he got arrested on a number of charges including assault, hit and run, leaving the scene, DUI, open container, and littering (when the cops caught him, he threw a bunch of beer bottles out the window). He lost his job, his wife threw him out, his daughter went to jail for drugs, his son moved to Canada, and he left town. That’s one of my favorite stories, and I remember it every time I meet a blowhard on FR.
But... could he play the blues?
He whined a lot, if that counts.
if by technical you mean a lot of notes real fast, well, feh... Neil Young is much more powerful and shows more emotion simply riding on one note in Cinnamon Girl
but that's just me, then again i only played in the 70's and 80's so what do i know
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