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I maintain that labels only reduce people to sub-human status. The hypostasization of the erotic, enervates the personal.

Post modernisism is for the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. The human experience (as it relates to our co-dependency on a societal structure) has now been ruduced to nothing more than a storage bin of impulses and feelings, and never a care nor sacrifice is made except to keep all of our feelings from becoming tangled with one anothers. A clinical attempt to sterilize the human existence and to protect each other from the responsibility of one another.


We are a sick world. It is now normal for a fellow that practices homosexual sex to not only find no fault with but to actually be honored to be known as a "homosexual". As if all that he is and all that is substance to his human identity can only be opened through the prism and index of a sexual behavior.


At that point we have failed to "tolerate" the thousands of other traits that make us human and a person.

We have found the enemy,................and it is us,..........or we,..........or is it them?


CYB

Timeline: Date, October 14th, 1999, oval office

Yeah, SRV couldn't hold a candle to Clapton (barf). Clapton is sterile and stiff. He is clean, yes, and very tight as a mucisian, but he is above average in talent and hardly a God. Remind me again of the innovations (riffs, changes, progressions) that SRV aped from Clapton please?

And SRV's cover of little wing was just horrid I must say. (Laughing at you) Even though Noel Redding once said that SRV held the standard for doing that cover song.

I am actually more of a Jimi man, but my love for his style extends to SRV.

ou obviously think that Clapton is worthy of mass knee pads. I can simply see through his playing (and yes it is that thin). There is no soul therein, and that is what seperates SRV from Clapton. I brought SR into this, because obviously Clapton's claim to fame was being a rare white blues player in the sixties. My entree of SRV into the conversation is to imply that if you want to look at real blues player that happens to be white and actually had mojo, you would look to SRV for that standard.

As far as electric hard blues goes. It's kind of hardto look past Hendrix.

And believe it or not, play this instrument for half of my living (at least on the weekends). So yes, I did have to go practice as posting here does not pay.

Enjoy the rest of your evening listening to "Layla" and "tears in heaven".


CYB

To each his own, but Steve Morrison is a better Jimmy Page than Jimmy Page is.

Good night. I have to go practice

Beck just doesn't connect with me. He again, like C;apton, is sterile

Page?

Are you kidding?

I play both the Gibsons and Fenders.

Hard blues, funk, blues rock are the genres I like the most.

I play a 68' LP special, a 59' American trat (same set up, or much like SRV's #1), and a Gibson 330 TC (slim, full hollow body)

Take a listen to some of the waltz and fast blues that SRV played like "rude mood", "say what" and "scuttle buttin". Then get back to me.

His chord progressions we're very unique. You can't tell me that any blues player had switched between A minor to E minor stuff like that. Timing, cleanlines, picking, speed, accuracy, amd chord blend were fantastic.

Nothing quite like that texas blues sound.

So lemme get this straight. Because I haven't recorded on Erics level, then I also forfieght the means to objectively decipher the difference between him and other guitarists.

Yeah, that makes alot of sense.

By the way - you'd be surprised at who I've played with and for.

James Lee Hooker - ?????

There should be no comment necessary

Above average are the words I'd use. Nothing catchy to Claptons playing. Jus aping a few Robert Johnson riffs (in a sterile way, mind you) and a couple of Buddy Guy fills and wallah, you have Clapton.

EVH is a true shredder and can play his ass off, but as far as mucisianship and artistry it just isn't there.

unfortunately. I'm a musician, and I loe to stir the pot and argue about these things. What can I say, I'm a guitar snob.

SRV was definately innovative. Playing blues in minor E and minor A family chords, and playing it progressively had not been done before. Hendrix dabbled in it, but SRV cleaned it up and made it an art.

You may be wrong on this.

I wanted it to be a true vanity. I'm vain, trust me. Plus I'm a music snob, so I have that going for me also.

I wanted it to be a true vanity. I'm vain, trust me. Pls I'm a music snob, so I have that going for me also.

Clapton is OK, his Cream stuff was OK. SRV, Hendrix, Buddy Guy, etc. etc. Those are virtuoso's of the guitar. Clapton is very sterile in his playing. He is over rated.

And don't get me wrong, I like Clapton and love his Cream stuff, but he isn't the virtuoso that many clam. Hardly innovative at all, just a run of the mill blues player. He became a commodity in the sixties because he was a white American man playing delta blues and hard blues rock. So what? he hasn't done a thing since Cream and Derek and the Dominoes.


Sue me

What?...............Drugs kill? Oh mi gosh, News at eleven.


However, your point had a much more personal tone top it than the sterile but friendly informercial about the dangers of drug use that you now ascribe to it.

Suit yourself, but your post and others like it came across as very "cigar in the mouth".

I feel that it's careless.

Yeah dude, that was cool. Go get that tough rapper who's in the morgue and show him who's boss. Sometimes I am simply amazed at the lack of human dignity we ascribe to. No Mr.Jones wasn't a "good" guy, but he sure wasn't the "gangster" you suppose he was either. If you had heard any of his raps, he was mainly a clown, a comedian sort of raper. I grant that he was a lousy adult, and an irresponsible one to boot, but so is my brother and many of his little friends and sure as hell won't point out that they were al "little thugs" if they were to die from some jackass decisions they made.

At the end of the day, take a deep breath and remember that this guy was a person. An irresponsible adult, and a faulted human being yes, but a human being nonetheless. He made criminal mistakes of a non violent manner for which he paid a debt to society. He then (from all accounts) got out of jail and tried to clean himself up. Sometimes people are too far gone to clean up (as this was probably the case with this guy).

Making comments such as "I won't getting all choked up over another rap assholes death" neither adds to the point or remedies the ailment that any substantive point could be invested toward. Keep that to yourself. Making that coment out loud shows a disdain that runs deeper than visceral, skin deep level into an evidence of pent up anomous. For what? Why does it matter in such a negative way to the point of evoking wordsthat vent the temptation to piss on a grave, or pile on?

I don't get. Keep in mind that I am no "bleeding heart" asshole either. I know full and well theat this guy was an irresponsible and wreckless adult, but he was also young, and I can't celebrate the death of youth in any event.

Perhaps you can, have at it.