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VonBonfire

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Especially paging @JamesTiberiusKirk. Time to come up out of the pit of despair called OT and hang out and talk blues and gear since you are one of the chosen few here, lol. All are welcome, please keep it blue.

John Primer was at Rosa's Lounge last weekend. I enjoy his band. Just good solid blues minus guitar olympics, like you'd see at a club back in the day. I think he's 80 so def getting up there. Lotta blues and soul classics in his set. For those who don't know he was Muddy Water's guitarist for quite a few years. Any time I don't gig fri or sat I check Rosa's to see who's playing since they livestream everything. Omar Coleman has been another one of my favorites playing there semi-regular. And Melvin Taylor, that dude always goes for broke.
 
My all time favorite blues band is Little Walter's. I know you've all heard this song before but give it another listen. It's NOT straight blues changes in E. The A major changes to A minor and during the solos Luther Tucker and Robert Lockwood Jr throw in the Stormy Monday turnaround changes. I never noticed this until I sat down with a guitar in hand and studied the tune.

 
If you like reading about the blues I can't recommend this book enough.

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JamesTiberiusKirk said:
If you like reading about the blues I can't recommend this book enough.

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I haven't done a lot of reading the past few years but I did read "The Land Where Blues Began" by Alan Lomax maybe a decade ago. Eye opening stuff in there, cool stories from down in the Delta, the levy camp stuff was off the chain crazy. Highly recommended.

Lemme ask you this since you are out west, do you like a lot of that jump blues that seems to be the most popular style out there? The T-Bone style players like Kid Ramos and Anson Funderburgh (even though he's Texan originally too) seems to dominate that region.
 
70 Mach 1 said:
He bleeds the shit out of simple pents

Otis always said its easier to pull down than to push up

I copied the whole enchilada
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It IS easier to pull down than to push up, no question. I know a couple different guys down here who just flip the right handed strung axe to the left hand, both good players.
 
Robostyle said:
I'm a huge fan. I used to play pretty much exclusively blues. I don't currently play blues as much as i used to.
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I think that is the first personal detail you've shared on the forum, lol. I would've never have guessed. Glad to have you here robostyle.

What kinda blues stuff were you into?
 
VonBonfire said:
I haven't done a lot of reading the past few years but I did read "The Land Where Blues Began" by Alan Lomax maybe a decade ago. Eye opening stuff in there, cool stories from down in the Delta, the levy camp stuff was off the chain crazy. Highly recommended.

Lemme ask you this since you are out west, do you like a lot of that jump blues that seems to be the most popular style out there? The T-Bone style players like Kid Ramos and Anson Funderburgh (even though he's Texan originally too) seems to dominate that region.
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I'm old so I like rockabilly. What's that got to do with your question? Glad you asked...

I think rockabilly, western swing, and jump blues are all parallel variations on 'standard' blues. Take blues, add a pinch of jazz, a smidge of country and western and voila.

Yes. I really like jump blues.
 
It's funny i can listen to blues all day
I cant play it all day.
Gots to play some Nile Rodgers shit too.

The Freak Out riff gets the panties off in this house and even a free strip tease
 
JamesTiberiusKirk said:
I'm old so I like rockabilly. What's that got to do with your question? Glad you asked...

I think rockabilly, western swing, and jump blues are all parallel variations on 'standard' blues. Take blues, add a pinch of jazz, a smidge of country and western and voila.

Yes. I really like jump blues.
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I'm not much of a rockabilly guy but noticed some of the Nashville guys seem to mix blues and rockabilly pretty freely. The jump stuff def has few guys down here doing it very well, probably on account of the Jimmie Vaughan and Anson influence being big in TX.

Just a guess that you are cognizant of the T-Bone Walker and Charlie Christian taking lessons from the same guy stuff? It's interesting how the styles diverged and both players went on to basically set the standard for guitar in their genres. Must've been a helluva teacher....
 
VonBonfire said:
I think that is the first personal detail you've shared on the forum, lol. I would've never have guessed. Glad to have you here robostyle.

What kinda blues stuff were you into?
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The usual stuff i guess- all the classic artists, when i was first learning to play i thought i wanted to be Jorma Kaukonen lmao.
 
Robostyle said:
The usual stuff i guess- all the classic artists, when i was first learning to play i thought i wanted to be Jorma Kaukonen lmao.
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I saw Jorma and Jack Casady at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa back around '05 or so. That was a killer show. A dude I knew who worked at the Don Caesar used to score free tickets for all kinds of stuff from artists staying there.
 
When we were youngsters, all learning to play, the gold standard was "can you play Hideaway". The Mayall/Clapton version of course. It was our Eruption. We all copped bits and pieces, shared what we learned and over the years
Robostyle said:
The usual stuff i guess- all the classic artists, when i was first learning to play i thought i wanted to be Jorma Kaukonen lmao.
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Jorma's a great musician. Much respect for him from me.
 
VonBonfire said:
I'm not much of a rockabilly guy but noticed some of the Nashville guys seem to mix blues and rockabilly pretty freely. The jump stuff def has few guys down here doing it very well, probably on account of the Jimmie Vaughan and Anson influence being big in TX.

Just a guess that you are cognizant of the T-Bone Walker and Charlie Christian taking lessons from the same guy stuff? It's interesting how the styles diverged and both players went on to basically set the standard for guitar in their genres. Must've been a helluva teacher....
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I bought the early Thunderbirds LPs based on (believe or not) a Rolling Stone Mag review. For my tastes, I like early Jimmy as much as Stevie. Sadly all the Stevie clones turned me off of him for a while. The same thing happened with Hendrix.
 
JamesTiberiusKirk said:
When we were youngsters, all learning to play, the gold standard was "can you play Hideaway". The Mayall/Clapton version of course. It was our Eruption. We all copped bits and pieces, shared what we learned and over the years
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I love Hideaway! Probably played it 500 times as a show opener so I started doing the Stumble instead. I did the Stumble about 500 times and put together a similar instrumental of my own that is kinda like Hideaway. I'm not really sure which version of Hideaway I was doing I just know Eric Tessmer used to do a blazing fast version so I started doing a fast version too. He's kind of a blues-rocker and lives around L.A now, has done some stuff with Nancy Wilson, but used to be a regular attraction down on 6th Street in Austin.
 
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