I've heard one blues song: I get it

[axemeaquestion]

I think axemeaquestion is right on the money.

I hope you've got big internet shoulders, bro. You're not fitting in to the groupthink. This is the New York Times.

 

[Scumback Speakers]

I've heard this "Blues is no big deal, easy, boring, yada yada..." argument before.

But when you ask these folks who think it's easy, boring, yada yada to play it they usually can't...can't get the feel, the note selection, or the emotion. I see it happen all the time. What "should be so easy" rarely is.

Are there boring blues tunes? Oh...sure...lots, Mustang Sally is one I roll my eyes at constantly.

Are there soulless prog rock tunes? Sure, lots of them.

Is either music type better than the other? Maybe, maybe not, depends on what you like, I guess. I dig Trans Siberian Orchestra (TSO), RUSH, and lots of non blues-rock, rock, and blues songs.

Is it then ok to act all nonchalant and superior because you prefer one to the other and post that on a public forum? Sure! (Not so sure most would do it, though.)

Does it mean you're right to do it? Sure, if you enjoy stirring the pot and getting flamed by other forum members.

When you've lived/played long enough, you'll realize there are no "absolute" sweeping statements, such as the OP's original post on this thread. But you can't make someone have a global view of music when they've got trifocals on. That only comes with experience, an open mind, and the realization that you don't (and never will) know everything, and shouldn't make public statements that make you look like you're God's Gift to Guitar (The Holy Spirit? Seriously?)but only have room temperature IQ beat by a few points, in the Arctic.

But hey, I've been wrong before, I'll probably be wrong again.

 

[axemeaquestion]

But hey, I've been wrong before, I'll probably be wrong again.

Perhaps sooner than you think, friend.

I'm surprised at the thin skin many of you have. No one was attacked personally. It seems to be a somewhat popular thread in comparison to others. This is an internet forum, not a UN Conference on Global Warming.

 

[mentoneman]

carlygtr is axeme

 

[axemeaquestion]

carlygtr is axeme

Whodat?

Post a clip of carly so we can do a stylistic comparison of his technique vs mine. That will be definitive.

 

[killertone]

Every fuckballs with a Strat thought he could play Little Wing like SRV.

Damn... I'm sure glad you didn't hear the version I posted a week or so ago...

Of course..., I wasn't trying to play the SRV version and know I couldn't anyway...

Steve

Didn't hear it but I am sure it was better than what I used to hear in the clubs back in the 90s.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

carlygtr is axeme

 

[Scumback Speakers]

But hey, I've been wrong before, I'll probably be wrong again.

Perhaps sooner than you think, friend.

I'm surprised at the thin skin many of you have. No one was attacked personally. It seems to be a somewhat popular thread in comparison to others. This is an internet forum, not a UN Conference on Global Warming.

Please. In this thread you've referred to other posters as "ladies". You've posted a pretty narrow viewpoint on blues, and insulted more than a few people. You've hailed yourself as "The Holy Spirit" of guitar playing if Clapton is God...there's probably no end to the lofty pedestals you've put yourself on that no one else sees or cares about.

And don't think of me as your friend, either, you're not. I don't have friends with such narrow mind sets & view points that think they're the Holy Spirit of Guitar! LOL You certainly are full of yourself, that's for sure. For the life of me I can't figure out why you still have a day job if you're so talented...and where's that discography of released albums?

I deal with a few players through my business that are very talented (to say the least), yet they don't display the arrogance, and ignorance you've posted here. They're learned that having your type of attitude is counterproductive, something you've yet to figure out.

Why don't you delete this thread, and start over with a fresh, more humble attitude? Because if you think you're all that, you probably aren't. Then you might have a chance on this forum, if this thread disappears, along with your lofty, know it all attitude. They both deserve to die quickly, not gracefully.

I don't see you doing that, though, so expect the flogging to continue for awhile! I've said my piece, and wasted enough time on this thread & your attitude. I have to get ready to meet some real guitar players later today.

 

[Hua and a tele]

Seriously, youtube videos of my buddys band the ten foot polecats who are influenced by mississipi hill county stuff kimbrough,burnside, blind willie johnson and closely watch both his picking and fretting hands and what he does with just 5 strings on his guitar. Then pick up your guitar and try to play along with it then shut your mouth. While you watch realize the constant bass notes you hear are coming frm the guitar while he plays over it as they have no bass player

 

[axemeaquestion]

But hey, I've been wrong before, I'll probably be wrong again.

Perhaps sooner than you think, friend.

I'm surprised at the thin skin many of you have. No one was attacked personally. It seems to be a somewhat popular thread in comparison to others. This is an internet forum, not a UN Conference on Global Warming.

You've hailed yourself as "The Holy Spirit" of guitar playing if Clapton is God...there's probably no end to the lofty pedestals you've put yourself on that no one else sees or cares about.

Scumback, as you can see, since you just wrote it, I hailed myself as The Holy Spirit of guitar playing if Clapton is God.

IF.

Clapton is not God, as you can tell by my other opinions of his playing. Is he good? Yep. Influential? Sure. God? No.

Therefore, I was not calling myself the The Holy Spirit of guitar playing.

I trust this clarifies the issue for you, internet buddy.

 

[jlbaxe]

rare, that first tune sounds like the ramblings of a senile guy using a newspaper to keep warm. I will say that I did find it difficult to jam along with. So in that sense, it's on a slightly higher plane than your average blues.

I'm sure this is not the only thing you find difficult to jam along to.
You are just revealing how truly ignorant you are. But, you will remain in your current state until YOU decide to learn. You mentioned Holdsworth. BB King is a household name, but almost no one knows who Alan Holdsworth is. Blues has a much broader appeal. You don't have to like this, but it is true. Your original statement could be made(in ignorance) about any style of music.

Based on your logic, Justin Bieber is the greatest artist of our generation. After all, he's even more known than BB King.

You don't have to like this, but it's true.

Finally someone says the truth here! Justin Bieber is the worlds greatest musician of any generation and his style transcends all genres. Damn Right!

What! You said "he" ??? I thought that was just and ugly preteen flat chested girl. He???? Really???

 

[Greazygeo]

I cant stand 12 bar blues to listen to or play it. It's not an interesting form of music for me. But the music form has little to do with a blues or a pentatonic scale really. Sure they may be used in it, but to say you know those two scales and can play blues is very beginner like. Pentatonic and blues scales can be very "out" sounding depending on the usage.

Holdsworth is killer and I'd much rather listen to that. But when I first heard it, hated it. Took a long time to "get" it.

 

[rupe]

No doubt the OP is laughing to himself at how well he sucked many of us in with an obvious troll thread. If we don't take the bait it goes away. Its simple...don't feed the animals.

To the OP...it's obvious that you're an attention seeker...you should post this at some other site that's far more passionate about the blues (like TGP) to really get a reaction. They'll love you over there...why troll the shallow waters when the deep sea awaits?

 

[Meathead]

If you were old enough in the 50's and 60's to appreciate the guitarists of the time, you would still know what they did for music....I'm not.

I know what EVH did for guitar, because I remember saying 'what the fock' when I first heard it...if you are younger you have no clue what EVH, Clapton, Page, Hendrix, etc did for furthering guitar...it's too watered down now buy imitators and guys that took it further.

 

[axemeaquestion]

No doubt the OP is laughing to himself at how well he sucked many of us in with an obvious troll thread.

Why would you assume that it's a troll thread? I stated my opinion knowing some would agree or disagree. I'm not sure why you can't consider it to be an interesting conversation rather than a troll thread.

 

[Scumback Speakers]

No doubt the OP is laughing to himself at how well he sucked many of us in with an obvious troll thread.

I got it, sir. That's why I posted he'd be turning to stone when the sun comes up.

 

[Motorpud]

It's not as much a pack mentality as a group of people who have a decent forum to exchange ideas in a mature way and take offense to a trolling butt-munch making ignorant generalizations about an art form they can't possibly understand because of the fog of stupidity they have enveloped themselves in.

That is so dead on.

carlygtr is axeme

If not then he is .....

 

[rupe]

No doubt the OP is laughing to himself at how well he sucked many of us in with an obvious troll thread.

Why would you assume that it's a troll thread? I stated my opinion knowing some would agree or disagree. I'm not sure why you can't consider it to be an interesting conversation rather than a troll thread.

This is last marshmellow that I'll toss into the cage since you seem to have articulated a reasonable question (even though its probably just to suck me in to a reaction).
You come off as having at the very least a modicum of intelligence and you're a decent player...surely you don't actually think that hearing "one blues song" enables you to "get it"? Even with the limited format of 6 notes and a I,IV,V progression (which is certainly not representative of all blues) there is a wealth of different approaches. Would it be correct to say "I heard Roll the Bones...I get Rush"? Hell no. And I think you're bright enough to know that, yet you chose to take the obtuse approach and stir the pot...classic troll post.

 

[axemeaquestion]

No doubt the OP is laughing to himself at how well he sucked many of us in with an obvious troll thread.

Why would you assume that it's a troll thread? I stated my opinion knowing some would agree or disagree. I'm not sure why you can't consider it to be an interesting conversation rather than a troll thread.

This is last marshmellow that I'll toss into the cage since you seem to have articulated a reasonable question (even though its probably just to suck me in to a reaction).
You come off as having at the very least a modicum of intelligence and you're a decent player...surely you don't actually think that hearing "one blues song" enables you to "get it"? Even with the limited format of 6 notes and a I,IV,V progression (which is certainly not representative of all blues) there is a wealth of different approaches. Would it be correct to say "I heard Roll the Bones...I get Rush"? Hell no. And I think you're bright enough to know that, yet you chose to take the obtuse approach and stir the pot...classic troll post.

It was a mild exaggeration. Of course there are variances within blues. But overall, it's kinda all similar, and limited.

Could you ascertain that by listening to one song? Maybe not. But you wouldn't have to listen to too much to come to that conclusion. Or at least I didn't.

You have every right to love the blues and think it's the bee's knees. There are many aspects of it that I dislike and I am simply articulating them in this thread.

We may form an alliance on another thread, for all I know.

Oooh, I suckered you into a reaction. Don't be so defensive, squire. You were merely interested in responding, and you did. There's no need to think you've been suckered. No one's been suckered.

People will still continue to produce new blues music, despite my best efforts to bring such activities to a grinding halt.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Ok. ladies, here's a first mix, unmastered, of your old buddy axemeaquestion playing the axe.

OK, this is all i need to hear, i get it. Such innovation there! Now where's that rolling eyes smiley?