Tone is in the……….

[311boogieman]

I see this and I like it. I wasn’t talking about this joint. The forum w the initials that won’t be named gave me a warning for posting a pic of Pete Bootygeig in an RIP Pee Wee Herman thread and I started to notice the hypocrisy……..
I doubt I’ll contribute here much but it looks like my kinda place. Joined in 2007 ? I had know idea.

Oh I knew where you were talking about

Enjoy your stay here

 

[VonBonfire]

This. I hate blues, but I play it in my cover band. So when I see a good blues player I try to cop licks and any tone trickery that I can apply to my own playing

Blues and soul are all I play. All I know how to play. The problem isn't so much the blues, it's the corny shtick that passes for blues today. Wingtips, news boy caps, docker slacks, bowling shirts, fedoras, guys named "Doc" who use words like "mojo". Stuff like that. And a lot of the bands are boring as hell, put you to sleep, oh no not stormy monday and mustang sally again types of groups that use weak fender mustangs and blues juniors and have a drummer that probably doesn't even know what a rimshot is.

There is blues-rock, and there is rocking blues, nobody knows the difference anymore but blues-rock=riff based kinda like rock music but with pentatonic leads. Rocking blues=Straight up blues with a powerhouse band driving it all. Man has that evaporated since I came around in the 90's into mostly throwback T-Bone wannabes with practice amps and wussbag drummers.