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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:04 pm
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jeez this thread is kinda scary :shock: :lol:


Whats the scary part??

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cryingstrat wrote:
joefaity wrote:
jeez this thread is kinda scary :shock: :lol:


Whats the scary part??

Probably the part about the Colonoscopy :shock:

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Yeah, they are a bit scary

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long live those who came before and those who coMe after,they where and still are great musicians,and we the people who they influenced still remember them for what they gave us....MUSIC

why do you compare???
do they not have their own style???
whos better,BB or Muddy???
J.winters or Peter green????
vai or satrani????

this is my opinion,i am not a pro guitarist or pretend to have any knowledge of the fret board,i like the sounds of that generation (late 60s early 70s) grew up on Hendrix fed music and still listen to his music,and i never tire of it.

dang i even know opening lines to purple haze and voodo child,hey joe little wing...LMAO

but seriously who are we to compare these artists??
everyone of us has a certain style we like and to compare
is just wrong IMHO...Thanks

how do i post picture of my guitars.


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This thread has gone further than I thought it would, but I also feel like some people are getting off track! 8)

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This thread has gone further than I thought it would, but I also feel like some people are getting off track! 8)
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Tracks are for horses. Fender is about innovation and flights of imagination. Get on board.


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Maruuk wrote:
Tracks are for horses. Fender is about innovation and flights of imagination. Get on board.


Trust me, I'm there, that's why I play guitar. But what I meant was that this wasn't meant as an argument thread. Seems like everything I say in this forum gets taken out of context.

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Tracks are for horses. Fender is about innovation and flights of imagination. Get on board.


Trust me, I'm there, that's why I play guitar. But what I meant was that this wasn't meant as an argument thread. Seems like everything I say in this forum gets taken out of context.


I know what you meant. The thread started out as a look at the progression of modern blues guitarists. Then it wandered from there. You're not being argumentative at all.

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cryingstrat wrote:
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Tracks are for horses. Fender is about innovation and flights of imagination. Get on board.


Trust me, I'm there, that's why I play guitar. But what I meant was that this wasn't meant as an argument thread. Seems like everything I say in this forum gets taken out of context.


I know what you meant. The thread started out as a look at the progression of modern blues guitarists. Then it wandered from there. You're not being argumentative at all.


Thank you. :)

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Bottom line is, when Mayer plays blues which he does occasionally, or when guys like Derek Trucks or Roy Rogers or even Clapton does an occasional blues number (in between "Beautiful Tonight" and "Tears in Heaven") these guys are all essentially sidemen in Dixieland Bands. A revival of music which has long passed. Nothing wrong with that, lots of folks love to listen to Dixieland Bands or Big Band/Swing revivals or even Doo Wop revivals.

But let's not pretend anything has been added to the medium since Buddy Guy, BB, Butterfield/Bloomfield, SRV, Jimi and even the great Brits like Clapton blazed new blues trails back in the 60's and 70's. That's all she wrote. The rest is copy band stuff now for over 20 years. Those artists said it all back then. Now we're just hearing it recycled over and over like a Martin Luther King speech. It's about memories of greatness past, not greatness present.

That's not to put it down, just to draw a clear distinction. Millions of folks still enjoy blues guitar performances all over the world. As they do performances of Chopin and Bach and Mozart. And Scott Joplin.

Thus the ultra conservative blue-haired old ladies who demand nothing but the dead composers be rehashed endlessly by local symphony orchestras all across America now share something with Gen X, Y and Z.

They're all clinging desperately to the past. Just like the monoliths on Easter Island looking backwards, not forwards . It's about failure, not the future.

I guess it's up to us geezers to kick some A, tear down the walls and let some daylight into this dank and dusty musical museum they call American Popular Music. Let's get it on by getting perfectly adequate tribute band players like Mayer off...the pedestal.

Who knows what The Next Thing is? That's the fun of it. That's the point of it. But it's never gonna happen unless we stop worshipping old icons like Roman Gods and show a little courage and vision to face the dark void lit by the creative sun of new musical pioneers.

That's the only way there even IS progression of blues performers. Keyword: PROGRESS.


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I don't understand how so many people can put John Mayer in the same league as Jimi and SRV. Mayer will soon be forgotten, Jimi and SRV will be remembered forever.

Personally I really don't think there are too many guitarists that are in the same league with Jimi and SRV.


you bet that one men. unless john mayer would create some controversy both fellow did not..think about giving free guitars and jam with amateurs hehe


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Just listening to SRV I can "feel" the steel on my finger tips. Now thats a master.


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I don't think there's any question SRV was a great bluesman. And an innovator within the constraints of the medium. John Mayer is a pretty boy popstar who has learned all the licks of Jimi and SRV and is a human loop machine of them. And that takes skill and practice to perform well, these are tough licks.

But we're talking the difference between Pavarotti and a good karaoke singer here. The Empire State building and an Arbys. One is awesome, jaw-dropping, and inspirational which speaks of the possibilities of the human soul.

And the other is a quick diversion from a bad date.


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Jimi did his own version of the title track 3 days after the release of Srgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, WHILE Paul and Brian Epstein is watching. He gets invited to an after party and when he arrives Paul McCartney opens the door and says 'That was brilliant"

Bob Dylan told him his version of All Along.... was way better than his own

JM is supporting the big guys, NOT blowing their minds!!!! I personally believe he would be considered better if he had an image for the press. Both Jimi and SRV looks like wild gypsys playing rock even wilder than hey look.
JM looks like every young mainstream guy and all his licks sound like already well known stuff.

Just my thoughts, don't know much about John Mayer and I don't intend to offend any1


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