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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:18 pm
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Just so tired of all these fraudsters trying to claim they've such angst with the blues and then driving off in their Ferrari's.

Money doesn't buy happiness. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:34 pm
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Gorgon wrote:
Just so tired of all these fraudsters trying to claim they've such angst with the blues and then driving off in their Ferrari's.

Money doesn't buy happiness. :wink:

Doesn't it? It's only people that have it that have the luxury of claiming that!

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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:58 pm
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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:54 pm
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To me they have killed the blues with over exposure and it's now became a cliche. Used for beer commercials and the like.

Real blues to me doesn't exist anymore and it certainly has nothing to do with EC, who bears as much resemblance to a bluesman as i do ie. not at all.

There's a difference between playing the blues and really being the blues. Just so tired of all these fraudsters trying to claim they've such angst with the blues and then driving off in their Ferrari's.

The blues was Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Bukka White, Mance Lipscomb, Skip James, then Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, BB King, then it was the British involvement but they were never bluesmen they were rock players who used blues stuff.

Thank you. Most of the 'blues' artist's today, like EC, don't sound anywhere near blue. I reckon somewhere around the 50's it got mixed into a pub rock scene.

Though money certainly doesn't buy happiness. If anything, for me it just pulls me away from it. People with a lot of money are hard to satisfy, making them fruterated with everyday things. They want more and more.

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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:30 pm
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The blues is that one woman whom you love so much it hurts...and she doesn't even know you exist.
The blues are those little pearls of wisdom your mom and dad tried to lay on you...that took too many years to sink in.
The blues are the haunting sounds of that lonely creature in the night whose lost a love one...or hasn't found that kind of love yet.
The blues are a warning to that bully not to mess with you or you'll $@!& them up badly.
The blues are a celebration of life and friends to play with.
The blues is a conversation between Miles, Coltrane and Adderley.
The blues is a witness to the down-trodden and oppressed...and a cry out against the oppressor.
The blues is bragging about how you can party all night long and still take care of business the next day.
The blues is being old enough to know how...and too old to do much about it.
The blues is an exorcism of pain,fear, anger and hurt.
The blues is empathy for the other.
The blues is in the immortal words of John Lee Hooker a Healer.
The blues are black and white and all shades of brown red and yellow...
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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:46 pm
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Gorgon wrote:
To me they have killed the blues with over exposure and it's now became a cliche. Used for beer commercials and the like.

Real blues to me doesn't exist anymore and it certainly has nothing to do with EC, who bears as much resemblance to a bluesman as i do ie. not at all.

There's a difference between playing the blues and really being the blues. Just so tired of all these fraudsters trying to claim they've such angst with the blues and then driving off in their Ferrari's.

The blues was Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Bukka White, Mance Lipscomb, Skip James, then Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, BB King, then it was the British involvement but they were never bluesmen they were rock players who used blues stuff.


BB King's net worth is in excess of $30Million...so by your definition he isn't a real bluesman?

Buddy Guy owns a Restaurant. http://www.buddyguy.com/

According to John Lee Hooker himself, he was worth millions primarily due to some great management in his last few years.

Muddy Waters said that if it wasn't for those "English boys" the Blues would have been forgotten.

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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:27 pm
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The Blues is just a musical conversation about life. It's Happy, It's Sad, and It's everything in-between.


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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 6:38 pm
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4 divorces...


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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:40 am
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Not sure I agree with many here...

The Blues is the basis for everything from Jazz to Rock, Country, Pop and everything since.

The Blues are a Bona Fide genre in much the same way much Classical Music is.

I suggest that there is waay more Mozart, Bethoven and Chopin being played today than ever was back in their day.

One of the major differences for the Blues is the Emotional component that goes into it. It is much more than simply getting the notes, changes and tempo correct.

A rendition of ' I'm Worried', 'The Thrill is Gone', 'Midnight Train', 'Sweet Home Chicago' or 'Gonna Shoot you Right Down' to name a very few, is just as valid today as ever.

What may be missing from the average white suburban band's version is this Emotional component. Something that cannot be learned as much as it must be experienced.

Not that there aren't life challenges today which evoke such emotions, but I think as a society, we are becoming more immune to realizing and acknowledging them.

People, especially younger generations, seem to have become de-sensitized, perhaps because of constant Media bombardment.

I don't mean to diss any younger people, but I am constantly amazed at many of their 'Zombie-like' demeanors. Actually, I'm confused by it.

I don't believe they don't feel, but rather are somehow programmed to not display it, or that it's not 'cool' to express it.

This to me, explains why alot of the Blues played today seems lacking.

'Course I could be wrong...

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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:21 am
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There are plenty of good bands/artist around today, with just as much expression as they did in the 30's. Yes, alot of people nowadays are robot like, and it makes me absolutley sick to think of what this generation is bringing humankind to. But what makes you say there is no one who understands or gets the blues today? Thats a bit of a geralisation....

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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:34 am
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rileymcc wrote:
http://au.myspace.com/thevascoera/music/songs/when-we-tried-to-party-to-forget-about-it-album-version-120743

There are plenty of good bands/artist around today, with just as much expression as they did in the 30's. Yes, alot of people nowadays are robot like, and it makes me absolutley sick to think of what this generation is bringing humankind to. But what makes you say there is no one who understands or gets the blues today? Thats a bit of a geralisation....


I don't see any disagreement between us. I don't think I generalized very much at all.

However, I never said: " there is no one who understands or gets the blues today...", that was you.

I did say that some bands may be lacking that emotional component. Also that some young people seem to be more inclined to hide emotion, not that they don't emote. In fact, I did say that I am sure that they do.

But, in the end, at least so far as you are concerned, I did fail to properly communicate my thoughts. Apologies for that.

The internet often seems such a poor form of communication.

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The blues ain't nothing but a good man, or woman, feeling down.


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Post subject: Re: What's your definition of the blues?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:22 pm
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I can't define it. I think it's beyond definition. This is the power of the blues! Are you listening?

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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:10 pm
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dharma47 that is the most beautiful expressive answer! kudos! Loved it!

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