What's your definition of the blues?

FatNWeak · **Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:18 pm

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:

Gorgon · **Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:34 pm

FatNWeak wrote:

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!

ripitup555 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:58 pm

It's a hole, a great big hole where someone or something used to exist and no matter who or how or what you try to replace it with it's still going to be calling your name when you waken up each and every morning for the rest of your days, it's whatever gets you through the day.

rileymcc · **Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:54 pm

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.

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.

dharma47 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:30 pm

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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tyronne · **Joined:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:52 pm **Posts:** 2005

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.

SNick · **Joined:** Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:15 am **Posts:** 522

The Blues is just a musical conversation about life. It's Happy, It's Sad, and It's everything in-between.