I dont play that blues music NO MORE!

[DonM]

I'm staying here - HOME!
ain't packing Fender Vibrolux's-es and Teles no more - standing up and singing and playing to the same 20 people no more!

enoughs enoughs - right?

[Caretaker]

If that is why you played and why you`d quit you were playing the blues for the wrong reasons.

[Teleplayer]

That's such as sad story, it would make for a good blues tune.

[Bluesbuff]

Well I guess you could stay home and put up new curtains, paint the bathroom, shave your beard and join the quilting society. I'll be happy to pull up the truck and cart off all that old gear you don't have a use for anymore........... nah

[eBay]

That's a great idea for a blues tune!

[shihanderek]

Aw, you just been payin yer dues so you can REALLY play them bluz.

[JELLIS]

Everyone knows the facts, we all know the real music.
Real blues started and ended with young black guys, about 70 years ago.
Fake blues started and ended with old white guys, forgive me SRV.
This debate will never end, unless Robert Johnson
gets out of his grave and starts kickin some honky ass.

[GuitarsFromMars]

I'm staying here - HOME!
ain't packing Fender Vibrolux's-es and Teles no more - standing up and singing and playing to the same 20 people no more!

enoughs enoughs - right?



wrong.

[gkoelling]

I still love the blues and want to play nothing else even if JELLIS wants to judge me for it.

Do what you're comfortable with, Don.

Just DO NOT STOP winding pickups!

[davess23]

You actually got 20 people to listen? And since you said "the same" I'm figuring they were willing to listen to you play more than once, right? You lucky bastard. You can serve as an inspiration to some of us. Why you'd want to quit now is beyond me.

[JELLIS]

I still love the blues and want to play nothing else even if JELLIS wants to judge me for it.

Do what you're comfortable with, Don.

Just DO NOT STOP winding pickups!

I am in no position to judge, cuz I'm not a judge.
I'm just an everyman, I call em like I see em,
I see people babble on about the blues. I have no doubt, that, in their heads, they think they know blues music. Some do, most don't.

In my 60 years, I have been to a million bars, I've heard all kinds of music and I've played guitar with some old white guy blues bands.

So, it doesn't prove anything to you,
but I saw the light years ago.

Ain't no blues, no mo.

[XKnight]

As long as staying home and winding more pups is an option, I say go for it. After awhile you'll probably decide you miss the live crowd and get back into it again.

[The Doper]

I am in no position to judge, cuz I'm not a judge.
I'm just an everyman, I call em like I see em,
I see people babble on about the blues. I have no doubt, that, in their heads, they think they know blues music. Some do, most don't.

In my 60 years, I have been to a million bars, I've heard all kinds of music and I've played guitar with some old white guy blues bands.

So, it doesn't prove anything to you,
but I saw the light years ago.

Ain't no blues, no mo.

Thanks for informing the rest of us about the death of a significant part of black culture.
In a similar vein, rap is dead.
I mean, just last week I was in Queens and I looked high and low, but I never saw a black guy in an Adidas jumpsuit breakdancing and rapping about the housing projects while backed by a Casio beatbox.

[JELLIS]

Thanks for informing the rest of us about the death of a significant part of black culture.
In a similar vein, rap is dead.
I mean, just last week I was in Queens and I looked high and low, but I never saw a black guy in an Adidas jumpsuit breakdancing and rapping about the housing projects while backed by a Casio beatbox.

You're welcome.

[Droptop]

I'm staying here - HOME!
ain't packing Fender Vibrolux's-es and Teles no more - standing up and singing and playing to the same 20 people no more!

enoughs enoughs - right?

At your next show (cause you're not really going to quit) tell those 20 people to each tell two friends. Suddenly its the same 60 people.

[frank62]

Don, with all due respect it is possible you were not playing the blues to begin with. I have never seen a convincing blues player or singer that could not get and hold a crowd. I do it because it is and has been my life. There have been big crowds, big money and no crowds and no money. It is all the same to me. It is a hard row to hoe and the week get out fast. It is by and large a loser's game compared to almost any other style. If you do it for fame or fortune you will get a rude awakening because even if by some remote stich of luck that did occur you will still have the blues...if you ever did to begin with.

[DaveG]

I don't play that blues music NO MORE!
I'm staying here - HOME!
ain't packing Fender Vibrolux's-es and Teles no more -
standing up and singing and playing to the same 20 people no more!


That might make a pretty good blues tune... :D

[aram]

don, i've played for crowds of 2 million people in India, and audiences as small as just a few friends.

but no matter who i'm playing for, it doesn't make a difference.

i still close my eyes, go inside and play them the blues.

if i'm playing them jazz, i play them the blues.

if i'm playing them a punk tune, i play them the blues.

if i'm playing them the beatles, i play them the blues.

the blues isn't a form or style.

it's everything, all of life, your experiences, joys and disappointments. you just lay it all out on your guitar.

you play your heart on your guitar- that's blues.

while i certainly understand that it can be frustrating to play in front of people who may not seem to care,

i'd say that you need to change your perspective a bit too.

i don't mean this in a negative or a scolding way, but in a friendly way.

peace.

[joel]

>i've played for crowds of 2 million people

That's a h*ll of a gig!

[Doodad]

I wake up with my head and hand
I wish i was another man
'Cause i almost fed up with the blues

I think about the kitchen sink
Then i just shudder to think
'Cause I'm almost fed up with the Blues

[Chorus 1:]
If it don't let up, gonna get up
And get my life set up
'Cause I'm almost fed up with the Blues
Have some coffee, 'fore i call it quits
Might even put jam on my biscuit
'Cause i'm almost fed up with the Blues

There's a woman, a car, and an bank note due
But I'm gonna leave that up to you
'Cause i'm almost fed up with the Blues

If i get up they'll knock me down again
But what are you gonna do, my friend
When i'm almost fed up with the Blues

[Chorus 2:]
If it don't kill me, it thrills me
But somebody always bills me
And i'm almost fed up with the Blues
It's a gut check, a train wreck
With all of the usual suspects
And i'm almost fed up with the Blues

If these blues don't stop hurtin' me
Its curtains for my misery
'Cause i'm almost fed up with the Blues
Might get a job, or join a club
'Cause buddy i've whittled it down to the nub
And 'Cause i'm almost fed up with the Blues

[Chorus 2:]
If it don't kill me, it thrills me
But somebody always bills me
And i'm almost fed up with the Blues
It's a gut check, a train wreck
With all of the usual suspects
And i'm almost fed up with the Blues

[amigo30]

Have some coffee, 'fore i call it quits
Might even put jam on my biscuit
'

Now that's some creative rhymin'! :roll


Good job....I liked it.

[Doodad]

Not me. Mr Hiatt.

[edcat]

Everyone knows the facts, we all know the real music.
Real blues started and ended with young black guys, about 70 years ago.
Fake blues started and ended with old white guys, forgive me SRV.
This debate will never end, unless Robert Johnson
gets out of his grave and starts kickin some honky ass.

If those old white guys represent fake blues then I wanna play fake blues! You purists out there who would rather sound like some out of tune originator than SRV can have your real blues.

[morlll]

A crowd of 20? How many of them wanted to sit in?

I would take your place for a Canadian blues in Eh

[loudboy]

A crowd of 20? How many of them wanted to sit in?


3, but they were all harp players... <vbg>

[PosterBoy]

That's such as sad story, it would make for a good blues tune.

Sounds more like an Emo song to me

[RL in Fla]

Canadian blues in Eh

Is that Red Green's Blues ?

[SarasotaSlim]

Is that Red Green's Blues ?

Put some duck tape on it...:)





The title to this thread caught my eye - check out that last tune here

http://www.sarasotaslim.com/music-group-13.html

[Greggy]

>i've played for crowds of 2 million people

That's a h*ll of a gig!

But Indians are small people. LOL. This thread is a hoot. I'm so sick hearing about the blues. :stir

[fazendeiro]

Don, with all due respect it is possible you were not playing the blues to begin with. I have never seen a convincing blues player or singer that could not get and hold a crowd. I do it because it is and has been my life. There have been big crowds, big money and no crowds and no money. It is all the same to me. It is a hard row to hoe and the week get out fast. It is by and large a loser's game compared to almost any other style. If you do it for fame or fortune you will get a rude awakening because even if by some remote stich of luck that did occur you will still have the blues...if you ever did to begin with.
Wow. I don't know where to begin to even try and digest any of this.

[GuitarsFromMars]

this thread is giving me the blues...

[zekmoe]

Good decision. There's absolutly nothing more that needs to be said musically with blues. Definition of played out, so to speak.

[stratzrus]

...no matter who i'm playing for, it doesn't make a difference.

i still close my eyes, go inside and play them the blues.

if i'm playing them jazz, i play them the blues.

if i'm playing them a punk tune, i play them the blues.

if i'm playing them the beatles, i play them the blues.

the blues isn't a form or style.

it's everything, all of life, your experiences, joys and disappointments. you just lay it all out on your guitar.

you play your heart on your guitar- that's blues.


Good post.

[big mike]

I just play. I don't care if people show up or not. More is better, crowd interaction is fun, but I play for me.

[fazendeiro]

I just play. I don't care if people show up or not. More is better, crowd interaction is fun, but I play for me.
I hear many people say this, but if you just play for yourself, why go to all the trouble to do it in public?

[big mike]

Because for whatever the reason, just being out elevates my game, even if it's just a bartender and waitresses. We always bring some friends, there's better food and beer there, and it's more structured than a practice.

[Jon Silberman]

Jump blues is great to dance to and dancing is always good (and that should be repeated over and over again throughout your life, BTW). :)

[frank62]

^Yes, sorry about that one. I was having a real bad day. Bad, bad, bad on me.

[Thor74]

Because for whatever the reason, just being out elevates my game, even if it's just a bartender and waitresses. We always bring some friends, there's better food and beer there, and it's more structured than a practice.

Sho' nuff on that one.