What Do You Think About The Blues

[Funky54]

Originally Posted by dlguitar64

I LOVE Son House-for me he is the epitome of soul and what the Blues is all about.Thin Lizzy on the other hand puts me to sleep.

Move to Orlando. <These guys are everywhere. Try playing Foo Fighters or Cult and these guys come over telling you its steeling and taking the credit from the oppressed playgerized Blues (House types) fathers. Morons would say the same about Blondie.

[airwarrior]

Originally Posted by Pfeister

I truly think the blues would be different today if Hendrix was alive

I think our only hope now is Dan Auerbach. You hear him play live and you know it's something special. Their fan base is growing and the band keeps evolving. I only hope it's contagious.

Dan's a monster. I can't say I love the direction they're going musically right now (though I do like the new album a lot), but just about everything those two do is god damned amazing.

[Frankee]

Some of it is the bomb.
Some of it sucks.
Some of it is just ok.

Just like anything else.

[Mike9]

Since I have had the blues I embrace the blues. It's not the end all music genre for me, but it's always within reach.

[Average Joe]

I used to be a card carrying member of the blues police - I listened to nothng else for 4-5 years. Now, I still like some of it but I've burned out on a lot of other stuff. What still works for me is the blues that lean towards the jazz side rather than the rock side - there's way way too much mediocre boogie blues out there. Also, the more sofisticated side of blues seem to be less afflicted by the blues machismo disease. It may soud good for a song or two but if the whole set or record is about how big and bad the artist is, that gets frightfully dull

[shane88]

the blues to me is essentially a dead artform in as much as i don't want to hear anyone now in a bar play some 12 bar nonsense - the old blues masters i worship tho - if ur gonna do new music then build on the old stuff - i see hip hop as an example of building on the old blues forms - ymmv

bottom line - don't try to compete with robert johnson, son house, john lee hooker, howlin' wolf & muddy et al

[bluesjunior]

Regardless of whether you like or loathe the blues 90% of rock music wouldn't exist without it.

[uncle psychosis]

I like early acoustic blues---stuff like Robert Johnson. White-guy electric blues---like Eric Clapton/SRV kind of stuff---I find almost entirely unlistenable.

[Dickie Fredericks]

Meh... I certainly do appreciate its influence on the music we have today. I listen to the blues station on XM from time to time. I have blues stuff here from I guess all the way back to the 20's or 30's just so I could really get a grasp on what made it so great and um, yeah, I don't get the appeal.

I am certainly not gonna dismiss it though as it is an art form unto itself. It is the foundation of pretty much all the music Ive loved over the years. So, I gotta cut the blues some slack.

I am certainly not going to go to a club to hear it all night long though. That is for sure.

[Thwap]

I'm going with it's okay I guess.

It doesn't do much for me, but it won't drive me out of the room either.

[clarkram]

since I play in a blues band I voted love it, but I really don't like it anymore than blues/rock stuff.

I will say that I enjoy playing in a blues band more than I have enjoyed the classic rock type bands I've been in.

[bashlin]

the blues is much more fun to play than listen to ..JMO

[elpueblosound]

Originally Posted by bluesjunior

Regardless of whether you like or loathe the blues 90% of rock music wouldn't exist without it.

...and 97% of Jazz

[DGDGBD]

I've always liked some of it but I'm not a blues connoisseur or get that deep into it. I'm really more of a rock n roll fan as I like the up-tempo blues songs (featuring more of the maj. pent scale) a hell of a lot more than the slower, sadder, minor-pent blues style.

[Funky54]

Originally Posted by bluesjunior

Regardless of whether you like or loathe the blues 90% of rock music wouldn't exist without it.

Love or Hate Big Band 90% of the Blues wouldn't have exixsted with out it.

Howlin Wolf or Muddy Waters (can't remember): "We couldn't afford horns in those days, SO we was bending strings trying to get that sound"

There is as much Country, Big band and Folk rapped up in Rock as there is Blues...get over it.