Songs I Like
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Jason Gairn
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Love Can. Here are the Wooden Shjips. Brand new music.
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And some great live Can freakout.
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And some great live Can freakout.
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NeTree
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Jason Gairn
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There's a link between Can and BB. The bass player in Can is a fan of BBs, saying that "the reason so many metal players play so many notes is because they can't find the right one. BB King on the other hand can play the right one for a whole minute and it sounds like angels are singing". I got to agree with that. BB King can at any second go off on a great blues solo, but doesn't, you can hear the restraint in the musical tension of his playing. He shits on Steve Vai et al from oh so very high by simply plugging in.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Clapton likes to use restraint, but his is often boring, imo. I like his playing better when he cuts it loose.
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NeTree
Guest
BB is one of the few performers I've made a point to see more than once.
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Jason Gairn
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I agree totally. But the poor pensioner hasn't cut it loose since 1967.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
BB King doesn't impress me very much. Big whup - I can play anthing he can play. The same about the "Great" Robert Johnson... I just don't get it.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Albert King...BB King....., those guys had or have a few songs that seem uniquely fit to their musicianship. Their reputations were built on those. Albert King's first guitar was a cigar box with an attached neck and strings. They do go back into history, and maybe you can hear it in the way they play.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Yea, easy, simple notes. Today's guitarists completely blow them away, and I'm not talking about wheedely wheedely thrash speed metal. Heck, today's children do better... it's amazing.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Take John Lee Hooker, lots of up and coming and very good guitarists wanted to play in his bands, take the highly skilled Roy Rogers, for example. I pick up that they appreciated the atmosphere and maybe the subtleties. Perhaps it isn't so much discernible unless you are a quite highly skilled musician yourself? Maybe it was about being back stage with them during the break? 
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Jason Gairn
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Musicians tend to obsess about technique. Fans tend to obsess about how it makes them feel. It's a subtle and subjective thing. Thankfully.
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
I loves me some BB king.
I have a preference for rocking blues. These guys are the Salvador Dali of the blues -
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I have a preference for rocking blues. These guys are the Salvador Dali of the blues -
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Jason Gairn
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You know my Billy gibbons story. Right?
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
No! do tell...
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Jason Gairn
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Last Autumn. I was staying at the Sunset Marquee hotel in LA. It's ahotel mostly for rock stars as they call them in the United States. I'd been cutting loose on some heafty white Russians. When I find myself in a conversation with Bill about guitars. He was so shit faced it was untrue. He's an older guy these days so when I joined in with let us say complementary comments about a young lady in the bar I was most surprised when the 20 year old turned out to be his girlfriend. She started with the " I love your accent. where are you from" thing. I thought she was coming on to me. I looked at billy and he just giggled. We talked all night in a sort of drawl, and the bastard said "goodnight Joshua" at the end of it.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Ha!
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
No shit. That's Awesome.
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Jason Gairn
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I think he owns the hotel or something. The front bar was packed with US musicians that I didn't recognise. Great place to hang out with rock stars. (even that Brian Gibbons) But the booze is very very expensive.
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NeTree
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We wouldn't know; you've never posted a video of you playing, that I'm aware of.
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Jason Gairn
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That I would love to see. Come on Butch that would be excellent.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Until then, Here's Pigs in Zen.
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I liked this one at the end of a Sons of Anarchy episode. This acoustical version is better I think.
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Bodean
Cali dreamer
That's pretty, I'll raise you a Mary Lou Lord.
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Nice song, Steve. Some folks might have wondered why Dylan got an honorary Pulitzer prize. That song shows it.
