Songs I Like

Love Can. Here are the Wooden Shjips. Brand new music.
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And some great live Can freakout.
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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.
 
BB is one of the few performers I've made a point to see more than once.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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? 8)
 
Musicians tend to obsess about technique. Fans tend to obsess about how it makes them feel. It's a subtle and subjective thing. Thankfully.
 
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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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.
 
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.
 
MasterBlaster said:
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.
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We wouldn't know; you've never posted a video of you playing, that I'm aware of.
 
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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That's pretty, I'll raise you a Mary Lou Lord.

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