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Originally Posted by baalroo  nice, very true.
At the venue I work, we used to host the local "blues society" events, and the patrons were almost exclusively in their 50s, wearing "banana republic" and similar clothing, and would complain constantly about things like seating arrangements and the temperature of the room, while also being consistently poor tippers to the wait staff/bartenders. By far ruder and tougher to deal with than any of our other "regular" crowds. On top of that, the touring blues artists were pretty consistently the rudest and most narcissistic of all the different types of musicians we worked with, and had the largest guarantees... even though I was hard pressed to tell any real difference between them that would to me facilitate the three fold increase in ticket price. Three hours worth of 12 bar blues with a guy wanking the "blues box" on guitar... seemed like an excuse for the old folks to get out and drink at a bar without having to worry about the "rabble" coming in and paying the inflated entry fee.
we no longer host these events.
on the other hand, the blues done "well" is a thing of such emotion weight and resonance that it's hard to describe... but I feel like that's something else entirely from what most affluent middle aged folks consider "the blues." |
I want to get my blues from a 53 year old white guy named Ted who played a PRS guitar through a Dumble amp on weekend gigs and retired early from his job as a civil engineer so that he could spend more time rebuilding his house and touring the country with his wife Linda as part of Jimmy Buffett's Parrothead Nation.
That's where the BLUES comes from, man! It's the REAL deal! Sure, there are those poor black kids from circa 1940's Chicago who didn't have a dime and had to use the pain of the music as their only outlet but did they have a boxed set of Clapton's greatest hits from the 60's through the 80's on Blu-Ray? NO! You know who does? TED DOES! He didn't spend all that money on guitar lessons where he told his teacher he wants to sound like Gary Moore just so you could demand authenticity! He didn't tell the hair stylist who cuts his hair to make him look like Robbie Robertson just so you could question his cred!
All hail Ted, King Of The Blues!
