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08-27-2009, 05:25 PM
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Anyone feel like they have to "dumb-down" their playing to suite certain styles? Especially Blues. (wich I've played for over 30 years)
Seems like all of the "Blues-Nazis" have tried to keep it down instead of grow like it was when I started back in the early 70's.
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08-27-2009, 05:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | | Oh Yeah, of course the whole of society is being dumbed down to a certain extent. IMO
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08-27-2009, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by xgator4u  Oh Yeah, of course the whole of society is being dumbed down to a certain extent. IMO | Why?...I don't get it..control? |
08-27-2009, 05:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | I think you should be able to express yourself even while playing the blues. Are you speaking of bassists having to keep it straight while the guitars get to do what they want? I read a post online that basically said "why should I provide the comfy couch and the Hustler magazine just so that you can have a wankfest?" |
08-27-2009, 05:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | | Yeah that, and people just do not have any spirit, or imagination. I blame computer games. Which if you have not seen or been around people that are obsessed with them I assure you it ain't pretty. When I was young, we went outside and played, and read BOOKS. Now if you lose electricity, today's kids are SOL. No imagination no creativity, no improvising. If you can't google it or control it with a " controller", then it ain't important.
Look at guitar hero.
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08-27-2009, 05:52 PM
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Artist:TC Electronic RH450 bass system | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Madison, IA | | | What I'm really sayin' is that the blues really advanced when guys BROKE the rules.
Muddy "inveneted electricity"
Little Walter..
I could go on-and-on..
Now-days people that try to push it "beyond" like Jason Ricci or his hero Pat Ramsey (RIP) that is now less famose when he's dead than alive.... It is truley a shame... |
08-27-2009, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by xgator4u Yeah that, and people just do not have any spirit, or imagination. I blame computer games. Which if you have not seen or been around people that are obsessed with them I assure you it ain't pretty. When I was young, we went outside and played, and read BOOKS. Now if you lose electricity, today's kids are SOL. No imagination no creativity, no improvising. If you can't google it or control it with a " controller", then it ain't important.
Look at guitar hero. | I think that has a lot to do with it!
I'll add American Idol to the trash-bin... |
08-27-2009, 06:04 PM
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Artist:TC Electronic RH450 bass system | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Madison, IA | | | If something doesn't grow ..it dies..
When the so called "Blues Societies" move on to the next flavor of the week
Blues will be laid -watse to the same thing the Jazz purists put on the jazz guys.
The old guys are dead.....let it grow or ROT...
What is all this "save the blues" if you can't let it grow.
You are killing it instead of saving it...
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08-27-2009, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by xgator4u Yeah that, and people just do not have any spirit, or imagination. I blame computer games. Which if you have not seen or been around people that are obsessed with them I assure you it ain't pretty. When I was young, we went outside and played, and read BOOKS. Now if you lose electricity, today's kids are SOL. No imagination no creativity, no improvising. If you can't google it or control it with a " controller", then it ain't important.
Look at guitar hero. | Personally, I blame Thomas Edison and all those other inventors and made it possible to harness electrical energy. If it wasn't for those guys, we wouldn't have any of this useless crap we have now.
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08-27-2009, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Boston, MA | | | Also, if you don't like the way music is now, why don't YOU do something innovative and change the face of blues?
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08-27-2009, 06:33 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | There's rule breaking, along with tradition, and then there's being really tasteful and clever with a few notes that a flourish of notes could not do.
It all depends upon the situation. POP/Rock music by its very nature is boiled down to its most basic elements. It also has to play on any kind of sound system, big or modest and still come across with its simple message.
Even within those boundaries, we have decades of innovative tones & techniques playing relatively simple music.
Blues is a simple music as well, like a solar system. But it has been hashed out & dressed up and sent downtown and from there the exploration turned into a galaxy of directions.
What's so simple or dumbed down about it?
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