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Some hard & fast rules for playing in a Blues Band
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Real blues guys are Fender players. Strats and Teles for guitarists, P-Basses (with grungy flats) for bass players. Preferably all beaten to hell, with tons of mojo.
Total BS.
No name acoustic, pretty much constantly untunable, un-intoneable played with a broken off glass coke bottle neck is the essential instrument. (Willie Dixon used a doghouse.)
All the rest is just posing.
"I don't play no rock'n'roll y'all, jest da pure and natchell blues"
Mississippi Fred McDowell
I rest my gunny sack.
Total BS.
No name acoustic, pretty much constantly untunable, un-intoneable played with a broken off glass coke bottle neck is the essential instrument. (Willie Dixon used a doghouse.)
All the rest is just posing.
"I don't play no rock'n'roll y'all, jest da pure and natchell blues"
Mississippi Fred McDowell
I rest my gunny sack.
Willie Brown: Look at this old guitar here you been squeakin' on. I bet you saw this thing in a music store and bought it just because you thought it was beat up! Well you got it all wrong. Muddy Waters invented electricity.
When me and my band mates go out to play on the streets we take my acoustic, a $50 Fender that 3 of the tuning pegs have fallen off and been replaced. Guitarist's acoustic, a black Ibanez that the neck's broken off and been glued back on with gorilla glue and the bridge pulled up and was also glued back down, still intonates like a charm. A mandolin that was given to me by a 90 year old man when I bought a lap steel off of him for my dad to learn. An accordion that the drummer plays that was his grandfather's, and a washboard that we found in the basement corner of a house the guitarist used to live in.
Acceptable conveyances also include V8 fords, mules, black and grey mares and stone ponies.
And electrified is what you get if that fella in Memphis dies.
And electrified is what you get if that fella in Memphis dies.
Mellowinman you may have something here because if your life is that great then you are giving me the blues. only line I would change is Miata to the Hamptons? If you drove a Miata to the Hamptons they wouldn't let you stay
Mellowinman you may have something here because if your life is that great then you are giving me the blues. only line I would change is Miata to the Hamptons? If you drove a Miata to the Hamptons they wouldn't let you stay
They say "write about what you know," and when it comes to people who have money, I really don't know much.
I guess I've been BUSTED.
Real blues guys are Fender players. Strats and Teles for guitarists, P-Basses (with grungy flats) for bass players. Preferably all beaten to hell, with tons of mojo.
No Lucille or old acoustic?
Let's not tell... or JoBo that they aren't "real blues guys" . . .
I'll gladly tell Bonamassa.
I'm also pretty sure the only person who's allowed to love you is your mother, but only if she might be jiving too.
Don't forget the guitar's players guide to rules for playing the blues (easy to remember, there are only two):
1. Never play in tune
2. Always play way too loud
1. Never play in tune
2. Always play way too loud
Thanks, but I was trying to be gentle on our guitar friends. After all, two things is alot to remember; and doing more than one thing at a time is near-impossible, thus no need for rule #3.....
Let's not tell Clapton that they aren't "real blues guys" . . .
Doesn't Clapton have a signature Strat?
