I got to say
SRV
Eric Clapton
Hubert Sumlin
Jimmy Smith
Charlie MusselWhite
John Mayall
Buddy Guy
BB King (early)
Albet King
Buddy Wittington

Blues is great when you need a break from metal

i don't care how talented they are, or how big of guitar heroes they are - white people have no reason to play the blues. ever. you want real feeling and true soul in blues music, listen to a black man play it. fuck eric clapton, fuck SRV...white people are only in it to show off their fancy fingerwork.....it's not just knowing what notes to play it's WHY they need to be played in the first place.

oh yeah

Ryan_M said:

true for the most part, but please leave SRV out of this. he had more soul in his left pinky than you have in your entire body. no white guy ever played the blues like stevie.

Ryan_M said:

none

Blue said:

agreed...I'm a huge stevie fan...

Did anyone ever see that Onion article, "Guy at Bar won't stop Talking about Stevie Ray Vaughn"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051123/ap_en_mu/music_john_mayer

why would i ever wanna listen to anything by john mayer, yeah fuck that !

apparently John Mayer isn't doing pop anymore...he's got a blues band now.

yeah good for him, he has nothing to do with the blues....calling yourself a blues muscian doesnt make you one

"That's my whole year, that people could like blues. The problem is who's been playing it, what's the sentiment behind it, what's the need behind it," he says. "Most people who play blues ... they're playing for themselves, and I'm thinking about how to get blues to other people. And that's through pop music. (Eric) Clapton does it, and he makes me want to tear my hair out because I want to do it too."

i just saw bb king on saturday, the man can still handle a guitar, and his voice is surprisingly strong.
not to mention he was hilarious telling stories

Blue said:

i understand that the guy was talented, and i would never try to suggest that i could play better than anyone because i can't, haha! but like i said, the secret to good blues music is having a reason to be blue, and i don't mean like "my wife left me, i'm feeling blue" that's just being a ball-less weenie. if your wife leaves you, suck it up and move on. when you're living in a society where your race is completely oppressed and hated and your people are continually being shit on, beaten, lynched, etc...and you're constantly living in fear of losing all that's sacred to you, like black people were, it's a lot harder to deal with, and playing the blues was their way of expressing themselves. white people just figured out what sounds were more appealing to a wider audience, and decided to market it for themselves. i'm not trying to bash stevie for his talent, the guy could play, i'm just saying he had no good reason to play the blues besides getting rich off of it.

I don't own any blues albums other than som SRV vinyl. I like listening to NPR, college, and satellite radio stations. I've always liked the Blues.

or maybe he just felt the music and you cant

someone here should do blues covers. hahaha

kidding

oh hey yeah

Ryan....so what ur saying is you basically have to be black to have the blues?
He had no reason to play the blues?
Did you know him personally?
He probably had EVERY reason to play the blues, hence why he did.

yeah really, stop trying to be black you fucking wigger

jesus nli said:

I met BB King at like three in the morning two years ago outside of CORT Furniture in Brighton,him and his band were sitting in lawn chairs next to their tour bus just shooting the shit and enjoying the night. Still one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me.

jesus nli said:


BRILLANT!!

BB King
Albert Collins
Johnny Copeland
Luther"Guitar Junior" Johnson
W.C. Clark
Buddy Guy

There is also a few good local blues bands around here...

Kan Tu Blues
Blue Collar Blues
Mr.Nick's Blues Mafia
Trainwreck

Huddie. Fucking. Ledbetter.

Leadbelly tried to kill or impregnate pretty much every other living person that came across his path. Now that's how to be a blues man. 'Nuff said.

Ryan_M said:

Does Johnny Winter get an exemption, here? You know, the plight of the albino and all that?

LOL

Ryan_M said:

ok george carlin

He's got a point though, Eric Clapton is a huge vagina.

ROBERT JOHNSON......the end