Blues and Jazz Off Topic/Chat Thread!

[gopherthegreat]

can someone send me some reverend gary davis torrents?

[Beakwithteeth]

What exactly is a torrent? I am sorry, I realize that's probably a dumb question but I don't know. Sorry for the unhelpfulness.

[TheDev01dOne]

gopher if you want a good place to download LOADS of hard to find blues stuff you should check out Soulseek, there's a blues room and all the regulars have like 10, 000 to 100, 000+ files of all blues music, all full albums.

It's free, its like limewire except without all the viruses, spam and spyware and you can download full albums instead of 1 song at a time.. Just google soulseek and download it, it's awesome.

[gopherthegreat]

ill check it out, thanks.

edit: this is confusing......

[imgooley]

God I really hate the original version of Killing Floor. It lacks the normal tenacity of Howlin Wolf. Gimme the Jimi version any day

[TheDev01dOne]

ill check it out, thanks.

edit: this is confusing......

If you want help setting it up and learning to use it you can add me to MSN or find me on soulseek (same user name: TheDev01dOne) and I'll help you out..

What's your soulseek username?

[gopherthegreat]

same as my ug name

[TheDev01dOne]

Found you..

I'm really bored guys, someone talk to me or entertain me with something.

[sre9981]

I would but I'm currently getting ready to go to a Girl Talk concert/dance party in like 30 minutes.

which will be awesome

discuss?

[edit]
Oh, and I recently got recruited to play a country/western/bluegrass gig in april. I was listening to the songs we're going to play today and I feel morally obligated to buy a telecaster now :(

[TheDev01dOne]

Well that's not very helpful. Cool about the gigs thing, been starting to get subjected to country/bluegrass stuff lately and it's kinda growing on me. Wouldn't mind learning some bluegrass mandolin when I'm older.

Everyone needs a Telecaster, no matter what music you play.

[imgooley]

I am extremely bored

[TheDev01dOne]

Me too! I just re-did my myspace layout.. That's how bored I am.. I loathe myspace! And the way all the editor things add in advertising for their websites! Stupid ****.

EDIT: To be fair it is 3am.. I have a girlfriend, a cat and a snake asleep in my room and I'm up on UG and listening to blues :haha

[imgooley]

Wow. that is pretty bored. this how bored I am. It's stereo amp and I don't think it's tube...... etc

[imgooley]

Me too! I just re-did my myspace layout.. That's how bored I am.. I loathe myspace! And the way all the editor things add in advertising for their websites! Stupid ****.

EDIT: To be fair it is 3am.. I have a girlfriend, a cat and a snake asleep in my room and I'm up on UG and listening to blues :haha
dude it's only 8 and I am bored. I need some liquor. I want to drink some scotch and listen to Junior Kimbrough!!

[Carswell98]

yeah, I've had a decent day, lazing around the house, playing halo online a lot with my buddies, ordered chinese food, nursed my alcohol-poisnoned friend back to reasonable health :p:


so imgooley was today any better for you?

[imgooley]

eh

just sat around and played guitar for like 9 hours. Learned a bit of Leave My Girl alone. I think I'm gonna have to get drunk tonight.

[TheDev01dOne]

Man I did ****all today.. slept until 3pm.. Ate.. Played some slide guitar.. Ate again.. Showered.. Played pokemon on gameboy.. That brings me to now..

[imgooley]

Man I did ****all today.. slept until 3pm.. Ate.. Played some slide guitar.. Ate again.. Showered.. Played pokemon on gameboy.. That brings me to now..
Sweet, did you catch a Snorlax?

I think the next guitar I get might be that dean resonator that I played the other day. I want to see how it sounds with some distortion on it.

[TheDev01dOne]

Yeah I'm a pretty lazy ****er.. It was snowing pretty hard though in my defense.

No snorlax, it was pokemon gold, I don't even know if Snorlax is in that one?

I've never played a resonator except the resonator mandolin. I would assume it would feed back like crazy with any decent amounts of distortion. Could be awesome for teh br00talz though.. Especially if it's made by Dean.

[imgooley]

Yeah I'm a pretty lazy ****er.. It was snowing pretty hard though in my defense.

No snorlax, it was pokemon gold, I don't even know if Snorlax is in that one?

I've never played a resonator except the resonator mandolin. I would assume it would feed back like crazy with any decent amounts of distortion. Could be awesome for teh br00talz though.. Especially if it's made by Dean.
I don't mind feed back, especially when I play slide, could always get a hum canceling pup for it too. Hell, I play thrash metal on my artcore. Did you see the pic of that resonator that I posted in the blues axe thread? that was it. It was a beast, man.

And there IS Snorlax in gold.

[Carswell98]

I don't mind feed back, especially when I play slide, could always get a hum canceling pup for it too. Hell, I play thrash metal on my artcore. Did you see the pic of that resonator that I posted in the blues axe thread? that was it. It was a beast, man.

And there IS Snorlax in gold.

resonators with mini humbuckers at the neck and some light distortion is the single sexiest slide machine in existence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdiEOM0FsmM
the sound is rough, but it is pretty cool


well, either that or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0F2dYKTOM

Ben Harper is "teh sex" :p:

edit-

ooooohhh

and this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O--1kilzvxY&feature=related

[imgooley]

The dean that I played was not as... Idk open as that gibson in the vid. It had a tighter build.

This is her http://www.elderly.com/images/new_instruments/50N/RESCG_front.jpg

[Carswell98]

^ wow, that is purdy, and the one in the video was a national tricone, not a gibby, just a gibby pickup though, I never really liked how the tricone looked just because of the big ass sound holes at the top of the body

and if it has a pickup, expect it to be reasonably feedback resistant, they couldn't get away with selling a guitar that fed back a lot

[imgooley]

^ wow, that is purdy, and the one in the video was a national tricone, not a gibby, just a gibby pickup though, I never really liked how the tricone looked just because of the big ass sound holes at the top of the body

and if it has a pickup, expect it to be reasonably feedback resistant, they couldn't get away with selling a guitar that fed back a lot
Dude you should have seen the engraving on the back. I am gonna try to find a pic.

EDIT: Damn can find one.

That thing is dead sexy though, less than 700 bucks too.

[TheDev01dOne]

I'm not really one for excessive aesthetic niceties on guitars.. I like simplicity.. But I'd still take that guitar if someone bought it for me.

I wonder if anyone I/my GFs dad knows has a resonator I could borrow for a few days to screw around on. Then I can record some real slide bluesing.

[imgooley]

I'm not really one for excessive aesthetic niceties on guitars.. I like simplicity.. But I'd still take that guitar if someone bought it for me.

I wonder if anyone I/my GFs dad knows has a resonator I could borrow for a few days to screw around on. Then I can record some real slide bluesing.
Dude, come on http://elderly.com/images/new_instruments/50N/RESCG_body-back.jpg

If you like simple, there is this one too http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM04/Content/Dean/PR/Heirloom-brass-lg.jpg

[TheDev01dOne]

That one's more my style, now let it tarnish for about 40 years and get some nice dings and scratches and it'll be perfect :haha

[imgooley]

That one's more my style, now let it tarnish for about 40 years and get some nice dings and scratches and it'll be perfect :haha
That is what one must do to find the perfect blues box.

[TheDev01dOne]

This band has some great slide playing.. I love 'You gotta go'

http://www.myspace.com/chasethesunband

The sun is up but I'm still bored.

[imgooley]

This band has some great slide playing.. I love 'You gotta go'

http://www.myspace.com/chasethesunband

The sun is up but I'm still bored.
That was pretty good.

Do you not sleep, man?

[TheDev01dOne]

Lol I slept until like 3pm yesterday so I'm just gonna tay up and sleep tonight at normal time to get back into normal sleeping pattern.. I'm a night owl, I prefer to sleep in the day time and stay up all night whenever possible.

I just got the Chase The Sun album, some great stuff.. Not all strictly blues but still good country/bluesy/rootsy stuff, he writes some great lyrics and grooves/riffs.

[imgooley]

I dug it, but I doubt I could find it stateside, and even if I could, I couldn't afford it. I am looking for some good electric blues right now. I would love to find some Junior Kimbrough on vinyl.

Currently listening to Wes Montgomery covering Georgia On My Mind. Good stuff.

[ze monsta]

I so want a resonator now, been playing slide all morning. Other than going to Church... still, it's Easter and I'm supposed to be a Catholic.

I just love the tone from that dobro I played in the shop... So smooth and warm, but still with the rawness that you'd expect from a resonator.

[gopherthegreat]

happy easter everybody!

im eating jellybeans and just downloaded some bo diddley

[GD_GC]

Happy Easter! Even though I'm not really religious, all the candy is good :haha

[gopherthegreat]

:cheers:

[Jimmy94]

ahhh, easter finally! There hasn't been a drinking holiday since st. patty's day, I almost died from lack of alcohol.

[TheDev01dOne]

http://a683.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/64/l_99e9b56709a01c818e4693fa4e39a092.jpg

I played slide guitar all morning and then fell asleep until like 4pm.. Now I forgot this awesome riff I was playing and the words I was gonna use for it!! Damn my insomnia.

[Dimebag22]

It's Easter? :confused:

:p:

My parents celebrate it kinda, but I'm not religious like them. They try to make me go to church but I don't see the point...


Oh and ^ I was looking for that picture :p:

[Highbinder]

http://a683.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/64/l_99e9b56709a01c818e4693fa4e39a092.jpg


Well if you say it like that

:p:

[imgooley]

ahhh, easter finally! There hasn't been a drinking holiday since st. patty's day, I almost died from lack of alcohol.
I am on my last leg from the same ailment.

[TheDev01dOne]

Is this song a minor blues?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wx1EBdJouk

What chords does the guy on the strat play? Are they just minors or minor7th or something?

Or does anyone know a tab of a song with the same structure as that. I wanna cover it but I can't figure out the chords or the bass part, nothing I try works properly.

[gopherthegreat]

does that above image constitute as gore?

edit: sounds minor to me

[Jimmy94]

Is this song a minor blues?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wx1EBdJouk

What chords does the guy on the strat play? Are they just minors or minor7th or something?

Or does anyone know a tab of a song with the same structure as that. I wanna cover it but I can't figure out the chords or the bass part, nothing I try works properly.

sounds like straight up 7 chords to me... standard minor blues. Try something like this:


B7 E6add9 F#6add9 F#7
e|7 7 9 9
B|7 7 9 x
G|8 6 8 9
D|7 6 8 8
A|9 7 9 9
E|7 x x x


Where B7, E6add9, F#6add9 are the I IV V and F#7 is a turnaround.

[GD_GC]

Is this song a minor blues?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wx1EBdJouk

What chords does the guy on the strat play? Are they just minors or minor7th or something?

Or does anyone know a tab of a song with the same structure as that. I wanna cover it but I can't figure out the chords or the bass part, nothing I try works properly.

I only listened to a little bit of it, but it does NOT sound minor to me. I know this because I heard the lead guitarist using the major pentatonic and that wouldn't work over minor chords. I think he may be using 9ths, which have an almost minor feel, while containing the major 3rd. But I did not watch the whole thing, so I am not completley sure.

[Jimmy94]

I only listened to a little bit of it, but it does NOT sound minor to me. I know this because I heard the lead guitarist using the major pentatonic and that wouldn't work over minor chords. I think he may be using 9ths, which have an almost minor feel, while containing the major 3rd. But I did not watch the whole thing, so I am not completley sure.

now that I think about it you're definitely right because the root note (B) is played as a 7 chord, not as a minor or m7. It's the 9's getting added like GD said that's giving it a minor feel.

[TheDev01dOne]

Okay I will give that a try tomorrow, thanks guys, it was confusing the crap out of me trying to make the same sound.. Aren't add9 chords what Hendrix used a lot or something?

[GD_GC]

It isn't and add9 though, its a 9, an extention of a 7th. The chord on the guitar will usually have the root, the major 3rd, the dominant (flat) 7th, and then the 9th. Try that out, I think that should work. An add 9 would not have that flat 7.

[TheDev01dOne]

Damnit I suck at theory stuff.. So it's like a 7th chord and replace the 5th with a 9? I dunno. I need a guitar to try figure it out but everyone's asleep so I can't be arse going all the way to the music room and back.

[GD_GC]

Damnit I suck at theory stuff.. So it's like a 7th chord and replace the 5th with a 9? I dunno. I need a guitar to try figure it out but everyone's asleep so I can't be arse going all the way to the music room and back.

No, you aren't replacing anything. You take a dominant 7th chord and add the 9th to it. The reason I left out the 5th is because the shape that I use most often for a 9th chord does not have the 5th. It is optional, the chord works with or without it, but both have a slightly different sound to them.

Now the difference between this 9th chord and an add9 is that the 9th chord is an extention of a dominant 7th chord. This means that if the chord is, for example, G9, you play a G7 (G, B, D(optional), Fnatural), and add the 9th, or 2nd an octave up (A). So the chord would be G, B, (D), Fnatural, A. This would be a G9, an extention of the G7. But a Gadd9 would be different. It would be a major chord, with NO flat 7th, where you add the 9th, or 2nd up an octave. Thus the name ADD 9. So you would take the Gmaj chord (G, B, D), and then just add on the 9th, or 2nd up an octave, A. So the chord would be G, B, D, A. You aren't extending a chord like the G9, only adding the 9th to a regular Gmaj chord. This is why it is called an add9.

Well that was long and I suck at explaining things, I hope that that made sense and helped you out.

:cheers:

EDIT: I just listened to the song and played along, the 9th works for sure. Its in B, try using the regular 7th chords on the root, and then on the IV, use this shape (the 9th)

e|x
b|7
g|7
d|6
a|7
E|x

[Jimmy94]

the conclusion we can make from all of this is that music theory is confusing. I'm pretty sure both the 9 and add9 chords will work, interchange them as substitutions.

I think the reason that song is called stormy weather blues is because it's almost the exact same thing as Stormy Monday.

[TheDev01dOne]

Bad weather blues.. I realise it's just a basic slow blues but I love the band, they are amazing live and I really wanna cover that song but I couldn't figure out those chord parts that I'll have to teach the other guitarist.. Then I gotta teach the bass player the bassline Lol

[GD_GC]

NO NO NO!!!! add9 and 9 are not the same!!!!


:haha I'm sorry, I'm just a music theory nerd. The difference is the the 9 has the flat 7th as well, the add9 doesn't, it completley changes the sound, try it out!

[Jimmy94]

I understand that! But both work in the progression, I play it all the time! Sometimes you can substitute chords with other chords! It's amazing!

Seriously, just play the tabs I wrote out and they sound great. In fact if I may so myself it's the most brilliant thing I've ever heard and that includes Beethoven.

I don't see why you're getting your panty hose tied in a knot over this. To be honest I prefer the sound of the E6add9, sounds more like the recording to me.

[TheDev01dOne]

There's only 1 way to settle this.. "cuttin' heads"!

Jimmy94 you can be the Karate Kid and GD_GC you are Steve Vai..

[Jimmy94]

bah, why do I have to be the karate kid?

WAX ON WAX OFF

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070409/karate_l.jpg

[GD_GC]

I'm not getting my panty hoes tied in a knot :haha

All I'm saying is that they sound different, and I really don't know too much about chords myself, I'm learning. So the E6add9 may work, I honestly don't know. The add9 is used in like "Little Wing" and stuff, and doesn't sound as bluesy, but they both will contain the same notes, so it doesn't really matter, the 9 just has one more. I really don't know, so don't think that I'm trying to prove you wrong or anything :haha

[GD_GC]

:haha :haha :haha

[Jimmy94]

sorry, I guess I hadn't heard someone say "NO NO NO!!!!" so loud since I tried to get fresh with my girlfriend the day her cat died.

[GD_GC]

sorry, I guess I hadn't heard someone say "NO NO NO!!!!" so loud since I tried to get fresh with my girlfriend the day her cat died.

:haha yeah, I bet that wasn't a good call...

[Jimmy94]

ok, I dug out my old theory book.

Chord Substitutions:
the IV is major, so these are all possible substitutions:
6, M7, M9, sus2, sus4, sus2sus4, Madd9, 6add9, M7#11, M9#11

It says the 9 is better for the dominant 7 (V), so it looks like we were both right... so the progression is most likely:

B7 E6add9 F#9

[Jimmy94]

PAINT STROKE UP

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060907/13135__karate_kid_l.jpg

[TheDev01dOne]

Okay I stopped being lazy and got a guitar to try it.. Just using an open E7 shape and adding my pinky to the 3rd fret on the 2nd string like so..

0
3
1
0
2
0

And barring it at the correct frets for the other chords seems to work and sound okay. Is that a 9th chord or have I just randomly made something up?

Thanks for the help BTW guys, I really suck at chord stuff, I like just straight A/A7 D/D7 E/E7 shuffles far too much Lol

[Jimmy94]

that is still a 7 chord (if you check the open D that makes the chord a 7 and the 3rd fret on the B string is a D an octave up)

to make it a 9 you would have to add the 2nd fret on the high e string

2
0
1
0
2
0

root, 3, 5, flat 7, 9 = E9

[imgooley]

PAINT STROKE UP

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060907/13135__karate_kid_l.jpg
You have to sand the floor first

[Jimmy94]

I DON'T WANT TO SAND THE FLOOR I WANT TO FIGHT! I want to learn the undefendable crane attack!

[imgooley]

I am so broke right now, I can't even afford new strings.

[TheDev01dOne]

I'm waiting for 12packs to arrive here but they seem to be taking ages, I thik I'm gonna get a note from customs on tuesday telling me I have to pay import duty on them.

[Dimebag22]

I have like 40 or so packs of strings at my house :) What kind do y'all use? I use D'Addario .10's for my electrics and D'Addario EXP Light for my acoustic. Great strings.


Anyways, I just added a new .mp3 to my page. Take a look. It's called 'Long Gone Blues'. It's an acoustic blues that I just came up with today. You might need to turn your volume up as my mic is horrible as you all know :p:

[GD_GC]

DR Pure Blues 10s or 11s for me.

[TheDev01dOne]

I have EB 10-52 on all my electrics, they're just the perfect balance of fat bass and bendable G string. They wear out pretty quickly though so I try to play the **** out of each guitar and restring them all seperately so I always have fresh strings on one of them.

[Jimmy94]

09 GHS Boomers on my strat, 10's on my fernandes ravelle and 12's or 13's on my hagstrom viking.

[imgooley]

I have like 40 or so packs of strings at my house :) What kind do y'all use? I use D'Addario .10's for my electrics and D'Addario EXP Light for my acoustic. Great strings.


Anyways, I just added a new .mp3 to my page. Take a look. It's called 'Long Gone Blues'. It's an acoustic blues that I just came up with today. You might need to turn your volume up as my mic is horrible as you all know :p:
Way to rub it in man. I have a millimeter of rust on my e and b strings right now :sad: .

Blue steel 11-52. I am thinkin of getting some pure nickels when I can afford it.

[TheDev01dOne]

Nice groove on that song Dimebag, needs some blues harp and words now! Go forth and improve it and record it well!

[Dimebag22]

Thanks man. Yeah, I think I'm going to pick up a GOOD microphone tomorrow with my brother! I'm so happy. Then maybe I can get some good recordings up :)

[GD_GC]

Thanks man. Yeah, I think I'm going to pick up a GOOD microphone tomorrow with my brother! I'm so happy. Then maybe I can get some good recordings up :)


That would be amazing. And yeah, I really liked that thing you just put up, sounds real good! The tone on the acoustic is very very good, and it was played very well.

:cheers:

[TheDev01dOne]

Yeah I noticed today that old strings on acoustic + recording = horrible tone. Was listening to the recordings on my myspace and then noticed how black and filthy my strings were and how dull the recordings sound.

Experiment #1 this week while I'm waiting for my new amp is re-string my acoustic and record something with spanky fresh strings and compare the tones.

And Dimebag that will be awesome getting a new mic for recording. I've found a newly revived love for recording the last few weeks, it's very satisfying laying down something good and being able to just listen and be happy with it and share it with other people.

That song has a great groove for harp, what key is it in?

[Dimebag22]

Wow, thanks Eric :) :cheers:

Yeah, I just changed those strings a couple days ago. Gives it a brand new sound. It's great. It's just a blues in E. :)

[TheDev01dOne]

Sweet I have an A harp somewhere, your recording shall be a jam track for tomorrow's harp practice session!

[GD_GC]

How does one determine what key to play in for a harp? I was trying to figure it out, and I couldn't get it :sad:

[TheDev01dOne]

Your harp for cross harp should be the same as the IV chord. So...

E blues = A harp
A blues = D harp
G blues = C harp
C Blues = F harp

etc. etc.

The lower octave blues scale on a harp goes..

Draw 2 - Draw 3 (1/4 tone bend) - Blow 4 - Draw 4 Bend - Draw 4 - Draw 5 - Blow 6

With the Draw 2 and Blow 6 being your root notes.

/lesson. Lol I'm really enjoying learning and playing harp lately, it could become a great passion of mine.

[GD_GC]

Hey thanks man! I really want to learn harp but I've just never put the time in to do it.

:cheers:

[Dimebag22]

:haha Awesome! We could totally collaborate this song. If you want I can lay down a good quality recording once I get my new microphone and you can add a harp track if you want to. That would be sweet. It could go on the blues album too! :)

[TheDev01dOne]

Once you get the hang of single notes and bends it's just the same as guitar, play loads, steal/invent/learn licks and memorize them for soloing. It's great fun. Those Adam Gussow videos someone posted in here that are up on youtube are great, they're what really got me playing at a decent level to be able to jam over songs.. I'm up to about video 40 of 120.. Didn't learn everything from the first 40 though, but I just like watching the guy play and talk about ****.

As a random point, check out his albums of "Satan And Adam" where he plays with a 1man band blues guitarist and singer called Mr. Satan.. Great stuff, I got all 3 albums.

EDIT: Dimebag - I'd like to do that but I don't have any recording program stuff on my computer to be able to track over your track or anything so it probably wouldn't work out. I record everything with a portable 4track Zoom recorder thing.

[GD_GC]

If there's anything I could add to it that you would want, I could. I've always wanted to be a part of one of those UG colabs, but only if you need anything.

[Dimebag22]

What you could do is plug in some headphones into your computer. Play harp along with my track while recording it on your Zoom (so that you don't get an echo of my track playing in the background). Then put that on the computer and I'll add it to my track, mix it, add more guitar parts ect. It might work out.

[aetherspear]

Once you get the hang of single notes and bends it's just the same as guitar, play loads, steal/invent/learn licks and memorize them for soloing. It's great fun. Those Adam Gussow videos someone posted in here that are up on youtube are great, they're what really got me playing at a decent level to be able to jam over songs.. I'm up to about video 40 of 120.. Didn't learn everything from the first 40 though, but I just like watching the guy play and talk about ****.

As a random point, check out his albums of "Satan And Adam" where he plays with a 1man band blues guitarist and singer called Mr. Satan.. Great stuff, I got all 3 albums.

man, I can't believe we're on the exact same page about this stuff. I'm also glad we're advertising Adam gussow alot. I just went on a vacation and brought my guitar but all I really did was play harmonica.
:cheers:

[imgooley]

Man, I am trying to find my brothers C harp and the little bastard lost it.

[imgooley]

Have you guys ever had your stuff start to sound the same? Almost every time I start to play slide, it ends up sounding the same.

[TheDev01dOne]

I'm kinda stuck in that rut too ATM, especially playing slide I think it's harder to think outside the box when you're in an open tuning.. It's so easy to just play I, IV, V with some twiddly bits between bars and hard to change things up. When I play slide I like to do 13bars or 17 bars or 16bars.. Just to change things and make you actually think about what you're doing.

Also if you have words to whatever you're playing then try to play the vocal melody while you sing it (Like the song 'The River' by Joe Bonamassa where he plays and sings the "That's where IIII layed down and diiieed" part both the same). I find that vocal melodys sometimes stray from the pentatonics/blues scales and have strange rhythms which helps find new things for slide to get out of the box.

Slide guitar is a strange thing, I've still not quite got my head around it completely. I guess it's one of those things that is easy to do but deceptively hard to do really well and originally.

[TeXaS_db]

Have you guys ever had your stuff start to sound the same? Almost every time I start to play slide, it ends up sounding the same.


ya, i experienced the same thing while playing slide. but just change your tuning and it will kinda change it up a bit, like i played in open G for awhile but then i changed to open D and it kinda made it a lil different. but also learn some new slide songs so u can learn new licks and methods to keep it fresh. i like to change genres alot, like play alot of different blues (slide, acoustic, electric, etc) then when i get bored or it starts to sound the same i just switch to something like funk, jazz, metal, punk, just alot of different genres. then when i come back to playing slide it feels a lil different to me and i usually play differently.
sry if none of that made since, i like to rant about guitar because mostly i have no one else to talk guitar to. all my other friends r into to hiphop and rap, and that stuff just drives me crazy. its like if i try to get them into a band like the black keys or the white stripes, they just think im crazy to like them because it sounds too raw and unprofessional. which is the very reason y i love them because it sounds like they just sat down and started playing.
but anyways, all my friends arent like that tho. i have an uncle who plays bass and a cousin that plays guitar and there pretty cool, but i cant seemed to find a drummer around my area. if i just had a drummer i would be set, i would have gigs and and i'd be playing clubs all the time.
but o well, what ya gonna do, crap im ranting again.
anyways, (returning to the question) just find new things to keep it fresh for ya.
cheers

[imgooley]

Thanks for the advice tex. I have just been playing the same damn lick over and over again in open G, so I tuned back to standard and had at it. That and I changed keys/

I am hella bored :wtf:

[Dimebag22]

How would I go about getting a microphone into my computer? I'll need a preamp right? Then how does the preamp connect into my computer?

[TheDev01dOne]

Depends what kind of mic it is, dynamic or condenser? If it's dynamic you just need an adapter that's XLR > whatever the plug on your computer is.

If it's a condenser mic then it need phantom power so you'll need a mixer of some description that has phantom power, then the output signal of that into your computer.

You CAN get pre-amp stuff with either mics but it's not really neccesary for computer recording.

[Dimebag22]

I have no idea yet. I'm going to pick it up here pretty soon. But would something like this work?
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/MXL-Mic-Mate-XLR-to-USB-Mic-Interface-WPhantom-Power?sku=270707
It goes into a USB. Would that make it better quality than straight into my line in on my computer?

The Shure SM57 is a dynamic mic, and that's what I was thinking of getting if they had it in stock.

[imgooley]

I love spring break. Now I get to sleep untill noon and NOT miss class. All I need now is a beer and a muff:)

[ze monsta]

^ What kinda muff? :haha

MONSTA EDIT:
I had a pretty awesome day. Went to take my brother back to his house 2 hours away. I like seeing his friends 'cause I always piss them off. One of his house mates came down the stairs and into the living room and I said to my brother "Sam, you said he was ginger." about one of his friends, my brother had to explain... :haha and then I got CDs off of my bro, a Muddy Waters CD and A Lightnin' Hopkins one.
Then we went shopping and had a nice sandwich. :liplick: And on the way to the incredibly bad record shop, saw some emo's having a scuffle. They're such pussies. :p:
Had a look in said music shop, realised I had either lost £10 or hadn't brought it with me. Went to other music shop, got Blind Willie McTell's complete works, and a Blind Willie Johnson CD. I now have just over 303 Minutes of Blind Willie McTell to listen to. :haha

[GD_GC]

A big one ^ :haha

[ze monsta]

^Quickest Response Ever

Dude, that was incredible. :haha

[GD_GC]

:haha I didn't even mean to, I just clicked on the thread, saw that and posted. :haha

[imgooley]

A big one ^ :haha
Preferably not a metal one either.

God I love Howlin Wolf. Every time I hear Spoonful, or Smokestack Lightnin or Goin Down Slow, it makes me feel so juiced.

[TheDev01dOne]

Spoonful is a great song, been loving thw Wolf's version of Back Door Man lately too, it's just that throaty growl.. so blues.

I'm off to a session in a few mins, planning on doing crawling kingsnake, bad bad whiskey and Stak Shot Billy and maybe I'm gonna find another you if I feel like singing properly. All acoustic session, the bass player there is a god, he brings a double bass and he plays better solos on it than I can do on an electric guitar!

[theneildeal]

hey, i fancy getting into Skip James. Can anyone recommend an album

[ze monsta]

Try the Complete Blues series by Mono. I believe it's called Cypress Grove Blues.

MONSTA EDIT:

From HMV or Zavvi, they're a fiver and usually have 20 tracks on them.

[imgooley]

hey, i fancy getting into Skip James. Can anyone recommend an album
She's Lyin and The Complete Early Recordings

[Dimebag22]

:D :D I just got my mic! Woot! I got it all setup with my software and it sounds really great! I'll get some .mp3's up here in a little while. I'm just fooling around with it at the moment. :)

[ze monsta]

Awesome dude.

[theneildeal]

:D :D I just got my mic! Woot! I got it all setup with my software and it sounds really great! I'll get some .mp3's up here in a little while. I'm just fooling around with it at the moment. :)

Nice one mate. Now you have NO EXCUSE for being late with your blues album recording! haha

[ze monsta]

I got a book called "A Rough Guide to The Blues" Today, it really is an eye opener to the slave trade, as being English, I don't know much about it, other than it was pretty brutal, unnecessary and cruel.

Theres 393 pages of blues! Most of it is about Blues artists lives, and recordings, but the first 80 pages is about the origins of the blues, and despite being fairly brief is excellent. Check it out.

[imgooley]

I got a book called "A Rough Guide to The Blues" Today, it really is an eye opener to the slave trade, as being English, I don't know much about it, other than it was pretty brutal, unnecessary and cruel.

Theres 393 pages of blues! Most of it is about Blues artists lives, and recordings, but the first 80 pages is about the origins of the blues, and despite being fairly brief is excellent. Check it out.
Sounds like a good read. I want to find a bio on John Lee Hooker.

[aetherspear]

Hey I just got that book too, check out the rough guide to jazz and the rough guide to world music too. good series, they also put out accompanying cds too.

[imgooley]

Man, I am like obsessed with Junior Kimbrough lately. I think he is slowly becoming one of my favorites of all time, up there with John Lee.

[Firebread]

Man, I am like obsessed with Junior Kimbrough lately. I think he is slowly becoming one of my favorites of all time, up there with John Lee.


When I first saw obsessed I thought you said Obese.

[theneildeal]

Well, there's 3 hours of my life that i won't get back. Ive just watch Mel Gibson's Passion Of The Christ, and its the biggest load of anti semitic bollocks that i have ever seen. Ive just wrote a thread about this in the pit and someone replied with "its not anti semitic because the jews did kill jesus"

We live in a world of anti semites and retards.....

[aetherspear]

"its not anti semitic because the jews did kill jesus"

wow.

[imgooley]

Well, there's 3 hours of my life that i won't get back. Ive just watch Mel Gibson's Passion Of The Christ, and its the biggest load of anti semitic bollocks that i have ever seen. Ive just wrote a thread about this in the pit and someone replied with "its not anti semitic because the jews did kill jesus"

We live in a world of anti semites and retards.....
It is what it is. I haven't watched that movie because I am catholic and it would hit emotions that are in me that I don't want to deal with.

I guess I would have to watch it myself to form an opinion of it's bias, if there is one. But the actual passion is not anti semitic.

[TheDev01dOne]

I thought it was King Arthur that killed Jesus? Oh no wait wasn't it Mary and her little lamb? Hmm.. Or was it Snow White... I always get my fairy tales confused.

[GD_GC]

Ugh I really hope this doesn't tear this community apart into a religion fueled feud. :haha

But really, I haven't seen the movie, nor do I ever plan to see it. I'm just not religious. I belive in God and all, but I'm not religious, it just causes way to many fights and arguments and stuff like that.

[gopherthegreat]

mel gibsons dad is a holocaust denier. no wonder mel is a bit looney.

[Dimebag22]

Ok, so I just recorded a good quality version of my acoustic blues I put up yesterday! :D I :heart: my new mic. :p:

Anyways, take a look and tell me what you think.

Neil, If you like it, you can put it on the blues album if you want. I can give you the .mp3 file :D I was hoping to do an electric blues though, if it's ok to have both on that would be great :)

[sre9981]

Does anyone know what key Crow Jane by Derek Trucks is in?

I don't feel like sitting down and figuring out the chord names and finding what key they're in and I wanna whip it out on wednesday at our next jam night

(oh, and blues album wise, I wanna nail out a funky little lo-fi slide blues tomorrow if all work out well, wish me luck)

[GD_GC]

It will take you like a total of 2 seconds listening to the song with a guitar to figure out the key dude. But yeah, I'm too lazy to figure it out myself sometimes too :p:

I think it's in A.

[TheDev01dOne]

I've just had an epiphany and realised just how much I need to get a life..

I just played Inkball (awesome game on windows Vista if you didn't know) for 80 minutes (it's now 5:30am) straight and achieved a new high score of 191923..

I feel so lame.

[theneildeal]

Ok, so I just recorded a good quality version of my acoustic blues I put up yesterday! :D I :heart: my new mic. :p:

Anyways, take a look and tell me what you think.

Neil, If you like it, you can put it on the blues album if you want. I can give you the .mp3 file :D I was hoping to do an electric blues though, if it's ok to have both on that would be great :)

i like the tracks a lot. I tell you what, ill put Long Gone Blues on the reserve list, so if someone else drops out, ill put that song on. But an electric blues song will be you primary song.

Cheers mate

Neil

[theneildeal]

Does anyone know what key Crow Jane by Derek Trucks is in?

I don't feel like sitting down and figuring out the chord names and finding what key they're in and I wanna whip it out on wednesday at our next jam night

(oh, and blues album wise, I wanna nail out a funky little lo-fi slide blues tomorrow if all work out well, wish me luck)

Good luck!

[Carswell98]

Does anyone know what key Crow Jane by Derek Trucks is in?

I don't feel like sitting down and figuring out the chord names and finding what key they're in and I wanna whip it out on wednesday at our next jam night

(oh, and blues album wise, I wanna nail out a funky little lo-fi slide blues tomorrow if all work out well, wish me luck)


Ab I believe

I know the intro is Eb Db Ab and then the songs starts on an Ab

I dunno what the hell I'm talking about though :haha

[imgooley]

Man, I fell asleep at 8 last night. It is now 3. This sucks

[Carswell98]

Man, I fell asleep at 8 last night. It is now 3. This sucks


welcome to the other side

I have frequent insomnia

like tonight :p:

[imgooley]

How is it in Calgary?

[Carswell98]

How is it in Calgary?

quiet,cool, little bit of wind, clear night, good night for a long walk, which I am contemplating at the moment.

at the moment I'm listening to The Tragically Hip, pretty much my favorite rock band ever

what about wherever you be?

[imgooley]

Sacramento California my man.

Chilly and clear. Bout to go burn a stoge. Listening to some jazz. Man I love Thelonious Monk.

[Carswell98]

Sacramento California my man.

Chilly and clear. Bout to go burn a stoge. Listening to some jazz. Man I love Thelonious Monk.

I picked up Monk & Coltrane @ Carnegie Hall the other day, still havent got around to listening to it,

is it good?

[imgooley]

Yeah, excellent. If you want a good studio album, check the AOTM or the Underground album

[Carswell98]

Yeah, excellent. If you want a good studio album, check the AOTM or the Underground album

I bought the AOTM like within a day of you posting it, I really enjoyed it

[imgooley]

Hells yeah man :cheers:

I went to my local record shop today and they had NO monk. Bastards. They had no used vinyl either

[theneildeal]

Ive never really got into Monk. For me, the piano isn't a main instrument in a jazz band like the trumpet or sax is. That's why Coltrane and Davis will always be my favourites. But im going to get Monk's Dream to check it out.

Im wanting to expand my horizons, because it feels weird to be a huge jazz fan, but my favourite musicians are the 2 best known jazz artists ever. I would go down to my local jazz shop, but we don't have one in York.....

Well, i started the suggested jazz album list, so ill work on getting the albums on there! Ive made a good start so far!

[Dimebag22]

i like the tracks a lot. I tell you what, ill put Long Gone Blues on the reserve list, so if someone else drops out, ill put that song on. But an electric blues song will be you primary song.

Cheers mate

Neil
Sweet man! Thanks.

[ze monsta]

I've been listening to a hella different music recently. From BRMC to Blind Willie Johnson.

Just about to try and convince my friend that we should play a bluesy version of Crazy by Gnarls Barkley next Monday, coz we're booking rehearsal space. :)
The list of songs we want to play is so damn long. :haha

[Resiliance]

Ive never really got into Monk. For me, the piano isn't a main instrument in a jazz band like the trumpet or sax is.

Checkout Esbjörn Svensson Trio's "Viaticum" album. That should change that.

[aetherspear]

^I'm the opposite, I didn't like piano trio stuff until I head Monk. Try some Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, or Brad Mehldau.

[ze monsta]

Booker White, with Howlin' Wolf!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWqsmMkMRZQ

It's good to see delta blues musicians that relaxed. Usually they look as serious as hell...

[aetherspear]

if you like that, watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irXywhqP1ho . T-bone walker, Memphis slim, Willie Dixon, Terry & McGhee. wow.

[theneildeal]

jeez, someone brought my passion of the christ back up in the pit, so i have to continue to argue my point....

[ze monsta]

jeez, someone brought my passion of the christ back up in the pit, so i have to continue to argue my point....
Just delete it?

[theneildeal]

no, i have to argue. its in my blood. i just don't like it when other people argue points that are different to mine

[gopherthegreat]

Why would you, you ****ing ****?
:haha

[TheDev01dOne]

Lol I dunno what that was all about.

Hey Gopher have you figured out SoulSeek yet?

[imgooley]

no, i have to argue. its in my blood. i just don't like it when other people argue points that are different to mine
:stickpoke I have been looking for a place to use that stick poke :haha

[ze monsta]

Meh, I think you're right Neil. Seems like most people do, bar a few loonies.

MONSTA EDIT:

900 post. :eek: That was quick!

[imgooley]

Eh.

I am boreddddddddddddd. Someone drop some amazingly interesting tidbit of knowledge please.

[TheDev01dOne]

imgooley I downloaded some Honeyboy, got the Crawling Kingsnake album and it's awesome. Has a 20min interview at the end talking about robert johnson and all the old delta blues guys.

[theneildeal]

Eh.

I am boreddddddddddddd. Someone drop some amazingly interesting tidbit of knowledge please.

so im writing an essay about global stock market performance since january 2000, and it turns out that the Australian ASX 200 has not only been the safest market to invest in, but also has increased the most in proportionate terms.

Oh wait, you wanted something interesting......

[ze monsta]

^ :haha

FUN.

I've been playing slide in Drop D. :p:

[imgooley]

imgooley I downloaded some Honeyboy, got the Crawling Kingsnake album and it's awesome. Has a 20min interview at the end talking about robert johnson and all the old delta blues guys.
pm me the link

@ze- That actually sounds like a good idea. I have been in open G lately, so I might just switch it up.

[gopherthegreat]

Lol I dunno what that was all about.

Hey Gopher have you figured out SoulSeek yet?
i figured it out, it just didnt work. ill try it again right now.

[TheDev01dOne]

got it from soulseek, I'm not modernised enough for torrents yet.

[imgooley]

do you have to pay for soulseek?

[ze monsta]

@ze- That actually sounds like a good idea. I have been in open G lately, so I might just switch it up.

It's a strange mixture. Mixing in metal riffs with some slide runs. It all started with trying to drop tuning like Dan does in The Black Keys, trying to nail it over and over and over again. Then I thought, why not just piss around in Drop D seeing as I've only played it about three times.

[TheDev01dOne]

do you have to pay for soulseek?

No its free, it's like a limewire program except 1238764123987x better with no viruses and spam.

[imgooley]

It's a strange mixture. Mixing in metal riffs with some slide runs. It all started with trying to drop tuning like Dan does in The Black Keys, trying to nail it over and over and over again. Then I thought, why not just piss around in Drop D seeing as I've only played it about three times.
Well I play metal sometimes, so I use it a bit. SLIDE METAL! I will sweep the world with a new style.....

[ze monsta]

:haha

Maybe it will catch on, as an evolution of swamp blues. :haha

[ze monsta]

Night, all.

[sre9981]

(oh, and blues album wise, I wanna nail out a funky little lo-fi slide blues tomorrow if all work out well, wish me luck)

Something about getting 4 hours of sleep last night and having a 5 page paper due in 4 hours isn't really helping me with the whole "get a recording done thing"

But expect something tomorrow, I'm currently addicted to slide

[Amart]

Checkout Esbjörn Svensson Trio's "Viaticum" album. That should change that.
Agreed.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0Wlnwzxyk

That was incredible, cool use of effects.

(not sure if thats off Viaticum, but it's awesome anyway)

[Carswell98]

Agreed.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0Wlnwzxyk

That was incredible, cool use of effects.

wow

that was so cool

a piano with tremolo sounds very cool

[imgooley]

SOOO BORED......

I hate being broke. I want a soda and can't even afford to get one. Actually I want a beer, but the law says 21...

I think it's time to start hittin the wine.

[sre9981]

I am having such a damn hard time writing this paper right now...

Theres so much to say about Robert Johnson's influence but its just not coming out easily at all....

BAH

[Dimebag22]

Yeah man, that would seem pretty easy. You've probably just got writers block. Take a rest or play some guitar then get back into it after you clear your head.

[imgooley]

Point out all the songs of his that have been covered and all the artists that emulate him

[sre9981]

Yeah, I just need to outline the hell out of it

and kill myself for thinking I could write a decent 5 page paper in 6 hours -_-

I gave in and asked for an extension so I think I'm going to finish my quesadilla and go play some guitar then outline and write. I hate late nights, at least I don't have to wake up til 1:30 tomorrow anyways. I'm going to be so happy when this week is over, I've had so much work :(

[Dimebag22]

:haha I've been off school since Thursday! And I don't have to go back until next Monday. :p: It's been a pretty hard week :p:

[imgooley]

Yeah, I just need to outline the hell out of it

and kill myself for thinking I could write a decent 5 page paper in 6 hours -_-

I gave in and asked for an extension so I think I'm going to finish my quesadilla and go play some guitar then outline and write. I hate late nights, at least I don't have to wake up til 1:30 tomorrow anyways. I'm going to be so happy when this week is over, I've had so much work :(
What is the prompt? Maybe I can help

[sre9981]

Its basically discuss the influence that Robert Johnson had on the blues and american popular music as a whole. Its an easy topic, i'm just having trouble stretching it to fit 5-6 pages without just having a biography then disucssing his influence on people like Muddy Waters and as a result, chicago blues and rock and roll, then his rediscovery in the 60s by people like the stones, hendrix, clapton, etc and his influence there.

Its a good topic, just not for this long of an essay imo

I'll probably end up discussing his influence on media other than music, i.e. the fact that he is the "stereotypical bluesman" and the whole sold his soul to the devil thing

[imgooley]

Alright, try this for your thesis...

Robert Johnson, while being the quintessential epitome of a bluesman, has touched ever aspect of modern music, from artists such as Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin, to contemporaries such as The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Mooney Suzuki, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and others even though he recorded less than fifty songs in his career and died at the age of 27.

[TeXaS_db]

SOOO BORED......

I hate being broke. I want a soda and can't even afford to get one. Actually I want a beer, but the law says 21...

I think it's time to start hittin the wine.

im ready to kick back with a bottle of Jim Beam, dim the lights and play some good ol' Muddy W

[TheDev01dOne]

5am and I'm still awake again.. listening to Sonny Boy Williamson - Your funeral, My trial.

Did Sonny Boy I or Sonny Boy II do this song?

[imgooley]

im ready to kick back with a bottle of Jim Beam, dim the lights and play some good ol' Muddy W
Damn you tex..... I am so jealous. I need some bourbon in my life.

@devoid- I have like 2 sonny boy songs, and I don't know if it's one or 2

[sre9981]

I have made one of my life goals to become good enough at harmonica to justify wandering around a city with a flask of Jack Daniels and playing harp. And or a country road at night with a bottle, either or.

[edit]
I just wrote "By the time he was a teenager, the music of blues greast such as Son House, Charley Patton, and Willie Brown were circulating through both phonographs and juke joints throughout the south."

I thought my use of circulating was clever =P

[TheDev01dOne]

I have made one of my life goals to become good enough at harmonica to justify wandering around a city with a flask of Jack Daniels and playing harp. And or a country road at night with a bottle, either or.

I remember when I was little, like 11 or 12 and I used to watch the cartoon 'Hey Arnold' the one with the kid who has a football head, and he had an awesome black friend, I think his name was Gerald?.. And there was this one episode about like a ghost train that went through their town or some ****, so they were sitting there at midnight at the old abandoned train station and Gerald whips out a harp and starts playing/singing some blues..

Ever since then I've always wanted to learn harp so I could carry it around and just play whenever I feel like it, I'm so glad I'm taking the time/making effort to learn now, it's really satisfying to know I'm fulfilling something I wanted to do when I was so young.

/nostalgia.

[imgooley]

I have made one of my life goals to become good enough at harmonica to justify wandering around a city with a flask of Jack Daniels and playing harp. And or a country road at night with a bottle, either or.

[edit]
I just wrote "By the time he was a teenager, the music of blues greast such as Son House, Charley Patton, and Willie Brown were circulating through both phonographs and juke joints throughout the south."

I thought my use of circulating was clever =P
Nice one. You dig my suggestion?

Oh and, I want to get in my car with nothin but my box and my amp, a case of beer, maybe a harp, and do a road trip, just playing on street corners and shiit.

[sre9981]

Nice one. You dig my suggestion?

Oh and, I want to get in my car with nothin but my box and my amp, a case of beer, maybe a harp, and do a road trip, just playing on street corners and shiit.

I think that's everyone's goal deep inside. I know I'm doing it after college. Hell if I'm getting a job at 21 when I'll be a slave to the man for the rest of my life. I'm at least going to try to make it as some semblance of a musician first.

[imgooley]

I think that's everyone's goal deep inside. I know I'm doing it after college. Hell if I'm getting a job at 21 when I'll be a slave to the man for the rest of my life. I'm at least going to try to make it as some semblance of a musician first.
:cheers to that man. IDK, I am too trusting though, I might let someone hitch with me and end up in a ditch.

[Dimebag22]

Gah, people always keep talking about harp and stuff and how awesome it is and I can't even figure out how to bend a note! :p: I'm gonna try to do it again tomorrow! :haha

[imgooley]

Man... I am readin this comic right now, called Me and The Devil Blues. About Robert Johnson. Good stuff

[sre9981]

This paper topic is beat, it has nothing argumentative about it. Its basically just taking facts and throwing them all together.

I've been pretty much banned from playing harp in the dorms now on account of I am not good at it yet. My friends just get pissed off eventually and leave =P

My guitar is getting better though, but none of them really appreciate me cranking it to 11 (master's down but the tube distortion is killer) and busting out some black keys-esque slide.

Their loss

[imgooley]

My roommates hate when I play, and I do it every day. I almost had the cops called on me by the neighbors because I was playing at 2 am. It wasn't even that loud.

Oh and Black Keys FTW

[sre9981]

Black Keys FTW indeed, I was on a kick with them earlier today. I've shifted to a live Of Montreal concert on Fabchannel.com

its awesomely weird

[Carswell98]

My roommates hate when I play, and I do it every day. I almost had the cops called on me by the neighbors because I was playing at 2 am. It wasn't even that loud.

Oh and Black Keys FTW

ouch, the closest I have ever been to that was last friday, we had a bunch of people over and I was playing slide along with my tragically hip DVD in the living room, apparently you could hear me down the street :p: oops

in all fairness though, if anyone wanted to register a complaint against me the same must be done for the 85 year old lady with a piano that she plays all the time

[TheDev01dOne]

I've got a rehearsal room booked tonight for auditioning a drummer for my band with the other guitarist, looking forward to playing my amp loud for the first time since I've had it..

Hope the drummer is good and ****, then I can get this band stuff rolling and start gigging/writing songs! I'm quite excited.

[sre9981]

Drummers should be able to bud like potatoes... it would solve all of my issues... them mainly being the rampant unavailability of drummers

[TheDev01dOne]

Tell me about it, especially good drummers. I can drum and would drum except that I'm the singer so then we'd need to find a good singer and another guitarist aswell so that would be annoying anyway.

[imgooley]

Black Keys FTW indeed, I was on a kick with them earlier today. I've shifted to a live Of Montreal concert on Fabchannel.com

its awesomely weird
So I was playing Thickfreakness in the living room of my mom's house, and her neighbor's boyfriend compliments me. Made me feel nice inside.

@Carswell, that is funny dude. You should jam with the old bird.

@devoid- i hope he's good.

@sre- same here

[sre9981]

all this blues/guitar talk has me wanting to play... too bad its 2:30 in the morning and I have a paper I still have to finish and my roomie's asleep back in the dorm and my neighbors would string me up by my testicles...

[TheDev01dOne]

is 6:40am here now. Waiting for everyone to go off to work/school and I'll be home alone until after lunch to play guitar all morning. Gotta go the post office and send out money all across the country too to pay for some pedals, my new amp and a Telecaster neck/body. Then I need to shave the sides of my mohawk, go to the reptile shop to get mice for my snake and then band prac tonight.

I think thats my day pretty much full.

[imgooley]

nothing wrong with a good testes hangin....

Except for the excruciating pain.

[imgooley]

is 6:40am here now. Waiting for everyone to go off to work/school and I'll be home alone until after lunch to play guitar all morning. Gotta go the post office and send out money all across the country too to pay for some pedals, my new amp and a Telecaster neck/body. Then I need to shave the sides of my mohawk, go to the reptile shop to get mice for my snake and then band prac tonight.

I think thats my day pretty much full.
Busy Busy man.

[ze monsta]

I found out a few days ago that Blind Willie Johnson used to play with Blind Willie McTell on street corners. I sat there thinking: That is what I wanna do when I'm older. Play blues on street corners. But the saddest thing is that they never recorded, I think it would be one of the greatest records ever.

And on another note, if Robert Johnson had lived, imagine him with an electric guitar. He was of the same generation as Muddy Water, and Howlin' Wolf after all. And if Charley Patton made it to the 60's he would have been in his 70's, and probably still able to play.
I personally think Patton had greater influence on blues anyway, as he supposedly taught R. Johnson, and such. But the again, Blind Lemon Jefferson's "lead boys" ranged from Leadbelly to Lightnin' Hopkins to T-Bone Walker.

[theneildeal]

nothing wrong with a good testes hangin....

Except for the excruciating pain.

Wait, what??

[theneildeal]

Ive just got Monk's Dream. Im currently on the first track, and it sounds awesome so far!

[sre9981]

In terms of influence on the blues, Johnson actually had surprisingly little. Besides his raw emotional sound, he didn't really bring anything new to the genre. That being said, he also was an idol for the generation that brought us Muddy Waters (etc), and his rough sound definitely contributed to the sound of Chicago blues. And in turn they influenced almost all of rock and roll. Because of the re-release of his catalog in 1961, he was heard by all the greats of that generation, and they saw his influence and skill and used it in their playing. In terms of him playing an electric, there are actually rumors that he played an electric by th end of his life, but nothing substantial.

Not to mention his life story pretty much solidified the archetype fo the bluesman in American folklore...

[theneildeal]

haha, everyone have a look at your profile. There's a new feature which shows you who has been looking at your profile!

Unfortunately Kris, it means that you'll have to be more careful about your profile stalking!

[ze monsta]

^ I personally feel once again, that Patton was the first stereotypical bluesman to come to fame. He drank, did coke, gambled, fought, slept with other mens women, etc etc. had his throat slit by a jealous lover, had an incredible gravelly voice, played slide guitar. I mean, come on!

Johnson had a profound effect musically though, he was a great guitar player compared to his contemporaries he was technically miles ahead. His guitar runs are fairly complex compared to lots of other delta guitar players. And he gave rise to the 12 bar format which hadn't been used a lot before.

I suppose he could have played an electric guitar, as the "frying pan" guitar was made in 1931, but I don't think it was available commercially, and I highly doubt Johnson would have had the time, knowledge or fortitude to make one for himself. And I believe the first electric guitars were lap steels, and from, or in California. And I don't know to much about the states of the USA, but I know abut the south, and that he only traveled as far as Texas, which is at a guess, in the middle of the USA (amiright?) so that's about 1500 miles (roughly, at a guess) from California.
Wiki says that the a company "Audiovox" might have sold electric solidbody guitar as early as the mid 1930s. So perhaps. And as he recorded his 29 tracks in only 7 days, it's highly possible he did, but it was never documented.

[Dimebag22]

haha, everyone have a look at your profile. There's a new feature which shows you who has been looking at your profile!

Unfortunately Kris, it means that you'll have to be more careful about your profile stalking!
:haha :p:

I got like 45 some views yesterday alone and I'm wondering who the hell wants to see me that much :p:

[theneildeal]

you'll get to find out now!

[GD_GC]

Where is this new feature? I can't find it.

[Dimebag22]

Just click on the My Profile thing at the top of the page. It's on that page right above your friend list.

[ze monsta]

It's nothing special... as no one wants me...
But oh well.

[imgooley]

^ I personally feel once again, that Patton was the first stereotypical bluesman to come to fame. He drank, did coke, gambled, fought, slept with other mens women, etc etc. had his throat slit by a jealous lover, had an incredible gravelly voice, played slide guitar. I mean, come on!

That description of Charlie Patton makes me thing of Stack Lee.

[GD_GC]

Just click on the My Profile thing at the top of the page. It's on that page right above your friend list.

I'm not sure if I have that, I really can't find it :confused:

[Dimebag22]

Probably no one wants to see you :p:

[GD_GC]

:haha but it says I already have 3 profile views today on that stats thing. I can't see where it says who saw it though. Hmm....

[GD_GC]

Oh, nevermind, there it is :haha

I guess no one did want to see me before :sad:

[ze monsta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc

Been watchin' some Booker White, God he is incredible!

[GD_GC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc

Been watchin' some Booker White, God he is incredible!

Wow, that was amazing!

[ze monsta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf-vK-kX6p8&feature=related

Another vid of Booker in a more relaxed enviroment.

[imgooley]

Only one got one visitor today...

But that was the first time I checked my comments....

[GD_GC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ANjb-yAVE&feature=related

This suprised me, actually very good!

[Dimebag22]

Oh, nevermind, there it is :haha

I guess no one did want to see me before :sad:
:haha There's this invisible mode for stalkers :p: You can go on it so that it doesn't show you on people's recent visitors. :p:


^But dude, that was incredible! Damn good playing. EDIT: To ze. ;)

[Dimebag22]

Only one got one visitor today...

But that was the first time I checked my comments....
You don't actually count on your profile views. Only other people do.

[ze monsta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc&feature=related

My brother showed me this a while ago.

Owned is the word that comes to mind. :haha

[GD_GC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc&feature=related

My brother showed me this a while ago.

Owned is the word that comes to mind. :haha

:haha that's awesome. It doesn't sound like Mick Jagger is trying to hard to sing during that song though :haha

[imgooley]

Dudes, this comic I'm reading(because I like japanese comics), Me and The Devil Blues, is awesome.

And I love how Keith Richards the continues to play after beating the dude with his tele.

[Dimebag22]

Probably was trying not to laugh when Keith smacked him on the head with his guitar! :haha

[imgooley]

:haha that's awesome. It doesn't sound like Mick Jagger is trying to hard to sing during that song though :haha
I don't think Mick has sung hard in 20 years

[GD_GC]

I don't think Mick has sung hard in 20 years

This is true :haha

[imgooley]

So, I am now out of smokes. If I don't get my check today, I am screwed

[imgooley]

YES!!! I have money now! Time to go buy my Muff!!!

[sinan90]

YES!!! I have money now! Time to go buy my Muff!!!


:no: Prostitution is illegal. :no:

[ze monsta]

^ :haha

Get a russian one, apparently they're really cheap.

[theneildeal]

:no: Prostitution is illegal. :no:

Nevada can't be too far away from California! Make sure that you get your money's worth!

So im downloading Wynton Marsalis' From The Plantation To The Penitentiary. Ive heard one song from it and liked it, but with a name like that, is it going to make me feel ashamed about being a cracker and want to apologise for the slave trade????? I hope not, my honkies

[ze monsta]

Come again?


MONSTA EDIT:
I'm listening to an Interview, called "Monologue on Accidents" if you've heard "Southern Can is Mine" by The White Stripes, at the end, theres a clip from the interview. John Lomax if he has any "complaining songs" about the way the way the white man treated the coloured man, to which Willie replies no, because the world is as mean for the whites as it is for the blacks. That's deep, and to me it's great to hear someone like Blind Willie McTell speak his mind rather than singing for once.

[imgooley]

^ :haha

Get a russian one, apparently they're really cheap.
I am going to try both of them, and the little one too. Go with the juiciest one.... ;)

[imgooley]

Neil, your English. I am black and I don't really blame anyone born after 1950 for racism

[sinan90]

I am going to try both of them, and the little one too. Go with the juiciest one.... ;)


It's not about size, it's all about age!


The younger the better! :liplick:

[ze monsta]

:haha

You sick, sick freak.

[imgooley]

:haha

You sick, sick freak.
Wait, me or sinan?

Oh and The young ones are cheaper too.

[sinan90]

Oh and The young ones are cheaper too.

And they have less wear and tear.

[ze monsta]

Wait, me or sinan?


Sinan. ;)

[imgooley]

And they have less wear and tear.
They say the older the berry the sweeter the juice though

[sinan90]

Sinan. ;)


I'm not sick, just misunderstood.

They say the older the berry the sweeter the juice though

Old berry = rotten berry.

[ze monsta]

Are you sure you don't mean cherry.

:haha

[imgooley]

You guys must not have seen the movie friday

/facepalm.

It's only funny if you've seen it.

[ze monsta]

Goolz, were you being serious about everything you said? :haha

Innocence, I love it.

[imgooley]

Partially.... kinda

I do love the muff in all shapes and sizes... as long as it's hot... :D

[sinan90]

Partially.... kinda

I do love the muff in all shapes and sizes... as long as it's hot... :D


But don't let it overheat, that could lead to electrocution if you're not careful.

[imgooley]

But don't let it overheat, that could lead to electrocution if you're not careful.
That is the thing, you heat it up and then cool it off.

And if it wears out, just get a new one...


ANYWAY>>>>>>>...

Diggin some Slim Harpo right now

[sinan90]

That is the thing, you heat it up and then cool it off.

And if it wears out, just get a new one...


But if the police catch you.




















































ZAP!

[theneildeal]

im lost. ive got no idea what you're all talking about!

[imgooley]

lets move on................

[TheDev01dOne]

It's the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice!!

Oh She blacker than a mu****er too!

Yeah I have been culturized. Awesome movies.