On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:36:44 -0700 (PDT), romeorose <romeoroseblues@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Yeah I can do both at the same time. But I prefer not to, because to
>me it's not really BLUES if you do both ta the same time, I think all
>Blues should really be call & response, and that the guitar should be
>silent when I'm singing and it should be like a conversation.
I remember reading almost exactly that same quote a long time ago. It might have
have been in an old Guitar Player, might have been B.B.'s excuse for why he
doesn't do it. So now you read something similar from some old cat you consider
"credible" and absorb that into your personal philosophy.....all the same, man,
it's still an excuse. You CAN'T do it, why not admit it instead of trying to
make some lame-o artistic pronouncement that nobody buys?
You should've stuck to metal, it fits your personality....Real Blues, with all
the historical and social baggage that's attached to it now is too complicated
for a socially-challenged maladjusted white boy to cop. You just can't put it on
like a creepy jacket. You can't read how to do it. You can't become the blues
and it doesn't become you. It's not in you.
Play metal instead. The world needs more Dimebags, not more Blind Mudball
Coolhat Honkycats. You've got the anger, you've got the antisocial 'tude, you've
even got a few of the chops. Geez, I hate to say it, you might even have the
voice. And you can keep the name.
The Blues has enough trouble as it is.
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