"Burnham Treezdown" <bt@butterfly.net> wrote in message
news:5g7n349o1kpcnb6t4dh069r5vpavbrd6hb@4ax.com...
> 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.
Hey RR...now this is some sound advice for you...take it and run...
~Hippy
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