Somehow blues guitar became SRV guitar playing...of sorts. That's fine in a way and much appreciated and applauded by many...but the "other type" of blues, like Robert Johnson's original work, has only flurries or fills and little or nothing of the now common long guitar lines that so frequently turn into wanks, because those earlier, original tunes are primarily about the "story"....and maybe them early guys just couldn't play or wanted the words to mean more than the picking.Originally Posted by RedRain
At any rate, it seems to me like the "guitar heros" of past decades have overstayed their influence in many cases....like if everybody was still doing Impressionist Painting like Renoir.
You can go to just about any jam session and watch all the influenced sounding just like each other as they try to emulate their master, but you will seldom see a lead player strike only 36 notes in 12 bars.
Not the players fault necessarily. Most audiences have become accustomed to and expect instrumantal vituosity of some sort. It's the current rave in the blues.