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Thread: What are the must know tunes?

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    Forum Member FenderBoy's Avatar
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    Re: What are the must know tunes?

    Quote Originally Posted by RedRain
    Good point Offshore about the frontman and soloing.
    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.
    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.

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    Re: What are the must know tunes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Angler
    I submit that it is not. The basis of a blues song is the use of the dominant and subdominate to build tension and then release to the tonic. Whiskey Lulliby uses the minor for tension and hence, would be structurally a Bluegrass song.
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    Re: What are the must know tunes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Angler
    Ah, but by calling a superior, technological and sentient species "nature" we must then, by logic, include man as part of nature also. And hence, all literature is nature vs nature. But since one thing cannot be "vs" itself, then literature really doesn't exist.
    OA, you SHOULD have been a lit prof. I stand in awe of your propensity for well-developed and supported bulldung... Just kidding, luv ya, dawg... :rofl

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    Re: What are the must know tunes?

    :lol
    If you leave the house, you're just asking for it.

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    Re: What are the must know tunes?

    Fenderboy, you last post hit the bullseye. This whole thread spinned into something pretty cool and def' worth talking about.

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    Re: What are the must know tunes?

    joke;

    What did it say on the blues players tombstone?

    "I didn't wake up this morning"




    Aren't the blues about waking up in the morning???..... !

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