Want to learn to play blues guitar …..Online?

[32-20-Blues]

Nah, Clannad always has been a triumph of form over content. I'm not about about to beat up on you for it though. I like some pretty dodgy stuff myself.

Shhhh! I already tried to tell him that no real Irish people listen to Clannad, but he wouldn't believe me.

Btw, Muttley, do you listen to much English/British folk? Y'know, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, Anne Briggs and the like.

 

[mshilarious]

Shhhh! I already tried to tell him that no real Irish people listen to Clannad, but he wouldn't believe me.

We're talking about 35 years ago however. That's like saying no Jamaicans listened to Bob Marley, but I expect muttley likes the Clash (he better, anyway )

 

[32-20-Blues]

We're talking about 35 years ago however. That's like saying no Jamaicans listened to Bob Marley, but I expect muttley likes the Clash (he better, anyway )

Yeah, I know, I'm just kidding; Clannad are fairly popular here. More significantly, though, what's with your aversion to W.B Yeats - the most important poet of the last hundred years?

 

[mshilarious]

Yeah, I know, I'm just kidding; Clannad are fairly popular here. More significantly, though, what's with your aversion to W.B Yeats - the most important poet of the last hundred years?

None, really, I've got much of his stuff here, including his Folk Tales of Irish Peasantry or whatever that was called, and I've been to his grave (although I managed to avoid writing an unfortunate song about it).

I just needed a lead-in to my Huey Lewis joke

 

[muttley600]

Btw, Muttley, do you listen to much English/British folk? Y'know, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, Anne Briggs and the like.

Yeh, due to age, location and job I've had quite a bit of contact with the brit folk movement over the years. It is a very broad and diverse movement though.

I've also had quite a bit to do with showing and playing at festivals in the past which is kind of the same thing. I'm a bit of a musical slut though I'll appreciate most things. Except Clannad that is.

 

[muttley600]

We're talking about 35 years ago however. That's like saying no Jamaicans listened to Bob Marley, but I expect muttley likes the Clash (he better, anyway )

Too damn right. London's Burning is an all time classic.

And lots of people flock to see riverdance, that dosen't mean it's any good.

I have a few Clannad albums though bought back in the early 80's when production values were based on the new CD format and we all spent more time listening behind the music amazed that their was no scratches or static. I guess we never worked out that it was crap back then. Except for Paul Simon's Graceland that is. Still a classic.

 

[mshilarious]

Yeh, due to age, location and job I've had quite a bit of contact with the brit folk movement over the years. It is a very broad and diverse movement though.

I don't know anything about that, but I can safely say that American folk music is dead. It's almost impossible to have a folk music anymore; everyone is too aware of everything else and more importantly, too self-aware. That's the real reason there are no more blues, whether Irish or Mississippian.

 

[mshilarious]

I guess we never worked out that it was crap back then. Except for Paul Simon's Graceland that is. Still a classic.

Yes! I still have that one as well. Very few real classics from the '80s. I am sappy enough to still like "Scarecrow" though

Sometimes I like Marley was fortunate to die when he did and miss the worst of the synth excess in reggae. By the time Ziggy Marley started cutting his teeth, the storm had largely passed, even if his music is easy listening, relatively speaking.


PS I don't mind Riverdance so much as Celtic Women I mean if it had stopped there and lead to deeper exploration of the real thing, that would be OK. Instead, we get little girls wearing fake hair extensions rather than learning an instrument.

Even so . . .

 

[muttley600]

How the hell did we get from the birth of the blues to sick pictures of twee little dancing Irish lasses.

We all need to get out more..

PS. Marley is one of the BIG acts from my youth I never got to see and I regret it to this day.

 

[mshilarious]

How the hell did we get from the birth of the blues to sick pictures of twee little dancing Irish lasses.

Exactly what is sick about her?


I think I just realized why I like really bad music, it's because it's real when nothing else seems to be anymore. I mean it's the blissful unawareness of suckiness to the point of not even realizing that Autotune might be helpful, or totally neglecting song structure, rules of harmony, development, etc., not out of postmodern ennui but a simple complete ignorance of music theory and history, inexplicably not even affected by pop radio. I love that stuff!

 

[jimistone]

Black and Upper-Class: This group claims Robert Johnson.

Say what?..........

 

[starbuck26]

Say what?..........

Yeah, that one was bullshit. Don't know what I was thinking. Strike it. Give the Upper Class Blacks Whitney Houston and put Bobby J under Working Class Whites. That should straighten it out.

For the record, I ain't no uppah class. My coffee comes from Dunkin Dognuts. My Dad cuts down trees for a living. I walk to work.

My shoes are worn
my hands they bleed
from the hunger
and the need to acknowledge.... I'm pooooor.

 

[starbuck26]

I don't know anything about that, but I can safely say that American folk music is dead. It's almost impossible to have a folk music anymore; everyone is too aware of everything else and more importantly, too self-aware. That's the real reason there are no more blues, whether Irish or Mississippian.

Devendra Banhart. Entrance. Jason Molina. Joanna Newsome. Nat Baldwin. Deer Tick.

I think Entrance's latest album... Prayer of Death... is one of my favorite albums of the 21st century. Check out the song "Pretty Baby." Unbelievable. Especially for a white kid from the Chicago suburbs....

 

[cannabis]

I think I just realized why I like really bad music, it's because it's real when nothing else seems to be anymore. I mean it's the blissful unawareness of suckiness to the point of not even realizing that Autotune might be helpful, or totally neglecting song structure, rules of harmony, development, etc., not out of postmodern ennui but a simple complete ignorance of music theory and history, inexplicably not even affected by pop radio. I love that stuff!

let me sell you

some of my music

 

[XLR]

I think I scared off the follow-up spam post. Hell. It would have been so funny if he posted the hotstrings link anyway, heh, like he did over at the Reaper forum.

I guess they're not automated after all... just cut-and-paste spammers.

 

[jfrog]

Does this mean we won't get to learn the blues the way God intended....on-line?

 

[XLR]

Does this mean we won't get to learn the blues the way God intended....on-line?

There's still hope. The hotstrings spammers tend to do two threads with different wordings at some of the BBSs they hit, in different forums unrelated to guitar. So just watch for another online guitar instruction thread in the mp3 Clinic or the Recording Techniques forum.

 

[foo]

. . . But wait—the Beatles were white—UPPER CLASS—ENGLISH!!!!

Well actually old boy, the Beatles were very much lower class. Lennon was the English equivalent of white trash. Harrison and Starkey were similarly po' folk. McCartney was middle class-ish.

And English people can play the blues - it's not a racial thing. (Just ask Peter Green, or that famous Chinese bluesman, B.B. Wong).

And having your house foreclosed on is just the latest in a long line of white blues subjects.

"Woke up this morning, the bailiffs at my do'"

You get the picture . . .

 

[MK-Ultra]

Well actually old boy, the Beatles were very much lower class. Lennon was the English equivalent of white trash. Harrison and Starkey were similarly po' folk. McCartney was middle class-ish.

And English people can play the blues - it's not a racial thing. (Just ask Peter Green, or that famous Chinese bluesman, B.B. Wong).

And having your house foreclosed on is just the latest in a long line of white blues subjects.

"Woke up this morning, the bailiffs at my do'"

You get the picture . . .

Actually, Lennon's upbringing was pretty middle class. His Aunt Mimi had quite a nice house on Menlove Ave.

Gay, maybe, but not 'po white trash.'

 

[Superhuman]

Hey, Clannad was great until the BBC sullied them with that "Robin of Sherwood" show(

Hey I loved that show when I was a kid! "Robin...dididuh... the hooded man"