Make a grown man cry. How to build a sad sounding blues guitar...

[Superlizard]

That's why Steven Segal's blues records

Fatboy does the blues?  Now I've heard of everything...

 

[Vol. Knob]

I'm one of the worst offender is this post, in terms of going off topic...

So I'm cruising it back to the original topic... 

P-90s are certified "blues worthy" (it took a lot for me to type that).  So Run with it.  I say a blues tone will be had by a double F-hole L5S with P-90s.  Just no floyd rose, please.

 

[GoDrex]

Yeah - no Floyd Rose. Unless you mount it on to bowling ball material  :laughing7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jp4PFzOCwE

 

[stubhead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0BrJksG10&feature=related

Exactly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwjLS0Zz9E&feature=related

Oooh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-a_-g-6kvk&feature=related

 

[GoDrex]

ok well now I HAVE to post this:

not safe for work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcr8dm9Prkk

not safe for work

 

[David]

Steven Segal has a lot to sing the blues about.  He is a really bad actor and he can't sing.

 

[thumb55]

tfarney, that Onion sutf is some funny funny sh#t...

in retrospect, the best stuff in Blues Bro's is the "Were Gettin the Band back together" and all the reaction by family, girlfriends, members etc.... :laughing7:

 

[nathan a]

My blues are realer than yours.

:hello2:

This is, more or less, what I wanted to say, but you said it first, so you just get the +1.

 

[stubhead]

I guess that George Carlin didn't see any irony in his ripping off the "ragging-on-pathetic-white-people" schtick from black stand-up comics like Richard Pryor & Eddie Murphy, who both made a career of it before the Hollywood machine turned them rich, safe & "white" their own selves.... :toothy12:

 

[hannaugh]

I love the Onion.  Willie "Skipbone" Johnson is a recurring figure in their stories.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30345

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30025


And, not blues related, but also hilarious:  http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29205

 

[Seryaph]

Blues is NOT a "feeling", blues is a signifier that you need a new truck, bigger burgers, more beer.... :tard:

While I respect the fact that you have been playing string instruments for far longer than I have been alive, I must disagree with you on the Blues not being a feeling. I do agree that it is a signifier as well, but without the feeling of needing or wanting or hell, just plain depressed, there would be no blues.

I've seen Hubert Sumlin and Buddy Guy play live and when they've got a couple of songs under their belt for the night, they get a certain look in their eyes, a certain feeling (i guess for the lack of a better word) starts to come out in their playing. While the music was different, the same look and feel can be heard in Stevie Ray's and Jimi Hendrix's live playing.

We are entitled to our opinions but I believe that the blues is a feeling and even more than a feeling. It is just an entirely different state of mind. I get that feeling every once in a while, that particular state of mind, when playing the guitar, when the sounds I make are wrenched from my soul without my body or mind being invovled. That, and more, is what I believe the blues to be.

 

[GoDrex]

I might be wrong, but I think he was using "sarcasm orange" there for the font.