[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Michael Allred wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Boy Thomas Raker wrote: [/QUOTENAME]That is a really good version, and the type of song Brian sings well. When this was released on Star Fleet, Eric Clapton said that Let me Out had some nice bits, but that Bluesbreaker (Dedicated to EC) was brutal, and that neither Brian or EVH knew how to play or approach the blues as guitarists. [/QUOTE]
'cuz if anyone knows anything about playing the blues, it's some old british guy (I'm lookin at you Eric.)[/QUOTE]
i think EC was spot on...blues is one style that Brian doesn't carry off very well...
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I don't have the actual magazine name, but it was around the time of EC's Behind the Sun album that he was doing press for. I have a pretty enclycopaedic recall of virtually everything I've ever read, , EC, talking about the album said that Star Fleet and Let me Out had some interesting moments, but was aksed about Bluesbreaker which Brian dedicated to hin. Without saying this is verbatim, but 95% accurate he said, "it's horrible. They have no understanding of how to play the blues. They just go right at with no build up." In the past, EC commented on "that bloke from Queen" being a really good guitarist, but this isn't fabricated, he was not inmpressed with the playing of either Brian or EVH on Bluesbreaker.
my gosh is that really his daughter? shame she didnt inherit the curls...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Michael Allred wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Boy Thomas Raker wrote: [/QUOTENAME]That is a really good version, and the type of song Brian sings well. When this was released on Star Fleet, Eric Clapton said that Let me Out had some nice bits, but that Bluesbreaker (Dedicated to EC) was brutal, and that neither Brian or EVH knew how to play or approach the blues as guitarists. [/QUOTE]
'cuz if anyone knows anything about playing the blues, it's some old british guy (I'm lookin at you Eric.)[/QUOTE]
Probably, yes.
'cuz if anyone knows anything about playing the blues, it's some old british guy (I'm lookin at you Eric.)[/QUOTE]
Probably, yes.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Michael Allred wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Boy Thomas Raker wrote: [/QUOTENAME]That is a really good version, and the type of song Brian sings well. When this was released on Star Fleet, Eric Clapton said that Let me Out had some nice bits, but that Bluesbreaker (Dedicated to EC) was brutal, and that neither Brian or EVH knew how to play or approach the blues as guitarists. [/QUOTE]
'cuz if anyone knows anything about playing the blues, it's some old british guy (I'm lookin at you Eric.)[/QUOTE]
i think EC was spot on...blues is one style that Brian doesn't carry off very well...[/QUOTE]
Brian just hasn't explored ti enough and *we* haven't heard him do that to really have an opinion on it.
Besides, did Brian ever come out and say that it was a blues song? All I ever got from it was they were just jamming, nothing more.
Anyway, if I want an opinion on what the blues sounds like, some old white british dude is the last one I'm asking.
'cuz if anyone knows anything about playing the blues, it's some old british guy (I'm lookin at you Eric.)[/QUOTE]
i think EC was spot on...blues is one style that Brian doesn't carry off very well...[/QUOTE]
Brian just hasn't explored ti enough and *we* haven't heard him do that to really have an opinion on it.
Besides, did Brian ever come out and say that it was a blues song? All I ever got from it was they were just jamming, nothing more.
Anyway, if I want an opinion on what the blues sounds like, some old white british dude is the last one I'm asking.
I suppose it depends what you mean by the blues. Since a lot of it is concerned with sex -- banging the wife or someone else's wife -- I would say there's no colour bar there. EC is as valid a bluesman as Robert Johnson in that respect. Also, oppression isn't limited to Afican Americans. Woody guthrie was white and he wrote and sang "blues" songs about the great depression. Even blues songs about slavery or incarceration aren't just for black people, unless you think blacks have some kind of genetic racial memory that white people don't also have. Why should a young black blues artist today know more about slavery than a young white blues artist? In the 1920s and 30s "the blues" was the pop music of its time -- music that people could dance to. It is held in high esteem now mostly by white people who think they are discovering some form of pure ethnic folk memory. It is mostly white people who buy blues music today and it was white people who rediscovered the likes of Robert Johnson in the 1960s, giving him the title king of the delta bluesmen, when he was a virtual unknown in hs own lifetime.
"they just go right at with no build up."
Isn't that what blues is all about? Boring chord progressions, no excitement, no build up and just long and boring crap?
Isn't that what blues is all about? Boring chord progressions, no excitement, no build up and just long and boring crap?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]FriedChicken<br><font size=1>The Almighty</font> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]"they just go right at with no build up."
Isn't that what blues is all about? Boring chord progressions, no excitement, no build up and just long and boring crap?[/QUOTE]
That's what bad blues is all about...
Isn't that what blues is all about? Boring chord progressions, no excitement, no build up and just long and boring crap?[/QUOTE]
That's what bad blues is all about...