ludurigan Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 No, pure blues is something else. That's the rock/metal/punk boys of GNR trying to do blues. But they don't have a grasp on how to get that true sound.can you point me 2 or 3 great blues recordings (studio or live) from 2 or 3 different blues artists?thanks in advance! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 No, pure blues is something else. That's the rock/metal/punk boys of GNR trying to do blues. But they don't have a grasp on how to get that true sound.can you point me 2 or 3 great blues recordings (studio or live) from 2 or 3 different blues artists?thanks in advance! Let's see, off the top of my head, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Freddie, Albert, and BB King, John Lee Hooker and the rest of the guys that the Stones, Zeppelin, Beck, Clapton, Mayall and everyone else in England worshipped.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURIZ388xvEIn the more recent(relatively) times there's been guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Moore who put out some outstanding blueshttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20ifk_stevie-ray-vaughan-texas-flood_musicAnd right now you got guys like Joe Bonamassa and Gary Clark Jr. flying the flag for old school blues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ludurigan Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 No, pure blues is something else. That's the rock/metal/punk boys of GNR trying to do blues. But they don't have a grasp on how to get that true sound.can you point me 2 or 3 great blues recordings (studio or live) from 2 or 3 different blues artists?thanks in advance! Let's see, off the top of my head, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Freddie, Albert, and BB King, John Lee Hooker and the rest of the guys that the Stones, Zeppelin, Beck, Clapton, Mayall and everyone else in England worshipped.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURIZ388xvEIn the more recent(relatively) times there's been guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Moore who put out some outstanding blueshttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20ifk_stevie-ray-vaughan-texas-flood_musicAnd right now you got guys like Joe Bonamassa and Gary Clark Jr. flying the flag for old school blues oh thanks i know all these guysthings is i have no idea where is the true great stuff among all their albums and all their live performanceslike, which album is their appetite for destruction?or which years were they at their peak during live performances?i have no ideai have listened to nice stuff from these guysits usually good but i have had a hard time finding great stuffi have listened to some recordings where these guys seemed to be on autopilot or something...and others which they were backed by not-so-great bandssometimes the sound quality is not that great...i guess you can have an idea of what i am sayingcan you point me like 1 album (or 1 live show) from some of these guys which is just fucking great?thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 SRV at El Mocambo. Just him and Double Trouble in a small Toronto club bashing out the set at 100% inensity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 SRV at El Mocambo. Just him and Double Trouble in a small Toronto club bashing out the set at 100% inensity.nice, gonna try that oneany listening suggestions of stuff by the older guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 SRV at El Mocambo. Just him and Double Trouble in a small Toronto club bashing out the set at 100% inensity.nice, gonna try that oneany listening suggestions of stuff by the older guys?BB King Live at The Regal for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom-Ass Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) nice, gonna try that oneany listening suggestions of stuff by the older guys?My favorite old timer is Howlin' Wolf.. It is more about his voice than the guitars though. Izzy used to do some of his covers.. Some were songs that were done by a lot of blues guys but Izzy did Wolf's versions.Killing floor Smokestack Lightning Evil Highway 49 highway 49 (Izzy) Spoonful Spoonful (Izzy) Edited September 3, 2015 by Tom-Ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I have a thing for Freddie King's instrumentals. You can hear the blueprint for so much of what the great 60s and 70s rock lead guitarists did in his playing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) Edited September 3, 2015 by Rovim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klay Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) Edited September 3, 2015 by Klay 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Yes!And my favorite: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klay Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 That's great Omar, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac were amazing. Like it this way, Oh Well , Rattlesnake Shake, Albatross, Plus Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer were a great trio of guitar players.For those that don't know, Fleetwood Mac started as a blues band with Peter Green as frontman.Peter Green was just great, probably my fav guitar player. This is my fav instrumental ever along with Albatross (the video's nice too!):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=useKWILemkI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Interestingly, the legendary Peter Green Les Paul "Greeny" ended up in the hands of Gary Moore for years.I think Kirk Hammett of Metallica owns it now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Interestingly, the legendary Peter Green Les Paul "Greeny" ended up in the hands of Gary Moore for years. I think Kirk Hammett of Metallica owns it now.It sounds great. I want it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 the freddie king stuff is terrificthat guy is a monster guitar player, wowwhat i dont like about this (and many other blues recordings) is that the backing band is usually too clean and predictable for my likingi am not saying they are bad musicians at all, its just my personal tasteto begin with, i dont really like the piano/keyboards sound, id much rather to listen to another guitar player instead. i am pretty sure a second (a rhythm) guitar would add a lot of rawness to the sound. the piano/keyboards sound makes it too clean. just listen to freddi sound at 2m17s when he is basically playing rhythm alone. that sound is terrific. I just wish i could find a freddie king recording where there is another guitar player playing rhythm with that kind of sound when he is soloing, instead of a piano/keyboard player.I think I find GNR playing the blues so good precisely because whenever slash is soloing you have izzy doing the rhythm with his guitar, and that changes everything wow and this albert king performance is awesome too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Generally blues is a one guitar type of band, but if you can get 2 players that can rip and still keep out of each other's way it's a pretty sweet sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I love SRV, but that isn't pure blues either. He was such a monster player, but he was like Hendrix Meets blues with almost shredder chops and kind of a one trick pony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 (edited) I love SRV, but that isn't pure blues either. He was such a monster player, but he was like Hendrix Meets blues with almost shredder chops and kind of a one trick pony.Kind of a running theme for that era because Gary Moore had the blues thing down, but he also had monster chops to the moon. It's kinda cool to see guys today like Gary Clark Jr. bring it back to basics playing-wise. Edited September 8, 2015 by moreblack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I love Gary, one of the greatest players of all time of any Genre.... Gary was a metal/hard rock Icon who got his first big break with Thin Lizzy, then an awesome solo career, then oddly he turned to the blues in the late 80's. But they were monster blues with super charged blistering runs that could humble any 80's shredder. The man was incredible. there was backlash from his metal fans, but he reached a whole new crop of fans with his blues playing. I miss Gary, this is one of the finest performances he has ever done. Listen to that fucking tone. DAMN. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 These videos were great.. Maybe the best true blues I have ever seen Slash play.and this... from madison 1987on some bootlegs it is listed as COP RAP, and on some bootlegs it is listed as AXL'S BLUESthis is terrific, terrific blues and Axl ranting over it makes it even better (if they were playing the blues "under" every Axl rant, the Use Your Illusion Tour rants would have been so much more fun)That was fucking incredible and I had never heard that before. Thank you for posting. AMAZING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 (edited) I love Gary, one of the greatest players of all time of any Genre.... Gary was a metal/hard rock Icon who got his first big break with Thin Lizzy, then an awesome solo career, then oddly he turned to the blues in the late 80's. But they were monster blues with super charged blistering runs that could humble any 80's shredder. The man was incredible. there was backlash from his metal fans, but he reached a whole new crop of fans with his blues playing. I miss Gary, this is one of the finest performances he has ever done. Listen to that fucking tone. DAMN.Not to shit on this performance, cause it's very impressive. I just feel it totally lost the magic of the original Roy Buchanan version. A misinterpretation imo. (if there is such a thing) Edited September 8, 2015 by Rovim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I can see that. This just shows he did a lot more than Blues. That one clip had everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 At the same time though, why would you cover something just to copy the original? Gotta do it your way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 At the same time though, why would you cover something just to copy the original? Gotta do it your way.Like I said, to me it lost it's magic and I love Gary Moore. The version he did lacked some essential elements imo. But he totally made it his own.I think you can still do a completely different cover, and still not lose the core feel or vibe of the song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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