need some blues...help!

[CaptainDesslock]

Soo....

trying to learn some blues and my book says "by this time, you should be immersing yourself in classic blues recordings," so just what is that?

When I think of blues, I like teh hard rocking blues like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvs4j4IniA

or this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUXX5HnBjx4

NOT THIS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gkTF-vZ_bM#watch-main-area

while were at it......I need some some rock with a good beat for jogging, foo fighters, guns 'n roses, ect....any recommendations?

man I feel like i abuse this forum sometimes  :)

[38thBeatle]

Well if you are talking about the real classics, i.e. the early blues artists then it has to be the likes of Robert Johnson, Son House, Lowell Fulsom and many others or you could go for T Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B B King, Albert King, Freddie King and Billy Jean King ....I was joking about the last one. I would say rather than religiously working your way through them that you perhaps get a traditional blues compilation or two and see if it speaks to you whilst taking in the atmosphere.

[Ratrod]

IMO Clapton and Mayer are great guitarists but lousy blues players.

Like 38th said, look into Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, BB King, Albert King etc.

Also look into the early dawn of rockabilly like 'Mystery Train', 'My baby Left Me', 'That's Allright Mama' etc.

elvis made those songs famous. It's blues with a train beat.

[Ian Price]

Blue Jean Blues is one of my favourite blues stylee songs. Great tone and phrasing from BFG.

I don't have many 'old' blues albums but do have Midnight Special (a collection of Leadbelly recordings.) Obviously very scratchy sounding but some decent tunes in there. Also pretty depressing (listen to TB Blues and I'm on my last go round).

[badgermark]

I can't stand the blues, so I'm not gonna comment on that.

However when I go running i listen to some alkaline trio, jetplane landing, iron maiden, sucioperro and some old Idlewild songs (modern way of letting go by idlewild is my 'power on to the finish' song)

[Dmoney]

Muddy Waters invented electricity

[MDV]

If you want blues with lots of classic authenticity to it, but with a rock edge then you can do far worse than johnny winter and, especially, rory gallacher. Of course, SRV, but I assume you knew that already, robben ford, derrek trucks and warren haynes, too.

If you dont like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauECrCIYl8

Then I wonder what youre listening to blues for? Just stick to blues-based rock (which aint the same thing). (Though its not 'classic' - you cant hear the crickets in the cotton fields, its blues to its core).

[Elliot]

Well for electric blues get the 1st peter green's fleetwood mac album

[Dmoney]

listen to Ry Cooder

[MDV]

Good shout, elliot

I have the Fleetwood mac Jumping at shadows/the blues years, which may as well be called the peter green years, and it rules.

Dont know ry cooder myself, will have to check it out.

Indigenous should provide some entertainment for rocky-blues.

[tomjackson]

What about Free?

Blues Rock but If you learn to play like Koss you'll have covered most blues techniques down pretty well. 

[dave_mc]

I would say rather than religiously working your way through them that you perhaps get a traditional blues compilation or two and see if it speaks to you whilst taking in the atmosphere.

agreed. there's this prevailing mindset among the real die-hard bluesers that you can't play the blues unless you've been listening to nothing else for 15 years, and preferably have been homeless and destitute for some of that time too (even more preferably in the deep south of the USA). Some kind of disability appears to be useful too. Anyway, my point is, that's fair enough if you want to make blues your life, but if you just want to play a bit of it, you don't need to go into it in that depth (those bluesers would tell a metaller to eff-off if he/she told the blueser that to play metal you had to do a similar thing to what they claim you have to do to play blues). There's nothing wrong with wanting to play a wide range of stuff, if you ask me.

EDIT: looking at the links you listed, and not to sound like one of the die-hard bluesers I just complained about, that sounds more like blues rock. I'd have called the one you said wasn't heavy enough blues rock too!

Look into those ones MDV listed, most likely. :)

[CaptainDesslock]

I would say rather than religiously working your way through them that you perhaps get a traditional blues compilation or two and see if it speaks to you whilst taking in the atmosphere.

agreed. there's this prevailing mindset among the real die-hard bluesers that you can't play the blues unless you've been listening to nothing else for 15 years, and preferably have been homeless and destitute for some of that time too (even more preferably in the deep south of the USA). Some kind of disability appears to be useful too. Anyway, my point is, that's fair enough if you want to make blues your life, but if you just want to play a bit of it, you don't need to go into it in that depth (those bluesers would tell a metaller to eff-off if he/she told the blueser that to play metal you had to do a similar thing to what they claim you have to do to play blues). There's nothing wrong with wanting to play a wide range of stuff, if you ask me.

EDIT: looking at the links you listed, and not to sound like one of the die-hard bluesers I just complained about, that sounds more like blues rock. I'd have called the one you said wasn't heavy enough blues rock too!

Look into those ones MDV listed, most likely. :)

lol, well I rather dislike Mayer (just strikes me as a w**ker) so when I think of how I don't want to sound like he just pops in my head

[Dr. Vic]

reading this topic from the beginning I think you should experiment something like that :

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

 :twisted:

[dave_mc]

haha, no worries