What's your tolerance for blues-rock?

I have zero tolerance for Eric Clapton's solo career or any blues-themed albums by Gary Moore.

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i don't understand the poll options

Everything after "I seek out and attend gigs by the surviving members of" is gibberish afaict

no Savoy Brown or John Mayall options no cred

np Fleetwood Mac Live at the Shrine 1969

I'd have to be a warrior
A slave I couldn't be
A soldier and a conqueror,
Fighting to be free

i yelled "Judas!" at danny kirwan during a show on the Bare Trees tour

I've been looking at that gif above for a while now, and I've gotta say I'm finding it a bit of an anti-climax.

Joe Bonnablueshammer

john mayall don't play no rock

The Anti-Climax Blues Band

how many of you here bring your own harmonicas to blues concerts

TS: 'Andrew's Blues' vs. 'Cocksucker Blues'

Where does "I bought all three Rhino Handmade sets by Cactus" fall?

It's pretty much all rubbish except for Canned Heat, who rule.

Alan Wilson's voice ruins Canned Heat for me.

here's some canned heat for ya

*farts*

how did Jeff Healey know his girlfriend was pretty in "Angel Eyes"?

Disgusting savages, the pair of youse.(xp)

I used to work in a warehouse and my boss' final collection was predominantly blues rock. Hearing that daily was a slow suffocating kind of monotony. Canned Heat and Papa John Creach were good though.

*vinyl

Alan Wilson was a genius.

You're thinking of Brian.

I love Brian Wilson's blues rock

i don't understand the poll options

― the late great, Monday, 24 April 2017 21:55 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heard one blues-rock song, LITERALLY heard them all.

1st "music for olds"

sleeve otm

fallacy of the excluded middle: Fleetwood Mac sucked after Danny Kirwan left.

I skip "Stormy Monday" on Fillmore East

this is the only unacceptable choice

Voted for 'zero tolerance for blues-rock' by Pat Metheny

fallacy of the excluded middle: Fleetwood Mac sucked after Danny Kirwan left.

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, April 24, 2017 8:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No way dogg

Electric Mud is pretty awesome. Would like some more like that.
Really like Ten Years After when the bebop's showing

Found a nice copy of Then Play On by FM on RSD I was well chuffed tbh

Picked up the remaster of that when it came out a few years back, a bit less overtly bluesy than the debut but great, great lp.

Stackwaddy are really great, do Buffalo fit?
Groundhogs had at least 3 fantastic lps.
Steve Miller's early stuff takes a blues influence to some great ends.
Gun Club are one of my favourite bands and reinvention of delta blues influenced stuff is one of their marked influences.
Same with Howard brothers era crime & The City Solution.

Beefheart's bluesier stuff is pretty cool too.

Was in a taxi the other day and the driver had some Calvin Russell in the CD player, was pretty sweet.

The less that blues/blues rock sounds like it was made with a stencil, the higher my tolerance.

The more it sounds like something a regional sales manager would grind out onstage at the corporate retreat, the lower my tolerance.

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Hot take: Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign album was simultaneously great and also the seed of all terrible blues rock

Booker T and the MGs as backing band innit?

I've been jamming "Boogie With Canned Heat" lately...feels good man

UK blues/rock albums i enjoy:

then play on; the pious bird of good omen; mr wonderful - fleetwood mac
cricklewood green; ssssh - ten years after
raw sienna; looking in - savoy brown
a hard road; blues from laurel canyon - john mayall

not sure i consider wishbone ash "blues rock" but i dig their s/t, pilgrimage, argus

future blues by canned is pretty cool but i'm rarely "in the mood" for those vocals

"Well I've been plowin' — pickin' cotton all day long!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaM6lTmhnak

Good songs vs. good solos wins the day. See: Robert Cray.

Steveo's list otm, love the Groundhogs/Tony McPhee.

antipodean blues:

Coloured Balls (Lobby Loyde!)
Rose Tattoo
Human Instinct
the Scientists

There's probably stuff out there that I like or tolerate, but zero-tolerance feels like the right option. I'm clearly not the only person who thought of that blues hammer clip when I saw the phrase "blues-rock".

no honestly anytime anything remotely blues rock comes up on ilm for like the last 15 years someone makes a blueshammer joke

blues hammer jokes seem like the only appropriate response

blues hammer is shameful cultural appropriation of authentic blues-rock

i mean i get why he might come across as a sorta overplaying white blooze dude, but he is actually great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_1vgh_X9w

yeah irish tour is what got me into him, that's the one

Robin Trower's last album was fucking GREAT.

is blueshammer a strawman band?

Oh no, the phenomenon is very real. I co-hosted a blues jam for a number of years, and the number of Stevie Ray Stratobators is really something.

I went to a local blues fest last summer, and this band was so overamped and awful I had to go have a couple drinks at a bar down the street until they were done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw9wvNi_EPI

This might not be the exact thread for it, but something I've been wondering: The kind of melodies that typify (for instance) Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings are considered blues, right? If that's the case, when did the idea of a typical blues melody transform from those kind of 32-bar things into the more familiar 12-bar I-IV-V form?

Pulled up behind this guy at a red light this afternoon and immediately thought of this topic. Of course I had to take a picture and show you guys.
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...before you plowed into him?

"If that's the case, when did the idea of a typical blues melody transform from those kind of 32-bar things into the more familiar 12-bar I-IV-V form?"

I think it was kinda always there, you really got to look that alot of "rock and roll" kinda comes more out of the Mississippi blues tradition (like say Charlie Patton) which was way more stripped down both harmonically and instrumentation wise than jazz then got electrified in Chicago, Memphis and Detroit. That stuff including say the classic blues singers like Bessie Smith was happening same time that jazz happened too.

I had this early Small Faces compilation album when I was a teenager and am only seeing now that some of my favorite tracks on it (especially "Sorry She's Mine") were not singles or not A-sides.

https://www.discogs.com/Small-Faces-By-Appointment/release/2938339

Oh dear wrong thread

i mean i get why he might come across as a sorta overplaying white blooze dude, but he is actually great.

His cover of Tony Joe White's As The Crow Flies from the same album is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heD3siavZBg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i like harvey mandel. does that count?

harvey mandel rules

Resisting the temptation to once again post video of "Can Blue Men Sing The Whites."

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They missed out on a goldmine by not licensing their name to other products.

Foghat's Hog Fat would've been a big seller.

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wow that's a real thing. i guess i assumed it was too good to be true

http://foghatcellars.com/

"Mmm, Roger, this is good stuff...notes of oak...a hint of near-cinnamon...and the finish goes down like a SLOOOW RIIIDE!"

"Fucking knock it off."

One of my all-time favorite stories shared by others on ILM:

Sometime in the Summer of 1996, Foghat played after a minor-league baseball game in Louisville with Mountain and Iron Butterfly (I didn't actually witness this, unfortunately). According to my friends who were present, Foghat started the set by having the lead singer ask the audience, "Do we have your permission to JAM?!?!?" When he received a positive, enthusiastic response, he then yelled "Then jam we must!!!!" and they broke into a 20-minute version of "Slow Ride," which was basically their whole set. My friend Chris took off his shirt and twirled it 'round his head.

― hstencil, Tuesday, April 8, 2003 3:06 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Forever Bad Blues Band Just Stomping

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I love this album. Very old school very bluesy kick butt album. I don't know what album the guy who said it wasn't very good was listening to. But Under The Influence ROCKS!

Resisting the temptation to once again post video of "Can Blue Men Sing The Whites."

― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, April 29, 2017 2:42 AM (nineteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's an obvious thing to post, sure, but id does underline the fact that even in the sixties there was a reasonable suspicion about a lot of this stuff. And Clapton was his mate too, so there's also that.

Foghat's latest effort is a masterclass in musical alchemy, reigning in a stunning diversity influences -- everything from Cream to Led Zeppelin, the blues to blues-rock -- and proffering a record that is, at turns, both powerful and poignant. It's as if the band had finally decided to kick open the proverbial oak casks, those mythical vessels which contain all the LPs that have music on them that you like, and let the influence flow.

I remember listening to Foghat's 2010 album. I don't remember what it sounded like, but I remember listening to it.

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While I don't doubt that modern Foghat is probably a very professional live outfit, I tend to doubt it really can scratch on the original band with Lonesome Dave and Rod Price. You really can't go wrong with any old 70s Foghat or Savoy Brown.

I always loved those two pictures. The funny thing about the Rock and Roll Outlaws cover shot is the plane was a total prop for the record, they didn't tour in one.

Keep thinking thread title reminds me of that one Le TIgre song.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Damn right.

i call bs on the person who voted "I seek out and attend gigs by the surviving members of Blodwyn Pig." i don't think any of them still tour. though this would have been cool...

On 9 May 2016, Mick Abrahams, the legendary founding guitarist with Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig and the Mick Abrahams Band, brought together musical friends old and new, for a night of celebration of his music.

Mick was joined on stage at London’s Borderline by special guests, who included Mungo Jerry, Rick Wakeman, Geoff Whitehorn, Clive Bunker, Elliott Randall and more. Visit's Mick's Media for exclusive pictures from the night

as a member of Blodwyn Pig I take exception to your post

ANOTHER new album from Robin Trower??

Jump on it!

More Trower To Him!

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and there's another live set around.
All instrumental

don't skip "Stormy Monday"

More Trower To Him!

More Blueshammerism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF6yiV8N6G4

Kingfish (new blues trio) is opening for Vampire Weekend, so...is Hendrix-SRV-Buddy Guy Blues/Blues Rock to next Hipster Musical Crush?

Jeff Healey deep cuts

I love straight up blues. Most blues rock always sound like it was made for people that own faded "Fuck Disco" t-shirts.

Blues metal is great except when it isn't.

"Wade in the Water" by Harvey Mandel is a stone cold groove and awesome psychedelia with strings. Recent find for me and a great track.

yeah I just got a nice copy of Christo Redentor what an album!