blues hammer jokes seem like the only appropriate response
― Moodles, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
blues hammer is shameful cultural appropriation of authentic blues-rock
― Brad C., Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
there is a spectrum of blueshammer bands, some are good, e.g. led zeppelin, some are bad, e.g. the original blueshammer
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
i like plenty of blues rock
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
george thorogood rules, the blues albini
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/bad-to-the-bone-to-be-used-in-film-3903
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
is blueshammer a strawman band? i've never really encountered a bar band like that ... i guess it's supposed to be kinda sub-par stevie ray vaughn. anyway, my tolerance has probably risen over the years, i like canned heat, zz top, rory gallagher, peter green etc.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
I am listening to 21st century Robin Trower albums today. (He's got a new one coming out next Friday.) Unfortunately, his US tour - which starts tomorrow - is all Midwest and West Coast dates, nothing on the East Coast.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
growing up around Chicago, it was amazing how many terrible blues rock bands there were in the area. lots of corporate retreat type dudes who looked like jimmy buffet and thought the blues started with jake and elwood.
― nomar, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
as far as a guy who does have a lot of the tendencies to overwrought blooze bluster that ppl tend to hate, rory gallagher is fucking amazing IMO
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
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
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
yeah irish tour is what got me into him, that's the one
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
Robin Trower's last album was fucking GREAT.
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
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
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
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?
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
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.http://i.imgur.com/1apP9Nt.jpg
― Austin, Friday, 28 April 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
...before you plowed into him?
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 28 April 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
"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.
― earlnash, Friday, 28 April 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
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
― timellison, Friday, 28 April 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
Oh dear wrong thread
― timellison, Friday, 28 April 2017 04:40 (six years ago) link
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
― the_ecuador_three, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 29 April 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
i like harvey mandel. does that count?
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 29 April 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
harvey mandel rules
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 29 April 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
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, 29 April 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
https://assets.teamrock.com/image/10e8c0a9-6348-4e55-b5d8-599d360d9871?w=1280
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 April 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
They missed out on a goldmine by not licensing their name to other products.
Foghat's Hog Fat would've been a big seller.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 29 April 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/21/55/e3/2155e328a82f3e0765d40fd31061c335.jpg
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
wow that's a real thing. i guess i assumed it was too good to be true
http://foghatcellars.com/
― budo jeru, Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
"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."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
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
― hstencil, Tuesday, April 8, 2003 3:06 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
Forever Bad Blues Band Just Stomping
― Stevolende, Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1GSbkOT26L._SL1500_.jpg
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!
― nomar, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
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.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
I remember listening to Foghat's 2010 album. I don't remember what it sounded like, but I remember listening to it.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/88/55/69/8855692e946f1232e564ecbe3b30744d.jpg
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
Keep thinking thread title reminds me of that one Le TIgre song.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Damn right.
― Mark G, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
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
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
as a member of Blodwyn Pig I take exception to your post
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 30 April 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
ANOTHER new album from Robin Trower??
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 April 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
Jump on it!
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
More Trower To Him!
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 April 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
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and there's another live set around.All instrumental
― Stevolende, Sunday, 30 April 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
don't skip "Stormy Monday"
― Brad C., Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
― Lmao Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
More Blueshammerism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF6yiV8N6G4
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 15 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link