estebanana -> RE: My journey into the blues #2 Mexican (May 7 2014 13:17:40)
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And your new profile pick is putting your newfound bluesman persona into perspective. Someone tried to rob the club while Lightnin' Hopkins was playing one night and he pulled out a pistol and shot up a window and said "Not in the middle of my set." The photo looks very Chicago, yet has some Houston afternoon before the gig energy. Another thing effective with Santana style riffs is to play the first few notes really, really, really long and draw them out. An then walk away from them like you are leaving and then turn around and say I was not finished talking yet. And then pick it up. Then after while you say, seriously this is how it is, then you lay into them. Blues is paced by speech patterns, yeah that sounds weird, but it's the key. There is this old black guy in Milwaukee named Bill ( I forget his last name) who would host a small bar every Mon. day night. He wore a suit and would go up to the stage and begin to MC the night over the mic to the ten people in the bar and then he would step down a hold court. Kids from the art school would go, old duffers his age would go and businessmen stopping in before going home would go. Bill made a Monday night with not very much going on into a festive special occasion just by opening a closing the bar with the mic. When he held court he would open a topic for discussion like this: "You can't get..... a good haaam-bur-ger.............any mo." With that pace, the stress or accent would go to *get* - *haam* and *any*. It is music, I think blues very much comes out like that. He would draw out some words a cut other short, like *any mo* was fast and *can't* was drawn out. I guess what I'm saying is that it seems like blues is speech patterns with guitar scales. And if you can get in Bill's head and talk like that through the guitar it just comes out naturally. I have to find a picture of that guy, got one some where. Simon I think you should wear that sharp suit when you play and just let all the other guitar players in your head leave the room until you doing the talking. You look sharp in the suit and blues men are down town sharp.
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