Favorite Blues Artist

Sixstring · Kitten Joined: 28 Dec 2001 Posts: 140

Agreed! Early Aerosmith is outstanding stuff. I didn't even know what Blues was when I was listening to them. But they taught me. Draw the Line was the 2nd album I owned. I hadn't heard anything from it, but an Bro-in-law had Get Your Wings and I just sat entranced listening to it, reading the liner notes, staring at the cover. I went out and bought the first Aerosmith album I could find. But the real defining moment, when the lightbulb went on, was when I got Live Bootleg. I got to side 4 (remember albums?) and heard Mother Popcorn and Aint Got You and I was floored! It sounded ugly, in a beautiful way. Nothing fancy, no glitter and explosions, just passionate music. I was hooked. That taught me that it's all about the music and how it stirs the insides.

I learned to play by putting on albums like Rocks and trying to find the licks on my accoustic guitar. I won backstage passes in '97 and when I met Joe Perry I told him he was my first guitar teacher! He looked confused

, like he was supposed to remember me, so I had to explain. I took my cover for Bootleg for the autographs.

Not surprisingly, my playing has always tended back toward those roots.

ACfixer · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2002 4:21 am Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

That's too cool!

If you think about it, it's hard to imagine a band that is more successful than Aerosmith. 30 years they've been rockin'.

Sixstring · Kitten Joined: 28 Dec 2001 Posts: 140

The only band I can think of that has lasted longer is the Stones. For the original members of Aerosmith to still be together is amazing. It's not often a band plays their Hall of Fame induction and opens with their brand new, sure to be a smash, single. (Although I'll take the worst track off Night in the Ruts over anything they've done lately.)

But I suppose the real miracle is that they, and the Stones, are even still alive!

owwdatune · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:59 pm Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

boy ACf...you sure don't wanna say that statement concerning blues namedropping here in Memphis !!! LOL..quite a few of those names have been or are part of our culture in this town..theres names that play on Beale St. today that are wonderful artists that 1 day may be just as famous as most of them already mentioned above.--i wish every 1 could just spend a weekend on Beale St.-nothing like it anywhere in this universe!!
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ACfixer · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2002 3:43 pm Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

I think yer messin with me Owwda or I gotcha, one or the other. I made those names up on the fly...

Calif-Tele · Tadpole Joined: 19 Dec 2001 Posts: 21 Location: So Calif

The Sons of the Pioneers is the longest touring band. No original members, they're all dead. Don't ask me how I know, I just know.

CT

zappatude · Sea Monkey Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 10

Hey ACfixer you mentioned Doyle Bramhall hmm. Is that the guy that wrote songs with your man SRV or is it his son Doyle jr. the guitar player that you dig. Or is that just a name you read in a magazine recently.

The reason I can still listen to Roy Buchannon is that I still have a record player.

owwdatune · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2002 9:08 pm Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

you're starting to figure me out ACf...this is tooo much fun.- i think you mite have caught on when i said the part about "the artists becoming as famous as the names above".hahaaaa -heh heh heh...i love it !!
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owwdatune · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 4:13 am Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

and besides, every 1 knows Watermellon Willy never put out any recordings of his own--he always played with other artists such as Boxcar Bernard-Swingin' gate Galloway-Fishmouth Frank & 'lil Cleon, just to name a few.

we tend to take da blues seriously here in memphis.
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Dually Showman · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 4:15 am Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

Robert Cray,when he's playing the blues.

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zappatude · Sea Monkey Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 10

Hey owwdatune is that Memphis, Rhode Island?

owwdatune · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 11:04 am Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

ahhhh zapp...youse da funniest !!
MEMPHIS TENNESSEEEEEEE...the only memphis that counts when talkin' 'bout da blues, man!!
~T~

owwdatune · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 11:05 am Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

Is there really a memphis in rhode island ?? wow !!
~T~

zappatude · Sea Monkey Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 10

Nahhh I don't think there is but it sounded like a chance to razz ya.

owwdatune · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2002 1:25 pm Post subject: Favorite Blues Artist

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