kidmoon
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Kid A + Pink Moon = kidmoon
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Thunder Road -- bruce springsteen
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Moon Struck One -- the band
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Moonshiner -- jolie holland
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Mississippi Nights
St. Louis, MO
Nov. 17, 2006 (my birthday!)
Great time. Awesome show.
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Wasted Words -- allman brothers
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I would have to wholeheartedly disagree.Blues isnt about race or economic backround,its about feeling/emotion.You didnt have to pick cotton to be a gret blues player.And I will Agree its not just about how well you play the guitar.I have seen Joe Bonamassa play live several times,and what I hear in him is the passion feelig in both his playing and singing.Sure he is mostly a blues/rock guy,but when he plays the blues he plays the blues.He is not some poser.Is he Muddy Waters NO,is he John Lee Hooker,Sonny Boy Williamson,ect no.That generation has mostly passed and now the younger generation that is embrcaing the blues will put their own stamp on it.I am not a traditionalist.I like my blues hardrockin.But I will argue it is still blues.Yes,Joe does appeal to mostly middle age white guys,but we do know better because we have seen them all.We have seen them and realize a great talent.I will say that Led Zepplin is also the blues.THey just took it and changed it into something completely different.music evolves and morphs. Rock and roll came from the blues,it doesnt matter the lines dont have to be drawn in the sand,different styles for different people.
Hey, I like white bluesmen as much as the next (white) guy: Page, Peter Green, the guy from the Black Keys, Billy Gibbons, Jeff Beck, etc.; I was just saying (or trying to say) that Joe Bonamassa didn't quite make my personal cut. And I wasn't trying to offend, xmas -- my comment was meant to be more humorous than hurtful.
Also, I completely agree: blues is about emotion. To be more clear about my feelings on JB's music: it sounds way too polished -- like the emotion was scrubbed away. And that reminds me of later Clapton. All technical excellence, no grit.
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Is this carved in stone somewhere, or is it your opinion?
It's my opinion, of course. I suppose I'd have cited sources if it was fact. Don't get me wrong, he's a fantastic guitar player, but, like Clapton (post-Blind Faith), he just sounds like a white guy trying to play blues music.
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Very few white guys can succeed at making good blues music. Bonamassa is not one of them.
He makes music for middle-aged white people and kids who don't know any better.
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Blinded By The Light -- bruce springsteen
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Come Dancin' -- the kinks
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Call It Stormy Monday -- the allman brothers/t-bone walker
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called quest
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Young Modern Station -- silverchair
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Charles Manson Sings -- Charles Manson
It's surprisingly good. Sounds like a less ostentatious (and thus more interesting) Devendra Banhart.
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That's because they're rhetorical questions and/or the answer is unknown.
That's exactly my point. The most the author has is speculation.
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Here you go: http://www.cobaincase.com/
While the site is interesting, I'm not convinced. (The site's author doesn't answer any of the questions he asks.)
By the way, how does one get to be an awesomeologist?
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He reportedly had so much heroin in his system that it would've been impossible for him to do anything let alone pull a trigger. That's just from what I remember. There was more. Not to mention the fact that he had a daughter which meant the world to him.
He wouldn't be the first parent to commit suicide.
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And I don't believe Cobain killed himself. Evidence proves it to be impossible.
Why don't you believe Cobain committed suicide? What evidence is there to the contrary?
Didn't he wear t-shirts with self-written messages like "I hate myself I want to die" on them? Based on everything I've seen, the guy was depressed. Really depressed.
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Through The Door, To The Curb, Your Ass Was Kicked By Alec Berg -- the charging cheetahs
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Blues With A Feeling -- Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
"The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others--those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after...." -- Giovanni Gentile
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Drive Away Blues -- Willie McTell
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No Cars Go -- Arcade Fire
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Love is a Gamble -- T-Bone Walker
The KINKS thread
in Other Bands / Music
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Great band.
I especially like the songs Autumn Almanac and Apeman.
...but the air pollution keeps "foggin'" up my eyes...