16 Aug
2006
16 Aug
'06
7:42 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:53 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Loki Davison wrote:
I beg to differ. At least as far as the Naturally album is
concerned. Everything on there is great.
Do you people ever shut up? I'm bumming
around at home looking for
something exciting in my email and all i get is this mindless drivel.
Time for a new direction please!
Blathering is a right we all share here, and copyright topics are
obviously & always inflammatory issues.
In other topics, i've put flat wound strings
on my bass and damn do
they sound fantastic. Anyone else using flatwounds?
Yes, on a Fender Precision. I love 'em, especially for recording. Great
for blues and soul music too, but not so hot for the funkier stuff.
Plus they don't rip my right-hand nails to shreds. I also play classical
and blues guitar, I like my nails.
Also been listening to a lot of J J Cale, and he
has some mighty fine
tracks. Cocaine and the rest covered by clapton are great, as is crazy
mama and tons of others. Somewhat like John Mayall's decent albums but
good all the time. Great stuff.
Cale's okay, not nearly so good a writer as Willis Alan Ramsey, but okay
for pop. Mayall is another quantity altogether. IMPO he made
exactly two
decent albums, the first Bluesbreakers with EC and the Hard Road
recording with Peter Green. His tribute to JB Lenoir is heartfelt too.
But the truth is that he's a 3rd-rate singer and a not-so-hot player.
OTOH he must be reckoned as England's blues maven #1, and his recording
of "Man Of Stone" is a heck of a lot better than Eddie Kirkland's
original.
Mayall lost me when he said he never practiced harp playing. It's
pretty obvious too ;-)
If you want to hear some core blues try Howlin'
Wolf, Muddy Waters, or
Sonny Boy Williamson, especially the old Chess material. If you want to
go deeper, get the complete Blind Willie Johnson. (Apologies if you're
already aware of this stuff).
I prefer Robert Pete Williams, RL Burnside, and Son Thomas. But the
players you mentioned are good too. ;-)
--
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