I play mostly, I guess you could say deep blues, punk blues, lo-fi kinda music when I am behind my kit and playing my box. How do you explain any of that to someone? Around here, the mainstream is country and rock. I guess you could call my music stromp, or slop.....? The big reason I love this whole cbg thing is because it is freedom to make a music that you like and still sounds good to you and a certian group of people, but you don't have to go to music school for 5 years, or you don't have to know every guitar chord and scale out there. I get tired of the norm, 20 min guitar solo's, I like country, but most new country is rock anyhow, just with a country twist. I like some of the classics, but a lot of those classics are dang near 50 years old. I mean, how many times does one person have to listen to stair way to heaven? Let's move on please. Now you have guys like Seasick Steve playing rough and tough music, and it being huge in the UK and surounding places....it's almost like the music is geting down graded in a good way from a whaling awsome 6 string guitar hero, to a modest working man type figure with a board and a string.
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Well put Joker...however my theory is "punk" has been around long before the '70s. To me, ANY loud, rebellious, non-mainstream music fits the bill. Heck, some of the jump-blues tunes from the '40s/'50s were off the normal path. Alot of the obscure rockabilly/rockers from the 50's would have had parents shaken their heads. And in the '60s, bands born in the garage didn't give a hoot about rules. Check out (from my site):
To explain punk blues you have to start with what the "punk" part means. When punk music came on the scene in the 70's the music industry was cranking out vain rock bands, very full of themselves. Musicians who looked down on their fans, performances that contained long extended solos and 15 to 20 minute songs. The punk bands that emerged wanted to be the opposite of that, to play loud- in your face music that was more about expressing your ideals than wollowing in how great you were.
The simple chords and beats used in punk was very freeing to musicians who felt like they would never be able to play or perform because now there were "no rules".
To me, punk blues is a similar way of thinking and playing. You don't have to be a guitar god like Eric Clapton to play the blues. You can use simple 3 chord riffs, loud thunping drums, yell into the mic, and play blues classics without feeling like you have to sound exactly like Son House or Blind Willie Johnson.
Now your talkin' Joker, this is so what I mean. I am glad there is someone out there on the same level as me. When I first picked up my 6 string I wanted to play my music. I did not want to sit down and try to learn any hit on the radio. I wanted to play for me, not play someone elses music. I liked playing loud and thrashing with stuff that did not make much sense. Back then my two big hero's were Angus Young and Jimmy Page, so I guess you could say my solo's sounded like them, in their style, but never once would I try to pull off one of their licks.....I am not them, I will never be them, I can only be me, and play like me. Fast forward to now, I see guys like all of us on here that are geting these awesome sounds out of just sticks and boxes and it just floors me. I wish I knew about this stuff long ago, I would have been a pro at it by now.
Joker said:
To explain punk blues you have to start with what the "punk" part means. When punk music came on the scene in the 70's the music industry was cranking out vain rock bands, very full of themselves. Musicians who looked down on their fans, performances that contained long extended solos and 15 to 20 minute songs. The punk bands that emerged wanted to be the opposite of that, to play loud- in your face music that was more about expressing your ideals than wollowing in how great you were.
The simple chords and beats used in punk was very freeing to musicians who felt like they would never be able to play or perform because now there were "no rules".
To me, punk blues is a similar way of thinking and playing. You don't have to be a guitar god like Eric Clapton to play the blues. You can use simple 3 chord riffs, loud thunping drums, yell into the mic, and play blues classics without feeling like you have to sound exactly like Son House or Blind Willie Johnson.
To explain punk blues you have to start with what the "punk" part means. When punk music came on the scene in the 70's the music industry was cranking out vain rock bands, very full of themselves. Musicians who looked down on their fans, performances that contained long extended solos and 15 to 20 minute songs. The punk bands that emerged wanted to be the opposite of that, to play loud- in your face music that was more about expressing your ideals than wollowing in how great you were.
The simple chords and beats used in punk was very freeing to musicians who felt like they would never be able to play or perform because now there were "no rules".
To me, punk blues is a similar way of thinking and playing. You don't have to be a guitar god like Eric Clapton to play the blues. You can use simple 3 chord riffs, loud thunping drums, yell into the mic, and play blues classics without feeling like you have to sound exactly like Son House or Blind Willie Johnson.
if somebody's never known what it's like to want to go to sleep and never wake up, they can't understand the blues, the've never had the blues, if they haven't awaken laying on the pool table at a flophouse and the band in the garage dosen't inspire them to live another day, they just ain't punkrock enough! Just play your music because you love to. Rock on Jerry. Peace, Joe
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Joker said:
The simple chords and beats used in punk was very freeing to musicians who felt like they would never be able to play or perform because now there were "no rules".
To me, punk blues is a similar way of thinking and playing. You don't have to be a guitar god like Eric Clapton to play the blues. You can use simple 3 chord riffs, loud thunping drums, yell into the mic, and play blues classics without feeling like you have to sound exactly like Son House or Blind Willie Johnson.
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