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Post by Cagey on Mar 24, 2023 2:42:22 GMT -5
Jeff Carlisi may beg to differ on that one! He and Don Barnes had issues too!
But yeah Blackmore is a huge ego ass for sure. They turned him into the metal guitar god of his time. At one time he was at the top of the world in direct competition with Jimmy Page.
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Post by Cagey on Mar 25, 2023 5:50:08 GMT -5
Joe Bonamassa just released a new one...
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Post by Cagey on Mar 25, 2023 5:55:08 GMT -5
Folks one artist we should be paying attention before he passes is one of the greatest unknown talents of this world. A former guitarist for Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker and others. This man is an incredible talent. Music flows through him like an electric current same as it did through Allen Collins. His playing is spirits channeled from the great beyond! Fabulous music! hard to believe something this good could come from a place like New Jersey.
Trout's career began on the Jersey coast scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then decided to relocate to Los Angeles where he became a sideman for John Lee Hooker, Percy Mayfield, Big Mama Thornton, Joe Tex, and many others.
Between 1981 and 1984, he was the lead guitarist in Canned Heat.[1] He toured with them extensively in the US, Europe, and Australia. From 1984 to 1989, he was the lead guitarist in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers following in the footsteps of guitarists such as Peter Green and Eric Clapton. Trout recorded and toured with the Bluesbreakers worldwide. The many successes on stage were accompanied by a self-destructive lifestyle offstage. Trout recalled in a 2018 interview with Blues Radio International that while playing with John Mayall, he was rescued from a complete descent into alcohol and substance abuse by a post-gig encounter with Carlos Santana.[2]
In my guitar world the world's top players today for me are Walter Trout and then Joe Bonamassa. Walter comes first because he is more tactful and more tasteful and more musical than Joe. Joe carries an arrogance with him that is a turn off and his music is mostly geared towards platforming his guitar skills.
Walter Trout has no such arrogance and Walter Trout is far more musical and less of a show off and his music is not necessarily geared for guitar soloing. In one song above, there are no guitar solos. Just a song. Just music. Just a feeling. Joe is great. But Walter Trout is greater!
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Post by crimsonkt on Mar 25, 2023 7:28:15 GMT -5
Folks one we should be paying attention before he passes is one of the greatest unknown talents of this world. A former guitarist for Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker and others. This man is an incredible talent. Music flows through him like an electric current same as it did through Allen Collins. His playing is spirits channeled from the great beyond! Fabulous music! hard to believe something this good could come from a place like New Jersey. Trout's career began on the Jersey coast scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then decided to relocate to Los Angeles where he became a sideman for John Lee Hooker, Percy Mayfield, Big Mama Thornton, Joe Tex, and many others. Between 1981 and 1984, he was the lead guitarist in Canned Heat.[1] He toured with them extensively in the US, Europe, and Australia. From 1984 to 1989, he was the lead guitarist in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers following in the footsteps of guitarists such as Peter Green and Eric Clapton. Trout recorded and toured with the Bluesbreakers worldwide. The many successes on stage were accompanied by a self-destructive lifestyle offstage. Trout recalled in a 2018 interview with Blues Radio International that while playing with John Mayall, he was rescued from a complete descent into alcohol and substance abuse by a post-gig encounter with Carlos Santana.[2] In my guitar world the world's top players today for me are Walter Trout and then Joe Bonamassa. Walter comes first because he is more tactful and more tasteful and more musical than Joe. Joe carries an arrogance with him that is a turn off and his music is mostly geared towards platforming his guitar skills. Walter Trout has no such arrogance and Walter Trout is far more musical and less of a show off and his music is not necessarily geared for guitar soloing. In one song above, there are no guitar solos. Just a song. Just music. Just a feeling. Joe is great. But Walter Trout is greater! Amazing blues player.... I'll put a word to what KG described: Tasteful. The man understands the crafting of a song means serving the song. Not the song conforming to a particular function... Like soloing. Walter Trout has been doing the Blues Cruise thing with Bonamassa. Carved out a piece for himself by doing those and a LOT of people have become active fans because of seeing him there. He needed exposure, and he's been benefitting greatly from what he's gotten. Bonamassa is a great player, but he's TRULY good at the business side of the music business. He was told the niche he was pursuing was dead, but he proved that it can still be done. It's not mainstream superstar money, but it's comfortable living, multiple homes, and a massive guitar collection money. And, without divorces, he still benefits from a lot of it.
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Post by Cagey on Mar 25, 2023 7:45:13 GMT -5
Joe is smart enough to not let a gold digger anywhere near his precious empire. Can you imagine what one would do to him? YOU HAVE TOO MANY GUITARS! Sell some! I want your guitar amps out of the living room! Clean this mess up! Get all your music shit out of my house now!
Honey, where's my SG number 7?
Oh I sold it and went out and bought some new dresses and shoes with it.
Joe is surely smart enough to not even let one in the door. Shame he has to live alone and go through life all alone because...
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Post by crimsonkt on Mar 25, 2023 11:07:03 GMT -5
Joe Bonamassa just released a new one... Joe Bonamassa has another strong song, but like the rest of what he puts out: it needs more "X-Factor" IMO. I equate JB's issues with southern rock bands. ABB had amazing musicianship, but so did many others.... Little Feat? Amazing stuff, but the songs weren't appealing enough to rise to the level of success that others had. ABB's had a couple strong songs. LS had more great songs, imo, but so did many others bands of the era.... Why does LS have horsepower now while so many others have faded away? Songs with something special in the recipe!!!! I'll call it X-Factor Songcraft Married to Appropriate Production. If you could easily define whatever the "X-Factor" is, there'd be assembly lines churning stuff out like the Wrecking Crew did in the 60s. It transcends mere formula. RVZ and the band proved it was more than just a formula as songs from three different songwriting formulas had real impact (Collins, RVZ, Rossington, then a few songs with Ed King included, and then later with Steve Gaines included). Either Collins or RVZ, or both together, were the source of the X-Factor in those songs. (Why leave out Rossington? Because his impact since the 1980's showed that he added little X-Factor to the songs of that era.) Also note that LS evolved stylistically throughout the four years of 1970s studio releases. Songs were always distinctive and impactful, but four out of five studio albums seemed to include at least a few songs with that X-Factor. My opinion is that something in GBMB, though loaded with better songs than the album cuts on NF, was missing that X-Factor while NF had a few songs that did seem to have it (SNS, On The Hunt, Whiskey Rock a Roller come to mind for me). I think it was weariness and lifestyle by 1976, but the band issues of that time are moot and a well hashed subject, so back to my point in this paragraph.... LS also did it with two of the three producers, specifically Al Kooper and the self-produced SS, so that shows that they couldn't fully identify it in themselves (and in the moment) either. X-Factor songcraft is either a mystical gift or an unidentifiable chemistry that coalesces in artists while still possessing unassured outcomes. Kevin Elson sensed it in the 1977 Criteria recordings and told RVZ so, and SG had to tell RVZ that something was missing. So, RVZ alone was not the panacea of the X-Factor, but the spark was definitely tied to him. Sorry KG, I know that you are a huge Dowd fan, and his accomplishments speak for themselves, but the studio chemistry of LS and Dowd just never spoke to me. My opinion, Dowd hadn't evolved enough into the bigger/fuller/richer FM era sound in 1976-1977, which he did later (after the 70s LS era). That, and band issues of the time, meant something in GBMB didn't click quite right. I know, opinions.... Everybody has them, right? LOL! I think the REAL Dowd mix of the LS 1991 album would have been definitive on whether he was the guy for them, but EK screwed that up. Permanently. LS also put some quirky songs on albums too. Pronounced had non-commercial both Mississippi Kid and Things Going On on it. NF had several quirky filler cuts too (Made In The Shade on a 70s rock album?), and then GBMB had songs that seemed "adrift" from the heart of LS. BTW, saying "quirky" isn't inferring an opinion that the songs are necessarily bad, but they more niche-oriented.... Lastly, SS doesn't seem to have "quirky" songs, despite Honky-Tonk Nighttime Man and a couple other unique tracks being included, and was probably the most uniformly well-crafted album since SH. Anyway... That Wrecking Crew model doesn't work to produce quality now because music is driven by creating it for unsophisticated demos with $$$ that are fleeting in their focus. Like squirrels on crack, the modern music consumer has no focus and is going nuts searching for nuts in rice field. It's more like they're treading water than they realize!!! There is so much homogenized crap that the current consumers are willing to latch onto anything seemingly catchy (musical, incendiary topics/speech, or gimmicky) hooks regardless of whether there is substance in it or not. Music is less impactful as it's not a reflection of a generation, it's a reflection of marketing gimmicks and/or a fragmented sub-culture mindset. Common themes aren't particularly common anymore, nor thematic. Most music has a nominal amount of the human element in it now. It's digitally created beats, midi-instrument layers upon layers, and heavily processed auto-tuned vocals. Sterile, and marketing reliant crap IMO. I've played with fully live bands, solely along with pre-generated tracks, or with live bands augmented by synched tracks, and you can fully feel/sense when the human factor is tainted, like life is being syphoned off, by including digitally generated music. It's not the PARTS, but the lack of human touch in the performance of those parts. If you are lucky enough to play with a full band of decent players with enough instruments to organically replicate the digitally created parts included in modern songs, you can similarly sense the LIFE being injected into the performance. It's a real thing, but it takes truly attuned musicians speaking up to right the ship of the music industry, and most involved are dealing with the present issues of their career ($$$) rather than making waves. So, though the X-Factor CAN BE lack of human soul in a song's performance, it can also be something lacking in the songcraft itself. IMO, JBs songs seem to be missing that X-Factor. Maybe he needs to find a producer that will take him somewhere because he doesn't possess the roadmap in himself yet? So, as KG noted, consume the music of and otherwise support these precious artists that are the real deal!!! They are tough to find and are like treasure when you find them. The industry, meaning the labels and small music genres, aren't making "real deal" artists anymore. Real artists emerge despite the industry, but not via it.
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Post by Cagey on Apr 1, 2023 19:51:32 GMT -5
No problem on the Dowd disagreeing. I am used to it by now. Tough crowd!
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Post by Cagey on Apr 6, 2023 16:13:19 GMT -5
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Post by crimsonkt on Apr 6, 2023 17:10:22 GMT -5
Joe's earlier signature Bassman model is an awesome amp. This looks great as well, but it isn't quite versatile enough for me to invest in one. The Bassman model was freakishly overpriced, so I expect this to be similarly $$$$$.
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Post by Cagey on Apr 13, 2023 17:19:58 GMT -5
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Post by MDfan aka The MD Well Man on Apr 14, 2023 2:30:00 GMT -5
Man I am a fan of the Lab Band!
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Post by Cagey on Apr 14, 2023 5:25:48 GMT -5
Because you got labs!
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Post by Cagey on Apr 14, 2023 8:25:03 GMT -5
A new one from Joe less than an hour ago...
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Post by Cagey on Apr 17, 2023 20:50:41 GMT -5
Fortune Child who? Who needs FC when I got some of this! Ha!
My kind of gal right here! Wind her up and turn her loose and hell yeah! give that gyrl a bottle of wine and let's go!
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Post by Cagey on Apr 17, 2023 21:06:27 GMT -5
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Post by Cagey on Apr 17, 2023 21:09:16 GMT -5
I thought this one was super hot until I found out who she was dating. YUCK!
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