badass uk blues rock

[suhl]

www.myspace.com/scottmckeon (http://www.myspace.com/scottmckeon)

this right here is where its at god import that album to america

[Breukelen advocaat]

www.myspace.com/scottmckeon (http://www.myspace.com/scottmckeon)

this right here is where its at god import that album to america
Thanks, but we've already got guys that can play rings around him.

Too hard-rock orientated for real blues - maybe he's better live.

It's only my opinion.

[suhl]

yes, there are better, he is better than about anyone in the mainstream though. look at it this way i guess, if you were just going to post the best of something there would be one thread in here i guess. i dont disrepect your opinion really i have only heard the songs there, and it is better than most new music being released today, i guarentee it is better than whatever rollingstones top 10 albums of the year were and so on. but my point is i am not saying it is the best ive ever heard, im saying its very good

as for the hard rock oriented part i enjoy that myself, there was a reason i said blues rock and not just blues, but just the fact that you have heard of him actually impresses the hell out of me

[suhl]

www.myspace.com/thehoaxband (http://www.myspace.com/thehoaxband)

back to the main point i have noticed that, when you get into really really good guitarists people are like yeah well he isnt as good as so and so whereas if it is a mediocre guitarist in a famous band with slightly more chops than average people dont feel the need to compare them to the greats, they take it as what it is, just something to think about. people are always ragging on great guitarists by saying yeah well fuck him he isnt the best in the world

[Breukelen advocaat]

Sorry, I only heard him on MySpace. I can hear it in his playing, the fourth cut called Fuzz Six Six Six, that he's played the old acoustic Delta stuff a lot. I don't think he's using a slide, but that's the sound he's trying to get. He does understand where it's coming from. So much has been done, it's very difficult to come up with anything new.

I've been into blues for many years. The blues guitarist to hear is Snooks Eaglin, of New Orleans, born in 1936. This guy is incredible. I regret that I've never seen him - he has been blind since childhood and rarely plays outside of New Orleans. He did a pretty good live album in Japan about 10 years ago. Nobody can top him - either electric or acoustic, he makes any song or style his own - he played as a session man on the best New Orleans' artists' sides since the 40's, as well as his own stuff. He's a living legend, an original that is far better than just about anybody, alive or dead. He's the best of the best. At over 70 years old, and blind, he's still working despite what happened to New Orleans with the hurricane.

I always like to listen to, and discuss, blues and jazz.

Cheers!

[suhl]

im going to give him a listen the more blues i hear the more i like

[MacWQ33]

I really like those Scott McKeon songs Suhl. I'm going to DL some shit from him, pretty good. Not so much the second link, kind of annoying and hurt my ears a bit.

Can you maybe let me know the names of some other blues artists similar to him?

I'd like to bury the hatchet with you Suhl, before I was basing my opinion of you off of a comment you made to the effect of 'people who listen to rock are more intelligent than people who listen to hip hop'. I know where you were coming from...either a racial angle or the angle that you believe hip-hop music is 'easy to construct'. But you must understand...not all ethnic people are of low-intelligence, and not all people who listen to hip-hop are ethnic (I'm extremely white lol). It was just an absolute ignorant, naive, and basically stupid comment that made no sense. Based on your sentence structure, immaturity sometimes, and word choice, I can tell my intelligence is probably a bit above that of yours. Please don't take that the wrong way though, there's nothing wrong with that, just proving a point. But, it's all good now I guess.

IMHO though, I can't see how that music was harder to construct than a hip-hop beat that consists of many many more instruments than that, and would take much longer to make (LOL not an hour like you said one other time). Hip-hop beats are constructed by putting many different instruments together to form a unique sound...opposed to lot of rock that often sounds similar, because the instruments used are similar, and sequenced in a similar way. And the lyrics, eh, nothing special (the blues you posted, as well as much rock). No similies or metaphors or any kind of word play...pretty boring. I'm not saying the music is bad, I really like it, but there's just no way it proves that you are of a higher intelligence than say, someone who listens to Jay-Z or Nas (who's lyrics are so complex, you probably wouldn't even understand). And there's no way it proves it's more difficult to construct than a multi-instrument hip-hop beat equipped with snares, hi-hats, keyboard notes and piano rolls, drums and bass, samplers, synthesizers, symbols, and possibly even guitar. All that with unique subject matter, and complex, word-play filled lyricism.

LOL, just saying Suhl, we've had our differences, but I honestly really like that first guy along with a shitload of rock and a shitload of other music don't get me wrong...but it doesn't have anything to do with how he made the music, or how long it took, his skin color, or his subject matter...it just sounds good to me. I won't judge it beyond that.