"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
I knew you'd post something by your favorite "blues band" to try to top a real blues musician.
You remind me of Norman Mailer's comment about being shocked when he went in the army and found out that there were places in the United States so naive that they thought Glenn Miller was classical music. You also remind me of when one of my brothers in law first met me and having been told I'm a musician tried to engage me in his area of interest, folk music. When I brought up Bukka White and Blind Willie McTell, he told me he was into "white bread commercial folk." Only he had the integrity to admit that he didn't like the real thing. He's not a bad guy, though we don't talk music much. You wouldn't want to send him to the store to buy you guitar strings.
Anyone who thinks The Rolling Stones are "the greatest white blues band" in history only proves that they don't know much about the blues. You're the Susan Stamberg of pop music critics, can't say anything without a stream of cliches coming out.
The Rolling Stones are a pale imitation of the real thing. I prefer the real thing. And they're pale imitations of Stevie Ray Vaughan, too. They're a white boy's idea of what a blues band sounds like.
I've always found it strange that people as far east as Nova Scotia dress up and play cowboy as part of a musical genera that is based in Nashville. But people are strange in lots of ways.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSeriously --- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll smile at your stupidity as you laugh like the idiot you are.
DeleteAlso this.
ReplyDeleteThe Stones "Stop Breaking Down."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnDpW5vpbDY
What you know about the blues is what you know about Jews, straight boys, girls, and comedy.
I knew you'd post something by your favorite "blues band" to try to top a real blues musician.
DeleteYou remind me of Norman Mailer's comment about being shocked when he went in the army and found out that there were places in the United States so naive that they thought Glenn Miller was classical music. You also remind me of when one of my brothers in law first met me and having been told I'm a musician tried to engage me in his area of interest, folk music. When I brought up Bukka White and Blind Willie McTell, he told me he was into "white bread commercial folk." Only he had the integrity to admit that he didn't like the real thing. He's not a bad guy, though we don't talk music much. You wouldn't want to send him to the store to buy you guitar strings.
The Stones cover Jimmy Reed, and actually surpass the original.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSs1F0LTxFo
Sorry, but it's true.
Anyone who thinks The Rolling Stones are "the greatest white blues band" in history only proves that they don't know much about the blues. You're the Susan Stamberg of pop music critics, can't say anything without a stream of cliches coming out.
DeleteIs your problem with the Stones or the idea of a great white blues band?
ReplyDeleteNot that I care, because either problem just proves you're a fucking idiot.
The Rolling Stones are a pale imitation of the real thing. I prefer the real thing. And they're pale imitations of Stevie Ray Vaughan, too. They're a white boy's idea of what a blues band sounds like.
DeleteThe best part of that video (set aside the music) is the announcer in a sateen "Western" shirt that would have been cheesy in 1955; speaking French.
ReplyDeleteWho says there isn't a Gallic sense of humor?
Un vrai cow-bo-ee.
DeleteI've always found it strange that people as far east as Nova Scotia dress up and play cowboy as part of a musical genera that is based in Nashville. But people are strange in lots of ways.
I wore that shit when I was 5, imitating my hero Roy Rogers.
DeleteWho was no more a cowboy than I am.
Nowt so queer as folk.