baughb42 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

robben has been around for decades.he is on sonny landreth's new record.ten times better than page.

damnbeavers84 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

This guy has great feel and tone. I think he'll go far.

bnapoleonc123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Indeed it is, snobbery about music is what kills genres I think. Poeple get so hung up about it, when the guys who startyed it e.g.ROber Johnson were improvisers, they themselves rarely played exactly the same way every time, because it goes against the whole spirit of the blues, feel and improvisation.

mistersnaredrum (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

yeah. the worst thing is, at local blues clubs i've been to, if you don't play it exactly like the record, the regulars don't like it. therefore negating the whole 'feel' part... strange world, bnap, strange world indeed :o)

bnapoleonc123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Ia gree with you, I think that what the "purists" hacve tyo understand is that attitudes like that are what almost destroyed Classcial and Jazz, and certainly ahve relegated them to a lesser role. I think thouhg that blues is more a feel than a style, for me Beethoven is a blues player, e.g. Moonlight Sonata, not a 12 bar, not a pentatonic, but it has that raw feel of pure emotion channeled into music, one that speaks to the very core of the listener that to me is Blues.

mistersnaredrum (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

agreed. the trouble is its harder to become 'innovative' these days while still adhering to the principles that most blues/rock nuts abide by. the next guitar genius who will be remembered as a hendrix/whoever innovator almost certainly won't be playing music exactly like this. it evolves. but it's still good...

bnapoleonc123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Thanks man, I donlt have anythin against Mayer, he is a good player, but I think they handout the title "guitar god" way to freely these days, the original guitar gods were innovators and originators you know? But as long as the blue can be kept alive and current thats the important thing to me anyway.

mistersnaredrum (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

that's a fair enough point.

bnapoleonc123 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Meaning what? Common, Mayer is good, but you can't seriously say he deserves to be on the same "guitar god"status as Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Jimi hendrix, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Black Sabbath, Santana etc. Those guys helped to shape and change music take them, away and there are big gaps in the music of the last fifty years, take John Mayer away?. He's been around ten years, and he has accomplished some good stuff, Hendrix was around for three and changed music forever.

johnnylance (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Spoken like a true know nothing dweeb...