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Post by Rambler on Aug 26, 2015 18:08:17 GMT
I's struck me many times when listening to Bill what a great blues player he is. Most electric blues players seem to play from the same pentatonic shapes and re-interpret the same old licks to some extent. It seems as if Bill comes from a different angle when playing blues, almost as if he learnt by listening to sax players or something.
Examples of his Blues playing might be anything off of Blues Dream, Monica Jane and Resistor from This Land, Blues for Los Angeles off either Gone, Just Like A Train, or the amazing live version from East/West. I'm sure you can think of many others. Pipe Down?
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Post by Melodic Dreamer on Sept 4, 2015 1:18:00 GMT
Like any other type of music there is so many variations of what Blues is. I enjoy Bill's voice for being Bill, but if I am in a blues mood Bill isn't the guitarist I usually put on. I like when he does the cleaner, old school throw back stuff. His distorted blues playing is cool , but I would take someone like Landau, Ford or Hinds for that more distorted rock blues.
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Post by Rambler on Sept 7, 2015 18:33:01 GMT
Yeah I love Landau & Ford…not so sure about Hinds. I've studied both Landau and Ford a bit, they are equally brilliant, but I think Ford is more original as a soloist. Have you got his instructional books - The Blues and Beyond? His phrasing on those examples is just mind-blowing. I've copped his diminished approach, and I love those chords he shows you on 'Miles Davis Groove'.
Landau has the soul (and to a great extent the style) of Hendrix with flawless technical mastery. I love his song-writing, and his ability to build the arc of tension in a solo. Riveting stuff.
But for me, Bill just has something else - a playful experimentalism, a child-like joy of discovery, a blurred post-modern edge. It may be completely accidental, or innate, but it's the essence of what keeps me coming back to his music.
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