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Originally Posted by noodles I hear this arguement a lot when people try to defend a rock musician without much technical ability. Blues have become the excuse for so many white kids, because absolutely NONE of the music by said kids can even hold a candle to the blues. When I want to listen to raw emotion and incredible dynamic, without regards to technical fascility, then I just skip the pretenders and go straight to the source. I would never listen to Nirvanna covering Leadbelly when I can just go listen to Leadbelly.
Then again, I'm pretty opinionated. I think Cream's "Crossroads" is utter garabge that pissed all over the raw power an emotion that was the original Robert Johnson recording. Clapton's solos suck so hard on that song. |
Do I strike you as the sort who'd use blues as an excuse? You have a pretty good idea where my taste in blues lies, what I like, and what I don't, and that I think it takes a lot more than sloppy pentatonics to play blues.
Kinda with you on Crossroads - if you take it as a rock tune and not a blues tune it's ok, but as a blues song, well, idunno. Clapton himself has stated that he doesn't get why it's so popular, as he completely turned the beat around on the solo and spent the rest of the solo trying to get back on the downbeat, thinking, "man, I'm butchering this" the entire time.
You can kinda hear it, too... It's not a BAD solo, and back in the day I picked up a few licks from it (I learned a lot from the way he moved back and forth from major to minor against the underlying chords when I was first getting into blues soloing, before i dug back to some of the original guys), but I've heard better...
I guess that's the one thing you have to say for Clapton. He may bore me to tears these days, but at least his taste in the blues is still pretty good, even when it comes to critiquing his own playing.