Re: Who blues

["Jeff House" <whocasa@hotmail.com>]

From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
"I'd never have thought John would be such a blues man.  That bass is so 
gorgeous it hurts.  Now I wonder why The Who, or the John Entwistle Band, 
don't play more straight blues.  Maybe they should just forget the idea of 
new material and do an album of blues covers instead.
:+"

I don't understand your emoticon, but I hope you're joking :0)  Straight 
blues is typically too slow, too rhythmically boring and just too plain 
plain for hard rockers like TED or JEB to try it with any success.

Assuming this "Hey Joe" is the same cut that is on ML's 'Stages', it is good 
for a listen or two.  IMHO it is some pretty shitty blues.  Antiseptic.  No 
dirt.  That Bolton guy (or whatever his name is) who plays guitar is just 
plain boring.  Any decent blues reading needs at least a little dirt dirt.  
Sure Roger can belt, but you just don't get any hurt in his voice.

As far as The JEB goes, they did some pretty respectable blues work at BB 
Kings on Sunday night with Phoebe Snow and Jon Paris (a fun 
singer/harpist/guitarist).  They left the best singing up to others and The 
Ox sat out (if memory serves).  Godfrey and Luongo are journeymen who could 
probably pick up just about any style with some skill.

Jeff