Re: A comment on the blues:

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

Hmmm.  Dunno that I've ever written a music review.  As soon as I open 
my mouth, there'll be a fight, right?  ;)

keets


>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:59:01 -0500
>From: Howard Powers <howie@rexnet.net>
>Reply-To: howie@rexnet.net
>To: thewho@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: A comment on the blues:
>
>
>
>L. Bird wrote:
>
>> What do you think of "Rocks in the
>> Head," Howard?  Is there any blues on there? (Of any description?)
>
>I think my definition of the blues leaves a little room for
>interpretation... I haven't heard RITH, but I would say that if 
somebody
>hears some bluesiness to it, it's probably there.  Once I heard it 
myself,
>I might say, "What?? No way!"  I don't see what is bluesy about "The 
Good's
>Gone."  But, it could be blues influenced, and there could be something 
I'm
>not hearing... or if I'm hearing it, I could be missing the connection.
>
>I had a friend who would say a certain song sounded like a certain 
group,
>and I would think, "What?  He's nuts!"  And he was, but maybe that's 
why he
>made connections I wouldn't have... Listening later I would sometimes 
hear
>what he was talking about, and, although the correlation was often very
>tenuous, I would have to say I agreed.
>
>I wouldn't mind hearing an in-depth review of the album, song by song.
>Wanna take that on, Keets?
>
>Btw, although I wouldn't call anything about it blues, I wanted my
>girlfriend to offer Pete and Ronnie Lane's song "Rough Mix" to her band 
as
>a set closer.  Not blues, but it is very improvisational, and has a 
cool
>rhythm... somebody might call it bluesy (I wouldn't).  Her rhythm 
player
>would have dug playing it, I think... plenty of room for him to 
improvise
>under the soloist.  They'd have taken it a step or two toward the 
Blues.
>But they broke up.. (sigh)... after being voted best R&B band in Ft. 
Wayne,
>IN.  That is not a dubious distinction.  We've got some great live 
music
>happening.
>
>Ennyhoo, 'nuff said.
>
>Howard P.
>
>


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