rock me baby
October 10, 2010 9:42 PM Subscribe
BB, Eric, Jim, and Buddy If this doesn't get your head nodding, nothing will.
Clapton and Buddy know where the pocket is. Jimmy not so much.
posted by notion at 9:57 PM on October 10, 2010
posted by notion at 9:57 PM on October 10, 2010
Nice. If that happens to be your thing, then check this out. If not, I'm very, very sorry for you.
posted by The Bellman at 10:20 PM on October 10, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by The Bellman at 10:20 PM on October 10, 2010 [1 favorite]
In Jimmy's defense, he's more at home being sort of a team player rather than a flashy lead like the rest of these guys. Notice the help he gives Buddy in the first solo. I seriously doubt that a guy who grew up with the Texas Playboys in his living room gets starstruck. I've seen him live and with his band he rocks hard. He'd have been much bigger than he is if not for the inevitable comparison to his brother.
Buddy Guy rocks even harder in concert, though. BB, surprisingly, did not. Way too much audience participation for my taste.
posted by cmoj at 9:30 AM on October 11, 2010
Buddy Guy rocks even harder in concert, though. BB, surprisingly, did not. Way too much audience participation for my taste.
posted by cmoj at 9:30 AM on October 11, 2010
That Jimmy Rogers album that the Bellman links to is awesome in so many ways. I particularly enjoy hearing Jimmy sing "Going Away Baby" with Mick Jagger and the tight clean solos Clapton contributes to his duets with the old master.
posted by wabbittwax at 10:14 AM on October 11, 2010
posted by wabbittwax at 10:14 AM on October 11, 2010
I still do not understand how people cannot see what a total faker Clapton is. A consummate faker, to be sure, but still a faker.
posted by Decani at 10:27 AM on October 11, 2010
posted by Decani at 10:27 AM on October 11, 2010
Well, here's Clapton faking his way through "Key to the Highway" with Buddy Guy in 1987.
posted by wabbittwax at 10:29 AM on October 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by wabbittwax at 10:29 AM on October 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
stenseng - to my ear, Clapton is someone who has studiously (and impressively) copied a style to a far greater extent than he has truly felt the emotion and mood that gives rise to the style. I'm not saying he never gets it - he's no sterile, Satriani-style android - but whenever I hear him I feel like I'm hearing a very talented copyist. It just does not seem to really come from the heart in the natural, rough-edged, raw, hot-blooded way it does from blues guitarists I consider not to be fakers. I have felt this way about Clapton since I first heard him with Cream and, well, let's just say his later output has certainly not caused me to significantly amend my view.
When it comes to music I rate genuine emotion and passion far, far more highly than technique, accuracy or virtuosity. Clapton just doesn't hit the spot for me. Sorry.
posted by Decani at 9:41 AM on October 13, 2010
When it comes to music I rate genuine emotion and passion far, far more highly than technique, accuracy or virtuosity. Clapton just doesn't hit the spot for me. Sorry.
posted by Decani at 9:41 AM on October 13, 2010
to my ear, Clapton is someone who has studiously (and impressively) copied a style to a far greater extent than he has truly felt the emotion and mood that gives rise to the style.
Well it's pretty hard to argue with that of course. They're your ears and you hear what you hear. I agree that he sounds like he has studiously (and impressively) copied the style of the blues but I think I hear more of the emotion and mood in his interpretation than you do. I don't think he duplicates the emotions of the original players (in part because every player brings their own unique emotions to their music); but what I do hear from him is the sheer joy of playing in a style that he obviously loves passionately. I hear that most of all when he's sharing the bill with people like Buddy Guy and BB King like in this clip and in the clip I posted earlier with just Buddy. I think it's also harder to hear the joy in his playing in his studio recordings which are always overproduced and kind of lifeless. For Clapton, live (especially bootleg) recordings are really where it's at. From what I understand about his artistic temperament, I don't think he's really capable of successfully "faking" anything. But I think I get where you're coming from.
posted by wabbittwax at 11:27 AM on October 13, 2010
Well it's pretty hard to argue with that of course. They're your ears and you hear what you hear. I agree that he sounds like he has studiously (and impressively) copied the style of the blues but I think I hear more of the emotion and mood in his interpretation than you do. I don't think he duplicates the emotions of the original players (in part because every player brings their own unique emotions to their music); but what I do hear from him is the sheer joy of playing in a style that he obviously loves passionately. I hear that most of all when he's sharing the bill with people like Buddy Guy and BB King like in this clip and in the clip I posted earlier with just Buddy. I think it's also harder to hear the joy in his playing in his studio recordings which are always overproduced and kind of lifeless. For Clapton, live (especially bootleg) recordings are really where it's at. From what I understand about his artistic temperament, I don't think he's really capable of successfully "faking" anything. But I think I get where you're coming from.
posted by wabbittwax at 11:27 AM on October 13, 2010
Everyday I Have The Blues from the 1994 all blues tour.
posted by wabbittwax at 11:35 AM on October 13, 2010
posted by wabbittwax at 11:35 AM on October 13, 2010
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