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MH2
climber
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Jan 19, 2012 - 09:57pm PT
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What Is the Blues?
If you have to ask,
you can probably afford something better.
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pleasantOs
Trad climber
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Jan 19, 2012 - 11:06pm PT
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THE BLACK KEYS
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Jan 19, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
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I'm kinda with MH2
Understand that the OP has posed a question that might be construed to simply refernce a specific type of music, yet the simple query asks so much more from me.
Yeah, I know what Blues music is when I hear it, in my body and in my soul. Not all music labeled "blues" nor associated lyrics connect with me, but some do, and do so deeply.
I thought I was feeling the Blues and it lead to placing a barrel upside my head, but I found that the Blues is putting the gun back in the drawer and living with an understanding of how selfish I am to even consider such an act.
And it's getting up in the morning, again, and heading for the same commute and job I hate, doing the same redundant tasks I hate, again and again. Knowing it will go on, and on, and on......
Or to continually battle obesity and alcoholism......diet and abstention, failing repeatedly to gluttony and debauchery, only to wake in the middle of the night to regrets, resolution, then lapsing so easily back into cyclical hope and despair....
Musical blues are the soundtrack of my life.....
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jan 20, 2012 - 12:47am PT
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I grew up in Chicago, so I got an impacted ass full of the urban, modern day version (whatever that means), most of it well-intentioned, earnest, and downright awful. I swear, if I have to endure another Mustang Sally as performed by a bunch of middle-aged white dudes in Hawaiian shirts, I'm liable to off myself too.
By and large, most blues I hear is utterly fuct out. But some folks can punch through and connect. I've had to pull over listening to SRV's Little Wing 'cause I got too emotional. And some is just oozing with the feeling (honest, sad blues or otherwise). Here's a funky "otherwise" that I happen to like a lot:
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jan 20, 2012 - 01:42am PT
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Albert Collins is the Blues.
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Gary
climber
That Long Black Cloud Is Coming Down
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2012 - 01:58am PT
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The blue note itself is a beautiful thing.
AM, the blues is more than music. You know.
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2012 - 12:52am PT
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THIS is what the Chicago blues is all about:
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jun 17, 2012 - 10:31am PT
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Speaking of Jimi Hendrix; anybody know his connection to the show Law & Order?
Mariska Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson, is the daughter of bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay and '50s blond bombshell, Jayne Mansfield, who, as her film career waned in the early '60s did some sound studio work with Hendrix.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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I got the blues
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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He's got the blues so bad
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Urizen
Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
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The blues is a woman on your mind.
--Mississippi John Hurt.
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