This was prompted by a current thread concerning Pink Floyd, that they do not play the blues. But if you heard somebody mention 'The Blue' in converstaion e.g. eavesdropping on the tram or bus what would immediately spring into your mind. A football team, Oxford/Cambridge boat race, depression, a form of music or something completely different.

Robert Johnson...

wow, Sweet Home Chicago, what a first posting

Blues?? That thought has to be:

Music - Nina Simone

Elton John - I guess thats why they call it the.........

braaaaaaaaaaergh

:banana: :banana:

The KFC Smokey Blue Mountain Burger Meal.....
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Burger Meal.... blaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

Chelsea FC for me.

Early Eric Clapton
Nina Simone
Little Walter
And generally just singing the.....

A picture in my head of a black man sat on the porch of a house somewhere in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s, singing to himself - maybe playing a guitar

StarSparkle

White Stripes

Early Rolling Stones

Big Bill Broonzy

Duster Bennet

The Half Man Half Biscuit line;

" woke up this morning, found myself in bed. My knowledge of the blues is somewhat nil"

Clearly I am very, very uneducated in the whole "blues" department

Everton, but I am from their neck of the woods ;)

blues clubs (reggae, drum and bass)

When I think of the blues I first think of the contemporary muddy waters recordings, slow heartfelt songs from the mississippi delta. Then I think of slightly more modern and probably white guys who sing/play in a rock-blues fashion. Like Free, Led Zeppelin, Clapton, Rolling Stones [e.g. Sweet Virgnia].
Then I think about much more recent sounds which evoke the blues for me as if it were a more developed style which had (sort of) reached a modern perfection. Mostly requiring someone with a fantastic resonant voice.

Thunder, Badlands etc..

And lastly I think about the technical aspects of blues playing, and blues scales, attitude and tempo. Also I am constantly amused by journalists/media presenters who when talking on the subject, constantly missapropriate, and enthusiastically bring up the Blue note as the Minor 7th of the scale. When It is really the 4th of the scale.

I think of Titch, the Jack Russel terrier I sprayed metallic blue when I was a kid. It was the talk of the town, I even gave it a grey primer basecoat. Weeks after I did it I even overheard it being mentioned by a shopper in Hillsborough.

And before anyone complains..I did mask its eyes off first.

Depression and feeling blue. Like me in winter time....I get the S.A.D. Blues.

Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, B.B.King, Freddie King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan...

..oh and 'Can Blue Men Sing The Whites' by the Bonzo Dog Band

Chelsea, Birmingham City, Everton, Ipswich, QPR. Football has hijacked everything.

Originally posted by StarSparkle
A picture in my head of a black man sat on the porch of a house somewhere in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s, singing to himself - maybe playing a guitar

StarSparkle

Or a harmonica....

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BB King! Saw him at the Peoria Blues Fest! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by melly
Or a harmonica....

(was this not an old advert off the telly?)

One of my all-time faves... For Heineken.

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Said black man was trying to sing the blues to no avail. Kept coming out with happy little ditties.

Black man: "hell, that ain't the blues"
His woman: "ah honey that's nice"

He then opens a can of Heineken and has a sip. Suddenly his woman shouts:

His Woman: "What's this lipstick on your collar?"
Black man: "That ain't lipstick that's wine"
Woman: "You're a liar! I'm leaving and I ain't coming back"

A finance man appears from nowhere with some paperwork and says:

"we're repossesing your car"

Finally his dog whines and walks away. Then it starts raining.

He looks amazedly at can of Heineken and starts singing:

"Sadness is my first name
Last name is misery..."

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