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i second that.

 

i've even seen buddy playing "come back to bed" with him.

 

What the hell does Buddy Guy know about music?

 

And "Come Back To Bed" migh as well be called "John Mayer reinterprets 'Lover You Should've Come Over'".

 

(That is a good performance though. Double Trouble joined them too.)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3gYuCYT8Dc

 

Great video of Buddy and John. Buddy kicks his ass, but it's still pretty sweet.

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response to the jimi hendrix thing. i'll admit jimi played that guitar with all his heart. but i can take my guitar and strum the shit out of it, that doesn't make its good music.

Did I already use the word "idiotic"?

 

OK, then this time I'll go with "moronic."

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thank you cryptique. i love how much respect you have for opinions.

 

I am with cryptique. It isn't your opinion that's idiotic or moronic. Its the reason you give -- "but i can take my guitar and strum the shit out of it, that doesn't make its [sic] good music."

 

That's not idiotic or moronic. It's both. Sorry.

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Part of a new read-worthy post on the Crypto blog:

 

(The Rolling Stone blurb)

 

THE AVANT-ROMANTIC

NELS CLINE

of WILCO

For many rock-guitar fiends, the oldest guitarist on this list is actually the youngest. Before joining Wilco in 2004, in time to tour behind A Ghost is Born, Cline -- born in Los Angeles in 1956 -- was a highly regarded figure in jazz and avant-rock circles, a sonically aggressive guitarist who played with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, the art-country band the Geraldine Fibbers and his own searing instrumental groups. Now Cline agitates the bent-pop designs in Wilco's recent music with strafing feedback, zigzagging distortion and, when you least expect it, a striking, scarred romanticism.

ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE: "Ashes of American Flags," Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005)

 

+ + +

 

In other Nels News: We have a new working title for the new Nels Cline Singers CD (

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Fuck Peter Green

Fuck Paul Butterfield

Fuck John Mayall

Fuck Charlie Musselwhite

 

While we're at it, Fuck Elvis Presley.

...right? 'Cause that's what I'm hearing.

Carlin's funny, but that doesn't mean he's right about everything.

 

You missed the point. I said that's what I think of when I hear J Mayer. Because J Mayer is an over-privileged sissy who never had anything bad happen to him, except for that one time he lost 20 dollars. SRV and the rest have some legitimacy because I feel their playing means something and has edge: JM is just a poser.

 

Guess who's on the cover of the newest issue of Rolling Stone?

 

Thats not much of an accolade.

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You missed the point. I said that's what I think of when I hear J Mayer. Because J Mayer is an over-privileged sissy who never had anything bad happen to him, except for that one time he lost 20 dollars. SRV and the rest have some legitimacy because I feel their playing means something and has edge: JM is just a poser.

 

Thats such bullshit. What gives SRV any more legitimacy than Mayer? Because he developed a cocained addiction at the age of 32? Or because you've given him posthumous legitimacy because he died young?

 

John Mayer was in the hospital at the age of 17 for cardiac arrhythmia. And he suffers from crippling panic attacks, according to wikipedia. Does that make him any more bluesy? Or is Cocain addiction a prerequisite to the blues? And if so, do you discount all of SRV's work before the age of 30? And if cocaine is a good indicator of bluesiness, Eric Clapton is even bluesierer than SRV.

 

Or maybe you just came up with completely arbitrary reasons to hate various musicians while retaining your respect for the ones you randomly choose to respect?

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Thats such bullshit. What gives SRV any more legitimacy than Mayer? Because he developed a cocained addiction at the age of 32? Or because you've given him posthumous legitimacy because he died young?

 

John Mayer was in the hospital at the age of 17 for cardiac arrhythmia. And he suffers from crippling panic attacks, according to wikipedia. Does that make him any more bluesy? Or is Cocain addiction a prerequisite to the blues? And if so, do you discount all of SRV's work before the age of 30? And if cocaine is a good indicator of bluesiness, Eric Clapton is even bluesierer than SRV.

 

Or maybe you just came up with completely arbitrary reasons to hate various musicians while retaining your respect for the ones you randomly choose to respect?

 

Thanks for knowing which musicians I respect and which I don't. Even though you don't. At all. John Mayer is a big piece of steaming sellout bullshit who panders to the lowest possible level to make money. That's why he has NO SOUL AT ALL and NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER FUCKING WILL and it comes out when he plays his guitar like a fucking wannabe. He's a fucking technician, a robot, with a fleeting sense of what it means to be a human being. John Mayer is a FUCKING IDIOT and I hope I never see his arrogant shit eating smirk ever again.

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Thanks for knowing which musicians I respect and which I don't. Even though you don't. At all. John Mayer is a big piece of steaming sellout bullshit who panders to the lowest possible level to make money. That's why he has NO SOUL AT ALL and NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER FUCKING WILL and it comes out when he plays his guitar like a fucking wannabe. He's a fucking technician, a robot, with a fleeting sense of what it means to be a human being. John Mayer is a FUCKING IDIOT and I hope I never see his arrogant shit eating smirk ever again.

 

I would ask if the reason you hate him so much is because you were going out with Jessica Simpson before he did and he stole her from you, but I thought thats probably the least likely scenario ever.

 

It's cool that you know him personally and you know his entire personal history so you can judge him as fucking idiot and a wannabe and arrogant shit eater.

 

Two words.

 

Color. Coordination.

 

Post of the day.

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Thanks for knowing which musicians I respect and which I don't. Even though you don't. At all. John Mayer is a big piece of steaming sellout bullshit who panders to the lowest possible level to make money. That's why he has NO SOUL AT ALL and NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER FUCKING WILL and it comes out when he plays his guitar like a fucking wannabe. He's a fucking technician, a robot, with a fleeting sense of what it means to be a human being. John Mayer is a FUCKING IDIOT and I hope I never see his arrogant shit eating smirk ever again.

 

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Seeing Jack White on the list, Im sad to see that Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys not on the list. Although may might say he is retreading and grounds forged by Delta blues men, I've had the oppurunity to see him a number of times and he is electrifying.

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