The Blues

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20+ years ago I would go to jazz/blues shows and all hell could break loose with black audiences. I came to see my own group as repressed.

6:50 PM · Sep 17, 2009

I bought my first blues vinyl at Tower on Sunset. Will any kid ever experience that epiphany now that John Lee Hooker is muzak at Starbucks?

11:20 PM · Sep 30, 2009

My unrealized musical trifecta.

Europe: Harmony-Tempering

Melody: American-African Blues-Jazz

Rhythm: South-Asian Classical

4:56 AM · Nov 1, 2009

If I could pick any instrument on which to hear blues melody, it would be voice, sarangi, and piano in that order. 2 down.....

5:01 AM · Nov 1, 2009

2 Unwatchable India: "Eve Teasing" (Harassment) & Suicidal Idiation as 12Bar Blues...and up tempo. http://bit.ly/12BarBolly

2:06 PM · Nov 10, 2009

"Joy to the World" is to the descending major scale as Z is to the blues scale. Solve for Z.

[NB: "Sunshine of your love" is close.]

7:16 PM · Dec 4, 2009

A guitar lacks room to truly imporvise blues melody over a walking octave bass but Guy VanDuser solved it as simulation http://bit.ly/6RFfqj

7:04 PM · Dec 10, 2009

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