Music
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Suffocation - Clarity Through Deprivation
Conway the Machine - May Block
Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease
Darkest Hour - With a Thousand Words to Say But One
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black City Skyline
Junior H - Pakas en Las Rakas
Nothing - Say Less
Primitive Man - Rags
Violetshaped - Spectral Nightdrive
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@spleef_oner that’s a great record.
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@Jett129 I do love this one tho
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@mclaincausey Jimi Hendrix is my all time favorite and I can’t get past this being an attempt at a Jimi Hendrix kind of clone ,from the way that he dresses,a 3 piece band,the guitar he played. I have no idea why he left Procol Harum,but I wish it would have been to do something a little more original. It’s not terrible, I saw him live a couple of times,because I really wanted to like it/him.
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I don’t mind a tribute to or inspiration from an artist and I’d say the power trio format isn’t unique to Hendrix. But I won’t disagree about his leaving Procul Harum.
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@mclaincausey in the end I felt like it was more of a rip off than a tribute. Stevie Ray Vaughan was kind of Hendrixy, but his approach never bothered me.
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Yeah to each his own… You can make the argument that all of them “ripped off” delta blues, it just depends on your individual perspective and whether you think something is inspired by, in tribute to, or stolen from another artist. I just don’t view it as the latter personally.
He was impacted by Hendrix while still in PH:
If anything I think it’s great that Hendrix made such an impression on him. He has good taste! I think he probably left PH at least in part because he was inspired by Hendrix.
Not a SRV fan, but while I can pick out Hendrix as an influence, that’s just one of scores of obvious influences, mostly centered at least in my mind in Chicago blues traditions.
Think it, be it.
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@mclaincausey yep, I can totally appreciate that. I think my thing with SRV is the technical stuff from a (shitty) guitar player’s pov. His guitar setup/string gauge/tone is all crazy to me. And if you’ve never heard his playing on Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, it might pique your interest. He has a style and tone that is instantly recognizable.
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Yep I love Bowie and that album, and his playing on that album, and I appreciate SRV’s skill and uniqueness. His material just leaves me cold. I don’t actively dislike it, but it doesn’t do anything for me. Virtuosity isn’t enough, I have to like the music too. I have a similar take on Eric Johnson, Steve Vai (outside Zappa), and other savants.
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@mclaincausey I’m in the same camp you are as far as SRV goes especially with the not listening deliberately part.
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@mclaincausey I think you hit the nail on the head when you said the material leaves you cold. For me no matter how great any musician is, if the song doesn’t grab me,I tend to loose interest. And if we circle back to Robin Trower,the material that he was given to work with, in Procol Harum,was light years better than anything he could come up with on his own. He thought his guitar playing would be enough.
