Music
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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.
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Has anyone recorded music on GarageBand and successfully turned it into a CD or an album of some kind? I have several tracks recorded on there and pushed to WhatsApp but want something more permanent.
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
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@WhiskeySandwich I have a collaborative album ( just for fun/nothing serious)I've been working on with a few friends around the country - 2 of us use garageband out of convenience but after the initial work is done we export each track as individual wav files and it goes into protools.
Are you essentially just looking to export your track onto a cd?
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@GraemeE I dont have protools or anything, just record cheap on celly with Garage Band, layer tracks and share on WhatsApp with friends, but I’m wondering if I can either make a CD or put it on Bandcamp or something. Maybe YouTube? I’m not great with the tech
"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
-Seneca -
I’m not looking to do anything serious, it’s for fun, but the recordings that I consider “done” I’d like to have someplace other than just on my phone
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@WhiskeySandwich both YouTube and bandcamp seem like good options maybe SoundCloud as well.
