baughb42 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

robben has been around for decades.he is on sonny landreth's new record.ten times better than page.

damnbeavers84 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This guy has great feel and tone. I think he'll go far.

bnapoleonc123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Indeed it is, snobbery about music is what kills genres I think. Poeple get so hung up about it, when the guys who startyed it e.g.ROber Johnson were improvisers, they themselves rarely played exactly the same way every time, because it goes against the whole spirit of the blues, feel and improvisation.

mistersnaredrum (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yeah. the worst thing is, at local blues clubs i've been to, if you don't play it exactly like the record, the regulars don't like it. therefore negating the whole 'feel' part... strange world, bnap, strange world indeed :o)

bnapoleonc123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ia gree with you, I think that what the "purists" hacve tyo understand is that attitudes like that are what almost destroyed Classcial and Jazz, and certainly ahve relegated them to a lesser role. I think thouhg that blues is more a feel than a style, for me Beethoven is a blues player, e.g. Moonlight Sonata, not a 12 bar, not a pentatonic, but it has that raw feel of pure emotion channeled into music, one that speaks to the very core of the listener that to me is Blues.

mistersnaredrum (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

agreed. the trouble is its harder to become 'innovative' these days while still adhering to the principles that most blues/rock nuts abide by. the next guitar genius who will be remembered as a hendrix/whoever innovator almost certainly won't be playing music exactly like this. it evolves. but it's still good...

bnapoleonc123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks man, I donlt have anythin against Mayer, he is a good player, but I think they handout the title "guitar god" way to freely these days, the original guitar gods were innovators and originators you know? But as long as the blue can be kept alive and current thats the important thing to me anyway.

mistersnaredrum (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that's a fair enough point.

bnapoleonc123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Meaning what? Common, Mayer is good, but you can't seriously say he deserves to be on the same "guitar god"status as Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Jimi hendrix, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Black Sabbath, Santana etc. Those guys helped to shape and change music take them, away and there are big gaps in the music of the last fifty years, take John Mayer away?. He's been around ten years, and he has accomplished some good stuff, Hendrix was around for three and changed music forever.

johnnylance (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Spoken like a true know nothing dweeb...