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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
makes you wonder what the media hype is all about..
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:20 (twenty years ago) link
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― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
The juxtaposition of Blues Hammer with the legendary old bluesman supporting, to whom no-one was listening, was interesting wasn't it? It said to me, among other things, that if you want to live an authentic life, this will be your fate. I find that to be a bleak but honest assessment.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
in answer to the question, yes, only worse.
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 08:00 (twenty years ago) link
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are Blueshammer Discuss
― sonofstan, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
No real band can compare to Blueshammer. What other band made such an impression with what, 15 seconds of fame.
Also, is this ironic or real?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4viyp7r8w
― bendy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Until I got to this very last post I was planning on saying "Blueshammer reminds me of Blueshammer", actually.
That Blueshammer=The Strokes comment upthread was a joke, right? I'm not a Black Keys fan, but there were few not so well thought out claims in this thread--apart from Nabisco (shock) and one or two others who really just stayed out of it and discussed Ghost World. Actually, I haven't heard the Black Keys in years, so I'll shush now.
― RabiesAngentleman, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
You're sub-mental. Discuss that.
― kenan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw NCTBS last night - pompous, overwrought, bad singing, bad playing, blues cliche after blues cliche, an arrogant assumption of the black man's narrative trope ('Stagolee'), exactly pitched to appeal to the kind of half- educated white boy who is flattered by the appeal to his dope addled memory of having maybe read Faulkner once and retaining only the exoticism and none of the morality.......
And a did I mention he's a terrible singer?
― sonofstan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't want to go for the troll here, but a sense of morality is precisely what distinguishes Cave's songwriting. I don't think he tries for authenticity or exoticism at all, and revels in the buffoonish aspects of what he borrows. Which is why it works.
― bendy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Not trolling, honestly. Bit overstated this morning though, sorry; Bendy, I hink what you describe is what he'd like to be, just don't think it ever gets close.
― sonofstan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Sonofstan otm on Nick Cave, actually.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 4 May 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, i would say 65% otm.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
Every band is a little Blueshammer.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
what percentage blueshammer is kraftwerk?
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
blueshammer are to real blues music what kraftwerk are to real robot music.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i know. i once saw an aged japanese robot opening for kraftwerk, and you could barely hear it through the conversations of the audience. i went up to it after the show to get his autograph on an old floppy disc but he had been unplugged.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
I suspect this John Bonamassa dude is Blueshammer in one body, his music is the dullest shit i've ever heard plus there stuff like: "But those guys were my guys – Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. There’s a certain sophistication to their approach to the blues that I really like, more so than the American blues that I was listening to. "
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
This thread makes me suspect that many people are confused about what makes a band blueshammer
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
oh whatever, he totally sucks, that's my point, dammit
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link
oh sorry, I wasn't addressing that at you. It's for the thread title.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
but lol
lol sorry, wrt bonamassa i am probably just overwhelmed with jealousy
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
well that dude does sound a bit annoying. I've just never heard his music. The idea of jimmy page's blues being more sophisticated does not endear.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:37 (nine years ago) link
All blueshammer bands must play "Voodoo Chile" at every show. And preferably "Red House" too.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 17 May 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
exactly
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
Joe Bonamassa/Blueshammer comparison seems apt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQwj3s8Y4s
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 2 March 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
whether dad-blues is getting played on the patio of Joe's Crab Shack on Friday nights or in what looks to be a pretty big concert hall, the rhythm section uniformly looks bored as fuck
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 2 March 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.blueshammerband.com/about/
The time has come for the Gods of Rock n Roll to reclaim this world from the bubble gum fluff of today’s modern music. The Hammer was forged of pure and simple Delta Blues mixed with the driving thunder of Rock and Soul. Five brave and fearless men have accepted their destinies and have welcomed the quest to reclaim back what rightfully belongs to Rock n Roll. Evil doers beware! That means you Kenny Chesney!!
surely....?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 2 March 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
some dude ftw
call it Honkin' On Bobo 2 you cowards https://t.co/W0KQghltJu— Al Shipley (@alshipley) April 13, 2021
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link