I thought my days of listening to blues players were over - but this reminds me why I loved blues guitar as a teenager. The man has flat out got it, end of.
I was lucky to attend his masterclass and concert last night in Spalding. I never gave rhythm a thought but he has got more RHYTHM than rhythm itself and he has changed my out look as a musician any body can learn a a guitar by tab but it takes a real musician to understand RHYTHM. Thankyou Bob for opening up my eyes:)
The human voice _can_ be the most expressive instrument and NO other instrument can even get close. If you hear any old acoustic blues, then you will realize that what makes them great is mainly their soulful expressive singing.
Hey dude I'm 25 geting high studying Buddhist philoserphy learning slide at mo and your inspire me very much I smoke jam to then jam my resonator jah bless
He is rated as one of the very best by people who know - above legends such as Rory Block and Ben Andrews even. He really holds nothing back in his teching dvd's. He stresses the importance of being a clean player and this makes sense as you can always dirty things up if needed.
If you do´nt get the presission anguish after watching this video and all of the others that Bob is performing on this sight!.You will never be abel to know god musik!Love J.
wow i actually lol'd at the pink trombone comment. this guy is awesome, there is no better musical philosipher. scratch that, there IS no other musical philosipher (im sure i spelled that wrong)
"The old one chord blues ..." , Fuck, I'm only just learning it now and I'm 50 years old! I'd be over the moon if I could play just one chord like that! =:O))
The *key* to playing this kind of guitar is to notice the first 2 seconds of the clip where he is showing how the strings are tuned relative to eachother. "Open" tuning makes it possible (if you got skills like this guy) to do runs and transitions and make it sound smooth like butter. Rough like dirt.
Don't judge people on appearance. And as for someone saying he's probably a nice person, I can tell you from personal experience he is!! Nice one Bob!! LR
isn't "Slack key" an open D tuning? I've been hearing this for years, but I think a lot of folks lie to me so I'll do something like this.I'm sure we will soon know.
I wouldn't call him a shit player, he's just better suited to Ragtime and Jazz. The more you throw in a Ragtime tune the better it sounds. When you add too much to Mississippi Blues songs, the feeling gets lost.
