OK, are we all done and dusted or should I lob another handgrenade & set it offf again?
Sod it - let's lob a handgrenade & see where it falls:
As hoped, this has covered a lot of territory, some followed the original brief 0 a piece of music and gave their justifications, a lot said what about BB, what about Band A B C etc with no specific peice or justification
Wazz gave us all a listening list that will keep us going for months!
At the end of the day, your preference is your preference - it can't be right or wrong!
Here are mine
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Favourite Electric Blues - Muddy (flogged to death already)
Favourite Electric Blues GUITAR (for sentimental reasons because this helped me to learn to play a guitar as a kid) I Wonder Who - Mike Bloomfield (The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper)
Favourite accoustic blues (and why did I dig myself into this hole of differentiating?) after long deliberation - Ry Cooder, Hey Porter (Paradise & Lunch) Passion & technique, works for me
For my unintended battles with Rich over ELP (we quibble over nothing, they could PLAY as opposed to the dross we are served up from current artists) Favourite ELP track: Trilogy
Jazz: An equal winner:
Miles Davis - So What (Kind of Blue) I defy anybody not to listen to this and have their foot tapping - IT SWINGS
Miles Davis - Spanish Key (Bitches Brew) Having grown up on Rock / Blues this was the most revoultionary music I have ever heard at age 16 (many, many years ago)
Fusion Jazz: John McLaughlin - Hymn To Him (Apocolypse) The only viable fusion of Jazz / Rock / Classical I have ever heard
Rock / Classical - These are too broad an area to have a definitive answer on, so I will avoid embarresment and say Pass
Most electrifying performances I have ever seen:
Another joint winner!
1st First concert where I saw Leo Kottke live (had the LP for about a year and could NOT believe 1 person could be playing all those notes!) Live, he did and he played some more for good measure at a higher tempo (for those that do not know him, fingerpicking 12 string accoustic guitar) I walked out of the concert vowing never to touch a guitar again (I lied)
2nd Grammy awards several years ago (and sadly only on TV), Aretha Franklin filled in for Luciano Pavarotti at very short notice and sang his signature tune (opera buffs, help me out I can't recall the name of this piece) and I could still hear the blues - she played no tricks with 'jazzing it up' it was just the natural inflection of her voice - a spine chilling musical moment
