Re: [Harp-L] George Carlin on white blues man...

[Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He's bound to have his excess of cheap histrionics or he wouldn't get
laughs and he'd have to get another job. 
I did like one thing he said which was something along the lines of
how it's not enough to know what notes to play... and that you have to
know why you play those notes. 
History suggests that Blues music has been performed by whites since
well before his judgmentalist facile-of-language white butt first
stood in front of a microphone.
It could be argued that we, as white people should approach the Blues
with humility, but if you do that, you aren't playing the Blues,
you're being a public wimp/nuisance. 

A black man who worked with my father used to come listen to me trying
to learn the Blues when I was a teen-ager in Alabama. 
He didn't seem to mind that I was a white boy trying to learn the
Blues.  He, rather... seemed glad that the music he loved wasn't going
to be forgotten. 
I really think that with this one, George is trying... and failing to
recapture some of his former glory/gusto as when, umpty years ago, he
was spoofing the AM disk jockeys... 
We wish him well, but if I awaken tomorrow... and feel Blue... I might
sit down with a guitar and a harmonica and sing about how "I woke up
this morning... feeling Blue"... and I won't much care what he or
anybody else thinks.
Brad Trainham
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:34:29 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>take it as you like i thought it was funny but got to admit it kinda made me cringe but... see for yourself and don't kill the messanger...
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