Well I got part of the blues thing down

[just strum]

It's 1:30 Monday morning - I figured out the part where blues guitarist stay up all night, but I need to put myself in a position so I can sleep all day like they do. Oh, and play the guitar like them would help too.

[Rocket]

I figured out the part where blues guitarist stay up all night, but I need to put myself in a position so I can sleep all day like they do.

I can suggest a position!

[just strum]

I can suggest a position!

I assume this is your first post in awhile and of course I get hit with it - good to see you. Just PM'd you after I saw your name appear.

[mrmudcat]

I can suggest a position!

Would that be vertical or horizontal

[Bloozcat]

Sleep deprivation....

Add that to a little down and out, some mean ole' women, bad luck, county jails, ain't got nothin' but the clothes on my back, and some cheap whiskey, and you're on your way to a degree in blues...

Sleeping all day like they do isn't what it's cracked up to be either, 'cause you're likely to wake up in an alley or gutter in the early afternoon, stinkin' of some of that cheap whiskey....

There's a lot of delayed gratification involved in becoming a Blues icon....

[mrmudcat]

You also have to be born south of the mason-dixon line to be true blue

Ok let me have it those who wish to object I opened the can of beans:

This also is coming from someone who is currently residing(boy im lost) on a mountain in maine

[just strum]

Sleep deprivation....

Yep, finally went to bed at 4, up at 7:30 (glad I took a vacation day today). About 3:45 this morning I walked into the bathroom and shaved off the mustache and goatee that I've had for at least 8 years (actually longer, but that's the last time I shaved it off). I'm not sure why I did it, but I did.

You also have to be born south of the mason-dixon line to be true blue

I always wondered where Clapton was born

[Bloozcat]

Yep, finally went to bed at 4, up at 7:30 (glad I took a vacation day today). About 3:45 this morning I walked into the bathroom and shaved off the mustache and goatee that I've had for at least 8 years (actually longer, but that's the last time I shaved it off). I'm not sure why I did it, but I did.

You can get 2-1/2 hours of sleep a night on vacation, and you're not tired the next day. If you get 6-hours and have to get up for work, your butt's dragging all day. Amazing, isn't it.

I always wondered where Clapton was born

Ah yes, but Clapton wishes he was born down in Mississippi, down in delta country. He grew up secretly dreaming of honkey tonks and juke joints, dirt roads that lead nowhere and endless cotton fields....

[bigoldron]

Yep, finally went to bed at 4, up at 7:30 (glad I took a vacation day today). About 3:45 this morning I walked into the bathroom and shaved off the mustache and goatee that I've had for at least 8 years (actually longer, but that's the last time I shaved it off). I'm not sure why I did it, but I did.



I always wondered where Clapton was born

Maybe it was Southern England??? :

[just strum]

Ah yes, but Clapton wishes he was born down in Mississippi, down in delta country. He grew up secretly dreaming of honkey tonks and juke joints, dirt roads that lead nowhere and endless cotton fields....

One thing I believe you cannot take away from Clapton is the fact that he gave a lot of blues artist good exposure for their work. They're have been others in the past that have ripped off artist and never acknowledged their existence outside of the legal requirement to put their name on the record as the writer.

I'm no Clapton expert, but the Clapton I see and now listen to seems to put recognition where it belongs.

[wingsdad]

Maybe it was Southern England??? :

: Raised in Ripley, Southern England.

[wingsdad]

Not sure if it originated there, but this came from the Carvin website, and may have been embellished:

1. Most Blues begin with: "Woke up this morning..."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes - sort of:
"Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch...ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or anywhere in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the Blues in any place that don't get no rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the Blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you were skiing is not the Blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator
be chomping on it is.

9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass

11. Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom's
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses

12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old person, and you slept in it.

13. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:
a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a 401K or trust fund

14. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the Blues. Sonny Liston could have. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the Blues.

15. If you ask for water and your darlin' gives you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. cheap wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee

The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast

16. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So are the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broken-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.

17. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

18. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

19. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Jennifer, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

20. Blues Name Starter Kit:
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Mute, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime,
Kiwi, etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore,
Clinton, etc.)

For example: Blind Lime Jefferson, Pegleg Lemon Johnson or Lame Kiwi Clinton, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")