which is the better "white" blues song

Don't worry Micky, I will always throw you grenades.  But not to your good name.

OK, time to get a few things straight here...

No one called Led Zep c**p. This thread had originally been opened in the Prog Music Lounge, though both the bands involved in the poll are NOT included in the site's database as prog, but as Proto-Prog (Deep Purple) and Prog-Related (Led Zep). What Micky was referring to as c**p was not either of the two bands, but the fact that the poll was in the Prog Lounge. He disagreed with Zep's addition from day one (as many others did), though he does like the band. I know his post lent itself to misunderstanding, but that's exactly what he meant - and I know it for certain. And there are few people around as open-minded as he is... He wouldn't have given one star to an album just because he thought it didn't belong here - he would've just ignored it.

Hope the whole situation is a bit clearer now...

[QUOTE=Dick Heath] [QUOTE=Witchwoodhermit]Closing My Eyes

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
I would go for a proper British blues band too rather than these two heavy rock bands that mixed it with all sorts. So supportive of PG's FM - but perhaps the alt take (was this the US released version?) of Christine Perfect playing Hammond  on I Need You Love So Bad. Or one of the versions of Jumpin' At Shadows by its composer Duster Bennett.
 

Dick Heath wrote: You have completely omitted the east Atlantic input: Cyril Davis, Alexis Korner, Chris Barber - and maybe John Mayall. Barber was playing blues in the mid 50's, renown for cutting into a set of dixieland jazz during a gig, with 30 minutes of blues with his banjo/guitar player the late Lonnie Donnegan - soon after Donnegan was seminal in that peculiar British hybrid of rockn'roll/delta blues/ folk  called skiffle. There is an excellent CD of 1955 recordings made by former delta blues artist Big Bill Broonzy The 1955 London Sessions recorded when Broonzy was over here guesting with Barber and his Band. Alexis Korner has long been called the godfather of British blues (along with Cyril Davis - although I note John Mayall has muscled in on the title recently), nurturing many of the  members of the blues bands (then known as rhythm & blues - more Chicago than delta) that were to make such an impact each side  of the Atlantic  from 1962, e.g the Rolling Stones.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Masque wrote: If I was to start a thread best black blues song or best yellow blues song that would be called racist by some people  .. interesting how we have double standards on such topics    LMAO, don't worry, White Blues is a term I heard ,many times referring mostly to Southern Bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd who despite being white played mostly Blues.   This interest of white people for Blues was started around 1963 by Paul Butterfield, who according to some sources could be the first white man to become a Blues icon.   So it's not a racial problem   Iván

Ivan

You have completely omitted the east Atlantic input: Cyril Davis, Alexis Korner, Chris Barber - and maybe John Mayall. Barber was playing blues in the mid 50's, renown for cutting into a set of dixieland jazz during a gig, with 30 minutes of blues with his banjo/guitar player the late Lonnie Donnegan - soon after Donnegan was seminal in that peculiar British hybrid of rockn'roll/delta blues/ folk  called skiffle. There is an excellent CD of 1955 recordings made by former delta blues artist Big Bill Broonzy The 1955 London Sessions recorded when Broonzy was over here guesting with Barber and his Band.

Alexis Korner has long been called the godfather of British blues (along with Cyril Davis - although I note John Mayall has muscled in on the title recently), nurturing many of the  members of the blues bands (then known as rhythm & blues - more Chicago than delta) that were to make such an impact each side  of the Atlantic  from 1962, e.g the Rolling Stones.

Edited by Dick Heath - January 27 2007 at 16:28

I think the songs that captures the best effort of the white man trying to achieve the "black" sound is Zepp's "Travellin' Riverside Blues". White Blues, indeed!

Having never been a big Zepp fan myself, i have to vote for neither.

Are we talking about blues by white people? Because there's some stuff out there that is waaaay better than the Zepp, who's "blues" can barely be called such.

Check out JOHN MAYALL!!!!

"Since I've Been Loving You"

I prefer DP upon LZ, but "SIBLY" upon "M"...

micky wrote: rileydog22 wrote: Prog related section? makes sense... Zeppelin wasnt' prog... and hardly related.. get this crap out of here... may have found something actually worse than DT polls... Zepp polls... still waiting for the first Led Zepp IV v Close to the Edge poll

No, wait... What about LZ IV vs Dream Theater's whole output?

BTW, he was quite right... I'm moving this to the PP/PR lounge, where it belongs.

As concerns the two songs in question... As big a DP fan as I am, I absolutely love "Since I've Been Loving You", so my vote goes to it.


Edited by Ghost Rider - January 26 2007 at 01:00