I think kingfish is killing it in modern times

@bluesbyluca4272

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@nolancook4801

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@deroman2314

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

Not just him but marcus king too

@skrobie

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not huge in the blues scenes but what are y’all’s thoughts on John Mayer in this context?

That's not how Robert Johnson played but nice try

@RandomTingi

2 жыл бұрын

It's really not even close

@themuzzfuzz7045

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to their red hot

@AustinPierce7526

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah wtf record was he listing to?

@frankymcdonald7176

2 жыл бұрын

@@AustinPierce7526 theyre red hot

@JT_Grogan

2 жыл бұрын

Give him a break, he's only a mere mortal

I own the entirety of Robert Johnson’s discography, and absolutely nothing he made sounds like that, even discounting the electricity.

@pooblus1726

Жыл бұрын

Kinda sounds like They’re Red Hot I guess

@Cody_Cigar

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he played Blind Willie Mctell - Southern can of mine

@jakewhitmore6046

Жыл бұрын

He did though.

@savageclasher1014

28 күн бұрын

What does it sound like

Robert Johnson played absolutely nothing like that.

@musicbyclay4919

Жыл бұрын

He's playing a Robert Johnson song though..🤣 "they're red hot"

@Big_Boy_Baguette

Жыл бұрын

It's actually pretty spot on if u actually listen to the record

@PROD1_2

Жыл бұрын

@@Big_Boy_Baguette uhh not really.

@Big_Boy_Baguette

Жыл бұрын

@@PROD1_2 well I don't know, I'm a beginner on guitar so I'm not really sure on this stuff, sounded quite close to me😄

@jacobcousins4234

Жыл бұрын

@@Big_Boy_Baguette its really not close at all, bobby johnson is notorious for being one of the hardest guitar players to imitate and this dude absolutely was not playing it correctly. Im not even hating cause i think i could do better because i know i will never play bobby johnsons stuff

albert king? buddy guy? muddy waters? even mayer or kingfish

@monguito

2 жыл бұрын

Muddy waters with his style of music he completely changed music and was the father of rock and roll

@alc3062

Жыл бұрын

Howlin wolf

@pierfrancescovalente

Жыл бұрын

... Jeff Healey

@TheRansyn

Жыл бұрын

Fuck even Kenny Wayne shepherd man

@namesecondname5933

Жыл бұрын

Eric clapton???

Tell me you don’t know blues with telling me you don’t know blues

@henryweiland7761

16 күн бұрын

Then why don't you make your own video big boy

Albert King, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Duane Alman, Billy Gibbons, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr, and Kingfish. But sure, let’s just forget about them.

@b.michael7275

2 жыл бұрын

Also Elmore James, Lightnin Hopkins, Charlie Patton, and John Lee Hooker

@limbo3299

Жыл бұрын

Bro makes shorts all them would take to long, he went with the highlights lmao

@joakobm60

Жыл бұрын

Yeah let’s put them all in a 1 min video it’s gonna be just enough

@babyvenatus6795

Жыл бұрын

You forgot about Les Paul

@Big_betty2

Жыл бұрын

Duane Altman fs

I love how he plays Robert Johnson on electric guitar with a pick… so accurate!

@IvanGonzalez-gl2ve

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@dominickl4456

4 ай бұрын

And doesn’t even play his most iconic licks

Bro, Robert Johnson didn’t get his influence from John Mayer

@mjbvr678

Жыл бұрын

Damn😂😂😂😂

@TheWaveGoodbye-Music

Жыл бұрын

It's a song called they're red hot by Robert Johnson, it's a blues standard...

@Norego.Newzealand

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

When you order John Mayer from wish

@barsultra

Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@makkerfelix

Жыл бұрын

Walmart at least, this guys pretty good

@antonioflorgonza1897

Жыл бұрын

Hah!

@moonwalkerkop4479

Жыл бұрын

When you hate on people for no reason

@Kevin12321

Жыл бұрын

That’s so dumb. The kids just playing guitar. 98% of guitar players in the world you could say the same thing. Probably even higher percentage. You def don’t play. You’re a corny little hater

That was the weirdest Robert Johnson ever.

How about Gary Moore, Peter Green, Eric Clapton, come now bruv…

@wavycrockett9351

Жыл бұрын

No, no and no 👎🏾

Bro just learned a bunch of blues riffs and licks,pressed record,and mention famous blues players

@devaux1904

Жыл бұрын

Annnnd missed the delta blues entirely.. including living legends he likely doesnt know .

@Baldchoppa

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, probably not what happened but sure! Keep wasting your time hating on a guy that did nothing wrong

That's not how BB King played either. Like not even close.

@NS-er1gd

Жыл бұрын

Man you are on a roll complaining today huh?

I love the brightness of the blues

SRV the GOAT

That is misinformation, either you dont know blues either you are trolling people

@jipke7430

Жыл бұрын

Yeah... Where was living on a prayer and don't stop me now

@swaz986

Жыл бұрын

@@jipke7430 I was waiting on periphery bruh

@LiquidSun62

Жыл бұрын

@@swaz986 I wish he didnt stop right when the next one was gonna be Bleed by Meshuggah

@CoachSludge

Жыл бұрын

Or fred mcdowel even one of the forerunners of blues

@crunchking9931

Жыл бұрын

Dudes only reference to the blues is srv sounds like he’s not really knowledgeable on anything other than later electric blues

Jack White is still killing it

Oh man ... The sound! 👏👏👏👏

I didn't know that Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, BB King, and SRV only lived for 1, 4, 15, and 7 years, respectively. Man these guys sure were genius just imagine what they could've done had they lived longer.

@patrickgarrett1734

Жыл бұрын

You mean they were children?! Impressive.

@TDo280199

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickgarrett1734 I know right they passed too young

These are all incredibly wrong

@dougrose7334

Ай бұрын

so for SRV he played an SRV song and it's wrong? lmao. Go back to blues school little boy.

The electric guitar wasn’t even invented when Robert Johnson played

Always love the chords and the progression

Kid. You are awesome!!! 👍💖💯🎸

No Jimi Hendrix??

@thebottles2684

2 жыл бұрын

@@kerrick7975 I know he's more physecdelic rock but like he does do alot of blues as well

@s550danny

2 жыл бұрын

@@kerrick7975 jimi hendrix did blues better than albert king

@thebottles2684

2 жыл бұрын

@@kerrick7975 he was really good at the genre though?

@jegr3398

2 жыл бұрын

@@kerrick7975 Yes he is

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

Hendrix isnt a blues player?, he didnt even play blues to begin with, one flaw about hendrix playing blues was him not using feel. He just used big marshall stacks and distorted the hell out of it then plays a solo that just sticks to bends.

How you can play these riffs so well but consistently ruin them with attaching someone else name to it that doesn’t fit

@declanosullivan8770

Жыл бұрын

Because thats how he plays jimmy doesnt play like king he plays like jimmy

ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughan are my favorite. I love good ole Texas blues.

HOLY FUCK I NEED THOSE LITTLE GUITATS

Fun fact: Black Sabbath originally was supposed to be a Blues Rock Band but then the thing with iommis fingers happened Meaning Metal is just heavy and distorted blues

@zakkmylde1712

2 жыл бұрын

While the accident did help form his play style that had nothing to do with them moving away from the blues. The bands practice space was across the street from a cinema, then one day they were watching people go in and out of the theater while Black Sabbath starring Vincent Price was playing. Then then question was asked. if people like going to the movies to be scared why wouldn't they like to hear scary music?

@user-ol7bt4wp1j

2 жыл бұрын

@@zakkmylde1712 but I never said they moved away from blues

@zakkmylde1712

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ol7bt4wp1j you don't have to say it considering they actually did move their sound away from the blues into something new.

@user-ol7bt4wp1j

2 жыл бұрын

@@zakkmylde1712 Eh not really Sabbath stuff from the 70’s was very bluesy specifically songs with Ozzy’s Just more darker and and sinister sounding Paranoid, Black Sabbath, Vol 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath all are really bluesy I mean the band basically was just the dark mirror image of Led Zeppelin.

@zakkmylde1712

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ol7bt4wp1j what is the point you are trying to make? That Sabbath is a blues band? Just because the music is based off of blues principles in places does not make them a blues band. How in the hell is Sabbath a mirror to Zeppelin? The only thing they have in common is roots in blues and you can say that about literally any rock or metal band.

What is Charlie Puth doing with that guitar lmao 😂

There's KING in B.B's name for a reason.

robert johnson lived like really close to where i live, mississippi delta is the heart of the blues

@liljimitwofeatherz9735

Жыл бұрын

GREENVILLE

Everyone: “YOU FORGOT *insert killer player here*” Without realizing this is a fuckin YT Short smh. I’m sure he would have included far more in a full length video

@Throckmorton_the_great

Жыл бұрын

Actually he doesn't. He has a tendency to do the same 5 guitar players in every single video, short and tik tok he makes. We all just want variation.

@natalielastname1022

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but he could at least actually play like the guitarists

I’ve only been playing and learning about guitar for a few years and I know this ain’t all the way right lmaoo. How do you skip over Hendrix???

I take issue with “last true blues man”. I’d say Jack White is someone I would define as blues guitarist

@sabotaj18

Жыл бұрын

The best of our generation id say

Tune the SRV part down a half step and you’re golden

Whatever TF that was it wasn't Robert Johnson!

@nerfytheclown

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@keremstoyshop8734

2 жыл бұрын

This guy knows nothing about music

@petukhofice

2 жыл бұрын

@@keremstoyshop8734 oh he's offended((( get a life

@keremstoyshop8734

2 жыл бұрын

@@petukhofice I'm not

@keremstoyshop8734

2 жыл бұрын

@@petukhofice look at what the guy is playing for Robert Johnson

You’re a great player. That said, that sounded literally nothing like Robert Johnson.

@lucasm4640

Жыл бұрын

But it's literally one of his songs he played

@yoosh9034

Жыл бұрын

@@lucasm4640Yep, sure is

“the last true bluesman” my brother in christ there are so many good blues musicians still popping up, you just aren’t searching hard enough for the gems

That chuck berry tone tho😍😍

Nah ..not Rob Johnson . Not that strumming pattern. And BB ... to many notes, not enough feel ..all you need to start is the root, and a great sound .. Then maybe a b7 ... and that's all ..

Sister Rosetta Tharpe?

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

She does gosepl more tho than blues

Amazing!

Guys guys, he hasn’t sold his soul to the Devil, that’s why he couldn’t attempt Robert Johnson

u forgot albert king 😞

@jordanmarksberry6462

2 жыл бұрын

BB King > Albert King

@jackcannon5160

2 жыл бұрын

@@jordanmarksberry6462 b b king overrated

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackcannon5160 thats ur opinion tho :/

@jackcannon5160

2 жыл бұрын

that’s a fact not opinion

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackcannon5160 its a opinion tho🤓, otherwise the internet would say what you just said, learn the difference

You didn't emulate any of the players and also do you really think bb king started in 1965 and ended in 1980? And what do you mean SRV was the last great bluesman? Maybe take some time and actually learn how to play their songs...

@georgeprice4212

2 жыл бұрын

Popular years…hello! Did YOU see B B King on the charts under his own name anytime after 1980? (Not including his appearance on U2’s 1987 track When Love Came To Town, as HE was on THEIR song.) And, as far as his SRV comment, that is HIS opinion. Now, as far as actually learning their songs, COPYRIGHT CLAIMS, remember?

@georgewalker3702

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgeprice4212 the what about him playing Johnny B. Goode? By your logic, he's already lost, except he's playing it in a different key, so it isn't detected. That's where your argument falls apart, he could have simply played the songs in a different key if he really wanted to.

@georgewalker3702

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgeprice4212 and as far as I'm concerned, BB King was still selling out shows until the day he died, so I think you're probably wrong about that. And also, you aren't right about SRV. It's fact that he's not the last bluesman because if he is, then that means Kingfish isn't a bluesman.

@georgewalker3702

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgeprice4212 also adding on to what I was saying about the player's songs, he didn't even have to learn their songs, he could have written licks in their styles, but he didn't. Definitely not the BB King one. He was playing too many notes. He wasn't known for playing very many notes, he played good notes.

@georgeprice4212

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgewalker3702 DAMN YALL ARE FUCKING PICKY!

The last true bluesman Mr Buddy Guy

I am a metal player but still can agree SRV was the GOAT at blues

this means practically nothing

No Clapton? Muddy Waters? And what about John Mayer? The man slays the blues.

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

Clapton was just a guy who loved blues and played it during the british invasion but played more psychedelic blues rock

@cc3366

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alan-su5bg his solos on the blues breakers album was the greatest blues solos you’ll ever hear

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

@@cc3366 ever heard the term "British blues" ?, don't get me wrong i know john mayall and the bluesbreakers era clapton and its astonishing but clearly everyone's ignoring that era of Clapton and not mentioning john mayall to this day but rather knowing cream, derek and the domino's era Clapton.

@periachi4961

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alan-su5bg yeah but to me Clapton is the one guitarist besides SRV that comes to mind when you think of the blues.

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

@@periachi4961 there's nothing wrong but when you talk about blues you can't just sum up british blues guitarists in the 60s because that was just them loving it and influenced by it and was so called "rock" when it was just them covering blues songs. Real blues would've been just delta and then chicago electric blues which is the real deal

Take your time son.

You can’t play early blues without some slide. Too many influential players to name while giving the proper respect to each of them in a short. Each generation has had someone to help revive the blues. Let’s keep the tradition alive and experience living.

Bizarre to not include Gary Moore, probably the finest electric blues player who ever lived 🤦🏻‍♂️

Ahh yes Robert Johnson playing blues on a Fender Strat with gain set to 2. Makes perfect sense.

Love how he threw honey bee in there, a SRV song not many ppl know

Sounds good bro. Keep it up

Oh boy that's a one-percenter of what Robert Johnson did, the fella played like he had four fucking hands

Should have added in Rory Gallagher

@mikesimonian484

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

Gallagher did more blues rock than standard blues stuff like bb king and srv etc.

@DannyKellyMusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alan-su5bg still did quite a bit of old blues too during his day and his amp sound was epic

@Alan-su5bg

2 жыл бұрын

@@DannyKellyMusic that's true and all but the unfortunate reality is he didn't get to be that public in the guitar world, he was just mostly seen around England but didn't give the same credibility among like other British guitarists we all love. Hes sort of in the same league, players like paul kossof, peter green, etc.till now in the 21st century some mention him but as to share their opinions on rory himself.

@DannyKellyMusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alan-su5bg you’re right, regarded in England and surprisingly very big in Germany and France, good fame in Ireland but if he had broken America more people would revere him for what his was capable of

Guitar Slim deserves a mention

nice playing, you have a lovely jaguar

Joe Bonamassa: The fuck you say?!

You need to go back to school dude.

I didn't know Robert johnson was a hendrix fan too

You forgot one of the most important people, Muddy Waters, the father of Chicago electric blues

Lol Don’t get your info from the internet. BB was before Chuck Berry , way before. Muddy Waters rest my case

@gregoriodecker2692

Жыл бұрын

If you're going to rest your case.. learn about it first.. Charlie Patton was inspiration for them all.. go look.. thank me later

@chriscreed6410

Жыл бұрын

@@gregoriodecker2692 wtf Did that have to do with what he said? 😂.

Solid tones on that beautiful pastel strat

Dont be fooled by the rockin tone blues is a feelin in the hearrt

Great playing!

Love the Second one

I don’t think Robert Johnson ever saw a pic in his life. (Joke) 😂

Omh these sounds. Good job🖤

And now we have Kaleo. One of the great bands in this age.

Such a beautiful boy

“last true blues man” enter: kingfish

Yep stevie ray vaughan the greatest of all time. Your tone on the chuck berry part was fucking awsome man!

@JoNas-ku4xy

5 ай бұрын

Nope

You need to go back to 1927, where the blues really began. Motherless Child written by Barbacue Bob in 1927. It was covered and released in Eric Clapton’s 1994 album From The Cradle.

Blues goes way back before 1937

I’m pretty sure the second song was actually Marty McFly

SRV “last true bluesman?” Let’s forget John Mayor to name one shall we.

Clean playing man

Buddy Guy is still preforming, the blues is alive and well smh

Bb King and srv are the kind of blues I like

The blues existed before Robert Johnson

Found you in the shorts but I dig your content bro. Keep it going, your playing is fantastic through the styles.

Yoooo….Mikey my man. Your a killer player bro, very smooth and accurate, ignore the haters bro.

BUDDY GUY! Among countless others missed

Chuck is so good

Great stuff Buddy

Love the blues

This list could be huge!

Good work.

bro has never heard a robert johnson song in his life

i need these tone settings asap

For every body saying that’s not Robert Johnson played you are wrong when he went to play on stage after sun house Robert played a song called “ they’re red hot” which is the song he plays at the start of the video.

John Mayer is definitely a blues man.

BB King said john mayer is the man. I think he deserves a chance as the last real bluesman

killer playing bruv 👌

Blues is basically sweeter rock

Robert johnson and B.B are easily the best blues players to ever live

Eric Clapton: Am I a joke to you, boy?