I dont get it.. sound all the same to me . tec wise i guess he the best and the trend setter .. i saw him play live and he never moves me .. like jason or chris m or others do . i know he does it for alot of people maybe someday i ll get it with him
Well call me unsophisticated, but here is my take on music like this. The musicianship is world class if not the best of its kind in the world. As an aspiring musician I would be remiss to say that I wouldn't covet the skills to play as well as these musicians do. Maybe music is something more glandular versus cerebral for me, but I look to music to provide me with certain things that this music does not. An example is if I went to see a show of this caliber I'd probably leave feeling like I had the pleasure of viewing some of the best musicians in the world, maybe that I learned something about music theory from listening, but little else. So what is it I want from going to a show? I want to be touched emotionally, I want to be given a lyrical stimulus whether emotional, comical, introspective, etc., I want to enjoy the melody from a sense of beauty or somehow making me move, I want an expression from the artist more than "I can do scales better than you" (please take that kindly). An example of what I mean is I went to see a non-blues guy named Oliver Mtukudzi who sang every song in some African dialect. Other than some very tough to understand narrative before each song the entire show was (for me) about his band's energy, melody, emotion, and some other connection I made that I can't explain. For three days after the show I wanted to just grab my chest and remember how wonderful the music was and how it touched me. Now granted this is an exception as far as how much I was moved by the music, but hopefully you get my idea here. The above music was pleasant melodically, but did not move me. It left me with an appreciation for the artist(s), but even now shortly after finishing the video I cannot recollect the general melody I just heard. So I guess from a point of being memorable the only thing I take away from music like this is that the artists are memorably talented, but their choice of song was forgettable. Okay - let the wolves devour me now. LOL!
