Top 5's

Did you try the Thai Whiskey in Bangkok?

 

Jay Z has been there! So that might put me off......but i'd still do her the honour, if she asked nicely

 

Yeah, that one was awful.

 

1. Biggie
2. Nas
3. Redman
4. Jigga
5. Pac

 

Nah, it doesn't exist.

There was this stuff with 80% molasses that was called whisky though.

 

What about that guy Snow who rapped about a leaky bum bum.

 

To my shame, I know all the words to this song!

 

I listened to a lot of blues. Indeed, I have a fairly comprehensive collection of stuff.

The reason that I was influenced by the later players is primarily because they had already developed those ideas, and taken them to the kinds of places that I was more interested in. No point re-inventing the wheel.

That said, I am always interested in feel and touch, which many of the old players have in spades and buckets. Once you've learned major and minor pentatonic scales, and how to switch between them, with a sprinkling of turn-arounds and endings, there isn't much else you can do with the blues before you begin to sound derivative. That said, I still love to listen to John Lee Hooker stuff. And the odd bit of Buddy Guy.

van Halen admits to having been influenced by Hank Marvin, as does Satriani. In some small measure, therefore, I have the benefit of Marvin's influence when I learn from the later guys, whether I appreciate that fact or not.

 

HIAG chatting **** about himself for a change.

 

Rap
Hip hop
House
Trance
Gospel

Top 5 utter chod music.

Puffy duddy
Shoe rack
Biggles
M&m's

Ffs.

 

All about hiag
All about saints
All about pixie
All about arsenal
All about bullshit

Top 5 thread subjects by him

 

Puff

 

Top 5 hip hop diss tracks:

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You have to go back further to get the real influence, that's all commercial dull stuff imo. Listen to Son House, Charley Patton or Howlin Wolf to get to the real roots of it all. People like Clapton just sound **** in comparison.

 

.......More sex? If the Viagra's still working.

 

Food:
Chicken Vindaloo, special fried rice and Bombay Aloo
Kofte Kebab, rice and loads of chilli sauce
Curried goat, rice and peas
The Devastator (burger at the Red Dog Saloon in Hoxton Square)
Toby Carvery's gammon & beef, fill the plate with a mountain of roast potatoes, stuffing and mustard mash

 

Whisky Tel, only Irish is spelled with an 'e' I believe he tried a drink that's 95% molasses he thought was whisky.

 

Yeah, as I said, I have quite a vast collection of blues material, encompassing all of the people you mention. I didn't bother learning it because it was already encompassed in the material and techniques of the people that I wanted to learn from.

I'm not a blues guitarist by inclination, although I do appreciate that the rock music that I do play is heavily influenced by the early blues guitarists.

Most of my playing uses modal scales, which isn't part of the blues lexicon. I do incorporate pentatonic blues scales, riffs and licks, but it is via people like Satriani, Moore, and Hendrix.