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Well if you really want to start from there, one great Blues/Rock band from the 60s that are almost always overlooked are Capatain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Whatever you do, though don't listen to any of their 'fans' who tell you that Trout Mask Replica was their best. As far as I know, Safe as Milk, recorded when Ry Cooder was still with them, was their only good album (and one of the best ever made if you ask me) the rest is just pretentious avant-garde crap. Another band in this category who always seem to be overlooked because of their popularity are the Beatles.
I agree with K-Wise on this. If you want to be on a par with the blues-rock bands of the sixties, don't copy them, copy the people they copied.
The way modern music got to the barre chord whiny-crap state it's in these days was via rip-off merchants like Clapton. Everybody keeps copying everybody else, every time losing something, with the music getting thinner and thinner until we end up with this vapid bullshit we have today.
Fuck Clapton, fuck the rest of the whiteboy copycat bullshit. If you really want to bring back the best music from the 20th century, listen to Son House, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie Mctell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, Freddie King, Albert King, BB King, Skip James, the list goes on...
Please don't take my rant as being directed at you. I'm dealing with a lot of repressed anger towards Elvis at the moment and this is just how it's coming out.
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