What girls like? (Page 1 of 3)

HMMMMMM, sex?  gender?  Stu's funny.  Maybe since most vocals are midrange, there's your first clue.  Maybe women seem to be more conversation oriented, "...talk  to me?"  Dirty or otherwise.  Share, share, share.

If you can sing your most emotionally in G (3rd) or A (5th fret), thats where the most impact will be felt, (heard). 

Tone can compose of the mix, match & overlay of many frequencies.  That's not a very good explanation but I'm hurt for time.

As far as gut grabbing goes, here's the ticket.  All music but especially blues is about telling a story, promoting a feeling.  Blues esp. is about tension & release.  Hence one of my previous statements about the blues is a feeling.  A melody sung with passion by voice or horn, piano or guitar that creates tension such as a minor third before the resolve creates tension.  There's tons more.  I'm sure others can tell more.

I should listen to the interview before I post again more to be more specific.

Jeff

Its funny because when Joe came to boston last I asked my friend how liked the show.  We said he played great, ect. but then when we started discussing his tone we were like.  Its REALLY midrangy, its those boutique amps that give those really smooth mids.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, i think Joe's best tone was on the ANDY Live show.  But yeah, funny you should talk about mids when his tone has gotten extremely midrangy as of late, a possible strategy from Mr. Bonamassa?

his guitar riffs do it for me......but then again, so does everything else he does. 

this may be waaayyyy off topic and considered "too much information" to share, but at his november show at rams head live, and (excuse my bluntness for any delicate folk on the board), but i can honestly say hearing joe play some of those guitar riffs literally almost made me have an orgasm. i mean, seriously. i'm not just saying that for dramatic effect. i was just standing there in a trance watching him and feeling that music, and then he would go into his incredibly passionate, emotionally energetic solos, i just felt like i was transported into another dimension and i just felt it, i mean really just FELT it through the core of my entire being, and from the tips of my toes to the top of my head, i had this incredible, indefinable tingling that went through my whole body and i thought i was gonna just gush with pleasure. it really was beautifully, awesomely orgasmic. oh my. i'm wiping my brow just thinking of it.  ahh, so yeah...don't think it matters what joe does, he gets it done for this gal.    whoo hoo!

one of my friends reluctantly went with me (he's my best friend's hubby---i drag him to every show i go to), and i bought his ticket and all his beers just to convince him to go with me 'cause i didn't want to go alone. he never heard of joe bonamassa and was convinced the show was gonna suck. needless to say he watched the entire show with his jaw hanging to the floor, and on the ride home his only response was "did we just witness that live???" it was astounding.  he went out and bought 2 of joe's cd's the next day.

I don't know what captures most women's interest in music since they're from Venice and I'm from Mars. I do know that when my nursie friend Mary and I are listening to live music I can always tell when the music touches her music gene/nerve if I look over and see has her eyes closed and swayin' with the beat. Then I'll ask, did you like that one? and get a big oh yeah. Subtle hints when it comes to sharing some music with her. Us guys need all the hints we can get. It helps when they e-mail a list of what they like too.

                                                                                             Rock On Girls,

                                                                                             J Dawg

Rams Head Live show in Baltimore, MD was awesome!  Made the hair on my arms stand up getting blasted by that perferct tone.

Stu..You are such a MAN! lol  More clarity, (because I should be doing housework instead)...I also believe the increase in female attendees is due to more exposure, nothing else. I'd have been there screaming along with all the man if I'd have known about Joe earlier. I just feel so much music lives "In the middle of the road"..good stuff, catchy lyrics, "pretty"...but it's that visceral feeling I'm talking about. Joe's music "vibrates" at just the right spot for me..I don't play so I can't name the chords or the tuning, but, there are notes/chords that Joe hits that cause me to moan just like Sunnyskies! Ex. 5:36 on "Sloe Gin", I think that's why I miss the overdub guitar at shows...the tone of those riffs is PERFECT....Another 3:25 in "So many Roads" from You & Me. Another is Chris Duarte's Blue Velocity, song "Something Wicked" solo around 5:30 on....part of it seems to be 2strings at once, sliding down to the flat? I don't know what it is, I just know it works. I just don't want Joe to think ladies aren't there for the guitar..He would be SO wrong....Cathy

If I knew, I'd be playing it!

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
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Thanks Jane...Then I googled "hearing differences" and HOLY COW! My computer's too slow to check them all...I do remember a Sunday Morning segment about a well known music producer who started a research section on the differences in sound perceptions but I can't remember if it was Stanford or Berkley?  My brain is getting very tiny!      Cathy