Blackberry Smoke (keepin' Southern Rock Alive!!!) (Page 1 of 2)

Saw them open for ZZ Top a few months ago, they kick some serious ****.

They must be good because Joe gives them a nod on his facebook page. I'm youtube challenged....I'll have to be elsewhere to take them for a test drive myself.  Cathy

First ran across Blackberry Smoke several years ago at Easyriders in Chillicothe and they were playing smokin hot southern Rock and I thought they sounded fantastic. Saw them again there the following year and thought they still sounded great, but when they played there a couple of years back the style had moved disticntly away from southern rock and way towards country and I was totally unimpressed with this evolution.
So - there you go - this band Can rock your butt off but they can also play a totally lame entire country set. And its not because I dislike country music , I just dont like the way this band performs it .

Ha ha ha - The high horse will one day buck like a mule.

If I can only have certain artists in my collection because I listen to Joe then there is a problem.

Rock N Roll is supposed to be fun and does not need technical brilliance all the time. Do I need to get rid of my Sex Pistols cd because I have all of Joe's cds?

Blackberry Smoke rocked when I saw them this year and were much closer to Skynyrd than country live.

You cannot tell me that Blackberry Smoke is more than 2 steps above a southern rock tribute band.  It is like they robbed the Van Zandt family closet, stole some southern iconography, dove deep into the outlaw part of waylon jennings, listened to some beatles records and came out with the most marketable part they could find for a mid level band.

I have met, hung out, drank shots with them.  Like them as dudes.  But come on.

I mean if you want southern rock go listen to shooter jennings, or cross canadien ragweed.

Or the Skynyrd records still keep coming.

You can call it snobbery all you want, but when someone (me) is critical of the boy this forum was founded on, you are awful quick to put everyone in their place with your own snobbery.

Dino,

I have never been a snob to you or anyone in regards to their comments about Joe. I was actually attacked on the forum for my poor reveiw of Joe's last Milwaukee show. I just feel that much of people musical choice is personal choice that has more to do with emotion than logic or technical expertise. I DO NOT beleive in forcing my taste on others. If you were to have said YOU do not think much of Blackberry Smoke and left it at that I would not have commented, but when you question how ANYONE could have both in their collection, well....

I have every cd by Joe in my collection, since seeing Blackberry Smoke live I now have every cd by them in my collection. For ME emotion beats out technical everytime in music.

As far as the Sex Pistols are concerned it has nothing to do with what we now know looking back, it has to do with how it made me feel as a 16 year old when it came out in the '70's.

Peace, love and BBQ to all,

Rev Paul

They just some long haired good ol boys out on the road.  They'll be awright.  Yeah I've heard it all before...so what?  It's just for fun.  Most of the stuff (covers) I do, folks have heard before.  I'll be awright, too.

I don't know of anyone who compares to Joe.  That point really can't...even... be

Oh never MIND!

How do you guys go from the musical innovation of Joe, to Blackberry Smoke?

The same was as BB King fans love John Lee Hooker, Hendrix fans love AC/DC, Cream fans love the Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan fans love George Thorogood, Joe Satriani fans love Coldplay (ok, maybe not the last one )

You and I love the Black Keys, but they play a very different, raw some would say, primitive sound of blues rock from Joe, does that make them a worse act? I'd suggest not.

Music taste is subjective and other people on the forum including Joe will have different preferences from you, so just accept it, even if you think it is uncool.

(by the way I've never listened to Blackberry Smoke)