Ennio, Bruce, Bugs, Blues

Ok, influence comes from everywhere. I cry ever time when I hear it smash me in the face. The songs that we play have my life and soul. I let it wash over me, where it came from, theme, structure, development, instrumentation, degradation. I tend to think about things for long periods of time. I construct and obstruct. I deny and access. I permit, allow, curse, swear and taunt my band because…well, I love them.  That is my job.

I am obstinate, pedantic, controlling, and the guy that has and is writing OUR music. We make a wave because we play together. Make this our life.

Blues is the truth. Blues is the way of life. 

So…. I love music and hear is it 2nite. (rant, rant, rant), what is the blues? Cause I gotta tell ya. We go to Memphis…We play our blues. We change what is blues.

So, Italian beauty is mixed with American brutality and Polish machismo! Hmmmm…Get it! Ennio played the blues.

I had this beautiful shirt when I was in grade school. I wore it all the time. Laugh hard at the haircut, but I believed in what this shirt was. I was 4th or 5th grade. Bruce was my god…and he played the blues.

Bruce Lee played the blues with his movement, grace and savagery and smirk. The fluidity of craft. Here is about 30 seconds that just sums it up. Sling it Bad-ass!!!

Bugs Bunny. Foghorn Leghorn. Sylvester. Daffy. Elmer. Porky. Wile E. Et al. You know what I’m saying? They are John the Revelator of cartoons. There is no pantheon in man’s history that can even hold their candle. This was the perfect storm of all that is good, bad and ugly. Unmatched art. Untouchable music. Unmistakeable character. This is blues folks. Why? Because it carries tradition, emotion, and moral bankruptcy!  Oh yeah, MEL BLANC! Plus it’s really fun!  AHH, SHUT UP!

Blues. I has it. You want some too? How bout a dose of the comedic Chinese-Mexican blues. I couldn’t help it.

So what is blues?  I don’t know. What do you want it to be. All it really needs to do is speak to you. There’s no form or sense or quality or style or dignity. It just is. That is what blues is. It is.

MR