Blues In Ba

[bobg]

I saw the other day that Hugh Laurie will be performing with his band at the Gran Rex on March 15th.

Will I be able to purchase a ticket at the theater with no Spanish skills? And will they have a seating chart I can look at? (I don't want to buy a ticket online because I don't want to cough up a credit card numbe and don't want to pay in dollars at the official exchange rate.)

Also, I find that the Gran Rex seats over 3,000. If the blues is that popular in BA why am I not able to find bars where I can listen to blues while enjoying a beer?

Thanks, Bob

 

[argsteve]

http://www.ticketek.com.ar

I would not say blues is really that popular but it is HOUSE.. the guy on the TV show..... but blues is around a taxi guy the other day was playing buddy guy..i loved it.....

i hope there are still tickets ... the signs have been up for a month or two....things sell fast here..... 3000 seats.. but check out this site.... to buy and go to the locations to buy in person easier with limited spanish.....

http://www.ticketek....ewsite/locales/


might check out this jazz club.....

http://www.thelonious.com.ar/english/

 

[tapi_2]

What do you mean blues is not popular? I thought it was super popular, or does Charlie Garcia no qualify as blues? Pappo anyone?

 

[Napoleon]

Here it's called "Tango".

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

I dunno, I never really considered Charly to be a blues artist? He's not exactly Muddy Waters like! He sings rock ballads no?

Pappo is different, definitely blues influenced guitarist and some songs are straight blues, other verging more on the rock side of the fence if such boundaries are really valid.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Here it's called "Tango".

Structurally different from a musical perspective, but tango would be the local equivalent.

 

[Napoleon]

Structurally different from a musical perspective, but tango would be the local equivalent.

Structurally it's completely different. And instrumentally as well, not to mention the major influences after their initial stages of creation.

But... they're both forms of music where people are bitchin' and moanin' about how shitty things are.

 

[tapi_2]

The requirements for a song to qualify as a blues is simple: root chord (played with a dominant seventh), then towards the end of the progression it goes five steps up the scale (also dominant seventh) and then back down.

There are as many variants to the progression as there are artists but this basis and sound is the same in all blues. The blues can be rocky, it can be jazzy, it can be funky, but it's the chord progression that makes it a blues. Charlie Garcia is an amazing guitarist, and plays iconic blues licks throughout all this music. He's a heavily rock influenced blues guitarist, but in the end what he plays is the basic blues chord changes in most of his songs.

It's not Muddy Water blues, though, that's for sure. Different type of blues.

As far as Pappo, anyone heard "Pappo's Blues" before? Pappo even played with BB King! And I don't anyone here would deny that BB King is a blues musician.

Some people here may be surprised that the blues gets played in the villa, sometimes more than cumbia! Depends on the household...but blues is very big here.