View Full Version : So this 'Seasick Steve' character
Freebasser
10-01-2008, 04:36 PM
I find it funny that he just pedals tried and tested oldie-timey blues that's been done a thousand times before, somehow breaks into the mainstream (novelty value?), and now all the Franz Ferdinand-loving scenesters (the same sort of people who wouldn't know their arse from their El-Bo Diddley and who probably think that B.B. King is a burger chain) suddenly adore him and have sent his albums multi-quasi-infinitum-platinum or someshit.
He's just an overhyped redneck with a broken guitar. I'm right, right?
roosta
10-01-2008, 04:37 PM
i think your thinking about it too, much.
Freebasser
10-01-2008, 04:40 PM
Perhaps.
*muses*
roosta
10-01-2008, 04:47 PM
Perhaps.
*muses*
Musing and/or pondering is fine.
Freebasser
10-01-2008, 04:50 PM
*strokes beard*
*modest mouse moustache*
Knuckles
10-01-2008, 06:46 PM
I hate how that old fogie can play that freakin' 3 string piece of shit guitar and make it sound better than anything I can do. :mad:
Maybe I should just go ride the rails for a few years with nothing but my guitar and a change of underwear in my back pocket.
kaiser soze
10-01-2008, 10:49 PM
who?
gbsuey
10-06-2008, 05:17 AM
He was on Jools Holland t'other night-i'm thinking by the way he uses his foot on a box to drum a beat he's got one normal sized leg and one freakishly muscular incredible hulk-type leg. i'd even go so far as to say that's why he gets seasick-his balance must be up the swanee. apparently he did something that sounded like bluegrass techno once,that would be worth a listen(hmmm cottoneye joe just popped into my head-maybe not)
TurdBerglar
10-07-2008, 12:45 AM
what's the point of three strings?
I've just seen the advert for his new album on tv. No one should ever buy an album that is advertsed on the television. Never.
Knuckles
10-07-2008, 03:21 PM
I've just seen the advert for his new album on tv. No one should ever buy an album that is advertsed on the television. Never.
Weird, he must be big over there.
...people who wouldn't know their arse from their El-Bo Diddley and who probably think that B.B. King is a burger chain...
Do you have to have a formal education in "blues" to enjoy it when you hear it?
I dunno, sometimes people treat music like it's history. Understanding current events without history is shallow, but is that an analogy for musical enjoyment? If it's the first time you've heard these songs, no matter who's playing them, does it matter that you don't know the original?
It'd be one thing if they turned around and said 'aww the original is shit' - but they probably just haven't bothered finding it yet.
- also I have no clue who Seasick Steve is.
Freebasser
10-07-2008, 04:03 PM
He performs his own songs, and seems like a talented bluesman; That's not my problem. My problem is that he is being marketed to trendy yoofs as some sort of weirdy-beardy oldy-timey music man, and they are lapping it up. He is a kooky novelty act to them, and it is this novelty value that is helping to sell his records by the bucketload. Call me what you will, but I find this disturbing.
My only hope is that it turns more people onto blues in general, but I fear that the trendsetters will simply move onto the next big thing (robotic boybands covering trojan hits?) when it rears its ugly head.
innit
*lights pipe and plays with monacle*
paul jones
10-08-2008, 02:49 AM
I could never grow a beard like him.I shaved yesterday for the first time in a week because it was getting annoying
Caribou
10-08-2008, 10:58 AM
I saw him on Jools' Hootenanny last year (or was it the year before?) and I was very impressed at how he made the entire crowd rock out with just 3 strings and a foot-tappy-box-thing (yes, that is the technical term).
But I know it's all been done before and it's not something I could sit through for an entire album.
Hmmmm, freebs does have a point. Those muso kids can be sold anything with the right marketing behind it.
Anyways I'm off to hospital to go and see sick steve, my mate.
Guy Incognito
10-09-2008, 02:42 AM
He performs his own songs, and seems like a talented bluesman; That's not my problem. My problem is that he is being marketed to trendy yoofs as some sort of weirdy-beardy oldy-timey music man, and they are lapping it up. He is a kooky novelty act to them, and it is this novelty value that is helping to sell his records by the bucketload. Call me what you will, but I find this disturbing.
Why is it disturbing? Marketing is going to happen whether you like it or not. The fact that Zane lowe or whoever is championing this geezer and people are interested is going to increase the mans profile and therefore more money will be put into promoting it. I think your being a bit elitist. It doesnt matter how someone gets into an artist. Be it from a tv advert or accidentally stumbling into a gig with 3 people watching. True it feels better if you discovered it for yourself but in this day and age thats is a rare thing. If some lad sees this on the telly then buys it and ends up picking up a guitar then so what. Thats a good thing.
Plus seasick steve has obviously been doing this for years just plugging away and is now reaping the benefits and i think its great for him.
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