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Does anyone have any recommended books or videos for studying the Mike Bloomfield's playing? Licks, transcriptions, or anything really would be appreciated.
There's lots to find on the Internet with a few key words and a couple of mouse clicks:
http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/mblessons.htm
http://www.guitarplayer.com/artist-lessons/1026/10-ways-to-play-like-mike-bloomfield/12042
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Bloomfield-Legendary-Inside-Guitar/dp/1603789715
http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/guitars/blues-guitar-lessons-white-chicago-blues-489465
You may have seen these already, but I found some Bloomfield Lick lesson videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwi9Q_EzeU
Bloomfield has a very relaxed, loose feel that is hard to replicate in my opinion but it sure is fun trying!
had to pass along this video of Bloomberg's Tele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4yavD9AEY
Mike Bloomfeild..White boy blues # 1 !!! Interesting life as well as a Tortured soul.I always felt Duane Allmans licks had a lot of bloomy in there,as well as song selection,..
You may have seen these already, but I found some Bloomfield Lick lesson videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwi9Q_EzeU
Bloomfield has a very relaxed, loose feel that is hard to replicate in my opinion but it sure is fun trying!
Interesting take on Bloomfield's playing.
I would personally not describe his playing as very relaxed. Maybe loose but even that would be a stretch of a term to use in my opinion.
His playing on the first Butterfield record sounds like a man who's about to eat his Telecaster alive. Heck, even the picture of him on the back of that album looks like he's about to engulf that guitar. The solo on Shake Your Money Maker sounds like WW3 had just broken loose.
Fast-forward a few years to the Monterey Pop Festival. The Wine Wine Wine solo certainly doesn't look relaxed.
When I watch videos of Bloomfield talking he certainly appears to have a million things going on at once in his brain. Today we'd call him autistic or at the very least on the spectrum. In one of the bios I read someone said Bloomfield told them he felt like he had a hot wire stuck in his brain at times. The man was also an insomniac. I don't think he could calm down at times and I also think Michael turned to drugs in someway to self medicate himself.
I believe his playing was like that too. Just a ball of fire and not very relaxed at all. To me it seemed like when he was about to solo he would throw himself into it completely and it was a recipe for either something amazing or a total disaster.
I think part of why non of us will ever be able to play like Michael is we don't have the same mental make up he did.