My Kinda Music!  I'm trying to get there.

Great sound and lovely laid back playing !

V cool collab - another one for my playlists! Enjoying exploring more NothinButDaBlues tracks right now!!

Lazy but Funky Minor Blues with less predictable sounds that come out of an interesting mix of influences from the usual British and American list of suspects. Here the old continent meets and collaborates with the new one...
Many thanks to the talented and soulful guitarist Tom Adams (Tytlblues) for having accepted my invitation for an intercontinental collaboration work.

Funky Minor Blues with Tom Adams

Mission accepted... 
Here is my contribution and play along for verses 2 and 4 of Tom Adam's (TytlBlues) "Flash Collab II....Blues in B". Thanks for sharing and allowing this collaboration work.
Really had fun, once again, doing it... 
Hope you all like this version as much as I do!

Intercontinental Brotherhood Blues

Krisztian Ilia (Acoustic) - NothinButDaBlues (Electric Guitar) / Collaboration work 

Simple C

A rough and fat blues approach with some darker and overdriven tones too.
Kick back and enjoy it exactly as intended. 

Fat 'n Rough Groove

One take approach to a jazzy improvisation...spontaneous creativity & intentional conviction.
As Duke Ellington once said:
"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it." 

Bright Sounds Of Jazz

BB Style Major Key

Improvised Guitar over an Am Blues QuistJam BT.
Aside from having one of the most popular BTs channel on Youtube, Quist is also one of the busiest and best guitar players on the planet!

And MAAAN I'VE HAD SOME FUN JAMMING ALONG TOO!!!!

2016

Jamming along with Quist

A slow tempo 12/8 minor blues offer. Moving from a less distorted sound to a pitched driven one this is what came out. 
Hope you like this new guitar sound.
Either way..., just let me know about!

Twelve Eight Blues

Trying to make it my own, Continuum Flood Experience, features some influences from Blues masters such as SRV, Hendrix or Mayer, therefore the name taken from three of their greatest albums.
Guitar: Japan Made Squier Strat from 1991

Continuum Flood Experience

Just having some fun with my Classic Player 60s strat. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy it . Appreciate your feedbeck.

Sorta' Blues Improvise in C

Just noodling with my new Yosemite single coils, modded on my Japanese Squier Strat. 
Neck first, bridge after. 
Comments appreciated!

2019

Been Here Before

"To my mind, a BLUES doesn't have to be a 12-bar progression. To me, if a song has the right emotion then I accept it as BLUES" - PETER GREEN

"I go by feel, I go by feel. 
The only way I know what's real" - BUDDY GUY

Mostly, as a self-taught guitar player (maybe not... considering all the influences and internet/book resources I've come across lately!)  and rather than trying to be anything remotely near a good player of any great technique, I'm not bound by genre or clichés; I just like to go for it. It's a whole lot better that way. 
Blues is a human expression of emotion. That may explain why I felt called to blues music, even though, I grew up in Europe, a continent apart from the music’s heartlands in America’s Deep South. And that may also be the reason for the great Portuguese Bluesmen we have nowadays (The Legendary Tigerman/Frankie Chavez/Budda Power Blues/Rui Veloso/Dead Combo/The Black Mamba/Mazgani and many others...)

I’m a fan of raw guitar players who aren’t really polished… you’re not sure if it’s all going to fall apart.  Those who, rather than trotting out a collection of preconceived practised licks and lines, take some chances along the way, creating ideas on the spot. IMHO they sound more exciting and impressive for it. I play whatever comes into my head. It's an adventure because when I do a breakdown or a solo, it's new each time and I just let it go... The majority are first take. I just turn it on and press record...they are mostly one moment in time. I’m always looking for something. Sometimes I’m not quite sure what, but you just have to keep looking...
The real beauty is playing without thinking and once you have some concepts down, what comes out, is from the heart.  It's second nature. 
I just enjoy listening and playing some music, in honour of that timeless way of killing time (just for the fun of it...and whenever inspired: "If you're not feeling it, don't play it!"). I'm happiest picking out a blues tune to a suitable backing track. After all, simple music is the hardest to play...
For me, half the battle is to get the right sound. And that, in turn, inspires how you play.
As a tone fiend, I like to let those bluesy guitar tones breathe a little bit. But, almost everything I play, it never, ever comes out quite the way I heard it in my head. Sometimes I end up with something that's kind of close, but it's not quite what intended originally. These uploaded tracks are no exception... They are far from being perfect. First of all, I'm not a fan of perfection when it comes to music...it may even compromise the tone, but if the tone is there, great! It sounds like a human being playing guitar. 
As Dan Patlansky once said "I would rather hear an average player with a great guitar tone than a great player with a bad tone".
 I love stuff that sounds like a spontaneous real-life experience. Playing music is a human activity, and we humans are far from perfect! There is a certain charm in something that feels human with the flow of a spontaneous performance. It's that spontaneity that makes for the magic... 
Feel free to comment good, bad or indifferent and do not hesitate to share any ideas you might have. 

Favourite guitarists (old school suspects apart):
Matt Schofield;  Jim Campilongo;  Walter Trout; Robin Trower; Joe Bonamassa; Andy Timmons; Gregor Hilden; Robben Ford; Larry Carlton (among others)...

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