Eric Weinstein

Blues isn't a real musical form, it's an ingredient.

I said, what are you talking about?

He says, well, you would never go to a blues show.

I said, I can't believe I'm saying this to John Mayer, but I don't think you know what you're talking about.

House of Blues.

It's literally...

Well, he meant something.

So the thing is, is that I caught the end of black audiences, like old black people listening to the blues and paying for it.

So there's who pays and who plays.

And black people are still paying for blues, but a lot of them aren't, are still playing blues, but a lot of them aren't paying for it.

So when I go, for example, to see Cadillac Zach's Maui Sugar Mill show every Monday night, I go occasionally in Tarzana.

It's like,

70-year-old and up white people.

So you see like hot chicks in their 80s in crop tops dancing.

And that's what it is now.

It's like a really old crowd keeping this thing alive.

And I can't understand it because it feels great, Joe.

Right.

And that's the thing.

It's just like, you know, Bonamassa, he does these cruises keeping the blues alive.