Let's say you're trying to write a song that uses blues tonality but isn't per se a blues song; it just takes the scale runs of blues and takes them into some other great direction. Take notes from this song.

"Manic Depression" is not a blues song. But it is a blues song! It's literally about the blues.

But where the music goes is so heavy and futuristic that you can't just assign it a folk-stye genre like blues. The theory of blues has so many great, elastic possibilities. Jimi Hendrix explored so many of them down at the core of his hurricane noise storm.

Mitch Mitchell is one of my favorite drummers for hyper-involved patterns like he lays down in this song. Extrovert drummers win my heart. I try to be one every odd decade I ever get the sparse chance.