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There have been several posts lately bashing Stevie Ray Vaughan. While all of us will never agree on guitarists abilities (that's what makes this forum great), it's been said that one's greatness is measured by what their peers think about them.
With that being said, feel free to check out this link for some of Stevie's contemporaries thought about him.
http://www.srvrocks.com/interviews-srv_tributes.htm
Satch_21
07.09.03, 7:14 PM
Originally posted by srvfan
There have been several posts lately bashing Stevie Ray Vaughan. While all of us will never agree on guitarists abilities (that's what makes this forum great), it's been said that one's greatness is measured by what their peers think about them.
With that being said, feel free to check out this link for some of Stevie's contemporaries thought about him.
http://www.srvrocks.com/interviews-srv_tributes.htm
Why would you bash SRV ?
TheGrinnan
07.09.03, 8:43 PM
SRV was a damn good guitarist that left way too soon.
thetikiman
07.09.03, 9:56 PM
Nothing short of Godly.
ben murphy
07.10.03, 9:27 PM
i change the station anytime i hear stevie ray vaughn. having lived in texas most of my life...well there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. granted he was very talented and all the jazz but...ugh. of course i am much more into understated guitar playing. maybe i've just had srv rammed down my throat for too many years to have an objective opinion
TheGrinnan
07.11.03, 7:14 AM
Originally posted by ben murphy
i change the station anytime i hear stevie ray vaughn. having lived in texas most of my life...well there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. granted he was very talented and all the jazz but...ugh. of course i am much more into understated guitar playing. maybe i've just had srv rammed down my throat for too many years to have an objective opinion
I can understand that. I'm originally from Luray, VA--home of the world famous Luray Caverns (or so they say). I refer to it as "the pothole."
jakobe_road
07.11.03, 4:40 PM
where can i find the complete tab for "couldn't stand the weather"??? all the ones ive found are just of the riff at the beginning
TheGrinnan
07.11.03, 5:03 PM
Originally posted by jakobe_road
where can i find the complete tab for "couldn't stand the weather"??? all the ones ive found are just of the riff at the beginning
Have you tried www.olga.net to find it?
i think he was an excellent blues guitarist, but he didnt have a whole lot of range
patlang12
07.27.03, 5:56 PM
Originally posted by Satch_21
Why would you bash SRV ?
exactly
why do people bash anybody
I think he was a fine copier of all things that were cool to him. Albert King. Albert Collins. John Lee Hooker. He just played their licks and songs louder...and harder...and faster. That makes him a great copier. But hey...there are a lot of good copiers out there. Very few originals. He just copied too much.
I do have to say this in his defense. No one...and I mean no one that I have seen since I started paying attention to these things has played with the energy and passion of Stevie Ray Vaughn. He may have copied everything he played. But, when he played...he was playing from his soul. With his energy. That alone makes him worth listening too...and worth admiring. He was never faking it. And he was never playing for the ego trip. He played because he wanted to play.
rybread1969
07.29.03, 2:11 PM
Holy f**king sh*t...Stevie Ray is part of the reason why i play guitar.
He did take a lot from his heroes, but he did it out of respect and love for their music AND he managed to mold those influences into his own style. I can't hear him enough.
I totally understand how anyone could get sick of hearing a certain band or song too much. The thing that sucks is most of the radio stations just play a few of his songs. I've heard "cold shot" way too many times in my life. But there's lots of other material of his that never gets played on the radio and that's what i find myself listening to.
Greyskull
07.29.03, 6:59 PM
I think...
1) Master of Tone !!!
2) Put his whole soul into every note
3) Great !!!
bLuZ_RoCkz
07.29.03, 7:14 PM
Stevie is the main reason i started playing guitar after seeing the VH1 Legands series about his life. Yes i can see why hearing "Pride n Joy" 100,000 times would make you sick of him, but like others have posted, there is a bunch of stuff that is never aired on the radio (or very seldomly) that was his best work!!!
Stevie wasint a copy of anyone...he just took his favorite styles and put them all together in his own imalgamation. his style had flavors of albert king and hendrix, but like Dr. John said "when he played albert king, it didint sound like someone copying albert king, it sounded like Stevie playing something in Albert's bag" there is a huge difference. Stevie was great...wait, Stevie is great!!! and he was for sure taken too soon...
stratocaster83
08.02.03, 3:35 AM
originally posted by bonnie raitt (???)
The most lasting memory of Stevie was his passion. I don't think there is anyone who tears into a song like the way he did. I think Stevie Ray was coming from some place so deep and so beautiful that there's no one you can compare to him.
stevie had a soul, a funk soul! that is the point. he was a man before being a musician. he had his wrong period (listen to some mid-eighties live to see that the soul was hidden behind a too much work, heavily fuelled by cocaine & alcohol), but the man was amazing.
you know, I don't bother to learn his licks. they're simply too much for me. I only wish I could have such a deep power in me as he had. it's so difficult, I don't think you can change your nature about that. he was born with it, that's fate or something similar!!! all I can think is: thanks for the joy I feel when I listen to his records.
this is my goal, which is not shaped into some blues scale or 12/8 shuffle rhythms: try to be as soulful as he is. dudes, we're man before guitarist: how many times we forgot that? it's sad...
jacobhimself
08.04.03, 7:30 PM
i think stevie ray was an amazing guitarist, and he knew blues theory very well, ill even say he had soul, but it wasnt blues soul, more rock n roll.....
also, linkin park backwards is krap niknil......
bLuZ_RoCkz
08.04.03, 11:56 PM
"i think stevie ray was an amazing guitarist, and he knew blues theory very well, ill even say he had soul, but it wasnt blues soul, more rock n roll....."
apparently you've never heard Stevie's version of "The Sky Is Crying"
jacobhimself
08.04.03, 11:59 PM
Originally posted by bLuZ_RoCkz
"i think stevie ray was an amazing guitarist, and he knew blues theory very well, ill even say he had soul, but it wasnt blues soul, more rock n roll....."
apparently you've never heard Stevie's version of "The Sky Is Crying"
i have, and i stand by that statement, he had soul, but muddy and b.b. have way more feeling than he ever had...
stratocaster83
08.05.03, 6:54 AM
Originally posted by jacobhimself
ill even say he had soul, but it wasnt blues soul, more rock n roll...
I was referring more to his human side (from the quotes of the people who used to know him). BTW, I think his soul his more funky!!! not only in the musical sence, if you know what I mean...
nkin park backwards is krap niknil......
this explains a lot about their music...
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