I had been “anti-Stevie Ray Vaughan” for many years.

I love listening to SRV, but I can't bring myself to play any of his stuff because of what you mentioned.... I don't want to be that "old white guy trying to play SRV blues".


Honestly, that's one of the things that guided me into the "Beach and Island music" thing I'm doing now. Between Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown there's plenty of company. If I get any flack for "White Reggae" I blame Eric Clapton and Sting. :tongue:
 
I've barely listened to SRV. Is it likely that I would benefit from getting past the annoying shouty vocals and Epic Eighties Snare?

(Tastemanship coordinates: my first gig was Robert Cray at the Hammersmith Palais, but I am entirely incapable of enjoying Bruce Springsteen's hits, due to the clenched and sweaty vocals, the overstuffed arrangements and the Epic Eighties Snare.)
 
Frets99 said:
Few people realize that he was just using a Roland Micro cube that night........:cheese::markfacepalm:
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:grin:

Honestly he (as a friend of mine so eloquently put it many years ago) could have played through a speaker mounted in a rats asshole and still sounded incredible.
 
baimun said:
I love listening to SRV, but I can't bring myself to play any of his stuff because of what you mentioned.... I don't want to be that "old white guy trying to play SRV blues".


Honestly, that's one of the things that guided me into the "Beach and Island music" thing I'm doing now. Between Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown there's plenty of company. If I get any flack for "White Reggae" I blame Eric Clapton and Sting. :tongue:
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I'm mulling over the middle aged guy white reggae thing. That might be prohibited by the Geneva convention :embarrassed:
 
reverend1 said:
I just kind of burned out on SRV. I listened to him way too much.
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thats another thing. Even if you didn't listen to him you heard him way too much. At east around here. The years after he died every show I played at a bigger venue was opened by some douche playing "Texas Flood" note for note.
 
Thanks for sharin' the video, Mark. :thu: From what I've seen it doesn't seem like Stevie himself ever played a song the same way twice :lol:
 
I liked SRV when I first heard him. Innovative and unique as he had a heavy attack. On his final studio album - In Step - prior to his death, I consider that recording to be the pinnacle of his career and playing. What I also liked about SRV was finding out who his influences are. You can really hear alot of Albert King in his playing on many of the slow blues tunes - just classic AK style phrasing. Even the not so well known Lonnie Mack you can hear alot of SRV using his style of phrasing.

We are all guilty of stealing and borrowing our influences. How it ties and relates to each of our playing defines who we are at that point in time of the space contuinuum :embarrassed:
 
Mark Wein said:
I'm mulling over the middle aged guy white reggae thing. That might be prohibited by the Geneva convention :embarrassed:
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I'm reminded of the portlandia episode in which the mayor "goes reggae."

[video=youtube_share;fIOezdL_fx8]http://youtu.be/fIOezdL_fx8[/video]
 
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