Stevie Ray Vaughan

[gangajas]

Today is the anniversary of his death. One of my favourite musicians. He is great.

http://i6.tinypic.com/25qyzk7.jpg

[nthfinity]

RIP SRV, you still are the greatest legend of lightning blues!

long live lightning blues on the one and only Fender Stratocaster!

now, who can play with 14s?

[Mattk]

Who's Stevie Ray Vaughan?

[nthfinity]

Who's Stevie Ray Vaughan?

i guess you're serious.

being from down under, i don't doubt the blues are down there as well; but perhaps just not known by the current generation?

Blues liniage/names (very very abreviated)

Robert Johnson
Lightnin' Hopkins
Muddy Waters
BB King
Albert King
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (for the "truble is..." and "Live On" albums)

[nthfinity]

Random topic, but I thought y'all might find it interesting to know that one of my friends from highschool, his dad taught SRV how to play the guitar. My friend now goes to Belmont and has his own band, he is unbelievable and could play AC/DC's Thunderstruck by himself when he was 11 :twisted:

if i had a guitar when i was 11, i could play thunderstruck too :wink:

key point, thunderstruck/AD /DC isn't hard to play. :P

[RC45]

Who's Stevie Ray Vaughan?

I am surprised you would rather just randomly ask "Who's Stevie ray Vaughn?" - rather than simply self-researching to fill this gap in your knowledge?

I understand that asking someone is a segway into conversation and and a way to interact with others - but I also know that self-study and self-research is the greatest way to enhance your general knowledge - because ont he way to the answer to the question "Who is Stevie Ray Vaughn?" you would come across other untold bits of valid peripheral information that overall would expand your general knowledge.

I don't bring this up to belittle or antagonize - but just as a suggestion - you are apparently a law student, and am surprised you have so little motivation to self discover.

:)

[Toronto]

RIP SRV, you still are the greatest legend of lightning blues!

long live lightning blues on the one and only Fender Stratocaster!

now, who can play with 14s?

clapton did :P

also RIP SRV
fav. song: pride and joy.

[Toronto]

Random topic, but I thought y'all might find it interesting to know that one of my friends from highschool, his dad taught SRV how to play the guitar. My friend now goes to Belmont and has his own band, he is unbelievable and could play AC/DC's Thunderstruck by himself when he was 11 :twisted:

if i had a guitar when i was 11, i could play thunderstruck too :wink:

key point, thunderstruck/AD /DC isn't hard to play. :P

any AC/DC song isn't that hard. power cords and simple picking/tapping

[nthfinity]

any AC/DC song isn't that hard. power cords and simple picking/tapping
yep..... yet still, those songs draw me in :)



clapton did :P

also RIP SRV
fav. song: pride and joy.

Clapton lacked soul when playing the blues (yeah, i prolly get a lot of flac for that) oh well.... and i'm def. a Clapton fan. Jimmy Paige had soul when playing the blues.

favorite SRV song.... Tin Pan Ally :)

[RC45]

Whats an SRV?

[nthfinity]

Whats an SRV?

its an expensive Stratocaster and features an early ’60s “oval” neck shape, pao ferro fingerboard with jumbo frets, three Fender Texas Special™ single-coil pickups, gold-plated hardware, inverted left-hand vintage tremolo unit and distinctive “SRV” pickguard.

http://www.guitarsandeffects.com/images/200srv.jpg

high quality photo

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/guitars/0109200800_xl.jpg

[RC45]

Whats a pickguard?

[Toronto]

Whats a pickguard?

it is a peice of plastic so when you are playing your $2000 strat all everyone can see is SRV and it makes you look like a TOOL on stage. but it sounds clean and crisp. but give me a rory gallagher strat or a 57' white body over it anyday.

Clapton lacked soul when playing the blues (yeah, i prolly get a lot of flac for that) oh well.... and i'm def. a Clapton fan. Jimmy Paige had soul when playing the blues.

favorite SRV song.... Tin Pan Ally :)

ok he didn't put as much of his body into his playing as others did. I love jimmy to death, prob one of my fav. of all time if not fav. but he is sloppy (but i like that) clapton is clean and crisp the man doesn't make mistakes when he plays he is like a machine. his fingers are so strong and fast he lives up to the old saying 'clapton is god' But this lack of 'soul' is why he always plays bridesmaid on all time guitar lists.

Tin Pan Ally is an amazing song. but everyime i listen to it i don't see SRV i see hendrix sitting in an empty bar just jammin. (i guess that is where SRV got it from, he said hendrix used to come to him in is dreams and feed him riffs, kinda messed up)

[RC45]

Whats a strat?

[Toronto]

Whats a strat?

what are you an aussie??? :P
prob. one of the most versatile and most copied guitars on the market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Stratocaster

[SFDMALEX]

In the first post whats that start he has on the side with a telecaster looking body.

[Toronto]

It looks like a costum strat with a neck trough body design but with a gibson neck.

that is a real nice body shape same to the 'soul power' strat guitar used by tom morello.

[nthfinity]

Tin Pan Ally is an amazing song. but everyime i listen to it i don't see SRV i see hendrix sitting in an empty bar just jammin. (i guess that is where SRV got it from, he said hendrix used to come to him in is dreams and feed him riffs, kinda messed up)


I have a hard time liking SRV's final album as much as his barage of music before his sober/clean phase. It cleaned up a lot; was still soulful.. but it didn't have the lightning that it once did.

about SRV having dreams/visions of Jimi... well, i don't think there is anybody even today who could play Jimi like Stevie did... alghough some guys do very well.... Yngwie does a great job; but never has a jimi voice in those songs; John Fruciante does a great job.... again, the voice issue... and then there is KWS; who had the lead singer til that separated..... just the wrong EQ/levels :P

some other good blues to look into is RL Burnside.... the master of slide electric blues... freekin great!

[Toronto]

Burnside is legend (in the same boat as robert johnson, john lee hooker amazing songs with alot of influential bits just a little faster and it is amazing ie Zeppelin).

duane allman's slide guitar rocks.

[gangajas]

My favourite SRV song is Texas Flood

[nthfinity]

YouTube

you can't get any more Blues a la SRV, and Johny Copeland.... all with a bit of lightning.

[SFDMALEX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMshwcaq7e4

you can't get any more Blues a la SRV, and Johny Copeland.... all with a bit of lightning.

Holy shit what a performance, Copeland was great in it.