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Topic: SRV fan until I die!
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JaZZer
Blues Worshipper
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posted January 18, 2001 11:52 PM
    
This forum will (I hope) be the most visited one.SRV rules man!!! SRV is the best badazz string bender that ever lived. I loved the way he tortured the hell out of the strings for a minute and then nurtured them back to heaven. I hope that people are with me on this one! hehehehe...if not...well post your own topic ;-)
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eBuddha
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posted January 19, 2001 10:17 PM
Well, I don't generally bestow "ultimate" to anything, but I am honestly a pretty major SRV admirer.Your description of his guitar talent was most precise and eloquent. Extract the fury of the guitar, the most violent and rough scenario, and then transition to the melodic renaissance of a soft and romantic string ride. A discussion about "best guitarist" is neverending, but I think that Stevie Ray was definitely a master at exploring both extremes. I was never fortunate enough to see him perform live, but I remember being absolutely enthralled by watching his live performances in small clubs... on VHS (el mocambo comes to mind) ... he really invited us all on a tumultous ride on his guitar neck. It was far more than the pure technical skill as far as guitar goes, it was the "storytelling" that he did. Makes me think of Jim Morrison and his gift for poetry... saying that SRV was good on guitar is like saying that Jim Morrison was good with lyrics. eBuddha [This message has been edited by eBuddha (edited January 19, 2001).]
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LowEnd
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posted January 20, 2001 08:56 PM
Hia !! Viva SRV !!I consider myself a huge SRV fan and I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one.. 
I think the secret behind SRV's sound is the fabulous tone he had. He was so great !!!! So, I agree with JaZZer : This forum will be the most visited one !!!!
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Slim Lively
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posted January 21, 2001 03:05 PM
I don't mean to be a muckraker here, but I'm with eBuddha. You cannot claim one individual as being the greatest blues guitarist no matter who they are. I was fortunate to have seen SRV four times during his lifetime. He was a definite master of the instrument, but I would be hardpressed to call SRV any greater than Earl Hooker, Freddy King, Luther Tucker, Hubert Sumlin, Robert Nighthawk, Luther Allison or any number of other guitarists. SRV had great tone and great presence, but I'm not going to pigeonhole myself to making a claim towards any one of these artists.
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eBuddha
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posted January 23, 2001 11:18 PM
Greetings Slim, and welcome aboard...No, I don't think your point of view will be taken as muckraking. SRV was a huge talent, and has evolved into something of a blues martyr. When people say SRV is the best, I don't think it is an objective, technical evaluation. Personally, I work in technology, as do a great deal of my friends. They consist primarily of engineers, technicians, and the like. So we tend to try and qualify things. Music, like any other art, is a highly subjective field. As such, one cannot say, "the best music is", or the best singer is.... While we can assign "technical" attributes to an artist (a singer with undeniable range, a guitarist with incredible manual dexterity, a drummer with superlative timing, et al.) the sum total is always a blend of the parts. This might explain why "boy bands" or "corporate pop" is currently all the rage. Summary: In my book, very few things - if any - qualify as the "best"... although many certainly rank up there, as is the case with Stevie. peace, eBuddha
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Slim Lively
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posted January 24, 2001 02:16 AM
Well, with my little spiel said, I do have to admit that SRV was a helluva guitarist. I remember sitting in a pub the day that "Texas Flood" was first released to the public. A friend of mine threw it onto the cassette player in the place and completely tore us apart with the drive that SRV mastered so well. I immediately left the place and purchased my own copy. I also remember sitting in an amphitheater in Salem in pouring down rain watching him work his magic on the strings. Robert Cray was the headliner that night, but I couldn't wait to get back stage just to meet Stevie. I've spoken with a lot of musicians over the years, but SRV was extremely approachable. Only a handful of others come to mind as kind as he was to me (Luther Allison, Carl Weathersby, Larry McCray, Kenny Neal all come right to mind for me.)So, I guess in the long run, what I'm saying is that SRV had an impact on my listening pleasures. But the list runs miles and miles with so many others, too. Slim
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