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Stevie Ray Vaughn
azzeater
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How many people here like Stevie Ray?? My opinion is that he can play a guitar very well but don't have the soul it takes to play the blues and would've been better as a rock star. I just don't understand how most think is so great. Anybody like TU TU JONES? PEACE!
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chris
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Edited by - Bushy AR on 10/31/2002 22:03:09
That boy had more soul in just his little finger than most Blues rock guitarest/singers i have ever heard,black or white.
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wrench
Hey azzeater.. where ya been?... havent heard from you in agessssss....
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
He should, however, have never cut a voice track.
No offense.
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I do not think anyone will ever come close but only time will tell..UNLESS you ever heard him play the Sky is crying..You have never heard music..
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Hey Bushy: I saw Robert Jr. at a Washington State blues festival last summer. The dude is in his eighties and plays outrageous blues guitar. He was playing an electric Guild 12 string, and man could he make that axe talk.
Lots of good blues out there. I like the hell out of the delta-style acoustic blues. Folks like Son House, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Jackson, etc. The music sounds simple until you try to play it on the guitar, then you get a new respect for those old blues players who never had a lesson in their lives and were making that music on a ten dollar Stella guitar.
You reckon' the devil still has that deal goin' where you can trade your soul to be a blues man? I might be interested.
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He was also a very humble, down to earth kind of guy. He always gave credit to the Bluesmen that came before him. It's too bad he's gone. I, for one, miss him very much! Makes you wonder how far he'd have gone if he was still here.
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That doesn't mean Stevie wasn't great; he was just great in a different way. The fact that he did a couple Hendrix tribute tunes is cool, but Stevie was his own talent. I hear he never "dried up," he could just go on and on and never run out of lead riffs. I think he was great, as well.
Other great players in my book, in terms of pure expression/feel (which is even more important than technical prowess) include Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, John Mayall, Ted Nugent, and what's his name from Led Zeppelin. (Mind has gone blank.)
Little people talk about people,regular people talk about things,and big people talk about ideas.
I have an obscure one for you: Blues Explosion Atlantic 80149-1, from the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival, has a 10 minute version of Flood Down In Texas. Per the jacket, David Bowie was in the audience and was impressed enough to hire him for "Let's Dance".
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Taj Mahal,and Muddy Waters. Got to hear Ray Charles
last summer, and that old dude still cooks too! Didn't
know anyothers who knew Robert Johnson. Most don't
know of him.