Seems like I've noticed Stevie Ray Vaughan mentioned with a bit of disdain on this board. Maybe I misinterpreted the connotations, and in fact it's "SRV wannabes" that seem to get the hate, but what gives?
Is it cuz he sorta blew up the blues into a more technical white-washed rock thing? He was far from the first to do this. Is he just less cool cuz he's like 3rd or 4th or 9th generation blues? Guy is still a legend in my mind. And after all, he never claimed to be a bluesman... he's a voodoo chile! RIPSRV
In summation, if someone could explain to me why SRV isn't cool, much appreciated. Or explain to me that I'm just way off the mark with the way I read some peoples' opinions.
I find most fans of SRV irritating, though. It seems every time an SRV fan hears a new generation blues guitarist, SRV INFLUENCED HIM! I HEAR SRV! Shut the fuck up, blues is blues. Lol.
20 years ago i headed off to boot camp. I had a chance to see SRV shortly before i went, but passed on it. I didn't really know much of his stuff, and kind of despised him because at the time i was into Hendrix, big time. Less than one week into boot camp he passed. I felt i missed out on something, even though i didn't want to feel that way. Shortly after, i bought "Couldn't stand the Weather". I was floored. What a GREAT album. How did i miss this??? I didn't want to miss any more. I bought all off his stuff, and all were in heavy circulation in my cd player for quite some time. SRV or Jimi??? I have debated this since. Any votes in Jimi's direction should listen to "Voodoo Child" from "Live at the El Macombo"(available STILL only on DVD unfortunately). THE most amazing version i have ever heard. Why all the SRV hate? I dunno. But i love the guy's music, and deeply regret never seeing him. Boys and girls, Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Hardcore SRV fans have come to be associated with bad white boy blues. In many ways I think it's why the Keys so hate the label of being a blues band because when people hear two white guys playing blues, I think what pops into a lot of people's heads is some SRV wannabe noodling on a Strat. I know Pat said something to that effect of when people hear blues they think of really lame bar acts.
SRV was amazing. Sometimes I feel like he wished he was Hendrix though. Also, "blues" seemed to really follow down that SRV path almost exclusively after he hit the scene.
Other than that he was one talented man.
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That's the thing with SRV. All he really did was take a bunch of Hendrix licks and add a texas shuffle to them. Well he did a bit more than that, but it was a HUGE chunk of his style. These die hard SRV fans seem to think he completely revolutionized blues... but I think you need to give his influences more credit than that. He didn't really do anything new, he was just a perfect conglomeration of stuff that had already been done.
That's not to say that SRV didn't have his own thing going on. The thing I found most impressive about SRV was his ability to play single note runs, but wail it on all the strings, muting the strings he wasn't using. And he did it with control, it is insanely hard to play like that. John Mayer does this too, the SRV tattoo on his arm clearly isn't just for show.
Danleary - 9 minutes ago The thing I found most impressive about SRV was his ability to play single note runs, but wail it on all the strings, muting the strings he wasn't using. And he did it with control, that is insanely hard.
Absolutely agree. That, and the non-stop-playing-flip-the-guitar-behind-you-and-continue-wailing (showcased at about 7:15 in this video) that I believe to be the single greatest stage move in rock and roll history! (I'm aware that there is a variety of contenders for this crown and really no wrong answer)
I'm sure everyone's seen this before but I never tire of it! Seen lots of guys play leads behind their backs before, but never as smoothly and awesomely as SRV!
(And not that I think of it, perhaps the greatest stage move in history is from a Prince concert I have, where he shouts to his band leader "Should I do the splits? How many should I give 'em?... Three? How bout fourteen!" and proceeds to do fourteen consecutive splits in sync with band hits. Maybe not the greatest move but definitely the most hilarious! Wish I had a clip)
Every great musician is just one more step up on the ladder, but they couldn't have gotten there without the last step.
Have you listened to Albert King?
It's like listening to Dan without listening to Junior, or listening to The Rolling Stones without listening to Muddy.
NdM
MirbyGnits - 2 hours ago »
"...I'm her little loverboy."
THAT'S what's wrong with srv.
Fuck srv. Tubescreamer lovin jackass...
I dub thee "The Diplomat"
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- Rolling Stone, December 7, 1972
I love me some SRV. But to many, SRV represents a shift in one direction. Even though he really isn't the culprit he is sort of the poster child for the quick, technically dazzling solo-type blues. Down here in Austin, far more people gravitate to this kind of blues than the gritty, John Lee Hooker, Jr. Kimbrough, type blues, where the emphasis is on the feel.
As a teenager in Texas playing guitar, him and Jimi were the only way to go. There was no influence from the delta or chicago blues men. It wasn't until well into college that I started digging into that stuff and I am much happier for it.
It doesn't help that SRV had that 80s drum reverb under it.
I've often wondered on this (and the old forum) why strats seem to get so little love. It's the most popular and probably versatile guitar in the world yet we (myself included) would rather have an old harmony.
RIPSRV
Why all the SRV hate? I dunno. But i love the guy's music, and deeply regret never seeing him. Boys and girls, Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan. 
