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I can tolerate the SRV hate, but dragging the Tube Screamer into it is just uncalled for.

as a lot of you guys said, he is an extremely guitarist. but, his music doesn't hit the spot for me. this goes the same for john mayer. and i think joe bonamassa is everything that i would not like to see in a blues artist. he's talented but i never can fully groove to his music. i don't feel the vibe that feel from dan and pat. is music is too "normal" sounding to me. he just bores me with his music. but with tbk, i hear an obscure bluesy guitar grooving with wu-tang-like drums and a soul singer's voice, all melted into rock n roll.

The Ballad of John Henry... I actually kind of dig this tune.

As for saying Joe's a better guitarist... I don't know about that. "Better" is such a broad subjective term. Joe has a speed advantage, he's more about accuracy and more precise bends. Probably knows more music theory than Dan. Different styles though. Dan can play a bass line on top of the melody. Live version of Goin Home was incredible. Maybe there's a song out there of his that I haven't heard, but as far as I am concerned... Joe can't do that. Dan's blues licks are also more his own, and his influences are more obscure artists, where Joe's lead guitar playing really abuses the influences every guitarist and your mother has. Joe can play some Page and Hendrix note for note, but who cares?

I don't understand why people are impressed with speed accuracy and precision. Anyone can learn to play like that. It's like doing sit ups and curls, you practice a straight forward lick over and over again like a robot until it's perfected. My friend is a shred guitarist, he practices these runs out of this John Petrucci book every day, starting slow and building up his speed over time. BORING! Dan's blues licks sound more interesting, even if they are slower and sloppier.

Uh... why is everyone hating on the tube screamer?

Quote:Uh... why is everyone hating on the tube screamer?

For me it is because all those wannabeestevies use one with a strat.
Also because it takes away much of your playing dynamics and lowend in your tone.

Wow. I guess to each his own, I can say personally that Stevie Ray is the sole reason I started playing the guitar, I felt and still feel each and every note the man played. This is comparing apples to oranges, and music is not about who is "better" otherwise we would all be members of a Steve Vai forum(Phenominal but just doesn't do anything for me). Some people like the taste of apples some people prefer oranges, but to sit around and bash our kin(musicians) is just shit to me. I don't care what you play, I don't care who you listen to, I truly don't give a shit what effects pedals you use; if you are playing something that you love and makes you happy, I have respect for you and your music (though I might not like or connect with it)

P.S. August 27th next month marks 20 years to the death of SRV, I am fortunate enough to be playing a memorial show with some amazing bands in his honor.

Oh and for all you who say he faked it(wow) listen to his rendition of little wing. Seriously.