2 things re: Rod Stewart....

[Raptorex]

My 5 newest CDs include:

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Last Time Around - Live at Legends

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

Freddie King - Blues Guitar Hero (The Influential Early Sessions) [UK]

B.B. King & Friends - 80

Muddy Waters-The Essential Collection

I suppose you like SRV better...

...snore...

 

[thewanderer690]

Before SRV (and his trailer trash mailbox letters), aspiring young blues guitarists would listen to BB King, Albert King, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, etc... for inspiration. So we get a guy in a hat with mailbox letters on his guitar, and after him no one listens to anything but SRV and Hendrix.

There was nothing wrong with SRV, he was an okay player, he just was never deserving of the massive adulation that he received. So it's not his fault, really, it's the fans'. I just react against him because his material is all the same, and because he's hugely overrated. He never really changed or grew, just the same Albert + Jimi schtick over and over.

lol SRV was way more than just an OK player

 

[Mr. dB]

lol SRV was way more than just an OK player

Yeah, but he was not the icon people make him out to be either.

 

[Gambino]

Yeah, but he was not the icon people make him out to be either.

he's no steely dan

 

[Raptorex]

This thread is a big LOL...

First Jimmy Page is a journeyman, now SRV is an OK player...

bwahahahahahahahah

 

[Smurfy]

welcome to 1970

what a great year

 

[jackangel]

what a great year

smurfy was on to her 3rd husband by then.

db, even though it's been covered...SRV = ok player? whatevz. WHATEVZ.

as for the uniformity of his sound or lack of innovation, i wouldn't necessarily disagree. i don't have much experience at all when it comes to listening to the blues, and i don't really consider SRV blues as such, but rather blues-influenced. nor do i have the historical perspective of a fossil such as yourself.

all i know is that i love listening to his shit. i think he put a lot of soul into his playing and even singing. i respond to that, always. i suppose it's his early death that sealed the deal on his legendary status.

 

[biteme]

You're in my heart you're in my soul you'll be my friend as I grow old, you are my lover, you're my best friend, you're in my heart. You're essay and glamor please pardon the grammar, but you're every schoolboy's dream..... You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness you're beauty and elegance, you're a rhapsody, a comedy, and adventure and a play, you're every lovesong ever written, but honey what do you see in me? I'm sure I flubbed some of the words here, but that's one of the greates all-time songs.

 

[Mr. dB]

he's no steely dan

Perkele is the Steely Dan fan, not me.

 

[biteme]

Who sings 'Hey Nineteen'?