Stevie Ray Vaughan

[The Ozzman]

Easily my favorite guitarist. It's a shame he had to go when he did.

Thoughts?

 

[Black Friday]

I have Texas Flood and I love it.

 

[The Ozzman]

I have Texas Flood and I love it.

Get Couldn't Stand The Weather next. It is exponentially better than Texas Flood

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

In Step is one of my favourite albums of all time. Stevie is a legend.

 

[Krilons Resa]

His version of Hendrix's Little Wing sends shivers down my spine every time, without fail.

 

[The Ozzman]

In Step is one of my favourite albums of all time. Stevie is a legend.

Indeed. In Step is a fucking great album. I don't have Soul to Soul, but I would imagine that it is still a solid album in terms of SRV quality stuff.

His version of Hendrix's Little Wing sends shivers down my spine every time, without fail.

This.

 

[razoredge]

You have to get the version where he does the vocals too. Its some live performance and it is completely flawless.

The thing with Vaughan with me is I believe the guitar was an actual extension of him. Not his ego or well practiced fretboard exercises or sound gimicks, just raw guitar from deep within his soul. Sure he only played the blues but sometimes he would just get going on stuff and it was so amazing what would come out of him and where it would go. His improv was also very groove oriented. No steady flurry of solid 16th notes, every note had expression and a purpose, not just notes played to meet some shred specification.

Hes not just my favorite guitar player, I honestly believe, without bias, because I like so many of the great guitar players, I believe he was the guitar, heart and soul.

As nice as Steve Vais version of Little Wing is if you listen to it back to back with Vaughan you quickly realize hes not even close to being in the same league, Vai is thinking about it, Vai is planing and grabing into his bag of well rehearsed tricks, Vaughan is just totally connected, eyes closed, and the music just flows, one with the guitar.

 

[razoredge]

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[Satanstoenail]

I need to get some of his stuff. Where should I start?

 

[razoredge]

I only own Couldnt Stand the Weather and In Step. Couldnt Stand the Weather is probably a good start because its pretty much Texas blues and signifies who he was. In Step is equally as great but it was more toward commercialized Texas blues. Alot of people cant listen to non stop blues for long without becoming tired of it, there are a few downfalls there, I'll admit to that. the song Riviera Paradise an instrumental from In Step is a guitar master piece and leans toward a jazz based blues, it really shows the expression he could put inside a guitar. I dont think you could go wrong with owning both of these.

 

[The Ozzman]

I need to get some of his stuff. Where should I start?

Couldn't Stand The Weather
Texas Flood
Everything else

 

[Satanstoenail]

Cheers.

 

[Belligerent]

His version of Hendrix's Little Wing sends shivers down my spine every time, without fail.

I love the SRV twist he puts on that song. Alot have tried to cover Little Wing and failed miserably.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

he's awesome. a pure legend

 

[voodoo]

You have to get the version where he does the vocals too. Its some live performance and it is completely flawless.

The thing with Vaughan with me is I believe the guitar was an actual extension of him. Not his ego or well practiced fretboard exercises or sound gimicks, just raw guitar from deep within his soul. Sure he only played the blues but sometimes he would just get going on stuff and it was so amazing what would come out of him and where it would go. His improv was also very groove oriented. No steady flurry of solid 16th notes, every note had expression and a purpose, not just notes played to meet some shred specification.

Hes not just my favorite guitar player, I honestly believe, without bias, because I like so many of the great guitar players, I believe he was the guitar, heart and soul.

As nice as Steve Vais version of Little Wing is if you listen to it back to back with Vaughan you quickly realize hes not even close to being in the same league, Vai is thinking about it, Vai is planing and grabing into his bag of well rehearsed tricks, Vaughan is just totally connected, eyes closed, and the music just flows, one with the guitar.

Very well put. SRV was one with the guitar. His playing looked so effortless.