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SRV playing a late 1920s Gibson L-1!


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What a great player! I think a guy like him can make any guitar sound well, and a good one sound even better. Despite of the mediocre audio quality, it can be heard out clearly how the guitar reflects his dynamic and energetic playing style.

 

Great clip - thanks for sharing!

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Thanks JT.

 

It sounds like him, but all we see is the Hat!

 

Could be a ringer? Not you with a hat is it, JT?

 

I saw him a couple of times at the height of his... hmmm... excess... and I was 3 rows from the front in prime viewing position for guitar lovers and he played so fast under the influence that his right hand was a 'BLUR".

 

I am a Jimmy V lover as well - total class electric guitar player!

 

 

BluesKing777.

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Thanks JT.

 

It sounds like him, but all we see is the Hat!

 

Could be a ringer? Not you with a hat is it, JT?

 

 

 

It is def. SRV [thumbup]

 

I saw that earlier, although this is the clip I was watching..... There is a short interview with him here @ 30 secs ... before he plays.

 

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I am a Jimmy V lover as well - total class electric guitar player!

 

I'm also a big Jimmie fan. I saw the T-Birds a number of times. Best was when they opened for Stevie and for an encore, Stevie and Jimmie did their double neck Dano schtick.

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This is pretty cool. I have a friend of mine that plays this sort of aggressive attack - I will not let him play my guitars anymore because they really do take a beating.

 

 

Come on Dan.....Really? They deserve to be spanked now and then! Gives them 'character' [thumbup]

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Come on Dan.....Really? They deserve to be spanked now and then! Gives them 'character' [thumbup]

Nope. I rarely use a pick, he does, and quite agressively - if I loaned him a guitar for a weekend, I know it would come back looking like a reliced Aaron Lewis. Matter of fact, the used Yamaha I gave to him blew up in about 2 months, [scared] all that we could salvage was the Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pick-up. [cursing]

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Nope. I rarely use a pick, he does, and quite agressively - if I loaned him a guitar for a weekend, I know it would come back looking like a reliced Aaron Lewis. Matter of fact, the used Yamaha I gave to him blew up in about 2 months, [scared] all that we could salvage was the Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pick-up. [cursing]

 

Stevie just gave his guitars a little character:

 

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And to think people pay Fender to do this to their brand new guitar....

 

FMA

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soz fellas...good clip JT... but its just showing off in my book,,,

 

I'll agree that SRV often overplayed, just because he could and because his audience loved it. The impact in person, though, was extraordinarily powerful. Just ask Buddy Guy, Albert King, or Albert Collins.

 

This said, SRV is not showing off here. This is a very restrained performance. He could easily have played three times as many notes.

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This said, SRV is not showing off here. This is a very restrained performance. He could easily have played three times as many notes.

 

Excactly. There are many guitarist mentioned on this forum that are extremely competent, popular and worth the accolades thrown at them, but then there are a mere handful that are just genius. SRV is one of the genius guitarist that lived in our lifetime.

 

"Boring"? Oh my, you are showing how little you know about guitar and talent.

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I tell ya what

 

thats some crazy playing from old Stevie there..but,,like most of his stuff

 

he just bores the pants off me

 

soz fellas...good clip JT... but its just showing off in my book,,,

 

Agreed. No doubting his fretboard competency but like yourself and many others I'm knickerless after listening to it and not in a fruity way, in a bored way....

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Excactly. There are many guitarist mentioned on this forum that are extremely competent, popular and worth the accolades thrown at them, but then there are a mere handful that are just genius. SRV is one of the genius guitarist that lived in our lifetime.

 

"Boring"? Oh my, you are showing how little you know about guitar and talent.

 

hahahaha

 

ok thats me told... what a load of cods wallop !!!

 

stick that in ya pipe n smoke it ;)

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Agreed. No doubting his fretboard competency but like yourself and many others I'm nickerless after listening to it and not in a fruity way, in a bored way....

 

ya right there...donty know about knickerless...haha

 

but most of the stuff i have heard from him just doesn't grab me

 

some posted a clip from him here months ago..and I thought ahhh! thats what ppl are on about

 

abnd I know he had great respect from a lot of the blues farthers that wrere still alive to meet him

 

but hey...every one can have their own opinions can't they.

 

now someone like Slim whats his face..who played in Muddy waters band...now theres a guitasist I would love to be able to play like

 

along with a whole lot of other blues 'stars'

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"Boring"? Oh my, you are showing how little you know about guitar and talent.

 

 

He's right though del :)

 

What that I know feck all about guitar and talent ?

 

Behave ya self Stu [-X

 

Its an opinion is all..there is no need for ppl to get there nickers in a twist cos their a fan..maybe the BIGGEST fan !!!!!..of some guitar player

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What that I know feck all about guitar and talent ?

 

Behave ya self Stu [-X

 

Its an opinion is all..there is no need for ppl to get there nickers in a twist cos their a fan..maybe the BIGGEST fan !!!!!..of some guitar player

 

 

Lol.. Can't argue with the fact That he was one of the best . I don't have much of his stuff because ,like you, its a bit repetitive I feel. Rory Gallaghers the same. An absolute God ,same stuff over and over. but give me buddy guy or hendrix any day. They're all better than us though :)

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