This version of pipeline rocks Dick Dale and Stevie Ray

[ElTwang]

Thanks for posting....I've NEVER understood the SRV fascination. I've always disliked his tone and that whole 80's blues tone/sound. So in this video I'm glad DD keeps SRV from tearing the classic apart .

[JimPage]

ETwang wrote:
>>I've NEVER understood the SRV fascination . . .

Thank you! I'm with you on that one.

--Jim

[dubtrub]

Thanks for posting....I've NEVER understood the SRV fascination. I've always disliked his tone and that whole 80's blues tone/sound. So in this video I'm glad DD keeps SRV from tearing the classic apart .

Easy now guy's, you're treading on thin ice. Don't be bad talking my idol or my favorite music. I have virtually all his CD's and music video's.

Dubtrub. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.

[brutus]

I can deal with the SRV tone..but Robert Cray's 80's tone...boring.....don't get me started on Slash..sterile cold non-expressive.
Now Keef's tone on "2000 Light Years From Home" and Jimi at the Forum 1969, "The Iron Butterfly Theme" and everything on Super Psychedelics... now those are some tones

[ElTwang]

Yes Sir, Danny. Fair enough. Although I do know how to swim . And don't worry. I'm probably the idiot here not getting it.

Thanks for posting....I've NEVER understood the SRV fascination. I've always disliked his tone and that whole 80's blues tone/sound. So in this video I'm glad DD keeps SRV from tearing the classic apart .

Easy now guy's, you're treading on thin ice. Don't be bad talking my idol or my favorite music. I have virtually all his CD's and music video's.

Dubtrub. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.

[MWaldorf]

Well, I'll take a step out on the ice (I did live in Canada for three years after all) I think that Stevie Ray Vaughan gets a bum rap because of hyperbole in marketing and certain types of fans, which I call fans of "da blooz" and not "the blues". It's not SRV's fault, after all, most of this nonsense got out of hand after he died. I remember seeing the headline in the paper breaking the story of this death and thinking, "I've never heard of this guy, but I bet he'll be lionized now" Gee whiz, here was a story that's half Jimi Hendrix and half Buddy Holly. Haul his image up on a pedestal, sell SRV Strats, DVDs and Dias modded Vibroverbs! Unfortunately, a lot of the crap that followed in his foot steps makes his original work seem trite and overdone.

If you take all the ballyhoo away, you've got a guy who was a very talented guitar player, whether you like his style or not.

[dubtrub]

I'm only kidding you guy's. I'm old enough to realize that were all on a different sheet of music. There's is plenty of stuff out there that I totally despise, much of it has been discussed on this forum. However I try to refrain from letting my true feelings surface about someone else's genre. It's all about music and what makes one happy. Da Blooz makes me happy. Blues is my favorite genre unfortunately my style sounds like crap to me. Both old and new country, rockabilly and rock comes natural to me but I can't seem to express my feelings through my fingers when playing da blooz, yet I've been told otherwise. To me I'm just playing the notes. Probably because I don't have the constipated facial expressions when I play blues.

[thunderhead]

I'll "wade in" on this one, I may be the only one on this forum that has actually played with Double Trouble. I played on the Pro International Blues Circuit for 20 years, with Deborah Coleman, Long John Hunter, EG Kight, Janiva Magness and many others. I had the pleasure of standing along side Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton in 1998 and 1999 at a couple of high profile festivals. SRV was the Clapton of my Generation, in a decade that brought us Culture Club and Flock of Seagulls Stevie brought the Guitar back front and center. Clapton said he had to pull the car over the first time he heard SRV on the radio in '83 and Dickie Betts said he was so thankful SRV "got through" in a lame commercial music decade. At a time when Dick Dale had become irrelevant{pre-Pulp Fiction} SRV gave him new life, for a short time. He and Jimmie Vaughn was influenced by Dale and the Ventures and just like his Blues Idols SRV was willing to acknowledge his debt to them. JMO

[Sarah93003]

That was really cool!!

[dubtrub]

Hey Billy,

Thanks for covering my back on this subject.

BTW, do you have any CDs or mp3's of your blues playing?