Yeah Niki, I was never a overly huge SRV fan either. It's a shame; he started to get more interesting after he cleaned up. He had a handful of riffs that he used constantly. I'm a bigger fan of his brother. An old Blues guy told me if you play with enough authority, people will listen and think you're great. It's all an illusion. He made sense to me.

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I'm not a fan but my comment was harsh. Plenty of people like him, I just don't get it. All I hear is a mid scooped thin sound. Exactly the same reason I can't get into Mayer.

That said I like what he did with Bowie.
Like most guitarists, I think he just needed a bit of editing.

As for Malmsteen. I just don't get that at all. No melody to a song??? It could have only come about in the 80's.

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Although you and diverge on our opinions here, I can understand your dislike of his music; being a blues player/fan, SRV was a blessing and a curse. He brought blues out of a slump that had started in the early 70's, but too many people imitated him both before and after his death. I love his music, but all the Vaughan-abees need to stop the copying and show us "second gear..."
There's also some blues players who I just don't get into at all. They bore me or they annoy me with the unimaginative lyrics and uninspired music.


There are several technically spectacular guitarists that I just can't get into, and all of them play monstrous shredding solos that really seem to have no purpose...and o don't care if they're inspired by or able to play these classical pieces in a rock/metal/meh context, it is still boring and it still sucks.

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This segues into why I don't like Shred nor Jazz. Granted, those who are really into it come up with some mighty interesting technical stuff but aesthetically, it is not pleasing to my ear and it all sounds pretty much the same. Taking it a step further, this is also why I never was a big SRV fan. He played in watered down cliches of Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter.

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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You dig?

Horrible horrible horrible. yeuch.

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You're quite welcome.

Such situations are born out of elitism among many so-called, "Musicians". From my point of view, it starts when one aspires to attend some snobby music college or the like or even just to hob-nob in certain circles who have a superiority complex. Automatically, said candidate would have to disown his or herself from any form of music which appeals to the masses, replacing it with all sorts of 'high brow' stuff with an understanding that if said person doesn't think this way, (s)he is perpetually nothing but a musical 'zero'. Me? I've been classically trained, been playing close to 50 years and my musical world is essentially rooted in late '60s/early 70s British Blues Rock. I make no apologies as this is what I'm into and I don't give a rat's $@! how any other musician or musical community perceives me. I don't even call myself a, "Musician", per se. Rather, I just call myself, a "Guitar Player". Or to put it another way, I enjoy playing the guitar and the limited stuff I prefer at that, having taken myself out of any competition which obliges me to be a phoney. So, in my book, you are not only normal but well adjusted and right and proper in your feelings. Lastly, it should be noted that intrinsically, feelings are non-judgemental.

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You dig?

"Anybody else care enough about him these days to comment?"

negatory, but, thanks for asking.

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