Whos better on a Strat:CLAPTON, HENDRIX,or STEVIE RAY VAUGHN

yontzc · **Joined:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:02 am **Posts:** 1

While I can't give you arguments as to why, having listened to allof them over the years, I cast my vote for Clapton. It's just my gut feeling.

juanozzy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:27 pm

well it´s impossible to say something. it´s like say what color do you like for a strat?...everybody got his own word. For me, well i´m huge fan of SRV. He plays better each day when i hear a song. Riviera Paradise is an example of how deep his roots of musician come alive. He was not only a Blues/Rock or Jazz player. He was -sorry...IS- Music.
Eric is amazing too!..."Tears in heaven", "layla", any song you can hear or dream he comes true with his fingers. but nothing of this may come true if we don´t have Hendrix.
Hendrix create a new world of music when he plays the guitar for the first time. His style, tricks, pedals, amps, even his own cloth was an inspiration for the upcomings generations. How big was his influence in artist like Eric, that he change his guitar (remember eric "cream" years use a SG). Hendrix left amazing songs like voodoo chile, little wing, red house, purple haze, hey joe, etc...songs that are the point of how to play the guitar. (Anyone who is trying to play "voodoo chile" understand...). Hendrix was a teacher of create songs and melodies more than solos of guitar noises. SRV is the only person that i know of playing a song better than hendrix (again...Voodoo Chile). So for me Hendrix is the number one, but very near to him is SRV.

63supro · **Joined:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:19 pm **Posts:** 8827

FirstMeasure wrote:

63supro wrote:

cenap12 wrote:

I am going to go with stevie on this one.yes I know that he played some of hendrix's stuff but stevie I think perfected it because Hendrix mostly made a ton of useless racket that had no real purpose of being played but still they are both blues gods and will never be forgotton!!!!

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Huh????????? Respectfully, I guess you don't understand Hendrix. His "useless racket" was controlled and part of his music. Listen to his version of "The Star Spangled Banner" and you'll hear dive bombing planes, bombs, peoples screams ect. Machine Gun and the list goes on and on. SRV's playing was a lot like Albert King. He had a handful of signature licks that he used. That's why you know it's Stevie. mihaiad said it all, "all of them are perfect guitarists" sort of anyway.
As much of a SRV fan as I am, he was just beginning to come into his own after he cleaned up. It's a shame. Clapton has evolved over and over.

Handful? When it comes down to Bags Of Tricks Stevie's was much bigger. Hendrix may have had a more in-your-face experimental aproach, but you certainly don't hear a lot of Different Styles coming from his works.

Stevies Experimentation was much more subtle, manifesting itself in his arranging and Songwriting. Take a listen to Dirty Pool, Couldn't Stand The Weather, or Change It. Very well written stuff that fits as easily into Rock as it does Blues.

The stuff Hendrix Wrote was centered around expanding the sonic pallet of the Electric Guitar and making music that didn't fit into any existing Genre. The Stuff Stevie Ray wrote was about making music that didn't fit into any existing Genre and expanded the Sonic Pallet of the Electric Guitar.

Hendrix was all Blues and Acid Rock. SRV was Blues, Acid Rock, Surf, Jazz, Pop, Boogie, RnB, and Country.

Like I said, I'm a huge SRV fan, but he was a typical Texas Blues guitarist. Stevie delved into different genres, but Hendrix invented them, why do you think Stevie idolized him so much. I'm not disrespecting SRV, his style and tone is what makes him recognizable. I never heard anything he played and said"Wow, I didn't know that was SRV" Hendrix was the same way. He was also a bit deeper than blues and acid rock. I just think SRV was just hitting his stride as was Hendrix before their untimely deaths.

bobashaw · **Joined:** Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:17 am **Posts:** 1

How about adding Mark Knopfler to the mix? I've been thumpin' bass full time/part time for longer than I can remember. Truth is, I'd like to have played with any of these guys!

marcwade · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:25 pm **Posts:** 3

Three guitar geniuses, each spectacular in his own way.

Hendrix was a visionary, inventing things no one had ever heard before.

But I just listened to SRV's version of "Little Wing" and he took Jimi's tune to a whole new level. That's got to be the definitive version.

I've seen Clapton in concert maybe a dozen times, and each time have been blown away by his artistry and technique.

Clapton is God.

Eddie The Goose · **Joined:** Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:40 am **Posts:** 51

alwaysstrat wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

I voted Jimi Hendrix then after after him i would say Eric. I did like SRV but I cant say that I think he is one of the greatest because there are just to many I think were and are better. Just cant jump in on the SRV lovefest even though many think he was the best not me . :oops:

in reality hendrix is not as good as SRV jimi was about sound
more than his playing ability. he was a blues player who incorporated
heavy distortion/feed back into that style of playing. his leads were not
that hard to play for the simple fact 95% of his leads were nothing more
than single note blues runs. with heavy distotion/feed back/uni vibe added to that style of playing. most of his sounds were made possible by eddie kramer. his reverse guitar playing and other effects were created in the studio by mr. kramer. jimi was a great blues player end of story. SRV played a little bit of everything.

I was going to say can we move on from this frankly silly debate, but I noticed this.
Just watch Hendrix at Woodstock, particularly the solo section where he goes through several rhythmic styles effortlessly using a relatively clean sound. Jimi was a great blues player, but he was so much more and its a shame we never got to see what where he would take the music next.

SRV is also a great blues player, but I certainly wouldn't say he was anything else. His version of Little Wing is fab but it is far more bluesy than Jimi's. He had a fixation on Jimi, which I believe was an occasional source of embarrassment for Double Trouble, but I think he would want to be remembered as a blues guitar player. Nothing wrong with that and I love them equally.

Clapton is the great survivor. Perhaps overrated early on and then underrated later, his touch and feel are what make him great. He is the quintessential British Blues guitarist who helped drive the re-emergence of the blues worldwide.

Like I say, silly question - just be grateful they have all existed!

Peace!

FirstMeasure · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:07 pm

63supro wrote:

FirstMeasure wrote:

63supro wrote:

cenap12 wrote:

I am going to go with stevie on this one.yes I know that he played some of hendrix's stuff but stevie I think perfected it because Hendrix mostly made a ton of useless racket that had no real purpose of being played but still they are both blues gods and will never be forgotton!!!!

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Huh????????? Respectfully, I guess you don't understand Hendrix. His "useless racket" was controlled and part of his music. Listen to his version of "The Star Spangled Banner" and you'll hear dive bombing planes, bombs, peoples screams ect. Machine Gun and the list goes on and on. SRV's playing was a lot like Albert King. He had a handful of signature licks that he used. That's why you know it's Stevie. mihaiad said it all, "all of them are perfect guitarists" sort of anyway.
As much of a SRV fan as I am, he was just beginning to come into his own after he cleaned up. It's a shame. Clapton has evolved over and over.

Handful? When it comes down to Bags Of Tricks Stevie's was much bigger. Hendrix may have had a more in-your-face experimental aproach, but you certainly don't hear a lot of Different Styles coming from his works.

Stevies Experimentation was much more subtle, manifesting itself in his arranging and Songwriting. Take a listen to Dirty Pool, Couldn't Stand The Weather, or Change It. Very well written stuff that fits as easily into Rock as it does Blues.

The stuff Hendrix Wrote was centered around expanding the sonic pallet of the Electric Guitar and making music that didn't fit into any existing Genre. The Stuff Stevie Ray wrote was about making music that didn't fit into any existing Genre and expanded the Sonic Pallet of the Electric Guitar.

Hendrix was all Blues and Acid Rock. SRV was Blues, Acid Rock, Surf, Jazz, Pop, Boogie, RnB, and Country.

Like I said, I'm a huge SRV fan, but he was a typical Texas Blues guitarist. Stevie delved into different genres, but Hendrix invented them, why do you think Stevie idolized him so much. I'm not disrespecting SRV, his style and tone is what makes him recognizable. I never heard anything he played and said"Wow, I didn't know that was SRV" Hendrix was the same way. He was also a bit deeper than blues and acid rock. I just think SRV was just hitting his stride as was Hendrix before their untimely deaths.

Jimmy Vaughan was a Typical Texas Blues Guitarist. SRV was anything but typical. And I'm not trying to put down Hendrix either, he was inventive and he played a Major Roll in defining the Acid Rock Genre, But he openly disliked Surf music and wasn't very open to Jamming with others. Also, in two seperate interviews, I heard Clapton say he saw Hendrix and he wanted to do that kind of thing, then I heard Hendrix say he saw Cream and he wanted to do that sort of thing, sounds like they were in a creative "Perfect Storm". But outside of Acid Rock, what else did Hendrix "Invent"?

Hendrix experimented with Fuzz, Distortion, Echo, and Sustain at a time when those effects were just fledgling. SRV was experimenting with different Amps together, some set clean, some overdriven, one with lotsa Reverb, maybe a Wah on Half of them, and maybe a Chorus into a Leslie or two Wahs taped together, at a time when Synths and Keys were in and Blues Guitar was Not Cool.

On a much more personal level, I think Hendrix falls short of Clapton and SRV because he doesn't Boogie.

lostindesert · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:39 pm

Jimi jammed all over the place with other musicians, wanted to play jazz
and learn to read and write music. He DID like surf music although in
''Third stone from the sun'' he said ''we'll never here surf music again'',
what was erased was his comment,'' sounds like a lie to me''.
Jimi was ALL kinds of music and not only ''acid rock''.
SRV is high octane blues to me and as much a Stratocaster master as
Jimi and Eric Clapton.

Peter

southernguitarist · **Joined:** Sat May 31, 2008 4:23 pm **Posts:** 29

Different styles all together, could never choose between the three. Jimi and SRV are very much missed, Clapton has returned again to his blues roots and what he does best. Thanks Eric....

Bijan the Awesomness · **Joined:** Wed May 12, 2010 1:43 pm **Posts:** 9

definitely jimi hendrix, but mostly it depends on how your looking at it or what style of music you like best.

OssyVezzy · **Joined:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:29 pm **Posts:** 28

I voted for all of them, because all of them are great in they're own way ... None of them are better than the other

You know, the cool thing about guitar and music is that you can make it completely your own thing :wink:

Miami Mike · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 2:41 pm

Jimi Ray Clapton, of course!

jackdragbean · **Joined:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:15 am **Posts:** 405

Well, when Jimi was asked how it felt to be the greatest guitar player in the world. He commented "I don't know, you'll have to ask Rory Gallagher." (and yes, I think Rory was a badass)

There isn't just one great. They're all masters and they aren't the only ones.

texasguitarslinger · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 11:57 pm

We have 10 pages of this? :shock:

It's kind of a moot question anyway. SRV was best at being SRV, Hendrix best at being Hendrix, Clapton best at being Clapton. Who's better is a matter of personal opinion.

sonicsamurai · **Joined:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:07 am **Posts:** 126

I think:

Clapton - good pop/blues guitarist

SRV - very good blues guitarist

Hendrix - very good rock AND blues artist

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