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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:00 pm
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Yep....the new highways sound cool. Large frets and barbwire like SRV's would do the trick. You would need a new tube amp....SRV would literally "KILL" tubes with that 58' gauge bass string. Some of these new amps can throw down some killer overdrive.


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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:04 pm
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just watched the video ndngary had a link to,
it sure seemed Stevie had a really high action on
that V.



I was told by a really good luthier once,long ago,that when you put 12's on any guitar there is a "optical illusion " involved that "makes" the strings look higher when in actuality they're not.


i tested that theory many a time....they sure as hell don't "feel" higher....could be because they're bigger ???


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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:49 am
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What made SRV so great was his originality.
He could sound like Hendrix or Albert King or Freddie King or Hubert Sumlin or Buddy Guy or Lonnie Mack or Kenny Burrell or any number of other artists that came before him...but he instead combined all of those influences and came up with something new. He also used equipment (from axes to amps) that most of those guys wouldn't have touched, much less used (only two of the guys I mentioned were Strat players).

Let SRV rest in peace. There are too many people copying (and downright ripping off) the late Mr. Vaughan...and everyone else, too.

Very few people are going out and experimenting with axes or amps or stompboxes or tweaking tones or putting something unexpected into the mix anymore. Instead, they just go out and get a guitar similar to what their hero used, an all-in-one pedal (Digitech, anyone?) that samples or models their hero's sound and an amp (usually a digital modeling one, or occasionally a good tube rig) similar to their hero. Then they wonder why they don't sound like their hero...instead they just have a generic, processed tone.

Who will be the next Hendrix or Billy Gibbons or SRV or Jimmie Vaughan or Peter Green or Clapton or Bugs Henderson or David Grissom or Buddy Guy? It will be the guy that says, "screw the trends and let me build off of what has already been done...and do it my way."

Be honest--who's the last musician (and not just guitarist) who turned you on with something new? They might have been influenced by someone before them, but they actually sounded like themself?

It's been a while for me, too...

Good Vibes To Y'all... 8)


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What made SRV so great was his originality.
He could sound like Hendrix or Albert King or Freddie King or Hubert Sumlin or Buddy Guy or Lonnie Mack or Kenny Burrell or any number of other artists that came before him...but he instead combined all of those influences and came up with something new. He also used equipment (from axes to amps) that most of those guys wouldn't have touched, much less used (only two of the guys I mentioned were Strat players).

Let SRV rest in peace. There are too many people copying (and downright ripping off) the late Mr. Vaughan...and everyone else, too.

Very few people are going out and experimenting with axes or amps or stompboxes or tweaking tones or putting something unexpected into the mix anymore. Instead, they just go out and get a guitar similar to what their hero used, an all-in-one pedal (Digitech, anyone?) that samples or models their hero's sound and an amp (usually a digital modeling one, or occasionally a good tube rig) similar to their hero. Then they wonder why they don't sound like their hero...instead they just have a generic, processed tone.

Who will be the next Hendrix or Billy Gibbons or SRV or Jimmie Vaughan or Peter Green or Clapton or Bugs Henderson or David Grissom or Buddy Guy? It will be the guy that says, "screw the trends and let me build off of what has already been done...and do it my way."

Be honest--who's the last musician (and not just guitarist) who turned you on with something new? They might have been influenced by someone before them, but they actually sounded like themself?

It's been a while for me, too...

Good Vibes To Y'all... 8)


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Having met Stevie Ray & hung with him here in Mempho (I wish I still had the photo of him holding my 1966 Jaguar) while he recorded his IN STEP cd, I said the STUPIDEST thing I could have said upon meeting him. "I think you're one of the greatest, most talented guitarist I ever saw." I realized how stupid that sounded coming from a 30 year. He played it off very meekly "Yea god gave me a little talent, & no matter how hard I tried I couldn't drink or drug it away." He really gave being humble a new meaning. When he went down in the copter crash, a customer I was playing in a band with came in & told me. I excused myself, went to the bathroom, hit the floor, cried my eyes out, & thanked god I got to met & know him. That's why I hotrodded an 80's Aztec gold Strat (it had belonged to the guitarist for the band Rolls Royce) & was butchered beyond measure. Put in a Allan Holdsworth/Fender humbucker in the bridge & split/phased with a dpdt switch, a Seymour Duncan Lil 59 (or was it a JB Jr?) in the middle & spilt/phased with another dpdt switch, & a Fender Lace in the neck position. It's the guitar I named Stevie Ray.
I miss you Stevie, I really do.

"Thenk ya, thenk fery mush."
EP 1977


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