Guitar Jam

[mikesr1963]

He went from the guitar player in the Fabulous Thunderbirds jamming like this:

To this guy who plucks weirdly:

I love the blues, but this is dam hard to listen to. 

[Jimmy James]

You can always tell the helmet wearers who can't tell the difference between blues-rock and blues.  

[joshmac]

I agree, I love his T-Birds stuff but his playing now seems too choppy for me, if you get what im saying. 

[harold heckuba]

I havent liked his playing for years.

[Jimmy James]

Maturity takes it's own time.

[Virgman]

His Thunderbird days are ages ago. 

What happened to Jimmy Vaughan is his brother Stevie died in 1990 and he became an instant multi-millionaire. This coincides with the end of his days with the Thunderbirds.

As a result Jimmy did not have to grind out all those gigs playing music he didn't like anymore.

I personally really like his solo stuff but it is never going to be commercially popular.  He is now rich and doesn't have to worry about it.

[rishabhsachan]

i lyk the music a lot

[frunobulax]

i really enjoy what Jimmy Vaughan does now.

[Yer Blues]

Sounds good to me.  From the way you were talking I thought it was going to be horrible or something. 

[GomezAddams1]

I know Vaughan doesn't get a lot of love around here, but I quite enjoy his music - all phases of it. I loved the old Thunderbird stuff, and I love his solo stuff.

I'm not so sure it was SRV's death that lead to Jimmie leaving the Thunderbirds. I think it was more of a clash of the huge personalities between him and Kim Wilson. I've heard Wilson state flat out that he'd never perform with Vaughan again.

[micwalt]

I never cared for his playing.

[Flogger59]

 I've read interviews where people say that in the early and mid 70's Jimmy was "the meanest guitar player you ever saw with a Les Paul and a shag haircut". I have seen or heard no evidence to support this claim to date, but the difference between today and the FTB stuff would seem a logical conclusion to his progression.

[mikesr1963]

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Jimmy James wrote:

You can always tell the helmet wearers who can't tell the difference between blues-rock and blues.  

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You're so fake and such an ass kisser.  Then again, you're in that business. 

[mikesr1963]

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joshmac wrote:

I agree, I love his T-Birds stuff but his playing now seems too choppy for me, if you get what im saying. 

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Exactly, he's consistently muting notes and doing this floppy finger crap like he's being showy instead of really laying something down.  

[mikesr1963]

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Jimmy James wrote:

Maturity takes it's own time.

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Ok, you need to lay down the pipe and get some help.  

[mikesr1963]

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Virgman wrote:

His Thunderbird days are ages ago. 

What happened to Jimmy Vaughan is his brother Stevie died in 1990 and he became an instant multi-millionaire. This coincides with the end of his days with the Thunderbirds.

As a result Jimmy did not have to grind out all those gigs playing music he didn't like anymore.

I personally really like his solo stuff but it is never going to be commercially popular.  He is now rich and doesn't have to worry about it.

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You really like it?  Ok, how many of his new cds do you own?  I enjoy many artists that are not comercially popular and many that are millionaires.  Neither went from being  a fluid guitar player to a plucker like this.  

[mikesr1963]

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Yer Blues wrote:

Sounds good to me.  From the way you were talking I thought it was going to be horrible or something. 

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You didn't actually watch the videos did you?  No way that second video is good, it's sad. 

[mikesr1963]

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Flogger59 wrote:

 I've read interviews where people say that in the early and mid 70's Jimmy was "the meanest guitar player you ever saw with a Les Paul and a shag haircut". I have seen or heard no evidence to support this claim to date, but the difference between today and the FTB stuff would seem a logical conclusion to his progression.

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I agree, and his biggest supporter was Stevie.  

[Jimmy James]

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mikesr1963 wrote:

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Jimmy James wrote:

Maturity takes it's own time.

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Ok, you need to lay down the pipe and get some help.  

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He's made an artistic choice based on what he likes in blues players from a few generations earlier, but you assume he sucks.  Your ignorance and the ignorance of a few other people in this thread of blues styles, is on full display here.  

I'm sure he could find a guitar pick somewhere and sound like every other blues hack if he wanted to, like when he was in the T-Birds.  It wouldn't be that hard.  It's an artistic choice that you don't agree with.  Deal with it.  Beer commerical blues is not real blues.

[frunobulax]

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Jimmy James wrote:

He's made an artistic choice based on what he likes in blues players from a few generations earlier,...

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this.  and it's damn hard to do.  the guitarist in my last band played in that 50s style and it was just so cool.  always tasteful, and NO-ONE else in town plays like that. because they can't.