Members electrow Posted July 30, 2017 Members Share Posted July 30, 2017 A lots you guys may all ready know him. I was knocked out by this performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted July 30, 2017 Members Share Posted July 30, 2017 Well...he does what he does really well. Then again, so did the people before him who did the same kind of thing really well , but this guy is one of the very few doing it today. I like that he adds a few (too few, but...) twists to the guitar playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted July 30, 2017 Members Share Posted July 30, 2017 I don't really feel Stevie in his playing. I mean he's playing bluesy rock on a worn old Strat but his tone is his own really, not Stevie's. I like that he uses his Wah as more a method of tone control than an effect per say. Zappa did that too. I don't see this guy taking anybody's place in the pantheon of guitar players, but I bet he has a loyal following. He seems to leave it all out there like Stevie did. There's that if nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 He's a very good player, but I'm not really hearing SRV either, outside of the obvious flashy blues guitarist connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted August 2, 2017 Members Share Posted August 2, 2017 Well...he does what he does really well. Then again, so did the people before him who did the same kind of thing really well , but this guy is one of the very few doing it today. I like that he adds a few (too few, but...) twists to the guitar playing. Very few? Very few blues players get much attention, yes, but there is still quite a sizable community of blues lovers and players out there. Here in Austin I can think of four clubs devoted to the blues off the top of my head - Antone's being the premier "Home of the Blues" since '75 and still going.... I hear tell that Memphis, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, L.A., all have strong blues scenes - but I don't know from personal experience. How can the blues ever really die, anyway? It's got a perennial appeal that will always find fervent aficianados, and an occasional big public name. Interesting that the Stone's latest is a full-on return to their blues roots.... You can't have a great artform, great artists, without an accompanying horde of middling-to-awful practitioners of the form. Sure there is a seemingly endless supply of boring blues players, and the white middle-class blues wannabe is a standing target for ridicule all day every day - but they help keep the candle in the window for the rare genius to drift towards... nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted August 2, 2017 Moderators Share Posted August 2, 2017 LA does not have a strong blues scene anymore. I was in St. Louis last year, and what I saw of the blues scene there was alive but disappointing. Poppa Chubby is nothing like SRV, but in the sense that he is trying to make the blues interesting, he may be considered one of several trying to keep it alive. Personally, I like Walter Trout &Coco Montoya as well for their efforts to keep the blues viable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Warlag Posted August 5, 2017 Members Share Posted August 5, 2017 I heard of this guy but never took the time to check him out... I think its time that I do give him a listening to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hush Posted August 5, 2017 Members Share Posted August 5, 2017 If I had to pick a successor to SRV it would be this guy. There's something special going on when he plays [video=youtube;g-0UrhFAMb4] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philboking Posted August 6, 2017 Members Share Posted August 6, 2017 I'd say he is today's Papa Chubby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.