Members bbl Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 I'm in my 30's and just listened to SRV for the first time.Wha?!?!(laughing WITH you, right?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachoff Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Can you give me an example of him being a good guitarist? "Good" is a relative term. Can we provide a clip of him using jazz structures and other {censored} the schooled guys do that a lot of you consider necessary to be a "good" player? Probably not. Can we provide eleventy billion clips of him making interesting music and/or rocking his ass off? Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Westsailor Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 This thread is reminding me of the (in my mind) famous quote from Ad Rock about Soul Asylum, "they are the epitome of why white people suck."So you're saying white people should not play the blues? That's pretty racist and you should ban yourself.j/k Seriously it does seem there is a lot of reading comprehension problems in this thread.Me? I see it as more a 'Elvis is King! No! the Beatles Rule!" kinda ummm.., discussion (?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachoff Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Can you give me an example of him being a good guitarist? Here's a fun one though.. [YOUTUBE]46UVzDhZ2yI[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Westsailor Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 I'm in my 30's and just listened to SRV for the first time. Don't feel bad... That's better than being in your 30's when he 1st hit the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbl Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Can you give me an example of him being a good guitarist? No. Just many examples of him being better than "horrible." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wades_keys Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Johnson and Vaughn both have too-clean, thin, trebly tone. Just don't dig it. Eric Johson has thin, trebly tone?BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA :lol:Credibility fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wades_keys Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 One absurd statement follows another. (the story of this thread, really) Jack White IS a horrible guitarist.He makes some okay music in spite of that fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachoff Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Eric Johson has thin, trebly tone? BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA :lol: Credibility fail. Rolling off the tone and adding fuzz does not give you fat tone, it gives you warm tone. Look at the video I posted. Arguably his most popular song. All of the clean tone is trebly and thin. The disto is roll of the tone and add fuzz theory to getting fat tone and it doesn't work. Slash has fat tone, Angus has fat tone, hell Johnny Ramone has fat tone. EJ doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wades_keys Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Rolling off the tone and adding fuzz does not give you fat tone, it gives you warm tone. Look at the video I posted. Arguably his most popular song. All of the clean tone is trebly and thin. The disto is roll of the tone and add fuzz theory to getting fat tone and it doesn't work. Slash has fat tone, Angus has fat tone, hell Johnny Ramone has fat tone. EJ doesn't. I see what you're saying - sort of. EJ has several tones that he uses regularly, so you probably need to specifiy which one you're talking about. But - Angus has fat tone? C'mon man....His tone is pretty generic: just plug a gibson into a plexi marshall. Same with Ramone, Rudy Schenker and Joan Jett. Nothing "fat" about it: it's more midrange bite than anything. You want fat tone? Leslie West, or Eric Clapton in Creem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachoff Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 I see what you're saying - sort of. EJ has several tones that he uses regularly, so you probably need to specifiy which one you're talking about. But - Angus has fat tone? C'mon man....His tone is pretty generic: just plug a gibson into a plexi marshall. Same with Ramone, Rudy Schenker and Joan Jett. Nothing "fat" about it: it's more midrange bite than anything. You want fat tone? Leslie West, or Eric Clapton in Creem. The tone I'm talking about is the dirty tone in the video I posted earlier in the thread. Yeah, Angus' tone is pretty generic, but the Gibson to Marshall tone is what I think of when I think "fat". Totally agreed on West & Cream era Clapton. Mountain is a great example of fat tone and I think he plays a Les Paul into a Marshall. Agreed for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted March 12, 2010 Moderators Share Posted March 12, 2010 Wha?!?! (laughing WITH you, right?) The dudeocity factor for this music is high and my dudeness quotient tends to be pretty low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thrustin Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 When I think "fat" tone, I think of a Fender guitar (neck pickup) into bassman/twin/showman turned up to around 7. That'll get it done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted March 12, 2010 Moderators Share Posted March 12, 2010 When I think "fat" tone, I think of a Fender guitar (neck pickup) into bassman/twin/showman turned up to around 7. That'll get it done. Yes. Fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ender_rpm Posted March 12, 2010 Members Share Posted March 12, 2010 Knopfler= Strat tone. SRV had some nice tones, but the legion of imitators has spoiled it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JeffBass Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Hendrix.Robin Trower too, although he didn't sing. SRV though was the most like Hendrix in the way he blended guitar rhythm, lead vocals, and guitar lead so effortfortlessly and powerfully. There was no thought or hesitation, it was like they were just taken over by the spirit of the music. It so sad because SRV was just reaching his prime when he jumped in the wrong helicopter. I was invited to that show (by a lady friend of mine) but it was on a Sunday night and I had to be downtown for a meeting by 8:30 on Monday morning, so I said "next time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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