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I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:55 pm
by Axe
Keep in mind that I love the blues but some of the things about SRV bug the hell out of me.
Maybe it's just me but I do NOT understand why so many guitarists worship this guy with some going so far as to spend thousands of dollars on reissue guitars and toob screamers.
His tone -- That strat > TS > Fender tone makes me want to puke. It's so gross and thin.
His guitar -- those SRV and 'custom' stickers are so low rent.
His stupid hats.
His vocals.
His songs.
Again, maybe it's just me, but there didn't seem to be anything really original about him. There must be a million and one guys on this planet that could smoke him in terms of playing and songwriting.
Flame suit on.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:10 pm
by Dickarms
im in austin and hes a hero, but hes not MY hero.
i have mixed feelings:
his clothes were legit stupid.
but his tone DEFINES thick for me
his vocals are texas-and-a-half. instant roadhouse.
his half-bend business is annoying in the background if i'm doing something else, but i dig em when they are the object of my attention.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:25 pm
by Ostinato Rubato
Wat. SRV is awesome in so many ways.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:32 pm
by Walt
Y0UNGBL00D wrote:his clothes were legit stupid.
but his tone DEFINES thick for me
his vocals are texas-and-a-half. instant roadhouse.
his half-bend business is annoying in the background if i'm doing something else, but i dig em when they are the object of my attention.
This.
I'd never describe his tone as thin.
Axe: Go watch Live at the El Macambo and report back
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:35 pm
by Dickarms
also homie was fluid as a motherfucker.
his little wing is the ONLY piece of guitar virtuoso music i listen to.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:36 pm
by Ostinato Rubato
Ban Axe.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:42 pm
by Axe
Fuck all y'all.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:43 pm
by Axe
When I say thin, I mean this..
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vo23H9J8o8[/video]
it's just so....so..straty.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:51 pm
by Dickarms
if the strat wasnt straty, id be concerned
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:52 pm
by MacaroniSalad
It always seemed to me that SRV was/is huge in the US, not particularly significant to people elsewhere
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:57 pm
by Axe
Y0UNGBL00D wrote:if the strat wasnt straty, id be concerned
I know. I'm just being stupid. For the most part I just don't like strat tones.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:07 pm
by Markdude
His live extended-noodling shit was pretty awesome. Like Mike said, he's pretty much Jesus in Austin. For the most part I find him pretty boring, especially since you can walk down 6th Street any night and hear bar bands covering his shit, but his tone was awesome and he could play some mean guitar.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:08 pm
by Dickarms
i wish my fingers found their way around even his pretty standard blues scales like his did.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:30 pm
by Tortuga
Y'all are being pretty tame on Axe. I'm with Mike on this - gonna have to get a lynching party together if this heresy continues...
j/k - luv ya, dude. You're just way wrong on this one.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:45 pm
by Krunchmeister
Axe wrote:Keep in mind that I love the blues but some of the things about SRV bug the hell out of me.
Maybe it's just me but I do NOT understand why so many guitarists worship this guy with some going so far as to spend thousands of dollars on reissue guitars and toob screamers.
His tone -- That strat > TS > Fender tone makes me want to puke. It's so gross and thin.
(A matter of taste really-Strats are NOT LP's)
His guitar -- those SRV and 'custom' stickers are so low rent
.( A lot of players will do anything for attention)
His stupid hats
.(See above)
His vocals.
(Actually his vocals are his most original side)
His songs.
(Its the blues not Mozart)
Again, maybe it's just me, but there didn't seem to be anything really original about him. There must be a million and one guys on this planet that could smoke him in terms of playing and songwriting.
(Well he had chops BUT most of it was stolen stuff-sadly he could never live up to his hype)
Flame suit on.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:06 pm
by Axe
GRIMESPACE wrote:Y'all are being pretty tame on Axe. I'm with Mike on this - gonna have to get a lynching party together if this heresy continues...
j/k - luv ya, dude. You're just way wrong on this one.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:16 pm
by ShaneV
Never been a fan, and I cannot stand his tone.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:41 pm
by Orbis_Ignis
Love SRV. Love his tone love his playing. The reason you can find a ton of guys that play like him is because of him. No one did it like him before him. He brought the blues back from death. Many guitar gods hold him in very high regard.
I mean there are tons of people that could play circles around Hendrix but no one did it like him.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:03 pm
by Ostinato Rubato
Ban ShaneV
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:40 pm
by madrigal77
I'm with Axe. I can't stand everything about him.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:22 am
by Telephant
If you think SRV tone is thin I don't know what to say. Its the thickest Strat tone there is.
That said you're not the first person I have met who doesn't like SRV, nor will you be the last.
Edited for tone (pun intended
)
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:48 am
by ovid9
I respect him, but I don't really dig most guitar virtuosos of any style. I can't say I've really listened to enough of his music to form any opinion outside of he was a pretty killer player and that its just not my style to listen to for more than a song or something.
Live would be different, but obviously that's not gonna happen now.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:59 am
by Sizzler
This thread makes me feel bad in my soul area.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 10:37 am
by Markdude
Yeah I really don't understand the 'thin tone' comment. It's cool if you don't dig it, but thin it is certainly not.
It's about the thickest Strat tone in the world.
Re: I do not get SRV -- at all
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 10:38 am
by TurboPablo
Thread full of fail.