So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

The Dutchman says it's not about scales!
Now that's a good one!



Ok, granted, Stevie could transport emotion. So can others.

[Alanko]

Stevie's playing seems a bit too coke-blitzed to really move me. That brash Strat tone coupled with a backing band so gated, compressed and limited that they sound like a midi backing track. Probably very thrilling to witness in a sweaty club in 1983 at high volume.

If SRV existed in a vacuum then I might look more favourably on his work, but the incessant army of whiteboy gurning-faced faux emotional Texas Blooz copyists ruin it for me.

SRV for me is a bit like the Amy Winehouse of guitar. As a Caucasian artist you can only begin to approach a degree of (heavily moderated) "authenticity" by living a recklessly self destructive lifestyle. There are other ways, people!

I reckon the old guys like Les Paul or Chet Atkins are the best guitarists. They learned the guitar fretboard like a keyboard, understanding where every note was and where every interval fell. Guitarists became more reliant on route-maps through the frets over time. I doubt SRV could hang with a jazz orchestra without reverting to blues licks.

[uwe]

Netherlands vs Scotland !!!



Germany stays neutral for once. But if I'm honest, SRV's work with David Bowie is THE MOST INTERESTING to me - I liked the contrast he brought to the proceedings and his guitar playing really shone. Playing with his own blues trio was too much comfort zone for me at times.

[Basvarken]

He got clean in 1986 and recorded a Grammy Award winning album. (and another with his brother Jimmy)

Nothing coke fueled about this 1989 performance




And he wasn't unfamiliar with Jazz by the way

[westen44]

I never quite understood why I could never get into his music.  He was really good and I like that genre.  But for some undetermined reason something didn't click for me.  I could see people enthusiastic about his music, but that just didn't register with me.  Trying to listen to the music more didn't help any. 

[Alanko]

Netherlands vs Scotland !!!

Aren't you glad this isn't a cookery forum?

[uwe]

WE HAVE TO ASK AN EXPERT !!!

What is Ritchie Blackmore's opinion on Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan:

"I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude – he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. His guitar playing, though, was always a little bit weird. Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums."

Blackmore doesn't hide that he "stole" many guitar riffs from songs that he used to listen. The musician recalled in an old TV interview posted by Ritchie Blackmore Youtube Channel that the ideia for "'Speed King' was based on 'Stone Free' by Jimi Hendrix. "I really liked his stuff at the time. And there is a little bit of 'Fire', do you remember 'Fire' by Jimi Hendrix?" Blackmore said.

What did you think of Stevie Ray Vaughan?

"I knew that question was coming. His death was very tragic, but I'm surprised that everybody thinks he was such a brilliant player when there are people like Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Peter Green and Mick Taylor; Johnny Winter, who is one of the best blues players in the world, is also very underrated. His vibrato is incredible. Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."

[uwe]

Aren't you glad this isn't a cookery forum?

[Basvarken]

Yeah, let's ask Gandalf!




Who cares what that buffoon minstrel thinks?

[Alanko]

What bread should I use to make the ultimate uitsmijter?

[Basvarken]

What bread should I use to make the ultimate uitsmijter?

two slices of white bread

[Alanko]

I'm in Amsterdam for a few days next month. I'm going to demolish one of those badboys.

[Basvarken]

Or the other "culinairy specialty" of Amsterdam

Brood met Kroketten (preferably Kwekkeboom or Van Dobben)

[lowend1]

two slices of white bread

So, sorta like a Taylor Ham, Egg & Cheese, but from The Netherlands...

[uwe]

Yeah, let's ask Gandalf!

But I'm happy that you two are now exchanging recipes. Very wholesome.