Re: Where's the soul?!?

"Tone" <a.kolarik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Wynton Marsalis,
>> Roy Hargrove,
>> Terrence Blanchard,
>> Stevie Ray Vaughan,
>> Doug Wamble,
>> John Coltrane,
>> Nikka Costa,
>> Wes Montgomery
>
> SRV from the first time I heard him seemed over the top in terms of
> notes per second given that he was playing blues. Like somebody on
> meth. Then I heard a tune where he murdered some normal non-blues
> changes with a pentatonic thing that just made me wonder if he had ears
> on the side of his head. Or the if the producers did for that matter. I
> mean skin crawling material. I actually saw him live once because he
> was playing with Jeff Beck - he had plexiglass between him and a wall
> of amps. Nice rock tone I must say :-)
>
> Not knocking your opinion btw, just stating mine wrt SRV... take small
> doses ;-) I'd probably put some old Jeff Beck records in there for
> rock blues instead.
>
> As far as the rest of em I haven't heard Doug or Nikka but I get your
> drift as far as soul. Maybe I should break down and get an Ipod.

OMG, finally someone else who has the same view about SRV. Thank you for
that. How can anyone have soul who comes right out of the bullpen balls to
the wall, and then never slows down, never has any change of dynamics, and
therefore never pays attention to phrasing?

As far as "soulful" and "introspective", I'd much rather hear Robben Ford
play on "Blue And Lonesome" than SRV play on "Tin Pan Alley", to compare two
similar musical forms.

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and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way."
- Jack Handey


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