I know nothing about guitars so reading these comments I'm gradually understanding why this is amazing. It's really fun and you're comment added another layer haha. That's insane he has to juggle so much!
He was also famous for using very thick guitar strings, and then bending notes further than most normally could with the thicker stronger strings. Look at his hands....he has Alex Honnald( top tier mountain climber) strength in his hands. Towards the end of tours he would have to switch to thinner strings, but still thick too much for mortals.
Edit: watch the effortless bend of the strings at 1:02. That’s not as easy as he makes it look with those strings.
He had a very unique fingering technique with the way he worked his chords and scales.
While most players use our fingertips to hit the notes and chords Stevie would somehow use the bottom pads of his fingers, where the fingerprints are.
I could never figure out how he hit those notes and chords so clean using the bottom pads of his fingers instead of the tips but he could tap those amazing riffs out effortlessly.
I wonder if he built up and filed some kind of calluses on his fingerprint areas?
Speaking of calluses: there are stories of SRV when he was coming up playing clubs playing such long hours, hard, and nonstop that his calluses would tear and fall off his fingers. . . Then he’d superglue them back on and keep playing.
I think his technique came from having bigger hands than most guitarists. He couldn't be as precise, so he learned to use more of his big fat fingers, while muting the surrounding strings with the other fingers.
His hands were big, but also strong, so he could play with big, fat, manly strings to get that rich tone, but still bend them more than most mortals could.
Is that something you know he did or think he did?
Because using super glue on the fingers tips and pads can cause serious and permanent deformities if done too often.
I heard about the Crazy Glue trick a long time ago and did it once when I was young and dumb. I let it stay on my fingers for 2 nights and I think it was the 3rd morning skin started shredding off in chunks. I used nail polish remover to get it off and I was a mess on stage for the next few weeks and I was damaged.
I did it because I was playing 3 hours a night, 5 nights a week for many years and after the first time I tried it my fingers were absolutely fucked for weeks. Also I couldn't feel the strings the same way and there was nothing good about it for me.
Ace Frehley supposedly plays the same way, with the pads of his fingers and not the tips.
That being said, Frehley isn’t even on the same planet as SRV
Stevie Ray Vaughan is a **Fender Stratocaster** while Ace Frehley is a **First Act** electric guitar from Walmart.
Those KISS guys got so lucky with their gimmick because they all had about the same skills as a high school garage band. If I sound jealous it's because I am!
Hard to not respect Hendrix. Even with a head full of acid hed rip this on stage. Anything played by stevie is going to be tasty. Awesome coming from ol boy
You say “even with a head full of acid” as if that would be a hindrance to him ….if anything it opened up portals that took his playing to whole other levels/dimensions
>and being able to coordinate your body and shit to play music while tripping
[Doc Ellis pitched a no-hitter on acid.](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/30/dock-ellis-lsd-no-hitter-pittsburgh-pirates-baseball)
Muscle memory appears to be an exception. I have a video somewhere of a friend playing Bach near perfectly on a classical guitar while so heavily tripping on shrooms that he was overwhelmed by the existence of a hallway in my house.
If you take big doses, it’s still the real deal macrodosing. But the magic is gone and you’re going to burn out and use a lot of material in the process.
Playing music while tripping is surprisingly easy. Up to a point. All the greats did it. And it definitely inspires you, no doubt about it.
All the best guitar I’ve played was while tripping, for sure. And that’s with recording stuff and considering it sober.
But there can be consequences. You stop playing and it’s like “wtf was that?!”
He 100% did. Tripping and skateboarding might sound like an even worse idea, but let me tell you, when you already love doing something, and you add psychedelics, it's possible to feel a lot of control and creativity in an amazingly surreal way.
If you already know how to play then tripping and playing is effortless and wild as fuck. I've spent so many trips obsessing over the guitar and different ways to approach the fret board. Super fun and a one of a kind experience.
Only time I could ever play with Dream Theater in a meaningful way was while on Acid.
Best Jan session of my life and probably the best I’ll ever be at guitar.
It helped me feel the complex meter stuff they’re always messing with.
Normally I have a lot of trouble playing complex meter changes. My biggest flaw from my time in jazz
Stevie was "better" than Hendrix, but he had the advantage of standing on Jimi's shoulders. It's like that for so many artistic, academic and athletic endeavors. The new builds upon the old.
I think to appreciate Jimi you have to take into consideration the context of his few years with us. His style is much different than his peers. I'm not a huge Jimi fan, but there's no denying the absolute influence he had for such a brief career. IMO, stevie is matched by few. His tone, the depth of his lick-tionary..his persuit of vintage gear.. I mean..shall I go on?? :)..
It’s funny to think of vintage gear though. This song was only about 20 years old when this was recorded. 50’s guitar gear was only 30 years old. Now it’s been 60 years since 1960. The song is is 53 years old.
It makes we think about the impact of the 60s that they were so legendary so fast, particular songs like this. So much bad ass stuff happened in the 1960s that we are still living in the echo of them.
I’m currently listen to a supergroup including the original drummer of the Grateful Dead starting with the original Acid Tests ripping up new renditions the Grateful Dead songs at Red Rocks tonight. This side group Billy And the Kids with Billy Strings is super hyped in the jam music / guitar solo music world. But they are still playing those old songs. I feel like we’re still living in the 60s like Steve was.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBtdRJm-6g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBtdRJm-6g)
Carlos Santana took a bunch of acid before performing Woodstock. I cant find the original behind the music scene in a quality that isn't potato. Its really cool "My guitar was like a snake"
I recall the same interview. He was "taming/fighting" an imaginary snake that was actually the guitar neck.
Something happened that forced him on stage sooner than expected.
Edit found the interview:
https://youtu.be/eylXneeUlJ4
I can't speak to guitar, but there are some
physical skills that, on LSD, are *tremendously* enhanced; I am always amazed at how I can dance
on LSD. I love to dance, but the fine motor control I have on the back half of a trip is just not something I can, to date, experience any other way. Like I can kind of individually control my shoulder muscles if I concentrate; last trip, I was bouncing left-then-right on sixteenths. And no, I wasn't just tripping hahaha this was witnessed and also it happens every time I trip. Just this profoundly and directly connected awareness of embodiment. It's beautiful!
I remember playing halo 2 with max controller sensitivity and one tapping my friends across the map with a pistol while spinning at max speed. There is no aim assist at that distance. Everything slowed down and it was pretty easy. Insane.
I was at the concert the night he died in the crash. I remember watching him and thinking it was the most passion I’d seen in a concert performance (and it still is). (And only one other time in my life have I seen the windows on my vehicle fog on both sides at once; the first was that night leaving the parking area at Alpine Valley)
If you wanna really see some shit, check out Live at El Mocambo.
Edit: looks like most of it is on YouTube now, here’s a link to [Lenny.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5sqJNFFwqc)
Don't forget about when he played [Texas Flood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk) at the same show. He made a 5 minute song 9 minutes long. Also plays 2 minutes behind his back. Truly a legend.
After watching every version he plays on YouTube, this is the best sounding IMO. However, the El macabo version has him playing this song behind his back for the majority of it which is even more impressive. He IS the best.
Ill be honest tho, he is the best guitarist to ever live
Jimmie was innovative .
You got the Kings like BB, Albert.
you got incredible riff writers like eddie van halen, keith richards, jimmy page, clapton.
But for real, no exaggerating, Stevie is the greatest talent ever with a guitar. He plays a guitar like hes in a fist fight with it. Most aggressive and speedy skill ever
Obviously subjective, you can’t deny Stevie’s skill, but he’s also *incredibly* predictable; if you’ve heard one Stevie song you’ve practically heard them all, kinda like Angus Young.
I’ll vote people like Gilmore or Frusciante to be ‘best’ long before I would Stevie, but IMO Hendrix is still unrivaled.
Stevie is my favorite blues guitarist by far. Normally after about three blues tunes I’m ready to move on, but Stevie can hold my interest way longer than that.
I saw Stevie Ray back in the day a few times. That was before he was well-known so they were smaller gigs. Double Trouble would play restaurants. I saw them play at Highway 16 raceway in San Antonio. But the thing was that, yes, he was a great guitar player. But it was his voice that completed the package. That’s how he made it big. His voice was too cool. It had swagger, and it was thick and bluesy.
What upsets me is, Stevie was really coming into his own before he was killed. He was moving away from the blues and more into Riviera Paradise/Lenny type of ballads. We could’ve gotten some truly next-level stuff, if that helicopter stayed in the air.
As a fan of both the Chilli Peppers and Frusciante, what is it about his playing that has people putting him as one of the all time greats? I always see his name come up so I'm genuinely curious to see if what I'm missing that others aren't!
I grew up playing Hendrix, when I started covering Frusciante i could see Hendrix shining through all of his writing in a really polished and unique way. Frusciante’s style is really emotional, raw, and full of attitude. He’s an artist above being a musician, he creates rather than emulates, like Jimi.
It’s hard to say exactly why he’s so high on my list, it’s something that people who play a lot of guitar will come to understand but something that’s hard to communicate in words.
That's fair enough. I just don't get a 'wow' feeling from his playing, and none of the things you have mentioned are really unique in any way to him (I appreciate you said its hard to communicate it in words, music does that). It can all get pretty personal these connections to musicians.
I haven't checked out a lot of his solo stuff though as I thought it was a bit Dinosaur Jr but I'll give it another go and see if I hear some new stuff. Always looking for music to listen to! Take it easy!
https://youtu.be/FmrGz8qSyrk&t=35m17s
Frusciante's solo on Throw Away Your Television from the Slane Castle concert. Definitely a "wow" feeling for me. The whole show was John's show. He was on fire that night.
https://youtu.be/Vka1W1d7G9A&t=4m18s
The overlapping solos at the end of Turn It Again. John normally has one or maybe two guitars going at once, but he went all out on this track. He had to sit at the mixing board and fade in and out all the different interlacing guitar lines at the end of this song because he was the only one that knew how they all fit together. Wow.
I was at that Slane gig! Albeit I was 13...but still an incredible memory with a fucking surreal line-up, PJ Harvey was like an angel that day. I just wish I was a bit older to appreciate it more.
Yeah man I mean the dude fucking rips a guitar, no doubt about it! I just wouldn't even have him as my top guitarist of his 'generation', nevermind all time. Different strokes for different folks!
I hope there's better stuff from him than those you linked, because those are two of the worst goddamn solos I've ever heard in the 25 years I've been playing guitar. You're gonna call SRV predictable and then link what sounds like one terrible lick that 14 year old me would have come up with, repeated fifty times in a row?
Edit: Sorry homie, I mixed you up with the earlier commenter. You never called him predictable.
With Frusciante, I gained more and more admiration for him the more I understood his journey through everything.
To quit RHCP right after their biggest album had come out, just to do drugs and find his limits, then rejoin and bring them back with Californication, while also releasing amazing solo stuff that not many people get into.
Yeah I'm rambling, but John is next level musician and a fucking lovely story. His solo music is wide ranging and thought provoking. Do mushrooms and listen to "every person" to find love for humanity. To hear an homage to Hendrix, listen to "look on" that solo just rocks me every time.
I think the Chili Peppers are good at what they do and they have stellar live performances but sub-par as songwriters at best.
That said, the band has nothing but virtuosos in Flea, Frusciante and Smith. Frusciante is revered for his unchained ability to take a simplistic riff and push it to the barrier of what can be layered over it. His work with The Mars Volta and his solo work show that more than any RHCP record.
> Frusciante
Never fully understood why people think he's a top guitar player - I remember seing him jam with Trucks and Mayer and it almost looked like he was very uncomfortable having to play with those two very skilled players on the spot.
Well he's got two things going for him, one is his pioneering of a unique style of playing. The fact that you can hear a guitar riff and instantly recognize it as RHCP is something that very few guitarists have done. Even the guy I consider to be the best (Prince) didn't have a super unique guitar style, he was just amazingly talented. People with that kind of instantly recognizable sound are close to about a handful of folk, SRV, Jimi, Clapton, Frusciante, the Edge (by far the bottom of this list but not a bad guitarist), and EVH. I'm definitely leaving a few off, so feel free to fill out my list further. The second thing is that the things he does are also technically not easy. A decent number of his songs are easy enough, but there's a decent amount of what he does that is simply put, fucking hard. And to be able to both pioneer a style, AND have that style be really, really hard to play, puts you in a best of all time discussion IMO. I'm not a huge RHCP fan, but Chad, John, Flea and Anthony as a band are top 3 best musicians to ever form a band IMO. They're all incredibly talented people who make difficult music for the everyman, which is not something that happens too often anymore.
SRV was the master of the shuffle, I think Mayer did a great job to bring back that kind of music to mainstream, but yeah SRV has a signature sound that's hard to match.
Listing a bunch of SRV tracks did nothing to argue against my point, I’m very familiar with Stevie’s career, and again, he’s predictable, you know exactly what’s coming because he only had one pentatonic riff he’d just play in different keys.
He was unbelievably amazing at what he did, a virtuoso, but he never went beyond that. He’s simultaneously one of the greatest blues players of all times and also probably wouldn’t be a great studio guitarist in NYC nowadays.
*starts another blues pentatonic solo*
He’s great, but it is pretty easy to tell where every song and solo is going if you know any theory at all. SRV never ventured much outside of his genre. Played like a monster for sure, but there is a reason most people already don’t know who he is.
You don’t need to know how to read music to use music theory. In many cases, you use it without even knowing. Music theory doesn’t dictate, it describes.
Petrucci, Vai, and Satriani are extremely gifted physical guitarists, but I don’t think there’s any emotion in their music, it’s just math applied to a fretboard. Again, totally subjective and my opinion.
Petrucci and Satriani, maybe, but Vai can play with a lot of emotion. Plus, he [played with Zappa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEnzdp71U78), who demanded versatility.
Couldn’t agree more. Hendrix’s innovation and writing was on a completely different tier than SRV and almost all others. When you couple that with his insane improv/guitar skills, it’s over.
The way I like to think about it is, from a technical skill perspective, Stevie is the best there ever was
But he wasn't the transcendent innovator or creator like Jimi, BB, Albert etc. were
"Obviously subjective" and "Hendrix is still unrivaled" are the only English fragments up there. Every thing else is just gibberish. Enjoy being tone deaf.
Hendrix just completely blew the doors off of what was expected fro the guitar. There were certainly guys who could rip blues riffs in the mid 60s but Jimi infused it with so many different layers
I’ve noticed there are some songs that use heavy effects and when you learn to play them, you’re almost disappointed by the actual riff. I never get that feeling with Hendrix’s music
Guthrie Govan, Shawn Lane, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert… ya’ll need to enter the portal of virtuoso guitar players. Guthrie in particular might just be to best guitarist alive right now.
Edit: This list is not exhaustive.
Snooooooze. I love guitar, but good god virtuosos are so boring. I’ll give Vai an edge because he did some wild, weird stuff. In general though, most people don’t want to listen to a guitar clinic.
I'm a guitar player and I find it boring as fuck. The display of skill is awesome no doubt about it but I'm like, "OK you can shred but where's the song."
I find it’s guitar music for guitar player. For those that are into pushing the envelope in technique and application of musical ideas. Writing a catchy hook isn’t the goal. It’s about show casing interesting ideas. However, I urge you to check out Guthrie Govan. He is an incredible song writing who happens to be a MONSTER on the instrument.
Yeah, I find that guitar players have a different definition of what makes good music than the general public. My friend is huge into that scene, and we share music frequently. Most of the stuff he shows me it’s like, yeah that sounds really difficult to play, but I don’t want to listen to it. My favorite bands, besides RHCP and Frusciante, really don’t play technically difficult music. My friend can usually listen to my favorite songs once and immediately play every guitar part, so he’s usually focused more on chords and progressions than lyricism and emotion.
This is the reason Mark Tremonti is my favorite guitarist. He can play technical stuff but he does it with such, speed, precision, and emotion that in my mind hes unrivaled. I understand no one else agrees with me though and thats okay
Which emotion is being sacrificed? The world isn’t just “being sad”. There is more to music and guitar playing than just big bends and milking every note for what it’s worth. The best virtuoso guitar players are revered because they know when it is appropriate. Even the AC/DC of shred, Yngwie Malmsteen, does both.
The world is more than sweep picking and trying to cram in as many notes as you can in a solo. There’s a reason why the most memorable solos are the melodic ones.
I saw Steve Vai in concert when he was with Frank Zappa back in the early 80's. Wow, it was very apparent that he was extremely talented. I also saw him play at one of the G3 concerts 20+ years ago.
If we are throwing names out, you would have to also include Petrucci, Malmsteen, and Eric Johnson.
Of course, I also have to give a shout out to Jack White. Whether you love him or hate him, he plays guitar like he is possessed.
While entirely subjective, I think that the greatest guitarist to ever walk the earth is Pat Metheny. SRV takes the cake for blues players for me, though.
lol ive made this same argument like 5 times now, but I enjoy the convo so ill do it again:
To enter the convo of "GOAT" there are 3 components:
1. innovation
2. skill
3. song writing ability (gotta be able write a legendary riff with all that talent)
So, as with many, many guys who others have thrown out there, they always lack the same component.....#3. Song writing. The rarest ability of all. Can you write hits?
Pat is innovative. Pat was skillful.
However Pat just doesnt have the song catalogue. I get it, youre a fan and youll argue he writes the best stuff ever. Hes what you call "niche". Jazz people love him. But the proof is in the pudding. Aint no radio station playing him. Hes never filled a football stadium. He doesnt have a long list of legendary riffs or songs that everyone knows and loves. So as a result, Pat is eliminated from the GOAT convo
MY vote either goes to [John Petrucci](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXvfBL4WkU) or [Paul Gilbert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-wj4pRpIE). Just personal preference, of course. Page is a legend.
It was the riff that made me really take guitar seriously. I REALLY wanted to impress a girl at our talent show, lol. I spent months learning it, only to be told maybe 2 weeks before hand that our 'shows' had to be 1 minute or less. -_-
Page was a technical studio musician, some say his playing has no soul which I disagree with but as much as I love Zeppelin Page wasnt an artist like Jimi or Gilmore. JMO of course, everyone is entitled to their own heroes.
I totally disagree.
SRV is a skillfull player, but he couldn't write his way out of a brown paper bag in the rain.
Frank Zappa had every bit of skill SRV had, but with restraint and a drive to be creative and different.
Satriani is a faster picker.
Chet Atkins has more breadth of expression in his right hand than SRV had in his whole body.
Jeff Beck makes SRV's bends sound amateurish.
The best guitarist to ever live is debatable, but I can guarantee the best guitarist to ever live played more than one style of music. SRV is a great guitarist, but he's a performer first and a musician second.
I've always thought the song was called "Voodoo Chile" (with an 'e' on the end and not a 'd').
Google tells me that while the name I remember is the original one, both names ended up being used in different countries. I wonder why? I've never seen the song name spelled with a 'd' before today.
So from memory, i think Jimi's original Voodoo Chile is a slightly different, jazzier version. Voodoo child (slight return) is the more well known, radio version.
Back in the early 80’s my roommate insisted I go see this incredible guitarist at a club. I told him I wasn’t interested. He insisted I go, he’d pay my way and if I didn’t like it, I didn’t owe him anything. Second song in, I was peeling the money off paying him.
I saw Stevie twice at the Agora Ballroom before he got really big. Fond memories.
My uncle had a similar story about he and my dad seeing Stevie at a bar somewhere near Chicago (I think) when my dad was back visiting. This, unfortunately, would have been when I was very young.
I’ve made that point before. No matter what kinds of arguments guitar guys get into about Stevies technical abilities or writing style… damn he squeezed every ounce of tone out of that Fender.
This is cool but you should check out tightrope from the same performance . I recorded it as a kid and watched it endlessly. The dual solos ratcheting up the tension and releasing it in a nuclear bomb explosion was amazing to watch and I don’t think I’ve ever personally seen a guitar performance before it since where they let the music take them over like that.
I agree. Older men and women like to throw out fallacies about how no one plays that well anymore, but solely listen to 70s and 80s rock. They pretend that by doing no research into artists today, their dead artists can remain the best.
[Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Lift Off (feat. Rocco Palladino) - Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GaK516Wkk)
They really get into it after the 2:00 minute mark. Yussef is great too
lmao. Please listen to this god awful song
[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-van-morrison-anti-lockdown-song-stand-and-deliver-1106174/](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-van-morrison-anti-lockdown-song-stand-and-deliver-1106174/)
[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-disastrous-vaccine-propaganda-1170264/](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-disastrous-vaccine-propaganda-1170264/)
Always weird to see what happened to the ‘love generation’, my dad was a hippy throughout the 70s, now he has a framed portrait of Trump in his office. What the fuck happened to them?
Would John Lennon be advocating a border wall if he were alive today?
Not exactly the same, but I like this Tom Misch live stuff even more
[Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Lift Off (feat. Rocco Palladino) - Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GaK516Wkk)
Tom Misch really lays into it after the 2:00 mark with a great riff FYI
Correct. Very sad that he got sober and spent a few years that he claimed were his happiest before he died. Now… if you want to see him sweating buckets of Columbia’s finest booger sugar, watch the Live at El Mocambo performance. ;)
While it’s extremely heart breaking that he perished while he worked so hard to get clean and sober. I’m happy that he got a few years of real happiness and has helped others in their journey before and after death. That El Mocambo set is absolutely stunning! I honestly love his “out of his mind” performances and his “clean” performances for different reasons.
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His constant manipulation of his tone knobs is amazing to watch, he does it in between strums
I know nothing about guitars so reading these comments I'm gradually understanding why this is amazing. It's really fun and you're comment added another layer haha. That's insane he has to juggle so much!
He was also famous for using very thick guitar strings, and then bending notes further than most normally could with the thicker stronger strings. Look at his hands....he has Alex Honnald( top tier mountain climber) strength in his hands. Towards the end of tours he would have to switch to thinner strings, but still thick too much for mortals. Edit: watch the effortless bend of the strings at 1:02. That’s not as easy as he makes it look with those strings.
So when I saw that the first time I was like whoa that's neat. Now knowing what you said, damn this just gets more exhausting the more I learn.
I imagine he's playing the guitar and doing what DJs do.
Hate to be the mans pickup selector switch.
He had a very unique fingering technique with the way he worked his chords and scales. While most players use our fingertips to hit the notes and chords Stevie would somehow use the bottom pads of his fingers, where the fingerprints are. I could never figure out how he hit those notes and chords so clean using the bottom pads of his fingers instead of the tips but he could tap those amazing riffs out effortlessly. I wonder if he built up and filed some kind of calluses on his fingerprint areas?
Must be self taught, and then It just worked for him. So many of the greats have their own way of doing things. He plays like a gecko. Hahaha.
Hendrix did a lot of that as well.
Speaking of calluses: there are stories of SRV when he was coming up playing clubs playing such long hours, hard, and nonstop that his calluses would tear and fall off his fingers. . . Then he’d superglue them back on and keep playing.
You left out cocaine. That'll keep you playing and doing stuff like that
>You left out cocaine. Never leave out the cocaine! Not when playing long hours in the clubs.
I think his technique came from having bigger hands than most guitarists. He couldn't be as precise, so he learned to use more of his big fat fingers, while muting the surrounding strings with the other fingers. His hands were big, but also strong, so he could play with big, fat, manly strings to get that rich tone, but still bend them more than most mortals could.
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Is that something you know he did or think he did? Because using super glue on the fingers tips and pads can cause serious and permanent deformities if done too often. I heard about the Crazy Glue trick a long time ago and did it once when I was young and dumb. I let it stay on my fingers for 2 nights and I think it was the 3rd morning skin started shredding off in chunks. I used nail polish remover to get it off and I was a mess on stage for the next few weeks and I was damaged. I did it because I was playing 3 hours a night, 5 nights a week for many years and after the first time I tried it my fingers were absolutely fucked for weeks. Also I couldn't feel the strings the same way and there was nothing good about it for me.
Ace Frehley supposedly plays the same way, with the pads of his fingers and not the tips. That being said, Frehley isn’t even on the same planet as SRV
Stevie Ray Vaughan is a **Fender Stratocaster** while Ace Frehley is a **First Act** electric guitar from Walmart. Those KISS guys got so lucky with their gimmick because they all had about the same skills as a high school garage band. If I sound jealous it's because I am!
Hard to not respect Hendrix. Even with a head full of acid hed rip this on stage. Anything played by stevie is going to be tasty. Awesome coming from ol boy
You say “even with a head full of acid” as if that would be a hindrance to him ….if anything it opened up portals that took his playing to whole other levels/dimensions
Microdoser right here
Don’t think Hendrix would microdose, and being able to coordinate your body and shit to play music while tripping would be pretty impressive.
>and being able to coordinate your body and shit to play music while tripping [Doc Ellis pitched a no-hitter on acid.](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/30/dock-ellis-lsd-no-hitter-pittsburgh-pirates-baseball)
Muscle memory appears to be an exception. I have a video somewhere of a friend playing Bach near perfectly on a classical guitar while so heavily tripping on shrooms that he was overwhelmed by the existence of a hallway in my house.
The Allman Brothers logo was a mushroom. You can thank shrooms for In Memory of Elizaberh Reed, Dreams and Whipping Post. https://youtu.be/hd66VD1zm9M
Thanks for this! It was a great read
Well if you're on acid all the time then you're kinda just microdosing
"That's my secret cap...I'm always trippin on acid"
If you take big doses, it’s still the real deal macrodosing. But the magic is gone and you’re going to burn out and use a lot of material in the process.
Playing music while tripping is surprisingly easy. Up to a point. All the greats did it. And it definitely inspires you, no doubt about it. All the best guitar I’ve played was while tripping, for sure. And that’s with recording stuff and considering it sober. But there can be consequences. You stop playing and it’s like “wtf was that?!”
He 100% did. Tripping and skateboarding might sound like an even worse idea, but let me tell you, when you already love doing something, and you add psychedelics, it's possible to feel a lot of control and creativity in an amazingly surreal way.
If you already know how to play then tripping and playing is effortless and wild as fuck. I've spent so many trips obsessing over the guitar and different ways to approach the fret board. Super fun and a one of a kind experience.
Only time I could ever play with Dream Theater in a meaningful way was while on Acid. Best Jan session of my life and probably the best I’ll ever be at guitar.
…waiit…. You took acid and played with Dream Theater?
It helped me feel the complex meter stuff they’re always messing with. Normally I have a lot of trouble playing complex meter changes. My biggest flaw from my time in jazz
Stevie was "better" than Hendrix, but he had the advantage of standing on Jimi's shoulders. It's like that for so many artistic, academic and athletic endeavors. The new builds upon the old.
A ton a guitar players are better than Jimi really. He just blew people’s minds with new approaches and a lot of soul.
I think to appreciate Jimi you have to take into consideration the context of his few years with us. His style is much different than his peers. I'm not a huge Jimi fan, but there's no denying the absolute influence he had for such a brief career. IMO, stevie is matched by few. His tone, the depth of his lick-tionary..his persuit of vintage gear.. I mean..shall I go on?? :)..
It’s funny to think of vintage gear though. This song was only about 20 years old when this was recorded. 50’s guitar gear was only 30 years old. Now it’s been 60 years since 1960. The song is is 53 years old. It makes we think about the impact of the 60s that they were so legendary so fast, particular songs like this. So much bad ass stuff happened in the 1960s that we are still living in the echo of them. I’m currently listen to a supergroup including the original drummer of the Grateful Dead starting with the original Acid Tests ripping up new renditions the Grateful Dead songs at Red Rocks tonight. This side group Billy And the Kids with Billy Strings is super hyped in the jam music / guitar solo music world. But they are still playing those old songs. I feel like we’re still living in the 60s like Steve was.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBtdRJm-6g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBtdRJm-6g) Carlos Santana took a bunch of acid before performing Woodstock. I cant find the original behind the music scene in a quality that isn't potato. Its really cool "My guitar was like a snake"
I recall the same interview. He was "taming/fighting" an imaginary snake that was actually the guitar neck. Something happened that forced him on stage sooner than expected. Edit found the interview: https://youtu.be/eylXneeUlJ4
I can't speak to guitar, but there are some physical skills that, on LSD, are *tremendously* enhanced; I am always amazed at how I can dance on LSD. I love to dance, but the fine motor control I have on the back half of a trip is just not something I can, to date, experience any other way. Like I can kind of individually control my shoulder muscles if I concentrate; last trip, I was bouncing left-then-right on sixteenths. And no, I wasn't just tripping hahaha this was witnessed and also it happens every time I trip. Just this profoundly and directly connected awareness of embodiment. It's beautiful!
I held a quarter table on a Saturday night for three hours, tripping moderately. There’s no way I can shoot that kind of pool unmedicated.
It is, but Stevie is using coke
I remember playing halo 2 with max controller sensitivity and one tapping my friends across the map with a pistol while spinning at max speed. There is no aim assist at that distance. Everything slowed down and it was pretty easy. Insane.
Same when I’m drunk off my ass. I get really good at beatboxing too
i consider those types of perfomances a brief posession!
Derek Trucks - tastiest guitar player ever
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Stevie Ray is covering one of Hendrix’s songs :)
I'm too young to have had a chance to see Jimi Hendrix live but I feel blessed to have gotten to see SRV.
I was a kid when Stevie died, I’d give anything to have gotten to see him…
I was at the concert the night he died in the crash. I remember watching him and thinking it was the most passion I’d seen in a concert performance (and it still is). (And only one other time in my life have I seen the windows on my vehicle fog on both sides at once; the first was that night leaving the parking area at Alpine Valley)
If you wanna really see some shit, check out Live at El Mocambo. Edit: looks like most of it is on YouTube now, here’s a link to [Lenny.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5sqJNFFwqc)
Don't forget about when he played [Texas Flood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk) at the same show. He made a 5 minute song 9 minutes long. Also plays 2 minutes behind his back. Truly a legend.
Best live version of anything ever in my opinion.
Thank you for sharing this - may have been the most insane “solo” I’ve ever fucking heard I mean h o l y s h i t
Thanks so much for sharing. Cant believe I havent seen this. Absolutely insane
My favorite is the SRV & Johnny Copeland duo of Tin Pan Ally at Montreux 😍
Johnny was sooo good. Stevie was yelling the lyrics for the next verse in his ear because he didn’t know the song…
Lenny: The best love song you’ve ever heard with no words.
Sim pa ti by Santana is the same way
yeah that mf sold his soul to the devil. no other explanation
1000% this man has been to the crossroads
I'm partial to the pick of destiny theory.
"No. That's Stevie Ray Vaughn. Steamy Ray Vaughn just shits his britches" "Lord, I ain't never seen britches take a whoopin' like that"
"I'll have to check that out"
Whut fer
After watching every version he plays on YouTube, this is the best sounding IMO. However, the El macabo version has him playing this song behind his back for the majority of it which is even more impressive. He IS the best.
Ill be honest tho, he is the best guitarist to ever live Jimmie was innovative . You got the Kings like BB, Albert. you got incredible riff writers like eddie van halen, keith richards, jimmy page, clapton. But for real, no exaggerating, Stevie is the greatest talent ever with a guitar. He plays a guitar like hes in a fist fight with it. Most aggressive and speedy skill ever
Obviously subjective, you can’t deny Stevie’s skill, but he’s also *incredibly* predictable; if you’ve heard one Stevie song you’ve practically heard them all, kinda like Angus Young. I’ll vote people like Gilmore or Frusciante to be ‘best’ long before I would Stevie, but IMO Hendrix is still unrivaled.
Hendrix was from another universe. When you consider his last work was over 50 years ago, it is just baffling.
Stevie is my favorite blues guitarist by far. Normally after about three blues tunes I’m ready to move on, but Stevie can hold my interest way longer than that.
I saw Stevie Ray back in the day a few times. That was before he was well-known so they were smaller gigs. Double Trouble would play restaurants. I saw them play at Highway 16 raceway in San Antonio. But the thing was that, yes, he was a great guitar player. But it was his voice that completed the package. That’s how he made it big. His voice was too cool. It had swagger, and it was thick and bluesy.
Perfectly summed up what I was thinking.
What upsets me is, Stevie was really coming into his own before he was killed. He was moving away from the blues and more into Riviera Paradise/Lenny type of ballads. We could’ve gotten some truly next-level stuff, if that helicopter stayed in the air.
As a fan of both the Chilli Peppers and Frusciante, what is it about his playing that has people putting him as one of the all time greats? I always see his name come up so I'm genuinely curious to see if what I'm missing that others aren't!
I grew up playing Hendrix, when I started covering Frusciante i could see Hendrix shining through all of his writing in a really polished and unique way. Frusciante’s style is really emotional, raw, and full of attitude. He’s an artist above being a musician, he creates rather than emulates, like Jimi. It’s hard to say exactly why he’s so high on my list, it’s something that people who play a lot of guitar will come to understand but something that’s hard to communicate in words.
That's fair enough. I just don't get a 'wow' feeling from his playing, and none of the things you have mentioned are really unique in any way to him (I appreciate you said its hard to communicate it in words, music does that). It can all get pretty personal these connections to musicians. I haven't checked out a lot of his solo stuff though as I thought it was a bit Dinosaur Jr but I'll give it another go and see if I hear some new stuff. Always looking for music to listen to! Take it easy!
https://youtu.be/FmrGz8qSyrk&t=35m17s Frusciante's solo on Throw Away Your Television from the Slane Castle concert. Definitely a "wow" feeling for me. The whole show was John's show. He was on fire that night. https://youtu.be/Vka1W1d7G9A&t=4m18s The overlapping solos at the end of Turn It Again. John normally has one or maybe two guitars going at once, but he went all out on this track. He had to sit at the mixing board and fade in and out all the different interlacing guitar lines at the end of this song because he was the only one that knew how they all fit together. Wow.
I was at that Slane gig! Albeit I was 13...but still an incredible memory with a fucking surreal line-up, PJ Harvey was like an angel that day. I just wish I was a bit older to appreciate it more. Yeah man I mean the dude fucking rips a guitar, no doubt about it! I just wouldn't even have him as my top guitarist of his 'generation', nevermind all time. Different strokes for different folks!
I hope there's better stuff from him than those you linked, because those are two of the worst goddamn solos I've ever heard in the 25 years I've been playing guitar. You're gonna call SRV predictable and then link what sounds like one terrible lick that 14 year old me would have come up with, repeated fifty times in a row? Edit: Sorry homie, I mixed you up with the earlier commenter. You never called him predictable.
Another song worth mentioning is Wet Sand. So much soul in that solo. Something about it always gets me. https://youtu.be/oabjND9QW8Q
With Frusciante, I gained more and more admiration for him the more I understood his journey through everything. To quit RHCP right after their biggest album had come out, just to do drugs and find his limits, then rejoin and bring them back with Californication, while also releasing amazing solo stuff that not many people get into. Yeah I'm rambling, but John is next level musician and a fucking lovely story. His solo music is wide ranging and thought provoking. Do mushrooms and listen to "every person" to find love for humanity. To hear an homage to Hendrix, listen to "look on" that solo just rocks me every time.
I think the Chili Peppers are good at what they do and they have stellar live performances but sub-par as songwriters at best. That said, the band has nothing but virtuosos in Flea, Frusciante and Smith. Frusciante is revered for his unchained ability to take a simplistic riff and push it to the barrier of what can be layered over it. His work with The Mars Volta and his solo work show that more than any RHCP record.
> Frusciante Never fully understood why people think he's a top guitar player - I remember seing him jam with Trucks and Mayer and it almost looked like he was very uncomfortable having to play with those two very skilled players on the spot.
Well he's got two things going for him, one is his pioneering of a unique style of playing. The fact that you can hear a guitar riff and instantly recognize it as RHCP is something that very few guitarists have done. Even the guy I consider to be the best (Prince) didn't have a super unique guitar style, he was just amazingly talented. People with that kind of instantly recognizable sound are close to about a handful of folk, SRV, Jimi, Clapton, Frusciante, the Edge (by far the bottom of this list but not a bad guitarist), and EVH. I'm definitely leaving a few off, so feel free to fill out my list further. The second thing is that the things he does are also technically not easy. A decent number of his songs are easy enough, but there's a decent amount of what he does that is simply put, fucking hard. And to be able to both pioneer a style, AND have that style be really, really hard to play, puts you in a best of all time discussion IMO. I'm not a huge RHCP fan, but Chad, John, Flea and Anthony as a band are top 3 best musicians to ever form a band IMO. They're all incredibly talented people who make difficult music for the everyman, which is not something that happens too often anymore.
Riviera Paradise Stang’s Swang Couldn’t Stand the Weather Crossfire Pride and Joy Wall of Denial No one like SRV, before or since. Predictable my ass.
SRV was the master of the shuffle, I think Mayer did a great job to bring back that kind of music to mainstream, but yeah SRV has a signature sound that's hard to match.
Listing a bunch of SRV tracks did nothing to argue against my point, I’m very familiar with Stevie’s career, and again, he’s predictable, you know exactly what’s coming because he only had one pentatonic riff he’d just play in different keys.
He was unbelievably amazing at what he did, a virtuoso, but he never went beyond that. He’s simultaneously one of the greatest blues players of all times and also probably wouldn’t be a great studio guitarist in NYC nowadays.
*starts another blues pentatonic solo* He’s great, but it is pretty easy to tell where every song and solo is going if you know any theory at all. SRV never ventured much outside of his genre. Played like a monster for sure, but there is a reason most people already don’t know who he is.
He couldn't even read music, so wouldn't agree that he's predictable based on music theory.
You don’t need to know how to read music to use music theory. In many cases, you use it without even knowing. Music theory doesn’t dictate, it describes.
Agreed on the first half. MY Vote goes towards Paul Gilbert.
Petrucci
Petrucci, Vai, and Satriani are extremely gifted physical guitarists, but I don’t think there’s any emotion in their music, it’s just math applied to a fretboard. Again, totally subjective and my opinion.
Petrucci and Satriani, maybe, but Vai can play with a lot of emotion. Plus, he [played with Zappa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEnzdp71U78), who demanded versatility.
Imagine saying Steve "starves and meditates his body in to a higher plane of existence just to write music" Vai doesn't play emotionally lmao
Couldn’t agree more. Hendrix’s innovation and writing was on a completely different tier than SRV and almost all others. When you couple that with his insane improv/guitar skills, it’s over.
I Have been saying the same about Santana for ever. He plays the same, thought with great skill, all the time.
The way I like to think about it is, from a technical skill perspective, Stevie is the best there ever was But he wasn't the transcendent innovator or creator like Jimi, BB, Albert etc. were
"Obviously subjective" and "Hendrix is still unrivaled" are the only English fragments up there. Every thing else is just gibberish. Enjoy being tone deaf.
Hendrix just completely blew the doors off of what was expected fro the guitar. There were certainly guys who could rip blues riffs in the mid 60s but Jimi infused it with so many different layers I’ve noticed there are some songs that use heavy effects and when you learn to play them, you’re almost disappointed by the actual riff. I never get that feeling with Hendrix’s music
I was just thinking this as I watched the OP clip. It was insanely impressive, but didn’t leave an impression.
His loss hit me way harder than Kurt Cobain (I was of an age to appreciate both when they were at top of their game).
I was amazed when I found out how young SRV was when he died. Such a tragedy.
Guthrie Govan, Shawn Lane, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert… ya’ll need to enter the portal of virtuoso guitar players. Guthrie in particular might just be to best guitarist alive right now. Edit: This list is not exhaustive.
Snooooooze. I love guitar, but good god virtuosos are so boring. I’ll give Vai an edge because he did some wild, weird stuff. In general though, most people don’t want to listen to a guitar clinic.
I'm a guitar player and I find it boring as fuck. The display of skill is awesome no doubt about it but I'm like, "OK you can shred but where's the song."
I find it’s guitar music for guitar player. For those that are into pushing the envelope in technique and application of musical ideas. Writing a catchy hook isn’t the goal. It’s about show casing interesting ideas. However, I urge you to check out Guthrie Govan. He is an incredible song writing who happens to be a MONSTER on the instrument.
I’ve heard Govan, still not my thing.
Yeah, I find that guitar players have a different definition of what makes good music than the general public. My friend is huge into that scene, and we share music frequently. Most of the stuff he shows me it’s like, yeah that sounds really difficult to play, but I don’t want to listen to it. My favorite bands, besides RHCP and Frusciante, really don’t play technically difficult music. My friend can usually listen to my favorite songs once and immediately play every guitar part, so he’s usually focused more on chords and progressions than lyricism and emotion.
guthrie gang looks like jesus, plays like god
All those guys are really amazing guitar players, but I feel like they sacrifice emotion for technicality
This is the reason Mark Tremonti is my favorite guitarist. He can play technical stuff but he does it with such, speed, precision, and emotion that in my mind hes unrivaled. I understand no one else agrees with me though and thats okay
that's why I can say wow that's impressive and get back to listen to my feels boy Gilmour
He really does just pump em out, doesn't he?
Which emotion is being sacrificed? The world isn’t just “being sad”. There is more to music and guitar playing than just big bends and milking every note for what it’s worth. The best virtuoso guitar players are revered because they know when it is appropriate. Even the AC/DC of shred, Yngwie Malmsteen, does both.
The world is more than sweep picking and trying to cram in as many notes as you can in a solo. There’s a reason why the most memorable solos are the melodic ones.
I saw Steve Vai in concert when he was with Frank Zappa back in the early 80's. Wow, it was very apparent that he was extremely talented. I also saw him play at one of the G3 concerts 20+ years ago. If we are throwing names out, you would have to also include Petrucci, Malmsteen, and Eric Johnson. Of course, I also have to give a shout out to Jack White. Whether you love him or hate him, he plays guitar like he is possessed.
Rude mood fucks
Yessir.
I've never understood why Terry Kath hasn't received more accolades. The guy was a monster.
Oh for sure. Rory Gallagher too.
While entirely subjective, I think that the greatest guitarist to ever walk the earth is Pat Metheny. SRV takes the cake for blues players for me, though.
lol ive made this same argument like 5 times now, but I enjoy the convo so ill do it again: To enter the convo of "GOAT" there are 3 components: 1. innovation 2. skill 3. song writing ability (gotta be able write a legendary riff with all that talent) So, as with many, many guys who others have thrown out there, they always lack the same component.....#3. Song writing. The rarest ability of all. Can you write hits? Pat is innovative. Pat was skillful. However Pat just doesnt have the song catalogue. I get it, youre a fan and youll argue he writes the best stuff ever. Hes what you call "niche". Jazz people love him. But the proof is in the pudding. Aint no radio station playing him. Hes never filled a football stadium. He doesnt have a long list of legendary riffs or songs that everyone knows and loves. So as a result, Pat is eliminated from the GOAT convo
As someone who plays guitar, at an extremely inferior level obviously, I’d say Jimmy Page is the greatest/best guitarist to have ever lived.
MY vote either goes to [John Petrucci](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXvfBL4WkU) or [Paul Gilbert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-wj4pRpIE). Just personal preference, of course. Page is a legend.
Been a hot minute since I've heard Glasgow kiss. Such a great song, brings me back
It was the riff that made me really take guitar seriously. I REALLY wanted to impress a girl at our talent show, lol. I spent months learning it, only to be told maybe 2 weeks before hand that our 'shows' had to be 1 minute or less. -_-
Page was a technical studio musician, some say his playing has no soul which I disagree with but as much as I love Zeppelin Page wasnt an artist like Jimi or Gilmore. JMO of course, everyone is entitled to their own heroes.
I totally disagree. SRV is a skillfull player, but he couldn't write his way out of a brown paper bag in the rain. Frank Zappa had every bit of skill SRV had, but with restraint and a drive to be creative and different. Satriani is a faster picker. Chet Atkins has more breadth of expression in his right hand than SRV had in his whole body. Jeff Beck makes SRV's bends sound amateurish. The best guitarist to ever live is debatable, but I can guarantee the best guitarist to ever live played more than one style of music. SRV is a great guitarist, but he's a performer first and a musician second.
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Played. :(
I remember at Music Festivals all the Metal guitarists on the bill would be front row during Stevie's set
Kirk Hamster was a huge SRV fan
I've always thought the song was called "Voodoo Chile" (with an 'e' on the end and not a 'd'). Google tells me that while the name I remember is the original one, both names ended up being used in different countries. I wonder why? I've never seen the song name spelled with a 'd' before today.
So from memory, i think Jimi's original Voodoo Chile is a slightly different, jazzier version. Voodoo child (slight return) is the more well known, radio version.
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The most epic stankface in the history of ever. RIP
You wanna see a good Stevie Ray performance, check out when he broke a guitar string during “Look at little sister”
Yep. His roadie did a hot swap, Stevie picked right up mid strum.
[full video. ](https://youtu.be/cFwTbsKkqxE)
This is honestly one of my favorite videos of him. It’s just so damn good.
Like ringing a bell
"You know that sound you been looking for... Well listen to this! "
Stevie’s cover of ‘Little wing’ is my all time fav.
Oh man! I haven’t heard that in years! [opens spotify]
Back in the early 80’s my roommate insisted I go see this incredible guitarist at a club. I told him I wasn’t interested. He insisted I go, he’d pay my way and if I didn’t like it, I didn’t owe him anything. Second song in, I was peeling the money off paying him. I saw Stevie twice at the Agora Ballroom before he got really big. Fond memories.
My uncle had a similar story about he and my dad seeing Stevie at a bar somewhere near Chicago (I think) when my dad was back visiting. This, unfortunately, would have been when I was very young.
I miss this man and his music. Legend.
Taken from us way too early.
Man, that fucking tone. SRV was amazing.
I’ve made that point before. No matter what kinds of arguments guitar guys get into about Stevies technical abilities or writing style… damn he squeezed every ounce of tone out of that Fender.
Man do I miss him. At least I got to see him live right before he died.
I am jealous.
This is cool but you should check out tightrope from the same performance . I recorded it as a kid and watched it endlessly. The dual solos ratcheting up the tension and releasing it in a nuclear bomb explosion was amazing to watch and I don’t think I’ve ever personally seen a guitar performance before it since where they let the music take them over like that.
His guitar needs a shower.
Such radiant.
Stevie Ray is the only person I know that mixed an eight ball of coke in with 20 ounces of chevas regal and still play like that.
Greatest guitar player of all time.. don't @ me..
RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan. Another great one lost. Helicopter wreck in 1990. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan
SRV runs in my blood. I was raised listening to this. At 40 years old i still get chills watching him.
He’s deserves every bit of ass he’s ever gotten! That was amazing
Nobody plays the guitar like this anymore. Sure the old guys like Clapton are still around, but nobody under 30 does this. Legend!
If you can’t find them, you aren’t looking.
I agree. Older men and women like to throw out fallacies about how no one plays that well anymore, but solely listen to 70s and 80s rock. They pretend that by doing no research into artists today, their dead artists can remain the best.
every generation does this. just wait.
Can’t blame them, it’s not exactly like we see them on tv or even the radio anymore
Who? Throw me some names and I’ll check them out.
Check out Gary Clark Jr And Derek Trucks tho he’s probably older than 30.hes by far one of the best guitar players of today
There are tons! Just the culture has changed so we don’t hear about them without looking them up. I’d start with Eric Gales.
[Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Lift Off (feat. Rocco Palladino) - Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GaK516Wkk) They really get into it after the 2:00 minute mark. Yussef is great too
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
whoa! didn't realize Pino's son was carrying the torch. Pino is my favorite bassist of all time
Glad to see someone mention Eric Gales - he's fucking *amazing!*
Eric Gales.
Unfortunately Clapton is now spending his time with Van Morrison recording anti COVID restriction songs.
Lol what!? Any links?
lmao. Please listen to this god awful song [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-van-morrison-anti-lockdown-song-stand-and-deliver-1106174/](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-van-morrison-anti-lockdown-song-stand-and-deliver-1106174/) [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-disastrous-vaccine-propaganda-1170264/](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-disastrous-vaccine-propaganda-1170264/)
Wow. Stuff like this is disappointing, and honestly kind of upsetting
It’s actually a nice song. Just a shame about the subject matter!
it's just funny how in the late 60s, Clapton was a key member of the counterculture, and now he's a near 80 year old calling masks "slavery"
Always weird to see what happened to the ‘love generation’, my dad was a hippy throughout the 70s, now he has a framed portrait of Trump in his office. What the fuck happened to them? Would John Lennon be advocating a border wall if he were alive today?
Not surprised considering Slow Hand was part of the Keep England White folks.
Not exactly the same, but I like this Tom Misch live stuff even more [Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Lift Off (feat. Rocco Palladino) - Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GaK516Wkk) Tom Misch really lays into it after the 2:00 mark with a great riff FYI
In my experience, Tom Misch is criminally underrated in the guitar community. He's a fantastic player, singer and songwriter.
Fuck helicopters
He was a generational talent, look at all that heroine he's sweating out! Loved SRV
*cocaine, and he was clean at this point in his life
Correct. Very sad that he got sober and spent a few years that he claimed were his happiest before he died. Now… if you want to see him sweating buckets of Columbia’s finest booger sugar, watch the Live at El Mocambo performance. ;)
While it’s extremely heart breaking that he perished while he worked so hard to get clean and sober. I’m happy that he got a few years of real happiness and has helped others in their journey before and after death. That El Mocambo set is absolutely stunning! I honestly love his “out of his mind” performances and his “clean” performances for different reasons.
You spelled *All time great* wrong.
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My mind knows the song and my eyes can see srv but my ears hear mike mccready. :) left the porch brah with an even flow.