Guitar chord forum - chordie — SRV versus JIMI

Re: SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (acmecorp) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:14:01 +0000

Yeah, too right.

I'm old enough to have seen Pele play against England in a friendly back in the 60's at the old Wembley Stadium.

Spellbinding ...

Oh, and must go and listen to Victoria Beckham's latest CD for some musical inspiration (NOT!)

Re: SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (moddish) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:22:57 +0000

Not really a fan of SRV so I'm gonna come down on the side of Jimmi here.
I agree with the comment that if you pour enough of yourself into a song you make it your own.

However, I am bemused by the Pele, Beckham analogy........Beckham shouldn't even be mentioned on the same day as Pele....never mind in the same breath!! lol

Craig.

Re: SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (bootleger) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:11:55 +0000

I have read before but I do not recall where that SRV was the best at doing Hendrix covers than anyone else. Listen to the to recordings of Voodo Chile by both Hendrix and SRV both masterfully done. I remember the first time I heard the SRV version I was coming back from lunch with a friend and I said wait let me hear this, I thought it was a lost Hendrix version just released. I told my friend the same, then the radio announcer said the same. He also said but it is not that was SRV doing Hendrix. I had just read about him in guitar player magazine so I went and bought his two albums (cd's weren't out yet) and I was hooked.

Bootlegger.

Re: SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (gitaardocphil) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:22:03 +0000

That's right, but I posted this topic because it is almost impossible to start discussing who's the best.
Take "soccer", is BECKHAM, better than PELE?, we forget almost always, that artists back in the sixties are difficult to compare with artists in the nineties. And so we can go on to discuss about VAI, and SATRIANI. What I respect really hard, are artists who compose, and perform as what I called, naked music. Neil Young alone with his huitar, same with Springsteen, and Dylan.
What is virtuosity? A few centuries ago you had that almost linked with the devil, violist PAGANINI. Even today there are virtuoso people playing the violin, unable to play pieces of songs written by Paganini: though there is an explication, a medical one: PAGANINI suffered from a disease: MARFAN'S SYNDROME, one of the symptoms is: extremely long fingers, tall, skinny, problems in the blood, and almost always doomed to die young.

Re: SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (etc_04) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:43:32 +0000

why compare when you can enjoy?

Re: SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (Zurf) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:29:23 +0000

There is no 'best' when you're talking about people the calibre of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Each of them poured enough of themselves into the music that even when doing a cover they made it their own. When speaking of folks like that there is only 'preferred,' and that changes by listener.

That said, there was a lot the Jimi played that I don't care for (though Crosstown Traffic may be the perfect rock song) and I have yet to hear an SRV song that I didn't like.

- Zurf

SRV versus JIMI

null@example.com (gitaardocphil) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:04:05 +0000

I love the guitar, in the songs they both play, and, often I am looking on music download sites, is that almost always you will notice, the existence of 2 numbers performed by really great guitarists, songs Jimi played years before.
- Little Wing
- Voodoo Child
I have an SRV album, isn't it Texas Flood, on which SRV plays Voodoo Child, I didn't compare the 2 versions, I only know that the version played by SRV is real close to the HENDRIX version.

So again, it's not impossible to discuss about who is the best, or am I wrong, because the only way to find out is to download Voodoo Child, and all the performers, burn them on CD, and if you have 25 versions, like the girl from ipanema, all together on 1 CD, and different performers. Results are going from the original, even to rock.