SRV Immitators

[Agtronic]

I'm curious to hear some names of "famous" SRV immitators. They don't have to be carbon copies, but I mean, people who play in his style.

I saw this one video a while ago, something with the word Roach in it, Roach Hotel or something, and I just can't find anything on the net about him, I think he sound really good, but I can't remember, it was a while ago.

Let's hear them ...

And please refrain from bashing me ... I realize it must get tiring having people always mentioning SRV, but I really want to see what's out there.

 

[AlChuck]

There's a band called Papa Roach, with a guitarist named Jerry Horton -- could that be what you mean? (I have never heard them but I would never have guessed from the image I've picked up that they had an SRV-type sound.)

I know you said don't bash you but of course SRV was not particularly imitable, since his own style was almost entirely Hendrix and Albert King-based. SRV played it with a passion and was a riveting poerformer but he did almost nothing musically to alter or add to what his influences were.

 

[King Elvis]

When I think of SRV imitators, I think of guys that have tried to cop his sound. Being from Texas, I have heard a lot of guys who try but there was only one SRV. To me Stevie took the Hendrix sound and made it less "fuzzy" and more "round" I hate to see guys playing Stevies songs and be wearing the wild clothes and the hat with a feather and act like they are Gods gift to the guitar. Same with guys who do EVH or Vai or whomever. Those cats were innovators, it is great to be influenced by someone and build on that but just to imitate them is meaningless.

 

[dafduc]

What Al said. Love his stuff, but he added no more to the genre than, say, Robin Trower.

Daf

 

[grinder]

Chris Duarte and Kenny Wayne Sheppard are bluesy players with a SRV type sound.Papa Roach is modern rock.

 

[Aaron Cheney]

I'd pretty much agree with the take on SRV we have going here. The thing I find most funny is when my non-musician friends call him a great songwriter.
There are a lot of different things that can make a guitar player great: innovation, style, technique, feel, tone, etc. I'd say SRV had the market cornered on tone and emotion, but really did nothing innovative. He new his genre well and played with sheer intensity.
Most SRV clones are going for those two things. Many come close tone-wise, but fall shy on the sheer emotion that he had.

Some Stevie Ray "Vaughanabees" by name:

Kenny Wayne Sheppard
Chris Duarte
Todd Tijerina
Jake Andrews
Mato Nanji
Johnny Lang

Happy shuffling,

Aaron
www.voodoovibe.com

 

[dafduc]

Happy shuffling

 

[60's guy]

Here's are some tone toys and one imparticular is a must have
for those SRV wannabees.
http://www.angelfire.com/yt3/redtele/

 

[Joe Recorder]

Indigenous.

 

[jimistone]

I don't agree that SRV wasn"t inovative. I think "riviera paridise" is pretty damn original. He played basic 12 bar blues on alot of things but I think his solos are very original.

He had alot of the Albert feel and Jimi feel, but, I can scan radio stations and get one smidgen of his guitar passing by and know who it is....there is no mistaking him for anyone else (and no mistaking anyone else for him)

 

[Fusion2]

OT but needed...

he had his own style imho, all others are just immitators, he is missed deeply, no telling what he would have been like had he not passed...

he reminded me of Hendrix at times, the real king of hard rock, again, imho...

 

[SHEPPARDB.]

. SRV played it with a passion and was a riveting poerformer but he did almost nothing musically to alter or add to what his influences were.

That statement is complete and utter bullshit!Stevies passion
is why he surpassed his idols.Any living blues legend would dis-
agree with you.Stevie changed everything.

 

[Aaron Cheney]

Nope... I'll stick to my guns. It's not a slam on SRV to say he wasn't an innovator.

Let's face it: blues is not a genre that begs for innovation. Blues is all about feeling, which SRV had in spades.

If I had to name someone who I thought was a living blues innovator, I would name Taj Mahal. Listen to Senor Blues sometime, or Taj with the Hula Blues Band. There is someone taking blues in new directions and doing things no one else is.

I don't really think Stevie was doing that. He was playing Texas-style blues really REALLY well. That was his thing.

And yes... he is sorely missed.

Aaron
www.voodoovibe.com

 

[AlChuck]

Well-said, Aaron my man.,..

 

[Axe4Yahweh]

ROFL

Here's are some tone toys and one imparticular is a must have
for those SRV wannabees.
http://www.angelfire.com/yt3/redtele/

I didn't know that dooode had so many! Thanx for the laugh!

CR ><>

 

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