A master of the guitar, getting up in the Hendrix range. Only these two can pull off their unique sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OXrmxDp44

skip to 1:30

[Edited on January 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM. Reason : /]

1/9/2010 6:16:39 PM

SRV sounds almost exactly like Hendrix.

1/9/2010 6:21:42 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQFQEARi08




[Edited on January 9, 2010 at 6:27 PM. Reason : /]

1/9/2010 6:23:36 PM

vinylbandit, I generally agree with most everything you say about music, but I must disagree with that statement

SRV plays much more cleanly than Hendrix
and Hendrix plays leads that SRV couldn't have come up with in a thousand years

1/9/2010 6:24:02 PM

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"SRV sounds almost exactly like Hendrix Albert King."

1/9/2010 6:24:32 PM

I suppose I should say that SRV's tone and style are almost identical (by design) to Hendrix.

I'd agree that he was nowhere near the player that Hendrix was.

However, Clapton is nowhere near Hendrix either, and I have no idea what's supposed to be similar between Clapton and Hendrix in that clip.

1/9/2010 6:25:32 PM

March 8th
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1/9/2010 6:27:08 PM

that clip isn't meant to relate to Hendrix, that was just a general statement. You are pretty limited on what you can find to link to...

1/9/2010 6:28:55 PM

Clapton sounds distinctly different than Hendrix...

1/9/2010 7:00:48 PM

really, for me the guitarist who sounds most like Hendrix is Paul McCartney
his leads have the same sort of crazy creativity
though of course he's not nearly as good

1/9/2010 7:02:35 PM

I think that's just a coincidence created by the fact that McCartney doesn't really know what he's doing.

1/9/2010 7:05:48 PM

1/9/2010 7:06:11 PM

Can't Find My Way Home

1/9/2010 7:07:26 PM

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"Clapton sounds distinctly different than Hendrix..."

I never said they sounded the same, I said they each have a unique sound; learn to read dick strap.

1/9/2010 7:09:24 PM

This is nothing special IMO

Some of that shit Tim Reynolds does is way more impressive if you ask me.

1/9/2010 7:10:49 PM

yeah i dont hear anything impressive in that clip, at all

1/9/2010 7:12:10 PM

He's no Loggins.

1/9/2010 7:12:27 PM

^^ The way you phrased it implies that they both can achieve the same sound that no one else can.

1/9/2010 7:12:48 PM

LOL

SRV did NOT, by tone, style, and certainly not design, try to emulate Hendrix. Same songs? Sure. Totally different approach, even in playing style.

and Hendrix came up with a million leads, no disrespect, but I wouldn't say he played leads that SRV couldn't have come up with in a thousand years.

Hendrix just took from Buddy Guy, btw.

1/9/2010 7:16:15 PM

Now this is some insane guitar playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3loMJQJBBE

1/9/2010 7:19:08 PM

fast playing / technical proficiency =/= good guitarist


see also: Yngwie Malmsteen

1/9/2010 7:21:47 PM

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"The way you phrased it implies that they both can achieve the same sound that no one else can."

bingo

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"Only these two can pull off their unique sound"

bam. says it right there in the OP. Their unique sound, that shows joint possession of a singular sound.

1/9/2010 7:22:05 PM

He can also play other shit really really really good.

It just sucks he has no voice for singing.

1/9/2010 7:22:22 PM

joint possession of two unique sounds, it's pretty damn obvious.

1/9/2010 7:23:13 PM

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"fast playing / technical proficiency =/= good guitarist"

1/9/2010 7:23:40 PM

haha, anyone in here arguing that Tim Reynolds isn't a good guitarist is a complete moron.

1/9/2010 7:24:39 PM

Then why pick Clapton?

His sound isn't nearly as unique as Hendrix's; there are plenty of guitarists who are excellent players and have "unique" sounds by the Clapton standards.

1/9/2010 7:25:18 PM

Kinda like Carlos Santana

1/9/2010 7:26:30 PM

BlackDog, I don't like to call randoms on the internet this because it usually goes against the principles of debating something without looking like a douche, but you're an idiot. You do not understand English very well at all if you think what you said implies multiple sounds.

^^For example Joe Walsh

1/9/2010 7:28:01 PM

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"haha, anyone in here arguing that Tim Reynolds isn't a good guitarist is a complete moron."

all you did was post a video of him playing fast. am i supposed to kneel down, unzip tim reynolds' pants, and fellate him now?

1/9/2010 7:31:14 PM

Well I thought everyone in a fucking guitar playing thread would know that Tim Reynolds is considered a badass guitar player.

1/9/2010 7:32:10 PM

He's a good technical player, but I have no desire to listen to him play.

1/9/2010 7:38:49 PM

not unless he makes me fall to the ground and weep

1/9/2010 7:38:51 PM

music fags ITT

1/9/2010 7:39:38 PM

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"music fags ITT"

regular fags making posts like this ITT

1/9/2010 7:42:03 PM

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"He's a good technical player, but I have no desire to listen to him play."

1/9/2010 7:43:01 PM

Anyone that brings up Joe Walsh should be put into a mental institution.

1/10/2010 10:42:50 AM

he's a talented player and I could pick his sound out of a lineup. that's all I'm saying.

1/10/2010 10:49:39 AM

maybe at Woodstock...

now he is a drugged out guitar player who is sloppy as shit.

1/10/2010 10:52:52 AM

OMG A GUITAR PLAYER WHO DOES DRUGZ?

1/10/2010 10:56:34 AM

it's hard to imagine, I know. However Joe Walsh took this to an extreme, if you listen to him at Woodstock and then listen to him on Crossroads Guitar Festival you'd know what I mean.

1/10/2010 11:10:05 AM

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"I'd agree that he was nowhere near the player that Hendrix was."

whaaaaat? I disagree.

I'll buy that Hendrix was more of an innovator, but not a better guitar player.

1/10/2010 11:40:36 AM

even more proof as to why shit like owl city is inferior music

1/10/2010 11:45:00 AM

Clapton did nothing revolutionary but he was definitely a great player

1/10/2010 12:35:38 PM

owl city is fucking terrible

1/10/2010 2:06:42 PM

^^^^
a distinction must be drawn between raw technical ability on the one hand, and the notes/melodies the guitarist composes and plays on the other. Clapton was an incredibly clean, almost quintessentially superb technical guitarist; he had guitar-playing skills out the ass. The notes/melodies he played were also superb, but perhaps not up to the level of his technical ability.

Hendrix, on the other hand, was very flashy and quick-fingered, but his playing was always a little sloppy and a case could perhaps be made that in raw technical ability Eric Clapton was his equal or even superior. But in terms of the notes/melodies played, neither Clapton nor any other rock/blues guitarist comes anywhere close to Hendrix.

And ultimately, excellent technique + superlative songwriting/leads >>> superlative technique + excellent songwriting/leads.

1/10/2010 3:55:24 PM

1/10/2010 3:56:33 PM

Nickleback makes more money then any of these douches YOU people are talking about ITT.

1/11/2010 9:00:44 AM

entertainment come pick up your lost child here

1/11/2010 9:50:12 AM

there are 3 threads like this one, I doubt they are moving anywhere.

1/11/2010 11:09:41 AM