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Location: Michigan | :( :o After listening to some Robin Trower and Steven Ray Vaughn music I wondered if they tried to copy the Jimi Hendrix style of music or just bring that style to their own personal level ? They both copy some Hendrix songs and almost just seem to want to say ,, Hey I can play & sound just like the late great Jimi Hendrix.
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Location: Central Massachusetts | SRV was certainly influenced by Hendrix, but let's not forget all of the blues guitarists he looked up to and drew from: Albert King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, his brother Jimmie.. go listen to some of those guys and I think you'll hear all of them in SRV, not just Hendrix. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Everybody is influenced by somebody, or many people. That's just the way it is. Dave |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I'd be happy to sound like either one of them. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | At some time in you life you heard someone play the guitar and said,
"I wanna play just like That!"
Oh... And the answer to the question is "No"... :cool: |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Both legendary guitarists first and vocalists second who garnered more fame after death than while living, particularly Jimi. IMHO, SRV was more narrowly focused in his genre (dirty blues) while Jimi was more creative and played riffs and in a style that didn't exist anywhere at the time. Both did it their own way, but, again IMHO, SRV was closer to mainstream in his time whereas Jimi was at the very edge. |
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| Robin Trower never pretended to be anything other than a disciple of JH.
Why would that make anyone angry?
SRV was a blues player who used a lot of Hendrix's sound rather than his riffs.
Why would that make anyone angry? |
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Location: ms | WELL SAID SCHROEDER..... |
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Location: NJ | Let's leave FoxNews out of this, shall we?? . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | No, I was talking abou...
Oh, I get it! A cheap political jibe, right? Very clever! :D |
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Location: NJ | Not at all, . . . simple Journalistic Opinion. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by cliff:
Not at all, . . . simple Journalistic Opinion. Don't get him started.............. |
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Location: NJ | 10-12 years ago, Procol Harum put out the "Prodigal Stranger" album in which Trower returned as their guitarist, and did some really nice stuff on it - NONE of it Hendrix-esque.
SRV was someone I was never a huge fan of, but when we started doing a couple of his tunes, I'd developed a "degreee" of new-found respect for.
I'd ALWAYS thought that Hendrix was exCEEDingly OverRated. He was SOMEwhat "innovative" - for that particular time in MusicalHistory, and Death has a way of making someone INSTANTLY "Legendary".
Same w/Joplin & Morrison. Entirely OverRated singers.
Had these guys lived, we'd probably be seeing them on those SundayAfternoon PBS shows with IronButterfly & the Cowsills . . . |
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Location: Indiana | I saw both Hendrix and Trower live. Only similarity I remember was they both played Strats through 3 Marshall Stacks. Hendrix was on the left side of stage, Trower the right.
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Location: Chicago | I saw Trower, Dewar (bass vocals) and co& a few times in the early 70s. Gotta say he had a very different concept. It was the Hendrix strat sound but done at a very slow, bluesy burn. Dewar's vocals were fantastic and in no way resembled any recorded Hendrix. Trower had a very smooth "jam-based" approach that also was not very Hendrix. A class act, in short. |
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Location: Michigan | Hey Cliff how many of the COWSILLS tune do you do when youre playing out :D :D .GWB |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I know three:
We Can Fly
Gotta Get Away From It All
In Need Of A Friend |
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| I've never even heard of the Cowsills.
What is a cowsill? |
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We Can Fly
Gotta Get Away From It All
In Need Of A Friend . ."
That's because Witko IS one of the Cowsills . . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
That's because Witko IS one of the Cowsills . . . . WAS |
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ARE ROBIN TROWER & STEVEY RAY VAUGHN RIP OFFS OF JIMI HENDRIX STYLE ????