SRV's teacher

[Stratman]

Here is one of the masters of the blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzc-WjFJO5g&mode=related&search=howlin wolf

Take notice of the tone achieved without fancy guitars and amps...

 

[big_black]

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Awesome stuff. So pure.

 

[Baltar]

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great, thanks for posting!

 

[Stratman]

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Don't you own an Edana? Does that qualify as a "fancy amp"?.

Albert King was young Steve's biggest inspiration BTW

Also a fender bassman, superreverb, twin, deluxe, proreverb, holland little jimi, marshall jtm-45, blues breaker, several jcm's, and oh yea, edana.

What's fancy about them?

 

[hareek]

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Don't you own an Edana? Does that qualify as a "fancy amp"?.

Albert King was young Steve's biggest inspiration BTW

really? I thought I read or heard somewhere that it was Hendrix.

EDIT: Disregard what I just wrote. I thought for a minute and realized I spoke too soon. Hendrix was a huge influence on him but your right, Albert King was the man who started it for him.

 

[TimmyPage]

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Thats Albert playing for him? Wha?

Yeah. That's a great tone, it serves as a good reminder to all of us that tone is, in your hands. Gear may help you shape it, but great tone is in the player. IMO, Jazz and Blues are where this is really really true, but in metal, great tone is often just your amp.

 

[ratherdashing]

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Albert King was young Steve's biggest inspiration BTW

+1

 

[shredaholic]

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Those guys are beyond cool :smokin:

 

[ES350]

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More than the other W's (Waters, Walter, Williamson, etc) the Wolf was a real rocker years before anybody else even came close---and never equaled.

 

[Stratman]

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Thats Albert playing for him? Wha?

Yeah. That's a great tone, it serves as a good reminder to all of us that tone is, in your hands. Gear may help you shape it, but great tone is in the player. IMO, Jazz and Blues are where this is really really true, but in metal, great tone is often just your amp.

That's Muddy Waters in the company of pianist Sunnyland Slim and bassist Ernest "Big" Crawford, and Jimmy Rogers.

Members of Waters' various bands-guitarists Jimmy Rogers, Sammy Lawhorn and Luther Johnson, harmonica players Little Walter, Junior Wells and James Cotton, pianists Otis Spann and Pinetop Perkins-left to strike out with bands of their own, spreading the Waters gospel further. Later generations of bluesmen took Waters' approach as their birthright: Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Otis Rush and scores of others-have all been in Waters' debt.

 

[Jeffrec]

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Albert King was young Steve's biggest inspiration BTW

Very true, but Wolf influenced Stevie as well as a ton of others players. Wolf still sends chills up my spine. What a voice:smokin: