[Hermitt]

Steve Vai is going to be at a local music store promoting some new Ibanez guitars in May, and this thursday, (4-26) Will Ray (former Hellecasters) is going to be at the same music center during a 'shredfest'

 

[Thelonious Monk]

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Originally Posted by musicmind /img/forum/go_quote.gif Looks like a great DVD. Although, I wasnt aware that Brian May was ever a Fender player, AFAIK he has played the guitar his dad made for him throughout his career.

iirc brian may made the red special himself

 

[musicmind]

It was probably a collaborative effort by father and son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special

 

[AdamCalifornia]

... and the definitions of a Virtuoso and Virtuosity!

Brian Harold May, (born July 19, 1947) is a virtuoso guitarist best known as ...

Brian May

Virtuoso and Virtuosity

 

[Debaser86]

10 pages and no mention of Keiji Haino... guess nobody's into Japanese noise-Jazz...

 

[Exit Pupil]

if you want to see what a true guitar virtuoso can do, watch this...and yep i think he is playing a $40,000 greg smallman guitar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfFbuT3I6A

i absolutely love hendrix et al, but this is in another universe technically. effortless, flawless.

 

[AdamCalifornia]

I've just browsed through 'The Guitar Player's Bible', April 2007
and I found two articles about Stevie Ray Vaughan:

'SRV Blues Legend', pp. 37-45
'Soul to Soul. Inside SRV's Style', pp. 46-48.

What caught my eye:

"He wasn't an innovator pers se. I might get killed for saying that,
but Hendrix was an innovator while Stevie Ray was the ultimate amalgamator.'

They also discuss who influenced him:
T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Chuck Berry, .... and above all Albert King.

' .... he just stole from Albert King, ....'

What do you think?

SRV's 'The Real Deal: Greatest Hits vol. 1', was released in 2007.

 

[Coltrane]

I dont think there is any doubt that SRV was NOT an innovator. He was no doubt an unbelievable player, with phenomenal technique and expressive ability, but he did not add a great deal to the blues language. I still think he is probably the best blues player ever, not counting the sloooow blues that he kind of stayed away from.