Vette335 wrote:NPB_EST.1979 wrote:kwsjb1238 "I gotta say- John Mayer's solo on Bold as Love off Continuum is one of the greatest solos I've ever heard."
It could've been a better vocal though. I don't know - he did a better Wind Cries Mary in my opinion.
The perfect blues song to explain John Mayer is his song: "Who Did You Think I Was" - good guitar, and reflective lyrics. I could go for a whole albums with songs like that.
I love who do you think I was.
John Mayer's tune "Vultures" is brilliant in my opinion.
I disagree with what Joe said. I think anyone who plays a strat and plays SRV licks a;most exclusively (like chris duarte, kws, wes jeans) will be labeled an SRV clone. In my opinion, Joe had a unique strat sound, especially with Bloodline. My answer is if you like the feel of the guitar and you feel it can sucessfully help you to get your point across musically, you should use it. And if what you have to say is truly from the heart, it should sound like you.
Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson all have a unique style even though they all play blues on a strat. The very same guitar! Its about crafting your own tone and sound more than the guitar.
I would definitely question you on how Eric Johnson could be considered blues, but that's just nitpicking, so whatever. lol
I'm not as familiar with Wes Jeans's stuff, so I'm not qualified to give an opinion on his stuff (not that I'm necessarily qualified to give any opinion lol) but with Chris, he really seems to go for the funky side of Stevie's style, while Kenny goes more for the rock side. But what I like about them is how they've taken that style, and kinda added other stuff to it. You hear a lot of harder-edged stuff from Kenny and also the occaisional use of a resonator (Aberdeen, Was, Every Time It Rains) and more of a southern rock style. Chris has gone off into doing some drum beats and a very Chili Peppers feel to a lot of his songs. He has also has very off-beat style of songs (Last Night off Romp comes to mind). To me, where it ends with the Stevie connection is the guitar stylings. Songwise, they actually do very different stuff than Stevie did, but yes, they have the Strat tone running through a Fender or Marshall amp. To me, that sound is definitely not contained to just Stevie. I play through a couple of Strats through a Fender amp (in addition to my lover, my Ibanez Artcore semihollowbody, but whatever). Can I get a semi-Stevie tone? Yes. But do I sound like Stevie. I hear a little bit, but not enough to make me a Stevie clone. What made Stevie's sound more than the guitar tone and his style of playing was the songs that he played. Left to shuffles, he'd have been a Lonnie Mack/Albert Collins/Freddie King clone. Left to slow blues, he would've been an Albert King clone. Left to more rock stuff, he would've been a Hendrix clone. But it was his combination of all those styles (from Pride And Joy to Texas Flood to Couldn't Stand The Weather) and songs in those styles that defined him. That is the way it should be with guys like Kenny and Chris Duarte. Joe is the same way. As great a guitar player as Joe is, I wouldn't have given him one bit of attention after the first listen if the songs themselves had not been good songs.
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