All this talk about guitar

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It's like watching a professional athlete or world class gymnast - you know that you'll never be able to do that.
And, you are happy that a human being can excel so perfectly.
 
The comments on crossfire say it perfectly. The great musicians/guitarists KNEW; you and I could practice every day we live, till our hands were a bloody pulp; still couldn't do the things they do.

To me there was something about Stevie. I just can't put my hands on it. I just like his style and who he was. Frikkin bad asss. Dude couldn't even read music hardly. He could simply play a guitar and right amazing songs with no teaching him anything how to do any of it.
 
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No one could play one better IMO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2sNXlcQOFQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWF2FGuSWg&mode=related&search=

and one of my all time favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8MHhdN0bBA

and for those who say he's one dimensional (what a joke that is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2yuUISn5zM

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Drew, thanks for posting these. You should have heard him play in his garage band when he was 12. Was he the best, probably not, but he has always been my favorite since I first met him many years ago. I still miss him to this day. Every year when I go to Dallas, I go my the cemetary to pay my respects.

Here's to SRV
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I think he was the best. No one could technically play a guitar better, no one. Plus, he sounded GOOD and every ounce of his being came out through his guitar.
 
Did you know he used to play so much his fingertips would be too bloody and raw to fret the strings? So he's put drops of Super Glue on them, then stick them on his other arm. When it dried, he pulled his fingers off, with a new coating of arm-skin.
 
There are some that just have that bit extra, that sets them above and apart. SRV had that. At the elite level, it's about emotion and feel more than technique. The music needs to connect and move you, and SRV's music does that for me. It was a dark day that helicopter crashed and took away such a skilled musician.

I'm learning to play the Hendrix version of Little Wing, and maybe after that I'll learn the SRV version. Both are sublime in their own way.
 
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