Clapton 'Sessions' Pay Tribute To Johnson

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » November 1, 2004 5:18 pm

I saw Kenny at the AT&T Blues Festival in Radio City Music Hall 8 years ago, had no clue who he was at the time. He opened the show, the other acts on the bill were Delbert McClinton, The Neville Brothers and BB King, and closed his set with Hendrix' Voodoo Chile. If you closed your eyes you would have sworn you were listening to Hendrix.

tommcat327 · Post by **tommcat327** » November 1, 2004 5:21 pm

ph4ever wrote: The first time I ever heard of Kenny a friend of me described him as the long lost love child of Stevie....

i've seen kenny twice.amazing technical guitarist,i just dont feel he's as pure of a blues man as SRV was.
i wish my buddy would get his ass in gear and start playing out more,he's just unreal but hasnt gotten the "break" yet.
he's actually the guitarist from Stainds instructor

tommcat327 · Post by **tommcat327** » November 1, 2004 5:23 pm

i saw jonny lang open for blues traveler when he was 15,that was unbelievable

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » November 1, 2004 5:24 pm

Has anyone read the book Caught in the Crossfire?? It's one of the 3 out about Stevie's life. Pretty interesting I thought.

This all makes me run out to Oak Cliff to pay a visit to his grave listening to his music....

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » November 1, 2004 5:27 pm

tommcat327 wrote:
Jahfin wrote:
I think he was still considerably under the shadow of the greats he emulated such as Hendrix and Albert Collins. Riveria Paradise was just a hint of what was to come, much like the work Hendrix was doing prior to his death. There's no telling what either of them had up their collective sleeves next but I think we all know it would have been incredibly mindblowing. I thought the Brother To Brother album he did with Jimmie Vaughan, especially Tick Tock, was proof that he had lots more to offer than just the usual guitar histronics (playing it behind his back, with his teeth, etc.) That makes for great showmanship but it takes a very skilled musician to move beyond those traps and I think he definitely had it in him. I think Kenny Wayne Shepherd is approaching (or has very possibly surpassed) that era of his career in the last year or so.
i absolutely think he had more to offer.and while the behind the back thing was cool i dont get too impressed by that.my buddy is the most amazing guitarist i have personally seen and he could do a whole show behind his back.the showmanship of SRV i love was the pure,raw emotion that seemed to come right throught the strings,out the speakers and to your ears.you felt like you knew what he was thinking right then.not too many people could mix that kind of emotion with the pure technical skills he had

I think had Stevie lived he would have EXPLODED. He had only gotten clean and sober a short time before his death and once he did that his talent was growing by leaps and bounds. Let's face it a lot of Stevie's early stuff he's stoned on coke and drunk of crown.

tommcat327 · Post by **tommcat327** » November 1, 2004 5:27 pm

ph4ever wrote:Has anyone read the book Caught in the Crossfire?? It's one of the 3 out about Stevie's life. Pretty interesting I thought.

This all makes me run out to Oak Cliff to pay a visit to his grave listening to his music....

i have that book sitting in front of me right now,just havent got started on it yet

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » November 1, 2004 5:29 pm

tommcat327 wrote:
ph4ever wrote:Has anyone read the book Caught in the Crossfire?? It's one of the 3 out about Stevie's life. Pretty interesting I thought.

This all makes me run out to Oak Cliff to pay a visit to his grave listening to his music....
i have that book sitting in front of me right now,just havent got started on it yet

It's a great book!!! I read it in like a day or so. It was one of those things that once I started I wanted to read more and more

tommcat327 · Post by **tommcat327** » November 1, 2004 5:29 pm

ph4ever wrote: I think had Stevie lived he would have EXPLODED. He had only gotten clean and sober a short time before his death and once he did that his talent was growing by leaps and bounds. Let's face it a lot of Stevie's early stuff he's stoned on coke and drunk of crown.

yep,thats another sad part about it,he worked hard to straighten out only to die.not like the other ones who died because of their addictions

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » November 1, 2004 5:31 pm

tommcat327 wrote:
ph4ever wrote: I think had Stevie lived he would have EXPLODED. He had only gotten clean and sober a short time before his death and once he did that his talent was growing by leaps and bounds. Let's face it a lot of Stevie's early stuff he's stoned on coke and drunk of crown.
yep,thats another sad part about it,he worked hard to straighten out only to die.not like the other ones who died because of their addictions

yea. He had to get straight or die too. He didn't snort coke he put it in his drinks and it really messed up his stomach big time. BUT one of the good things from his death is the NA group he used to attend is still around and strong as ever. They don't publicize that he used to attend their group - I just knew someone who was a long time member of that group.

captainjoe · Post by **captainjoe** » November 1, 2004 6:33 pm

Wasn't SRV with Eric Clapton at Alpine when SRV got on the helicopter by himself?

I saw BB King is Indiana last year and he could not hold a candle to SRV . . BB was also 70 some years old too!

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » November 1, 2004 8:00 pm

tommcat327 wrote:i have that book sitting in front of me right now,just havent got started on it yet

You'll learn how to read some day buddy.

tommcat327 · Post by **tommcat327** » November 2, 2004 8:06 am

nycparrothead wrote:
tommcat327 wrote:i have that book sitting in front of me right now,just havent got started on it yet
You'll learn how to read some day buddy.

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