That SRV comping style on "Pride and joy"

[hecube]

Any example of that style on recording by other guitar players before Stevie popularized it?

 

[DRF]

What do you mean comping style, like the muted chugging?, thats what I think of when SRV is mentioned. I dunno, maybe Green Onions.

 

[EasyAce]

Sometimes I thought the "Pride and Joy" comp derived a bit from Jimmy Reed's loping shuffles . . .

 

[Gin&Pentatonic]

I always thought Stevie was the perfect marriage of Jimmy Reed & Albert King.

 

[Dougie]

To get that style, Stevie played bass with his left hand and drums with his right. The downstroke of the pick is the kick drum, the upstroke is the snare. He played a walking scale on the 1's and alternated open strings on the and's.

Cool stuff really.

There is also another style in Texas carried on by the guys that came up when Stevie was coming up there, it's similar to the Pride And Joy rhythm but you pull sideways off the notes with your first finger and dig under the E and A with your thumb and it gets a certain very identifiable tone that is pretty much unknown outside of that circle of musicians. His brother did it well but it wasn't a mainstay of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. If you listen to some of the other guys that were in that same Antone's genre, you will pick up on it.

 

[John Vasco]

I always thought Stevie was the perfect marriage of Jimmy Reed & Albert King.

With a hefty chunk of Larry Davis thrown in as well. Listen to this and you can see where he got his style completely...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boulE-ihcoY]Texas Flood / Larry Davis - YouTube[/ame]

 

[EasyAce]

I always thought Stevie was the perfect marriage of Jimmy Reed & Albert King.

With Jimi Hendrix as the best man and Lonnie Mack officiating . . .

 

[Dougie]

Listen to this and you can see where he got his style completely...

Nope, takes more than one blues cover to pin the tail on that donkey's a$$.

Stevie made a hit record with Texas Flood, but there are a thousand other T-Bone Walker influenced blues songs no different than Larry Davis' reading of Texas Flood. Stevie liked everything that was cool, and if it sounded good to him or Jimmie and Jimmie played it, then Stevie borrowed from it and absorbed it into what he did. Lonnie Mack, Jimi, that's a really long list crediting all the Kings, all the Alberts and even Blind Boy Fuller..

 

[John Vasco]

Nope, takes more than one blues cover to pin the tail on that donkey's a$$.

Stevie made a hit record with Texas Flood, but there are a thousand other T-Bone Walker influenced blues songs no different than Larry Davis' reading of Texas Flood. Stevie liked everything that was cool, and if it sounded good to him or Jimmie and Jimmie played it, then Stevie borrowed from it and absorbed it into what he did. Lonnie Mack, Jimi, that's a really long list crediting all the Kings, all the Alberts and even Blind Boy Fuller..

Listen to the vocals as well...

 

[brandoniusrex]

To get that style, Stevie played bass with his left hand and drums with his right. The downstroke of the pick is the kick drum, the upstroke is the snare. He played a walking scale on the 1's and alternated open strings on the and's.

Cool stuff really.

There is also another style in Texas carried on by the guys that came up when Stevie was coming up there, it's similar to the Pride And Joy rhythm but you pull sideways off the notes with your first finger and dig under the E and A with your thumb and it gets a certain very identifiable tone that is pretty much unknown outside of that circle of musicians. His brother did it well but it wasn't a mainstay of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. If you listen to some of the other guys that were in that same Antone's genre, you will pick up on it.

Might you have any examples of this? I'm having trouble visualizing/hearing what it would be like.

 

[Dougie]

Listen to the vocals as well...

Oh I perfectly know what you mean, even in the phrasing and how both of them drag out the end of 'I been tryin' to call my babyyyyyyyyy" Not saying there isn't similarity, just Stevie got his style from a lot of artists not primarily one man or one style. He totally took things in and made reference to them in his playing and his singing. And they became part of who he was as an artist.

Did he totallly get his style from Larry Davis? No. Did he flatter and pay homage to Larry Davis and then rightfully carry that influence into his style? Most Definitely.

Have you ever heard Stevie in a jazz setting? Oh my my my... HAIRS standing up as I type this.. Check out Bennie Wallace - Twilight Time. Long out of print, this album has Stevie at his very very very best, and nobody knows about it.

Might you have any examples of this? I'm having trouble visualizing/hearing what it would be like.

I'm trying to think, seems like maybe Denny Freeman or some of the other cats that were around when Stevie was coming up, you might find some of that if you can find some recordings of the bands that were around Dallas/Austin scene back then.

I first saw and heard this style at the Dallas guitar show in 91 I think, there was some Texas boys jamming and I was mesmerized by this sorta Texas two-step kinda shuffle and they were doing it on a strat, like I described, thumb and finger, alternating muting between notes, it was really cool but I don't know any direct reference to it that I could steer you at.

Ok Edit: Found this example of Jimmie Vaughan comping in this style, it's quite similar to Gatemouth, Albert Collins style of pulling the first finger off the string to play the note:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPG3DVfWcjE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPG3DVfWcjE[/ame]

In this example, JLV does not use his thumb to dig into the bass strings and get that big E string "pop" Like Stevie did, but the guy I saw in Dallas combined that with this shuffle style to great effect..

 

[Dougie]

Want to hear where Stevie got "Scuttlebuttin" check out the new Hendrix, track 05 Let Me Move You. Also very cool in that track, is Jimi copping a little piece of Lonnie Mack note for note...