I Think This Is What They Mean By "Chops"
 

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Indeed, Jeff. One of the many I wish I would have seen :(

Saw him at the Audobon Park Zoo in New Orleans shortly before he died. I remember telling my friend, "I wonder what the elephants think of this?"

Great video, Jeff. :)

I saw him on his final tour with Jeff Beck.

Some of the greatest strat guitar tones ever. His work doesn't seem as profound to me now as it did when I first started listening to him, but he was a great student of a lot of different playing styles and a lot of other great guitarists that came before him, and these influences were carried through him into the mainstream. Thank you SRV, for introducing people like me to the music of Albert King, Lightning Hopkins, Lonnie Mack, Freddy King, Dick Dale, Kenny Burrell, and many others that escape my memory right now

Thanks Jeff. The only thing better than some Double Trouble in the morning would be some Triple Threat. Lou Ann Barton is finally out & about again, she even did a few shows with Jimmy. The thing I love is how Chris & Tommy act like a "real" rhythm section and stay out of the way (Although I do love to listen to Cream every now & then, their "chops" and egos more often than not got in the way of the music). Three soloists at the same time got confusing sometimes live.

"Chops"? yeah, SRV had 'em, but better than chops, his true soul came through. I've heard too many technical players that could have said so much more with ONE properly placed note,;)

Mule, you could hear him all the way over to "Monkey Hill" during that show!

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Good grief. Thats ridiculous. Absolutely brilliant performance. Great tone. Blistering playing. Is that footage from the Monterrey Pop Festival?

Final tour with Jeff Beck? I'm doubtful. I had a chance to see him with Joe Cocker at The Gorge about two months before he died. Not going to that concert was one of my biggest mistakes.

I always laugh at those SRV is better than Jimi posts - lol

Oh man SRV, one of THE greats. Will always be missed.

Man I love the Blues! Thanks for posting, I always have best of SRV on CD in my car (helps in traffic jams)

For a comparison Youtool has SRV and Jimi's Voodoo Child so you can compare them both.

+1

Not Monterey. I'm trying to figure it out...the youtube post says Berkeley but another says it is from Rainbow Bridge.

No matter where it is from, I think it lays out the difference between Jimi and SRV. SRV was a great player (I saw him tour with Beck at LA Sports Arena), but he was not in the same league as Hendrix. No one was...

If you listen to SRV you can distinctly hear Hendrix along with the Kings, Waters, etc. When you listen to Hendrix...well, it is all there along with everyone else and it transcends all of them.

+1.

Im not old enough to have been there when all of this stuff was happening, but the saddest thing Ive learned about Hendrix has been the overwhelming amount of mediocre performances, out takes, jam sessions, half assed experimental off pitch recordings, etc., that were recorded and later whored out to the public by his estate, that really take away from how amazing he was. Almost every time Hendrix picked up a guitar, someone was there to roll tape and capture the result. He was that good. Every half hearted practice session or jam session the man ever did was recorded and sold to the highest bidder after his death.

What I never realized until recently when a good friend of mine pointed it out to me, was that the actual catalog of material that Hendrix thought worthy of releasing to the public is not very large at all. Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland. Thats it. Pretty amazing stuff by itself. Its very hard to listen to those three albums and NOT think that he was on a completely different level than anyone else who has ever picked up a guitar.

Amen! Reminds me of the dozens of recordings of Jaco playing "Teen Town"...Some of them just leave you thinking "WTF"?