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Who's the Stevie Ray Vaughan of blues organ?


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..... I honestly am baffled that anyone would thing of Jorday or Wakeman as "Blues" players in the spirit of this question. ...

 

I don't think they are blues players. But the question was who is a blues eqivilent of SRV. :laugh:

 

 

The question was who is the "blues organ equivalent of SRV". Rudess or Wakeman would not be a good fit for that category

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Hey Steve,

 

Jimmy Calire has a website and has stuff available on CD baby and I tunes. Looks like he does mostly piano now. I'll check this guy out. Thanks for the heads up.

 

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Yeah, I know. It's been a long time since a sat rapt in front of his B3 (like 40+ years :o )

The closest thing on his current page to what I think this thread is talking about is that live cut from the mid 90s of "Change is Gonna Come" when Raven did a "reunion" concert in Buffalo.

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Guess it takes a guitar player playing piano to do Jimi any justice! :laugh:

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Hmmm. I don't know exactly what that is, but it ain't Hendrix IMO. No likee. I prefer the other clip where he plays it on a Strat.

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Reese is probably digging getting to play with some cats who aren't tuning down a half-step.

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If you include vocal ability ...

 

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If you don't need vocals, these aren't strictly blues players, but they're great blues tracks anyway.

 

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I suggested Lee Michaels in the first thread on this topic. Slightly off topic, here is a different question:

 

Who is the Santana of organ?

 

The answer is Gregg Rolie.

 

He was responsible for a significant portion of the Santana and Pre-Perry-Journey sound.

 

Before he fell back on repeating a cliche of himself, I think Santana played guitar like an organist with a Leslie speaker cabinet.......bouncing back and forth between mysterious melodic passages to intensely emotional peaks. Pre-Perry-Journey's Neal Schon was Carlos Santana on steroids. Gregg Rolie added a fullness to the sound and provided a complimentary break from the guitars.

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...chronologically, wouldn't Vaughan be the guitar equivalent of Steve Winwood on Hammond ?

 

Winwood predates Vaughan, ergo the question should be reversed.

 

As a keyboardist, I really don't give a hoot-in-Hell about Vaughan or any other guitar hero.

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...chronologically, wouldn't Vaughan be the guitar equivalent of Steve Winwood on Hammond ?

 

Winwood predates Vaughan, ergo the question should be reversed.

 

As a keyboardist, I really don't give a hoot-in-Hell about Vaughan or any other guitar hero.

 

 

I actually liked Winwood's approach to the guitar more than SRV's. Winwood is the original triple threat. Great Hammond player, great guitarist, and of course. that amazing voice.

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What are the criteria for determining equivalence between an organist and a guitar player ?

 

Like do they cop each others licks, comparable harmonies for the 3 chors used ib typical blues, or the ability to bend notes or is it popularity/timelessness, songwriting ability, vocals?

 

A strange and difficult comparison to make...

 

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This was a good rock band playing blues record if you like that SRV sort of thing.

 

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Sammy Avila. - Hammond Sam I think he is still playing with Walter Trout.

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Some good Blues done without a post-war Blues orchestra lineup.

 

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Sammy Avila. - Hammond Sam I think he is still playing with Walter Trout.

 

Yes, he is. Shared a festival bill with them this summer. He uses an XK3c through a 122. But for some reason the 122 was not working that night, so he used a Ventilator, much to the chagrin of his soundguy / tech who kept complaining how much the Vent "sucked". :freak:

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Sammy Avila. - Hammond Sam I think he is still playing with Walter Trout.

 

Yes, he is. Shared a festival bill with them this summer. He uses an XK3c through a 122. But for some reason the 122 was not working that night, so he used a Ventilator, much to the chagrin of his soundguy / tech who kept complaining how much the Vent "sucked". :freak:

 

Probably should have used a Burn instead.

 

 

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Hard to find any keyboardist that spawned an army of hat/scarf wearing wanna be's

Very true.... When I lived in Houston until a few years ago, a bandleader I used to play for referred to the SRV guitar-clone army as the "Hats and Strats idiots".

 

IMO the guitarists' SRV wannabee thing has become almost as cliché as Elvis impersonators. It's a shame too, because I actually rather enjoyed some of SRV's material, especially the songs in which he used to let Reese cut loose. Although, in general, I prefer his brother Jimmy's catalogue more.

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...chronologically, wouldn't Vaughan be the guitar equivalent of Steve Winwood on Hammond ?

 

Winwood predates Vaughan, ergo the question should be reversed.

 

As a keyboardist, I really don't give a hoot-in-Hell about Vaughan or any other guitar hero.

 

your loss. I'm a guitar player who's gotten truckloads of inspiration - not to mention knowledge - from guys like Duke Ellington, Keith Emerson and McCoy Tyner for longer than I've been playing the six strings.

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...chronologically, wouldn't Vaughan be the guitar equivalent of Steve Winwood on Hammond ?

 

Winwood predates Vaughan, ergo the question should be reversed.

 

As a keyboardist, I really don't give a hoot-in-Hell about Vaughan or any other guitar hero.

 

your loss. I'm a guitar player who's gotten truckloads of inspiration - not to mention knowledge - from guys like Duke Ellington, Keith Emerson and McCoy Tyner for longer than I've been playing the six strings.

 

...you're free to take your shot, but I'll decide whether I "lose" or not by my musical choices.

 

Glad you like Duke, Emerson, et al...

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