The guitar was an extension of his being! There will never be another SRV! It was just so natural to him!

@jamespotts8197

Жыл бұрын

Greg Howe is an amazing player listening to jump start

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

Never. Hev played as effortlessly with the guitar behind his back and inverted behind his head like noone has since or ever before!

Hats off to Mr. Howe for showing that respect. Huge fan of guitar music in general, I always frown of these discussions of "who's the best?" Stevie did occasionally venture into some jazzy stuff - think "Stang's Swang" or Riviera Paradise - and cited Grant Green as an influence. Holdsworth was quoted that he'd rather listen to someone with less technical ability if they were playing with feeling. It's what is coming through in the artistic expression, whether one's soul is in it or not.

Love Both

Having knowledge can never hurt you, but it’s not the knowledge that makes you. It’s your own sense of feeling you put into your music, or even lack of feeling if that’s genuinely how you feel ,to play or sing it.

Sooner listen to SRV. than any shredder.

@hockeyman2274

Жыл бұрын

Amen!

@waltermoldren4991

Жыл бұрын

the thing is that he actually could shred, but it's just not necessary. but there is live stuff out there with him shredding. maybe not with exotic notes, but it's still wild.

@hankramos8663

Жыл бұрын

Yes modern shredding is not my cup of tea neither and although I do appreciate the level of dexterity and skill needed to play extremely fast it just seems like after a few minutes of listening it somehow becomes uninteresting to me.

@pmoney3688

Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t do it for me either, although I wish I was capable of it, just so I can sprinkle my playing with just a little bit of it when I want to crank up the intensity…… not gonna happen for me, I just have to stick to vibrato🎸

@albertodesantis739

Жыл бұрын

Shawn Lane, Matteo Mancuso and Max Ostro are super clean shredders

SRV had talent literally from a different plane of existence. Since then, that channel to the other world has been closed and nobody has figured out how to tap into it again. What Stevie did was one of a kind and probably will never be matched

@MusicAsWeMakeIt

Жыл бұрын

Really well said. It was Stevie, not the guitar.

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

Yes! He had a divine gift from God...and anyone can shred..I can as well but I also play an amazing blues guitar and would much rather blow crowds away doing the blues as I have and do then playing 20 notes a second which end up sounding LIKE GARBLED NOISE! Yngvei Malmsteen from the 80s was the best, most precise and pleasant to the ears 'shredder' that ever existed. He was also gifted by God as well. No shredder ever touched him..not even until this day!

@onepocketnovice

Жыл бұрын

He's eh

To each his own. But personally I'll take the feel and tone over technically fast and difficult any day. SRV had both in a very tasty measure!

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

Precisely what I say.

It's how it's written and played, not how fast or complicated. The sound came out of SRV through his guitar. That's what is missed by many, from Mozart to Miller to Lennon to Vaughn, it's was them, not the instrument.

Yea Gregg right on❤

It’s not really about who can play the “most” guitar. Sure Stevie generally stuck to the same scales and patterns, but he made you feel every note. And every time, it was a mew feeling. It was real. Playing that came from the soul. What’s not to love.

The reason of learning other scales and other types of music is to enhance your creativity.. SRV was a great performer and player. That doesn't mean he wasn't learning something new to him when he passed... He had many influences that you can hear in his playing..

Agreed.

He's got is Style l prefer Stevie Ray Vaughn

Just playing a bunch of notes doesn’t say much. “It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing”

Greg howe was one of the most underrated guitarist not like van Halen Paul Gilbert or Steve Vai.

SRV has certainly played a melodic minor before. He’s obviously more in the blues dom pentatonic world, but he has a few songs here and there on each album that are a different vibe and I’m sure he drops a melodic minor somewhere in there. Also, way more feel than this guy. Crazy fast stuff is impressive, but it’s even more impressive when you know how to be reserved with how much you do it and how it fits with the rest of the band. This guy is just goin to town and that stuff gets annoying after a while. It’s good voicings, feel, and also periodically building up to some serious technical stuff (at the right place and time) that makes SRV the absolute best to ever do it.

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

100%

Any day! And just saying, but yes, SRV did shred..and could play his guitar behind his back and up behind his head inverted BETTER then any 'so called' shredder can play with their guitar right in front of them. They're all just jealous...I'm also an amazing blues guitarist who can shred if I choose too..can play Eruption, Randy Rhoads solos, etc. So I CHOOSE to play blues..and can also SHRED THE BLUES like no other guitarist I've ever seen yet..other than SRV. And dont forget, he tragically passed away over 30 years ago..IMAGINE the level at which he would be playing today had he nor passed and still been playing this entire time?!! Nobody would be able to touch him...period.

@drdabsmore945

7 ай бұрын

That's just an outright lie. SRV was amazing, no doubt, but he didn't have the technical ability of someone like Paul Gilbert or Steve Vai, but that's okay because he never needed to play like them, that's not the point of being a musician. But if you're talking about technical ability, it's just patently false that SRV was better than any guitarist.

Stevie did what alot of guitarist do.. he perfected his own style..

yep

Pretty humble fella there Gregg… U are wizard status my brother..!!!

Shredding all sounds like run together exercises over demo tracks after a while.

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

Garbled noise. SRV made amazing and inspiring, goosebumps raising MUSIC! Behind his back even and never hitting a single sour note!? Divinely touched player for sure. I belueve God called him home early so He could HAVE SRV play for Him personally!

One has soul and the other sounds like my old internet dial up modem

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

Howe being the Internet Modem from what I hear?

Most of the comments are ridiculous! Going back and forth over who's better than who is the farthest thing from the greater point that Greg is making! Listen folks! We're talking music here, and there are many ways to create it in a beautiful way! For example, I'll mention the 2 players that Greg referenced. I love both SRV and Holdsworth equally. Neither is better, they're just different. Stevie would be a lesser version of Alan than Alan would, and likewise, Alan Holdsworth would be a lesser version of Stevie than Stevie was. They were uniquely unique! Bird watchers never say "that bird is better than that one." No! They realize that they're all birds, and they appreciate the differences, while marveling at their individual attributes. We all have preferences, that's true. That's probably the way to come at these type of issues. One's preference is tangible. Better and best when discussing legendary guitarists, or anything else is impossible to quantify.

People try to compare these guitarists and you can't really. They're different and they play different styles. Stevie Ray Vaughn in my opinion is the greatest but he is mostly blues, so you can't compare that to rock or anything else.

Greg who ?

Na bro, SRV was and IS waaaay higher than any guitarist.

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

A Godsend

@drdabsmore945

7 ай бұрын

No, he's not. You just like him a lot, and that's okay, but he wasn't better than everyone else. SRV was amazing, but you don't have to lie about his ability. When you lie and say that he was more technically talented than he was, you're insulting his legacy by implying his playing wasn't already good enough. It was, it was more than good enough, it was amazing. But he wasn't the best guitarist alive, and it's an emasculating insult to try and say he was the greatest.

Last part sounded to me like a bunch of nonsense…..tonal diarrhoea

@drewnewstrom4929

Жыл бұрын

Tonal diarrhea is such a good way to put it 😂

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

Garbled Noise as I keep saying.

"Steamy Ray Vaughan just shits his britches

@stewartwhitten9036

Жыл бұрын

The goat,total package ,a player that comes around once in a life time.theres way to many of those fellas that shred as you call it.thousands of them,they haven't got a way to separate there playing from one another.long live stevie ray

Greg Howe you know its him in the second, the tilt album with kotzen is the shit men !!!!

Once again the comment section demonstrates 0 understanding of the video

Frank Gambale is the Top G

There isn't an ounce of feel....Eddie can play really fast too....hahaha...SRV FOREVER PARTNER....

Im a fan of SRV and Holdsworth, I'm thrilled to hear them both mentioned together! And his statement is so true!

Stevie's the goat,that fella couldn't play what stevie played.

@stephenhazatone3587

Жыл бұрын

OF ALL TIME!

@pmoney3688

Жыл бұрын

I worship at the Stevie Ray Vaughan altar, like everyone else. But I wouldn’t be so sure this guy couldn’t pull off some Stevie Ray Vaughan. There are many guitarists, who mimics Stevie Ray Vaughan quite well. In fact, I would say damn near perfectly. So I would not be so quick to say this guy doesn’t have the ability, what I would say is this guy probably does not have the ability to write a melody like Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s solos were on an unconscious level. now that being said, from all the different bits and pieces of live performances, I’ve seen, Stevie Ray Vaughan did not veer far from the way he recorded those solos either. But I’m sure if we threw him into any type of open jam setting, he would do more than hold his own. And when I say, Jam , I’m not talking, blues jam, I mean, funk, Gospel, jazz, reggae, country, Bluegrass …. Willing to bet Stevie could hold his own on just about any stage.

Stevie never played the same note once.

SRV is Albert King on steroids

Please stop it with the goat stuff it doesn't apply to art music and art are not sport's it offensive to most artists to label them like that Stevie would be the first to disagree with you about your claim

Unimpressed with the shredding. Gimme SRV!!

Isnt this Pat Smear?

Lmaoooooo Lmaoooooo Lmaoooooo whoa k greg..... have you guys consistently played the heavier gauged strings that Stevie does? Could your little flippity fingers handle those strings with that much vigor and power. If you all want to sound like Joe Satriani or Yngwie that's fine. But let's hear your string it up with those heavy strings and play the blues like Stevie with that much feeling and expertise. My opinion you won't even come close.

@Cosmiq_MARZ

11 ай бұрын

What does the gauge of string have to do with anything? The way I see it, SRV used heavier gauge strings to work 3 times harder just to still sound shitty and clunky. SRV wouldn’t have enough finesse to play on 8s. If you like fighting with your guitar than that’s you but most people with heavy gauges lack the finesse to play lighter gauges. With that being said, Greg would dog walk SRV, it’s not even close. SRV was sloppy and a one trick pony while Greg actually understands dynamics.

@James-xg1pr

11 ай бұрын

@@Cosmiq_MARZ I'll take this as one of the most remedial responses I've ever heard of. I mean I'm literally on the floor picking my legs up and down and laughing my ass off!

@James-xg1pr

11 ай бұрын

@@Cosmiq_MARZ you and Greg would have to work three times stronger, not Stevie Stevie had some of the strongest fingers in the business. Not the little long skinny straws that are easy to bounce around on super light strings.

@Cosmiq_MARZ

11 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@James-xg1prthat’s funny! I have the same reaction when I listen to mediocre guitarists like SRV! I said what I said and it’s an objective truth. SRV only knew one guitar lick and reused it over and over. He’s is the definition of being an unoriginal guitar player. There’s a reason why people can easily play his stuff, but the same can’t be said about people playing Greg’s material.

@Cosmiq_MARZ

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@James-xg1prwhy would you want to work 3 times harder? And like I said SRV worked harder just to still sound like shit so did it really amount to anything? He’s the most basic blues man out there.

People just got sold to the "shredder" virtuoso b.s.

Ask Paul Reed himself what he thinks of shredders...... His answer will be, " They need to learn how to play an actual song......" It's just fast noise!!😮

Srv

That guitar just sounds like NOISE to me. Just awful.

@nakinaki7991

Жыл бұрын

Go cry to your mommy😢

Does not impress me ! There’s more to playing then playing

Wrong

Sorry Greg has great technique but his playing severely lacks special awareness within the composition and is devoid of any feel or satisfying resolution. All practice and no voice - certainly compared to SRV or even EVH if you want to talk about melodic minors.

I'll take SRV over this guycany time. Shredding at 200 mph is boring as hell. There is nothing melodic about it. Fast and great technique? Yes. Melodic? No!! Long Live SRV !!!

Anybody can play fast, but how many play fast with vibrato, not many.

Melodic minor scale hahaha,there's a trillion guitarist out there playing like a shredder,let's get real stevie's better brudda

@Cosmiq_MARZ

11 ай бұрын

Don’t be an idiot, there’s certainly not a trillion guitarists out there shredding, especially not on the level of Greg, and if you think all Greg does is shred then you obviously don’t know much about him. I’d rather play like Greg than sloppy like SRV

@tarekmaier5825

7 ай бұрын

I hope you realize that Greg here is in no way bashing Stevie lol. He’s saying Stevie wouldn’t ever need a melodic minor scale for the music that Stevie makes. He starts the video by saying Stevie is one of the greats of all time. He then explains how you don’t need to learn something just because you are told to, you can still make awesome music. And he uses Stevie as a reference because Stevie doesn’t need to do anything else but do what Stevie did.