I am 54 years old. I started playing guitar a year or so before this interview. Jimmy Page made me want to play guitar, then I heard Jimi and SRV and that was it. When Stevie says very few people surpassed what he did, he nailed it. That is it, RIP to both of them. They both have had a huge impact on my life and especially my guitar playing. Thanks for posting this interview!!

After listening to this interview I had to look up boot hill. I absolutely can hear what Stevie was saying.

Thank you for this interview. It's 2024 and it sounded like Stevie was still here with us. I was already a Hendrix fan. Didn't care for Blues. Then Stevie came on the scene. He showed me how the Blues could HURT SO GOOD. He broadened my horizons introducing me to Collins, King, Guy, etc. Stevie enriched my life. As this interview closes, I was brought to tears as he talks about Jimi but he could have been describing himself. We did not know that he would be leaving us. I will always love snd miss Stevie.

@curbozerboomer1773

3 ай бұрын

SRV...No doubt for me...Stevie was a bridge, from one generation, to the next, in dealing with a very special type of Blues playing....Hendrix was the main instigator of this very exploratory, emotional expression of the Human Condition as he experienced it. Towards the final months of his life, Jimi would make little remarks about his own demise. And so, to hear SRV talk about that subject, has a powerful mystery to it!...At least Stevie had conquered his addictions, and did not die by his own carelessness, like Hendrix did. SRV mentioned that very few players have bettered what Hendrix did on guitar...well, it is clear, that SRV was one of those "few" that did advance that aspect of the Hendrix vibe, further on down the road!.The first time I heard Stevie playing Voodoo Child on trhe radio, I actually thought it was an alternate take, by Jimi!

Stevie Ray was a super down to earth guy... an influence on me in many ways... thank you for posting the interview 🎸☕

I own an SRV Strat. I purchased my first guitar because of Stevie. To hear him talk of such things…. Thank you for sharing this. I only wish I could add a pic of my SRV.

Saw SRV 3 times in concert including his last show at Alpine Valley. I remember driving back to college the next day after the show and the Loop (radio station in Chicago) was playing a block of Stevies music which was great but kind of odd...then the DJ came on and announced that he had died in the helicopter crash...I was crushed. Such a brilliant player

That was wonderful. I heard at the back of his bus was a "Jimi Shrine" where he'd chill on the road back in the early days.

Stevie's words with regard to Jimi could easily apply to him now. Prophetic.

Its so cool to listen to the audio of these interviews we all read so many years ago, SRV, Eddie etc.❤

Thank You this was great ! Excellent journalism and research- Sly Williams blog hill . Can hear that whammy vibrato. Loved SrV take on Jimi’s blues playing , he had the touch that gives and wants to go up to reach others with confidence. Let every guitar player have this as SRV lived about these words, just play with heart and have soul

Rest in melody, Stevie Ray. 🙏🎸

I was 14 in 1989, and had been playing about a year. I distinctly recall that Guitar Player cover story, and I bet I still have it somewhere. As a writer myself, it's always nice to put a face with a writer's name.

@rickg8015

6 ай бұрын

I was 14 too, and I had that GP issue with Hendrix in Monterey on the cover..

Awesome interview, really blows my mind that SRV would be gone the next year. Sad. Sounds like a great guy, same with his brother.

I like how he uses the whammy bar on his appearance on the Dick Cavatt show

Amazing interview per usual Jas Obrecht!! Thanks again 🎸 ❤️

Thanks so much for sharing this awesome conversation ❤

What a great resource these interviews are for younger guitarists! Thanks so much Jas!

this is so great Jas. Thank you!!

Can't stop listening to SRV

Please tell me you have some Frank Marino interviews in the chamber.

Stevie said that “ He didn’t think Jimi died because he was a druggie, he had some help….leave it at that”

Oh I had that issue :)

If you look at what Jimi'z peers did musically over the course of decades,he did in a few short years.If Hendrix would've been"allowed' to tour 90% less,he might have had much more output(even though it would've been Jams).

The record Jimmie found in the dumpster was Hey Joe. On some radio show in 87 some kid called in and asked Stevie how he got his sound and he told him he put duct tape across his speakers. Never tried that.

@frankrichards3089

6 ай бұрын

Not sure about speakers? He did day he duct taped to wahs together in an interview once :)

@hoppes9658

6 ай бұрын

No. He said speakers and the Wah was some wood board taped together.

@JDStone20

6 ай бұрын

@@hoppes9658 Dave Simpson talks about this in one of is videos on Fender Amps, to cut down on the High/Brightness/Treble sound, SRV would take two pieces of duct tape, it the shape of a plus "+" sign, over the cone area on the amp grill cloth. You can see this in some of SRV's live performances if you look closely.

@hoppes9658

6 ай бұрын

@@JDStone20 Funny. I thought he was bullshitting this kid. After 36 years.

@JDStone20

6 ай бұрын

​@@hoppes9658 Crazy right? A lot of the rumors and stuff that sounds like it would make sense often turn out to be not true, and the weirder ones more often than not end up being true, LOL.

Thx for sharing. Do you have a Bob Seger interview by chance?

I saw an interview in the drug addicted years, he was a littke defensive, mostly, i assume because of the drugs, but 1000 times mkre because the press is annoying, & lame, & obtuse....anyway, its awesome to hear him enthusiastic here, & open about it....damn, stevie was always a buddha tho, drugs, or not. I love him so.

Jas when you say Charles wanted the interview to be no longer than 15 minutes, who were you referring to?

@TalkingGuitarJasObrecht

6 ай бұрын

Charles Comer, who was his publicist and the go-to guy whenever we wanted to talk with Stevie.

Too bad he didn't have the old Dumble. In Step was a fantastic record but besides Riviera Paradise it contains some of my least favorite tones he got.

@csi2448

6 ай бұрын

I consider myself an SRV fanboy and I’ve personally never been a big fan of his studio work in general. Not saying the playing is bad or anything like that. But I truly don't think Stevie's magic could be captured in the studio. Now for me, my personal favorite tone of his was the last year of his life. He was definitely experimenting with his tone at that point. And it would've gotten even wilder once he got the Soldano he had custom made into the mix!

@warborn_inc.

17 күн бұрын

​@csi2448 I definitely understand that sentiment. Love his albums but LIVE...Stevie went into the stratosphere...he was such a visceral player when he was just jamming with DT or whomever he was playing with...so much fire and then so much subtlety. Absolute master of his craft