Ultimate Rhoads

check this it kinda proves how many artists are better live than in the studio IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAxLgGVR ... ed&search=

Great clip! THnx!

stevie ray vaughan is top 5 guitarist of all time no doubt

I love SRV. Great guitar player and great voice!
I love his song "Come On (Part III)" That song just rips. Too bad he had to go the way he did.

I've got a video of SRV doing Look at Little Sister where he breaks a string during the solo, the tech brings out another guitar as the verse starts, he straps it on Stevie while he's singing and SRV never misses a beat!

Paul Wolfe wrote:I've got a video of SRV doing Look at Little Sister where he breaks a string during the solo, the tech brings out another guitar as the verse starts, he straps it on Stevie while he's singing and SRV never misses a beat!

He had really heavy gauge strings how the fudge it snapped???

Simon

siro_angel wrote:

Paul Wolfe wrote:I've got a video of SRV doing Look at Little Sister where he breaks a string during the solo, the tech brings out another guitar as the verse starts, he straps it on Stevie while he's singing and SRV never misses a beat!

He had really heavy gauge strings how the fudge it snapped???

Simon

yeah good point, although i sometimes wonder how anyone breaks a string, i've never broken one, dunno if its just me but string breaks just aren't a problem.

p.s. can you still get SRV strings? GHS use to make them but i think they stopped.

rice_pudding wrote:
p.s. can you still get SRV strings? GHS use to make them but i think they stopped.

I used to have them on my Rockwood Hohner, before i threw em out because they were too heavy and it made learning very difficult, but now that guitar is in a scrap heap cos it was just failing till it died =P

Simon

rice_pudding wrote:
yeah good point, although i sometimes wonder how anyone breaks a string, i've never broken one, dunno if its just me but string breaks just aren't a problem.
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Oh and i used to snap the e string a lot when ever i played part of the spotlight solo lmao! ooops

Simon

I have snapped every string except my low E. Don't ask me how, but it happens! I use 9-46 though, not super heavy. I think SRV used like 11/12-something scary.
I do love SRV. He was born to play.

Skully wrote:I have snapped every string except my low E. Don't ask me how, but it happens! I use 9-46 though, not super heavy. I think SRV used like 11/12-something scary.
I do love SRV. He was born to play.

Be thankful you didnt admit to snapping your G string

Simon

Okay, watch this. At the 2:34 mark you can clearly see the string go and then as he starts to sing again, here comes the new guitar.

Skully wrote:I have snapped every string except my low E. Don't ask me how, but it happens! I use 9-46 though, not super heavy. I think SRV used like 11/12-something scary.
I do love SRV. He was born to play.

hmmm... i worked my way up to 11-50 and tune to standard and they never break, it could be the brand you use maybe some brands are tougher (different brands seem to have different tension IMO)

yeah Stevie used 11-58 i think, pretty damn scary. But not as scary as Zakk Wylde 11-70
i've known two people who tried those strings and both of them suffered broken nuts and needed some serious truss rod work... and they were de-tuning

If you watch that video, you see that Stevie is very heavy handed when he plays. Strings probably feared him

Seen that before and have always thought it was incredible. But for saying he was better live than in the studio I don't think is correct. I don't think he was trying to play the song like that in the studio. I am in no doubt that if SRV wanted to play Texas Flood like that, in the studio, he'd of had no problem . Its all just dependent on what you want to achieve.