Is stevie ray vaughan rock or blues?!
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Is stevie ray vaughan rock or blues?
Answers: his style of play was definately blues. A lot of his music has a very rock feeling to it but his main style of playing was blues Blues for sure. Got a proof
Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist Stevie was absolutely Blues, man! He had his own "Texas" Blues...
bye One of the best blues guitarists ever! the blues was and is an essential part of rock. its very hard to distignush the two espically today. you can claim led zeppelin was a rock band but jimmy page's guitar work was soaked in blues influence. I would put SRV in the "Post Modern Blues" category. It's enough to say he was Hendrix influenced - which a lot of pure blues afficianados shunned hendrix at first, but Stevie had some chops , and was into other guitar forms as well , Jazz, Rock ,etc. that put him into another realm altogether... I would say that he was mainly influenced by blues musicians, but in his music, you can clearly hear other influences as well. In short, blues. But that leaves out so much more. He started playing blues........after he moved from austin he lost his true blues roots. And if it wasn't for ALBERT KING, srv wouldn't have a tone, and licks to play. OK, rock or blues is the question your asking. From a theoretical point of view, what is the difference between rock and blues? (i don't mean piece of **** rock and roll where its just power chords layered over more power chords and a bassline that follows the root note of those power chords, i mean real rock and roll) and the difference is (drumroll please) a distortion pedal!! Now if you look at it from a musicians point of view all rock and roll is blues at a lot faster pace. Take Pink Floyd for instance, they would be considered one of the greatest rock groups of all time (now they would be considered classic rock, but still) most of the solo's that david gilmour used were based solely on the pentatonic scale in various keys. Now, lets take Eric Clapton, one of the most prestigious blues musicians of our time. All of his guitar solos are based on none other than the pentatonic scale in various keys. So you have an AWESOME rock and roll guitarist and an AWESOME blues guitarist playing the EXACT same notes just using different effects to change the sound of their guitar. I'm REALLY drunk right now but i guess what I'm trying to say is stevie ray vaughan is both blues and rock because he plays lead guitar, and lead guitar as far as rock is concerned is blues lead guitar with a distortion pedal. We could get a lot more deep into the situation but I'm not sure if you know anything about the theory behind the music you listen to so I'm not going to confuse you anymore. Actually I'm going to give up on answering questions for tonight and blue's myself to sleep, while my guitar gently weeps (pun intended) I say blues and rock. In other words, blues-rock. He's kinda like Eric Clapton; they leaned towards blues more than many blues-influenced guitarists, but they still couldn't exactly escape the rock phenomenon. Thus, he combined electric blues and rock. I mean if you listen to an actual blues artist, the songs are way different. He played some kind of what I would call "hard blues''...His own version of the blues with his own caractheristics...Led Zepplin used to play very very loud blues....As SRV said it himself "Rock 'n Roll is a baby of the Blues" ....All the styles :
Rhythm and Blues (the name says it) , Jazz, Rock 'N Roll , were in the beginning some forms of the blues , so the blues he played was back to basics, but because of his sound (due in part to the grave low sound of his "no 1" guitar ) he can be considered a rock musician...The thing is, he was back to basics , he turned back the music to the point where there were no differences between Blues, Jazz, Rock 'n Roll, that is why he was so fantastic....And my God did he put soul in tose fantastic simple licks...He made a statement that music in it's own way is the same thing : The Blues , it all goes down to the blues , no matter what kind of guitar music you play....Hell , the punk /alternative/ indie band The Jesus and Mary Chain said in an interview that they play "another form of The Blues''....The blues is almost in every genre of music....Everything comes back to the blues , and that is what Stevie said ( and said it with heart and soul) Both. Leans more toward rock but don't tell his cult that. Stevie Ray Vaughan is definately a blues artist Blues