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I have turned a full 180 on JV. When I first started playing, I was into blues/rock more than "authentic" blues. I thought SRV was THE ultimate blues guitarist and often would refer to JV as the worst guitarist who ever got paid to play.
Through the years my tastes have changed and now I'm an early electric blues fan, Muddy, Wolf, the Walters, T Bone, etc. Can't hardly listen to much modern stuff. Now revisting JV, I hear him totally differently. HE is the man. I owe him a huge apology.
I heard SRV say something like he plays 90% of what he can play while Jimmie plays 2% of what he can. He plays simple because he wants to and its harder to sound good simply than to use all sorts of fretboard gymnastics.
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