I'm listening to some Eric Johnson this morning and wanted to see who Clutchfans thought was the best Texas Rock Guitarists. I'm listing the big names: Stevie Ray Vaughn Eric Johnson Billy Gibbons Jimmie Vaughn but feel free to list others.
Texas guitarist tend to be Blues rockers, there's probably no way around genre' bending. If you are interested in Texas guitarist, you probably need to check out David Grissom. He started with Joe Ely, rocked the the world with Storyville (listen to the live CD), collaborated with Toni Price for the best album of 2007 'Talk Memphis' and has two "guitar work" solo albums, 'Loud Music" in 2007 and '10,000 Feet' in 2009. Check them out on CDbaby.com. He's got a very distinctive fuzzy tone that is all his own. And there is no "best" there is just great and different.
SRV is the best of the group you listed but he is not a rock musician. Billy Gibbons is the best rock guitarist of the list.
I don't know how you can say that. Jimi Hendrix was an incredible blues guitarist, but it wasn't what he was widely known for. Vaughn could rock with anyone.
Because he is not a rock guitarist. Sure he could play rock but that is not his identity. Jimi was know for psychedelic rock. It is just the way things are. I am the biggest SRV fan ever, he goes down as a blues legend not rock legend.
No, that's how you see things. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, and I hate having to trot this line out, but did you see him in concert with Band of Gypsies? Hendrix was constantly evolving and trying new directions. Vaughn could have you dancin' like a lunatic. I guess I just don't like these labels. Sure, there are and have been many classic blues guitarists. I don't think SRV fit that description, anymore than I think Jimi was "just" a rock guitarist, psychedelic or otherwise.
Your argument is that there should not be labels. I am not confronting you on that argument. I am saying that once labels are used, as the OP used them, that is how I group them. SRV learned Beck's Bolero as a kid, but is known as a blues guitarist. I agree not really classic blues, but that is his credit for evolving blues to the 80's and 90's in a time of drum machines and pointy headstocks he was busting out old dusty long forgotton Fender VibroVerbs.
didn't know what EJ was from Texas. but he is the most skilled in the list. musically, whatever you like, but techinically, EJ is the best.
