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> "romeorose" <romeorosebl...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On May 26, 1:36 am, scorpionfa...@live.com wrote:
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> > On May 25, 9:09 pm, romeorose <romeorosebl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulby4Dd71VI
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> > You know, I can't get past "he didn't write this song, and he didn't
> > write this song". I don't know how you can relate that to somebody
> > sucking on guitar. Elvis hardly ever wrote songs, and Frank Sinatra
> > harldy ever wrote songs...does that make them bad singers? Do they
> > suck too? Stevie Ray Vaughan had friends, and they wanted him to cover
> > their songs. They got paid when the cover songs sold.
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> It relates to him sucking as far as having any originality and being
> any kind of a songwriter, he sucks on guitar because 80% of everything
> he plays on is just a poor rip off of Albert King.
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> And yes I know he & Albert King any many other Bluesmen were friends,
> and I know he paid them to use thier songs, that still does not
> justify it though.
>
> It's on SRV though, that's the legacy SRV has left behind, to be
> another mediocre artist like Elvis & Sinatra who's bulk of recorded
> works consists of mostly songs that were written by someone else.
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> I'd rather hear Jimi Hendrix play Voodoo Chile, it's Jimi's song, he
> created it from nothing, it means something to hear Jimi play it
> because it came from Jimi's imagination & soul, it's a part of Jimi,
> it means absolutely nothing to hear SRV play it, because it did not
> come from SRV's imagination or soul.
>
> And your hackjob of John Mellancamps Pink houses was what?...your pea
>The Pink Bridges was just a Parody.