21 SRV Wannabes (from SPIN)

USian Pie said:
Hell, he's probably even eaten at Chuy's once.
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Once.
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Stevie Ray was a Jimi wanna be. Who wouldn't want to be like either one of them? Some of those guys belong on that list, some clearly don't. John Mayer qualifies as blues?

Most unkind to Jeff Healey and Eric Johnson.
 
mikesr1963 said:
KWS started playing the blues at age 7 after meeting SRV. He was on stage at 13 knocking people out. Bonamasa started playing very young as well. Kinda hard to call either of them a wanna-be since they've stuck to what they started with. John Mayer is a fraud. Eric Sardinas has his own thing going with a radical slide blues deal. Hard to call that a wanna-be as well. Henry Garza isn't a a wanna be either. He was born into music and his band is a family thing, all of them extremely gifted. These people have a certain walk and talk about them that's very natural to them. The one of all listed that sticks out of place is John Mayer. He' s pretending, fake, a wanna-be.
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Have you ever heard Henry Garza get interviewed about guitar? Every one I've seen, he mentions SRV several times. Family thing has little to do with it. SRV was a family thing when he started out, too.
 
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