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blue, mebbe there is "SRV worship" in certain quarters, but I don't think that generally it's as "worshiping" as a lot of people tend to think.
I am one of the folks who highly regard his playing of strats - he's just another (very good) guitarist on other instruments for me.
When he first appeared, it was jaw-dropping. Suddenly there was this "so that's what you can do with a strat" thing going on. Basically, if you attack a strat that hard, that cleanly, using Howlin' Wolf etc licks, that's what you get. He won't have been the first to do it, but he's the first I heard, and it's a sound I wanted to be able to make.
It actually took me 20-odd years, on and off, to find out how to do it :lol:. It turns out it's nothing to do with having the right pickups, amp, tube-screamer, wotever. It's all about how you attack the guitar and keep control of it and yourself. It's a style of playing that he was VERY good at, and not many can do it and keep it up for the whole of a song, let alone a whole gig.
And anyone who does manage it now is accused of sounding like SRV! :lol: (That's a bit of an achievement for him in itself).
Wouldn't say I worship him though. And I suspect that many others who seem to worship him view it in the same kind of way :D.
EDIT: Probably the same arguments can be applied (with different detail) to all sorts of guitar super-stars.
