Albert King and Stevie Ray

[OnTheFritz]

On PBS right now EST. From '83. Incredible. Alberts hands are huge!

[NY Chief]

Great stuff. DVD is available.

[OnTheFritz]

Memorizing Mike! Living here near the D, I caught the last half on the Ontario PBS station, then the full she-bang on the Detroit PBS. I'll look for the DVD on Amazon. Told a friend on Facebook I could watch that all day in lieu of 60 seconds of Yngvies shredding.

[mightymike]

Blues on the Flying V is a sight to see. Sadly not a decade would pass, and they would both be gone. I remember reading recently that King was suposed to get inducted into the RRHOF.

[NY Chief]

SRV, already a titan blue master, is so young and so shy and reserved in his idol's prescence. What great respect.

Is that the one where Albert tells SRV to get rid of those spaghetti strings and use s manly gauge??

[mightymike]

SRV was using 13s... He must have been joking.. lol

[NY Chief]

Good article on SRV tone and gear...

http://fenderguru.com/signature-tone/srv" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FL6]

SRV's playing seemed rather forced compared to AK.
Albert King just oozes heavy heavy blues, love the phase.

[garbeaj]

SRV's playing seemed rather forced compared to AK.
Albert King just oozes heavy heavy blues, love the phase.

Yeah I agree...I think Stevie was trying to pay attention to what Albert was doing and not really as fully engaged in what he was doing as much as he was normally...I like the show more for the historical value of it and the geniune love between the two guys than the actual music.

[NY Chief]

Even with SRV's talent I think it was the same as if you guys were playing with EVH.

[FL6]

Even with SRV's talent I think it was the same as if you guys were playing with EVH.

Do you think Albert King copped the idea of using a phase shifter from EVH?
I'm thinking he did. Man, was Ed's reach far.

[NY Chief]

Even with SRV's talent I think it was the same as if you guys were playing with EVH.

Do you think Albert King copped the idea of using a phase shifter from EVH?

Ummm,....no

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Usage

Phasing is a popular effect for electric guitar. The term was often used to refer the original tape flanging effect heard on many psychedelic records of the late 1960s, notably "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces.[3] By the early 1970s, phasing was available as a portable guitar effect, one of the most notable early examples being the MXR Phase 90.[4] From 1974, Steve Hackett in Selling England by the Pound studio album and tour used this one for his Les Pauls, and from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway album and tour used the "phase filter" section in his EMS Synthi Hi-Fli. In the late 1970s, Brian May used large amounts of phasing, in such songs as "Sheer Heart Attack."[5] In the 1980s, Eddie Van Halen, for instance, often used the MXR Phase 90 as part of his signal chain,[6] for example in the instrumental "Eruption" and on the song "Atomic Punk".