Friday, June 12, 2009

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Superstition

4 comments:

nunya said...

Try playing this with the song from the banner at the same time. It sounds great. It's like Mexican food with Sriracha sauce: 2 things that shouldn't go together but do.

Pastorius said...

Jdamn,
What'cha smokin'?

;-)

One of the strangest stories in rock history is that Stevie Wonder wrote this song for Jeff Beck.

Why Jeff Beck?

That's like if, say, D'Angelo wrote a song for friggin' Joe Satriani.

What did Wonder see in Jeff Beck? Sorry, I don't get it.

midnight rider said...

And what's wrong with Joe Satriani? Or Jeff Beck?

Did not know that about this song. Knew Wonder wrote and performed it but not that it was intended for Beck (for Beck to perform or as a weird tribute?).

Pastorius said...

From what I read, Wonder wrote the song for Jeff Beck to perform, because Wonder admired Jeff Beck.

I think Jeff Beck is a good guitarist. I even own several of his albums.

But, Stevie Wonder is in another class as a musician, and his musical style is so far afield from Jeff Beck it's just hard to understand. Jeff Beck seems like a random choice for a guy like Stevie Wonder.