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Yes I tryed some SRV stuff in a friend's house... not exactly the songs you said, but was amazing anyway. It was something like all the things you are waiting to hear from a virtuoso: velocity, complex harmonization -impossible tecnique- but with style, whit class. That guy didn't need to speak not even to buy a box of cigarretes... His language was a stratocaster.
The last friday I went to a Yo La Tengo's concert here in my city... you'll know, is not common to have some people from the other side of the world around here, and is easier to have the top 10, the MTV bands than a little cult band as YLT. The show was one of the most warm, intimate and honest things that I've seen. You know, I went to U2 pop mart tour too and you wasn't quite sure if those guys were real or not, if among all the glance there was something near to our real lifes... The YLT concert puted me in a very annoy situation, because all my life as a player I've been making a tone around the humbukers due to a particular guitar player from this part of the planet that I like very much, beside I thougth the best way to learn was getting specialized in one area. It was a long time ago but I got used to play in a humbucker style -If you want an example of that, when someone asked me about blues I said B.B. King and Not Clapton = Lucile and not stratocaster- though when you get older learn more and bands like YLT, Sonic Youth, My bloody Valentine, and things like that showed me the another side of the spectre, because they are absolutelly "fender bands". Well, I finaly have the guitar I love with a tube amp -copied some fender schematic with a elecro friend- everything, even the patches in the pedalboard are concived for humbuckes, and now I'm starting to pay more attention to my squier strato... I should have made up a gear in a more wide concept.
When I read your last mesage about your knukling problem I was wondering for maybe a half hour how it could be possible... don't know, your style of struming must be very personal... Well I don't know your guitars... and could not find them on the web. I'm sure that Washburn is the most cheap professional instrument you can have, they make superb guitars at incredible prices, but not everything in the washburn family -as in any family- is pinked colour, you know there are really awfull guitars as the bt, wr and rs series that I tryed, are not so good, and somethings not good at all. I don't know your beloved Yamaha neither, but I haven't liked the ones I've played... However did you know a beautifull quote form Andres Segovia: "Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and shapes, in order not to be separated from the man" I don't belive in God and I don't like dogs but the sentence is great anyway.
I allways remember an extrange guitar I played just for a couple of weeks a lot of years ago, and I'd buy it inmediatly if I found it around there... It was a Teisco, japanese guitar from the 50's or something near that time, semi hollow body, green, the tuners were completly stained and were very hard to turn, the intonation was a serious matter as well... but its voice was so peculiar, like a little a.m. radio.
There are some more things to share, but I'll save them for another time. Tell me something about your life and your string ladies. By the way where are you from?
Best regards.
Alberto.