I suspect his maturity would have been similar to that of Eric Clapton's maturity. Clapton's amazing and his guitar is no longer rough around the edges, overly aggressive, or seemingly working too hard to create a tone. You can hear the tonal differences just before he got to the Tears in Heaven album - whichever album that was. Then, he did the Unplugged album (the greatest series of music MTV ever made) at such a different maturity level. Ol' Slowhand lived up to his name and his sense of timing adjusted.
I strongly suspect SRV would have matured like that.
yup he would have matured like a 100 year bottle of white wine. he started sounding quite well after cleaning up and towards his last concert can only image his 50-60's man ol man
Hell, he was only 35 when he died. At that age, I'd just finished getting my Ph.D. and was still playing alternative and grunge.
Yeah 30 more years of playing jeez wow i wish we could look through a glass and see what he would of came up with
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