I lost all respect for Kenny Wayne Sheppard the day I heard SRV's Live at Carnagy Hall album and how close that version of Lenny was to "While we Cry." Several of my friends saw him opening for somebody else a few years back to walk into the venue to see him playing a note for note copy of the Live Alive version of Voodoo Chile. It's so sad to see someone who clearly has so much talent wasting it all by copping somebody else's style.

As for the Austin crew, well we have a similar (though smaller) community of musicians around here that interarct and jam all the time. None of use though are as tight as we are with our bands though.

Regardless, I'm a sarcastic, pessimistic, sceptical bastard and anything I say should be taken with that in consideration.