I am noticing that music and Kung-Fu are very similar in many respects, but this one just hit me. Martial Artists will find a system that is pretty much dead or unknown, and revive it with a new twist and make a name for themselves-reinventing the whell so to speak. Examples might be "Traditional Wing Chun", or "Old Yang Form", a new "Village Hung Kuen", a different Bak Mei, or Wing Chun or something else from some other village, and suddenly it's all new. Usually it's something that has simply been repackaged. There is a guy who did a new and improved JKD, only using his Greek roots, yet he wore the tracksuit, no shirt and Bruce Lee gloves. You know the deal.
So...Stevie Ray Vaughn, although an amazing player, repackaged Albert Lee and Jimi Hendrix to a whole new audience. Kenny Wayne Sheperd did the same thing, and others followed suit. Before that, it was Frank Marino and Robin Trower.
Now...enter Eric Sardinas..basically a dark haired version of Johnny Winter for an audience who never heard of him. Pretty much the same playing style, albeit a bit more modernized, with a splash of Hendrix for flash, and the same singing style. He's good, no doubt, but it's nothing new.
All that being said, his album cooks. I am sure there is a whole new young audience just for him.
So , in a few years, I'll be introducing Brazillian Shuai-Jiao!
(yeah, who am I foolin? Someone's probably already done it!)
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Originally Posted by xcakid
