British guitarist analyses Stevie Ray Vaughan - Is THIS the best live Hendrix cover ever? 

God has spoken....

Boopyboy101 thank you!

Boopyboy101 couldn’t agree more . Channeling Hendrix , amazing .

@@mattb4794 that would have been referring to the last night SRV ever played?

@@matteovrizzi Yes, that is where that quote comes from.

Yes Hendrix and srv were awesome but there are many others that don't get mentioned... Prince, mark Farner, Roy Clark, Glen Campbell, etc etc the guy from living color, sorry I can not think of his name... They were all amazing!!!!

We said Mike.

@@883mobelly I agree, also Rory Gallagher, Ton Mcphee, Peter Green, Steve Miller, Zappa, the list is long so let us enjoy all ;-)

..you are so damn right, .thats what I also say to all the guys who discuss who's better, every top musician has his own personality and style, better than discuss is to enjoy all that good music....

Put Gary Moore with them two and u have the 3 best ever in my opinion, gary could scream out some freakin Hendrix and srv too........miss em all

​@@javieramador4712funny you say that. I hated his guitar playing and his VOICE. After a year of learning how to play guitar I fell in love with him. My teacher had all his tabs and eventually, so did I. Also, I have his No. 1 strat tattooed on my arm

I shook hand with Alex Lifeson at a Rush meet & greet. He had a strong hand.

No doubt, because he used heavy strings sets comparable to what acoustic flat pickers use in bluegrass.

@@andyharman3022 Geez, these Rush fans. This video has nothing to do with Rush. FFS

And, like Hendrix, his hands were large for his size....SRV stood 5'5"....Jimi was 5'10", and his hands were crazy large!

I heard for strings he used 12 's, basically ski lift cables!

I love this

Really? If true, that's super.

That's a legendary story. Even if it's not true

Here's one I painted for a lady who hit on Jimi at a party. He was sitting on the back porch jamming alone. Nothing happened but nice try.

@@orbiebibbee977 I have a picture of SRV and the guy's in his band standing with Al in his house that day. Wish I could post a pic here.

And Santana made it Melodic!

And Page did all 3.

@@franklinloll2229 Page who?

@@MosiTheGreat? Jimmy Page

Gary Moore made it cry*

Was lucky enough to see him up close a couple times and the most fluid guitarist of all time

@@jackaspen Lucky you. He died just a few months after I had discovered him for myself.

That is a perfect description of Stevie's bond with his guitar!! Kudos to you.

Yeah...When Jimi played, it seemed at times that the guitar was playing him!...but with SRV, when he was playing, it seemed like the guitar itself would explode any second!...so much intensity, coming from a guy who was 5'5" tall!...all I can say is....Jimi was the greatest of his era, and SRV was the greatest of his era....Between the wo of them, they voiced just about all that could ever be expected from an electric guitar...and if you will notice, music over the last 20 years or so has become so processed, flat, and boring Guitar is not featured much anymore, just autotune crap!

I always thought he looked like it wasn't even him playing, he was just channeling something coming to him from outside.

Thanks!

Yeah!

They were never underrated!

So, so underrated!

@@billdowney6891 --wow...what do you consider underrated....??

I wasn't particularly impressed by his backup band, having seen them three times.

He definately was an open channel. Not easy to do. I do a lot of painting copies. It's a way for someone to get a real painting of a piece they like, for about a fourth of the price. But there's something about the love, real absolute loving relationship you feel for an artist when you copy them, and recreate their style that you can see in Stevie Ray when he's covering these. He could play it BETTER if he wanted to. But he wants to recreate them, and that's pure.

Amen.

I did too.

i hope most fans know enough to know that he was dearly missed by his peers eric clapton said he was driving heard it on the radio when he died and he pulled over and wept probably the only time he has cried besides when he son died

I did too, just 13 at the time a freshman in High school, was late to school that morning, secretary ask me why, I said Steve Ray Vaughan was killed last night, she wrote me a pass while crying.

John Lee Hooker used to say that his favourite Blues salbum is "Texas Flood" and always talked about what a great singer of blues he was. RIP both of those legends

Guthrie Govan is the best player to every live by miles

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@@cmhardin37 oh I get it it's a joke wait....... I don't get it Guthrie is it okay guitar player if you never take his eyes off of the fretboard is it going to tell you what he saying I don't know what to say. Stevie Ray Vaughan can play circles around him drunk and after getting beat by baseball bat

@memnok magee I really got to disagree there. and look at it this way Stevie died real young think about every year that goes by in the heights you could reach. Stevie played with more soul and feeling than anyone I have ever heard play in my life . People talk about this is vector player in their technical abilities if they don't have the soul or the heart that it takes to make people feel the music. I guess it's really hard to explain. When I was growing up we had a piano. My mother could play anything any of the classical pieces she could sit down it a piano and playing out Mozart Bach whatever but I asked you to play anything blues or boogie and she was lost she didn't have it. I would sit down there as a little kid start playing boogie-woogie pieces and she was just amazed because I didn't even know how to read music or anyting I just listened to it copied it and then after a while I got it and it was inside me and it came out and I didn't know what was supposed to come next I made it go there. I have never heard guitar player that was better than Stevie or as good as SRV except perhaps Hendricks. Go crunch in Texas flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan and watches video on RU-vid and then tell me anyone matches his soul

NothingMaster Agreed! Your comment was spot on.

He played better when he wasn't sober, like most bands. He became soft However, I agree that he was the best, sober or not.

He had 'enough coke in him to kill a horse'' In this performance. He was not sober here

I guess they mean non drunk. Alcohol affects your brain and reflexes much heavier than cocain.

Sober? He was always on coke. I can bet he had a sniff even on this video in one of his turnarounds

@@drdre4397 Can you explain further, and how you know? Thanks.

Wow! That's awesome...

Welcome,sir! Thank you for the recommendation,as well.

I was 19 when i seen him live the first time .... hooked and mindblown in one night ....

Amen!

Yes, I feel it everytime I hear them play 🤘 euphoric!

I heard EC in an interview once saying anytime he was on stage with Stevie and he was playing Hendrix it was like he was dialing in a faint radio station until it was coming in 5:5 (loud & clear). He was receiving from above.

John Leonard Clapton said he never watched Stevie do a whole show because if he did, he would have probably stopped playing guitar. He said Stevie was "an open channel" and the music just flowed through him and from him. High Praise Indeed.

Robert DeLorme So true. You have to listen to a very unknown musician named Glen Kaiser. I have been listening to Glen Kaiser since the early 80's.

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I wonder who wrote that for him or if it's even true. Sounds good though.

@@jeunebug oh well we build cool shit.

@@jeunebug A lot of the world would have never discovered the original musicians if modern artists had never covered it. Recognition and respect is worth far more to a true musician than money.

SRV has stated when he played he felt like he was black!..maybe channeling some old blues players soul?..Dont know and dont care!..I love him and miss him ✌💛🤘

@@user-ev2qo1hj1g This opinion was on electric guitar, not classical, my fopaux. Yes, EVH is up there also, I just have a preference for SRV. 😎👍✌

@@user-ev2qo1hj1g I did have a listen to Joe Pass, and he is a great guitarist, but there's something missing for me, as there is with EVH, and others. Stevie had it, Hendrix had it, stage presence is what I think I'm going after here. But, Stevie had it all! 😎👍✌

@@TOM-C. EVH much more original and a bigger innovator. Eruption speaks for itself! He did as much for guitar as Hendrix or more and had keyboard hits as well.

@@user-ev2qo1hj1g It would seem you are more into the technical aspect, and I'm into the audiophile end of it. For me, Stevie transcends live performances onto my speakers better than any other guitarist, I don't need to see him live when I have him in my living room, EVH does not provide that experience, and I do own 5 Van Halen lp's so don't get me wrong, I love Van Halen! Stevie is an all around performer any other guitarist would have trouble matching. It's not just his playing that is exceptional, it's the way he plays, the feeling you get watching him, or as in my case, I get goosebumps listening to him on my stereo. He's there with me in the room, and I don't get that from many Guitarists, and certainly not EVH.👍😎✌ P.S. What happened to these comments by you? Why do people delete comments? I always wonder. I didn't see anything negative in your posts? "S replied: "TOM C. EVH much more original and a bigger innovator. Eruption speaks for itself! He did as much for guitar as Hendrix or more and had keyboard hits as well." "S replied: "TOM C. I get it and thats your opinion. Joe Pass was one of the greatest at what he did as was EVH. EVH innovated more than SRV by a long shot. Stevie had soul no doubt, but was still no Albert ..." Were you referring to Albert Einstein?

@@user-ev2qo1hj1g S replied: Is that your OCD working overtime, If I see 6 replies, I expect to see the entire conversation, not one side, It's rude of you to delete your side of the conversation, and leave just one post. Remember, The OP gets notifications of your latest comment, and I am reposting them here for the readers others clarification when viewing the thread, otherwise I'd just delete the entire communication. Yes, it's obviously a very subjective subject, but you seem to have taken it personal. I'm not diminishing Eddie Van Halen's guitar skills, which are spectacular, at all! We're simply stating why we think one is better than the other through a back & forth communication where I have the back, but you are deleting the forth? Doesn't make sense! 😎✌ Here's the last one you carelessly deleted which states why you delete your comments. @S "I just cleaned it up to keep it simple. Rather than have 20 back and fourths. Lets keep it simple. You like Stevie thats ok, I like EVh better thats cool. Nuff said. I didn't know Einste..." P.S. In response to your comment that EVH is "more original" & "a bigger innovator", One would be hard pressed to get more original than Stevie Ray Vaughan, but as to the innovations he made, I'll leave that to guitar tech gurus like you to decide while I take a listen to Texas Flood! 😁

Yeah if you start with the blues, you can't go wrong in my opinion. So many favour speed with no feel and it's their undoing!

Stevie was the Best he was one with the guitar it was pure magic in his hands he is missed we are lucky to have his videos and his music to see and hear today..

I'm from California and I totally realize how good he was...and completely appreciate him. There are people like me all over the world that truly believe that SRV was the best ever.

@Talkin Bout Nawlins 👍

A "Good Texan"

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There's a number of them, actually, including Jimi Hendrix, whom SRV liked to copy.

mel obrien names please... And SRV does not copy. The explenation of Fil is very precise about this.

mel obrien there’s no one yet to come close to filling Stevie’s boots. I wish there was someone who was able.. I really do

they do, and there's probly easily too many to count on a whole lotta hands!

I can only imagine being in the audience at his Austin city limits performances. Simply extraordinary.

Jimi Hendrix didn't play his own music 'flawlessly' enough in your opinion compared to somebody who didn't even write it? Do you know ridiculous that sounds?

@@meself349 I get what you are saying, what I mean is that if you listen to Jimi closely, you can hear where he misses notes. It is still a masterpiece, but, there are spots where he simply misses a note, as most mortals do on occasion. But listen just as closely to SRV. He NEVER misses.

Jimis the best hands down

Srv is too tight not feeling it sorry

@@meself349 it isn’t ridiculous at all. I am simply pointing out that Stevie’s playing is very technically proficient. This isn’t really a criticism of Jimi’s playing as part of the charm of it is the fact that it isn’t as “clean”.

Live at the El Mocambo version is even better. - Agreed. Live at the El Mocambo was quintessential SRV. From what all that I have seen of Stevie, El Mocambo could be his best performance ever, I swear he was channelling Jimi with his own craft in tact that night. Frickin magical...

If you think someone could out Hendrix Hendrix then you are probably very young and also cannot think logically. SRV could play the way he did only because Jimi Hendrix lived. Jimi created the sound, the style, the utilization of overtones, feedback, hum and even the the half step down tuning in rock music I doubt anyone had really considered prior. To have lived when Jimi was first heard on radio was monumental moment. There had never been anything like it and what you heard before that moment went into antiquity if you were a lover of rock guitar. SRV copied Jimi well in a few aspects but not close enough, the differences are there and easy to hear. Nobody will ever top Jimi in the genre of rock and Jimi live on stage the sound was even more striking. Many great players out there and I admire those who copy Jimi until they do it too much then they begin to sound almost foolish.Only listen to his music that was released while he was alive and never believe anything that the woman called janie says. She is a criminal in my view and others agree she is cheapening Jimi's image, I speak out as often as I can about it...

@@cravinbob i am not very young. I own every album hendrix released. I also own stuff released long after his death. I'm not as close minded as you and will take whatever comes out, warts and all. I am a consummate hendrix fan. If you know anything about stevie, you'd know he loved jimi. Ever notice the left handed bridge on #1? As far as my original comment, stevie's note articulation and timing are impeccable. For my money stevie is a technically better player. Jimi was by far a more prolific writer. And that's not intended as an insult or in any way diminish what jimi accomplished. It's how MY ear hears it. Do you play?

Bob M the no response says it all. you have won this argument fair and square sir

Honestly I think SRV's Voodoo Child is notably inferior to Hendrix's. His chops were insane but he turned it into another twangy Texas blues song. Hendrix's was a psychedelic firebomb that could have set fire to Cambodia beyond Richard Nixon's wildest dreams. Even if Stevie's chops were a little tighter, his stylistic range was far narrower. He had his signature sound, and WHAT a sound, but that was it. Hendrix was ever the explorer finding new ways to expand his palette and Eddie Kramer said he was a brilliant sound engineer too. Yes I would argue SRV's chops were slicker, but Hendrix definitely surpassed him in creativity and musicianship and even Stevie would tell you that.

Yeah such an avoidable thing, he was taken way too soon.

You know what? you're right. I hear him almost daily, either on the radio, or in a venue somewhere, no matter where I am. I will probably listen to him right now, now that you have brought it up. He inspires me and I need some of that right now.

Randy Rhoads at 25yrs old was just as big a tragedy. Had more technical skill than Stevie but both where monsters.

@@kiwipower9036 Don't confuse his skill at playing metal fast as having more skill. Besides, I'm not sure he could top Stevie in that genre if Stevie chose to play like that.

damachine3 I guess no one will really know if Stevie could play Randy's stuff but what I do know is Randy is well respected by all the greats that know he had a special skill. Also Randy did way more than just fast "metal" runs as he was classically trained and some of that showed in the songs he did with Ozzy.

@Bobb Grimley man must know his limits.

Yeah helicopters suck.

Clapton's helicopter !

agreed.

SRV is great!!! Jimi was more original. How did he create so much by himself. He really revolutionized the guitar. He did these sounds OVER A HALF CENTURY AGO!! What SRV did that was really amazing was his Jazz guitaring. I`ve never seen a guitarist play rock and Jazz like SRV

Here is a prime difference between the two greats...SRV started playing guitar at age seven, and was not discovered until he was 27!...Hendrix did not start playing an electric until he was 15, and was discovered when he was 23...So one can say that Jimi was a "natural" genius, while Stevie had more time to hone his amazing skills...I think you can hear the difference in their styles, because of their different situations in Life.

Back in the early 1980s, I was cruising in my car one day, when an underground radio station began to play Voodoo Child, Slight Return....I was thinking, wow-this tune of my all-time hero is so seldom played on radio stations!....Since I am a Hendrix fanatic, after about 30 seconds or so, I thought--whoa!...this must be an alternate version, by Jimi, that I have never heard!...suddenly, a voice other than Jimis, began to sing....I could not believe that someone other than Hendrix could play that tune so well!....so I waited until the DJ mentioned who the artist was, and then went looking for the CD....I simply was stunned by SRV having such awesome ability, and I am still stunned!....Jimi and Stevie are no doubt on a level only they could attain...we were lucky to have witnessed them.

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Always have Nautical,it's what Clapton, Beck, Page, Peter Green, Alvin Lee, Mick Taylor....they and many others really dug (American) Blues and were unencumbered by the horrible slavery business.

Amen.

Thanks!

Never forgotten...

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A cover is a fucking cover; he's copying Jimi; he does it well, but Jimi did it better.

Acting like SRV is just a sycophant of Jimi is bizarre. SRV does stuff that even Jimi had never thought about doing.

mel obrien Jimi didn’t write it either. He reworked a Muddy Waters song called “ Rollin’ Stone”. So it’s ok to take your idols song and rework it and claim it as your own? Stevie just covered his idols song.

Are you referring to stevie ?

Your God had nothing to do with it. If he had, SRV would still be alive.

yes anf YES!! Stevie was so much more amazing when sober!!

Not just the innovator, the songwriter of perhaps the most beautiful melodies ever. Little Wing? For one.

Yes...Hendrix was just unique with his guitar style, and also wrote some great stuff...SRV, IMO, was the only person who could not only interpret Hendrix music, but make it even better!...he really "got" Hendrix.

@@curbozerboomer1773 watch the Austin City Limits where you see older SRV before he got sober. 2nd show he was clean, cool and operating on all 12 cylinders.

Haha probably!

Keith Richards will outlive God!

I maintain Keith has been dead since 1980, he just hasn't noticed yet.

Buchanan practically cut the ears off me with that Tele when I saw him in Toronto. Great stuff. Bloomfield wasn't as impressive when I saw him play with Paul Butterfield at Massey Hall in Toronto, but still good.

Terry Kath.

Almost?? It's almost human!!!

Hendrix's had soul, another way of saying "spiritual" surely.

I think I've done Texas Flood! I can't remember now as I do one every night! 😂

Try "Mary had a little lamb"

Carey Moffett mary had a little lamb from ACL 89 is the absolute best version

M Medina Cant forget about Johnny Winter.

@@jimchumley6568 you got that right!! I saw johnny twice. Being from houston and my husband being a blues guitar player starting in 85, he introduced me to the best music, the blues!! and there was no going back!! There is something about texas blues players that stand out from the rest.....

I hear ya! Most people pray, I just turn up the volume 😜🎸

Skümmtööns '66 lolol..I pray my speakers hold out, I pray I get sent to the "music jam room" when I cross over. "take a left past the quiet room, glide straight up & I think you'll hear the jam room. don't be alarmed when you see Elvis in a track suit & shades, he thinks nobody will recognize him (Moses chuckles). Oh goodness me, did I fail to mention that because of your lifelong love of All Music, you can now pick 3, yes 3, instruments & be mighty good at them. Have Fun (Moses floats off humming I Am Iron Man). lolol

@@suryclind you seem to have this all figured out 😎👍. Boy I hope you're right. WAIT! I thought I heard Randy Rhoads down the hall... It's been a few years, but I know that tone anywhere! 😁

@@Scottocaster6668 ha ha ha

Big Mike How did he improve on Jimi Hendrix?

Improving on Jimi Lmfao, he rode his coat tails youre funny dude

Definitely Jimi's equal

He could NEVER go where Jimi was coming from and so many people missed that, he was a fantastic showman that copied Jimis style and so many other things but truely great people never remind us of anyone else and thats who he has been compared to over and over, but he didnt invent any of it & he was no pioneer and his song writing was good but was NOT other worldy, but very predictable country blues lyrics at best ...

@@chircoj1 he didnt improve on jimi he couldnt write like Hendrix if his life depended on it or play like Jimi, his little wing cover ruined that song couldnt play and sing it because it is not easy to play and sing that one, but instead chose to do instrumental which i find lack luster period, great guitarist yes but there are many great guitarist and how long has Jimi been voted to the top over the years by so many of the other greats out there over and over again there is a reason for that and its because he is the master period ...

Amen!