First time hearing Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood 

He died tragically my friend. He wasn't given the time that was necessary to achieve his full potential. Imagine another 30 years

Just as Eric Clapton stated, Stevie was a channel - music just flowed through him. He knew every millimeter of the guitar neck, just amazing. It crushed me the day we lost him.

Well said

Stevie was taken to heaven for one reason; God wanted to learn how to play guitar.

@@Illthallion Yes, Clapton said of SRV he never got lost, everything flowed. Best guitarist ever in my opinion.

I grew up listening to Carlos Santana. Sweetest guitar ever. You are right on , Stevie played it all !

And above all of that he had endurance in every form. Physical and creative endurance. Most very experienced guitarists who attempt to play with the same setup and same style as SRV physically cannot do it for more than a few minutes, if that.

Agreed, and I'm one of those guys who typically stands on the Jimi Hendrix side when the argument is brought up of him vs SRV, but it is simply impossible to state that Hendrix was the better all round guitarist. Stevie was probably, if not the most technically proficient blues guitarist of all time. Jimi was definitely the better songwriter though, and far more impactful on guitar and music culture on the whole. I've said it before, Stevie was born 5-10 years too late, if he had been at his prime in the 70's instead of the 80's then he would have had a far bigger impact

it's called SOUL.

Stevie was a master guitarist. There is no higher platitude

I know someone that booked him for a festival an hour outside of the city... they spent the whole time freebasing cocaine and had cars going back and forth to the city bringing new prostitutes

Not only that he used the heaviest gauge strings you could get.

14 - 17 gauge strings! That would shred most players complete finger tips off. LOVE STEVIE! ❤️RIP❤

Another saying out there is that, Stevie would dip his hurt fingers in some kind of powder(yeast powder I believe) till they were fully covered with them, and rub those finger agains his skin. Therefore he could get a skin-like texture on his left hand fingers. Don't know if they were true.

Yes he Is The Pride of Texas!! No One tops him.

I have 9's on mine.......I'm lucky if a can get a step and half! lol

Thank you for explaining that. I had always heard he played on cable wires. I never knew what they meant. So good.

Exactly

That is total commitment. The guy must have had callouses like cow leather on his fingers.

Yes. SRV had to use heavy gauge string because broke them all the time. If you watch some of his vids, you can see how far he bends the strings

Mine too!

He tuned down one step - easier bends.

I read somewhere that his strings were up to an inch off the fret board

I'm with you... I've watched many reactions to SRV (RIP)...an no one says anything about him not needing his eyes to play...he is one with his guitar...his fingers know where they need to be... ✌️❤️🤘...

Yuup, good stuff/fascinating...!

that's how you play most instruments, you stop looking after the first couple years, some sooner.. looking doesn't do you nay good in any way at all not after a certain level, cuz you cant go ok here comes that part imma go up to the next dot and play this lick.. it would just mess you up hard, its the same for any piano player, sax, percussion, any instrument, you have to know where each note is before you get there so looking doesn't help, some people look whatever but its not helping them or assisting in any way . . it would be the equivalent of looking in the mirror when you sing.. its way beyond that after a certain level.. when you first learn yea you look specially learning songs, OK its 3rd fret to 7th fret pull off... OK where are those frets, oh those dots OK yea ok I see.. I mean you see stevie peeling off notes so fast looking just wouldn't do anything for you, its feel, some know where each note and string is before touching, some know where everything is after they hit the first note . everyone different, its like driving a car or riding a motorcycle, you;re not looking at the clutch and shifter when you shift, you just do it, same for brake and clutch, your feet feel where foot controls are your hands hand controls

Amen!

Yup! I go to a few jams in my area (Toronto, Ontario) and the strange thing is there is a great lack of musicians/instrumentalists my age! (19). I have a SRV tribute band and my band members are all in their 40s and 50s!

@@stefanpalickimusic Sadly it's all about the money anymore. SRV and others of his era were musicians who studied their craft, Perfected it, and wowed their audience with their talent. Most today use auto-tune and computer generated music just to get by.

Damned straight. No hiding behind anything, just pure talent and emotion.

@@infreedomitrust1667 -and it relies on dancers and other visuals, as oppose to just seeing real musicians doing what they do.

Agreed!

Maybe in the history of recorded blues music.

I'll give that a - Yes Sir !!

Steve was high on coke (drug) and Jack when hen sang this

High or straight, better than anyone else

I'm 55, he passed while I was in Iraq, serving with the 82nd Airborne Division. And this is on my bucket list. His music, his life, his music... 🙏🏻 got me through combat. 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻

The Devil may have gotten guitar lessons, but it's obvious he sure as hell didn't get his soul. Stevie kept that to the very end.

Maybe the devil tried to make a deal but who would make a deal with the devil. He couldn't beat a southern boy playing the fiddle.

I suspect he did in fact make that deal with the devil, but after hearing him play God called in a marker, his playing saved his soul.

Stevies guitar skills didn't come from the Devil, his skills came from practicing, practicing, practicing and one show after another for years and years and his dedication to his craft was unparalleled, Stevie could show the Devil how its done in Texas!

Honey over gravey. Love it!!!!

I slit my finger from the nail and had heard that Stevie did that. So on break I ran over to 7-11 and got some. I tell you what... that will make you dance around in a circle and scream like a little girl.

He was medically ahead of his time. In ERs now they use superglue sometimes instead of Stiches. Can you imagine SRV as a doctor. Surgery behind his back.....😮

Not that far, it's what it was invented for. Mainly dental but for closing wounds too. The Army docs closed a huge concertina wire wound on my thigh with it is 1992.

Rene martinez his tech had to make him switch from the giant telephone wire strings towards the late 80's because he was just absolutely destroying his fingers. He would take super glue and baking soda to basically build his fingertip back up and actually file it down to smoothen out, but even that wasn't protecting his fingers towards the end

@@Cashcrop54 he wasn't medically ahead of his time. You can thank Evel Knievel for bringing superglue to the operating table. He broke so many bones that his doctors used super glue to reconnect them.

Jeff’s live cut of Can You See The Light is pretty phenomenal too.

you need to add one to your list, Richie Blackmore

You stated it so well for all three.

Eddie Van Halen didn't have soul. His playing was soul-less.

The first time BB King opened for Stevie Ray, Stevie was furious...because he thought it was an insult to BB King. BB King was the one who calmed him down and helped him see that Stevie was elevating blues to a whole new audience and BB King didn't mind opening for him.

JELLY!! 😂❤

@@craenor Absolutely right!!! Stevie was freakin pissed!! He said "This will never happen again", BB is the MASTER of the Blues I don't deserve to be playing behind him.

Humility was one of Stevie’s best traits. RIP Stevie.

@@craenor Good point. And BB knew what the guy could do. Who would want to follow that? Don't care how good or famous you are.

Well said! Now i dont need to add a word! Agree 10”%.

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Agreed for the most part but there are a lot of really good guitar players walking around on planet Earth right now.

I once heard him say in an interview that he played like he was breaking out of jail.

Awesome!

They most definitely do.

Exactly. You can only turn auto tune up to 10.

I agree. I got to see him in Pelham Alabama a couple months before he died. I didn't know anything about him except that he played guitar and played blues. It was literally a mind blowing experience watching him live. It totally changed my view of what blues could be. Phenomenal.

AMEN!!! Stevie was a conduit for musical energy. He once said in an interview that there were times when he didn't know what he was going to do next and 'IT" just came to him. He didn't question "IT" because he realised it was a higher power!!! He was beyond amazing!!

His guitar was more like a third arm. If anyone ever wondered what "natural" talent looks like... that's it.

Just awesome Jeffe

Now you making me feel old!! Starting to get waking farts now😂😂

I heard Eric Clapton say the first time he heard Stevie Ray play he got Goosebumps, because he knew he was in the presence of greatness

I tear up every time I see this! Man I miss Stevie Ray!

Yeah me too It gives me goosebumps too

I know somebody would know that story. Alexis is going to flip when she reads this 😁

There are certain moments in your life, that was one.

Me too. I was driving down the road in w. Ky and had to pull over because I was crying so hard I couldn't see after the dj announced it on the radio. The first time in my life I ever cried over someone I didn't even know. Never forget it.

And Chris Squire and Neil Peart. Those two and SRV really hurt bad!😭😭😭 I was at Alpine next weekend after the crash to see Sting and Don Henley. Not a dry face in the crowd wvery time they talked about Stevie.

I was in county jail for failure to appear (I have an aversion to showing up for traffic tickets). Bill Graham, concert promoter and known Alice Cooper hater, also died in the crash.

In a way, I believed he was. A grown man crying through a Fender Strat

No...but the sky is.

I honestly don't fell SRV ever had is brain in the mix, it was all from his soul to the strings. He played with 100% feel. I was lucky enough to see him 10-12 times in his life. From Antones in Austin to his Live Alive album recording and at Auditorium shores. He's is the GOAT!

Seen him at Antones as well. Remarkable

im 20 and i had been playing guitar for over a year when i found this video. after the first 2 minutes i could not believe what the hell i was watching, and as the video went on it just got better. best discovery of my whole life

The quote I remember from Jimmy Vaughan was something like...when he was asked if Stevie ever played a song the same way twice: "Twice? I don't think he ever played a song the same way once."

Also Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen

Good call, it is a Guild and the 6 string beater is my Washburn, been to hell and back. Can't kill it

Crazy! I was also there! And by total chance too. I was working at a recording studio and one of the other assistant engineers had tickets and got stood up. He asked another co-worker who turned him down and then he asked me. I was 17 and it was the early 80's, so I wasn't into the blues, but out of curiosity I said yes. It totally changed me as a musician and opened me up to all kinds of genres that I probably wouldn't have listened to until much later. Saw him again in Montreal a couple of years later and that was also a barn burner. The man was lightning in a bottle. Just fire start to finish.

No fenders ?

@@gerdberg4188 5 Teles and a Jag.

@@cherrypickerguitars 👍

I was at the Alpine Valley show that night. Really REALLY bad fog. I had a 3 hr drive back to Chicago. I turned the news on when I got home and crapped my pants.

I was at his last concert at Alpine Valley in WI. Eric Clapton was headlining. Buddy Guy was also there. It was an amazing concert. Was devastated the next day when I found out about the helicopter crash.

That's where I first heard him . I had tickets to see Bowie on that tour and was looking forward to seeing Stevie but there was some disagreement when they were drawing up the contract and Stevie bailed. Instead we got Earl Slick. I have a bootleg of the rehearsals for the tour before Stevie quit. It's cool hearing him play some of the classic Bowie songs. Fortunately I di manage to catch him three times before he passed.

I spent the night hedged out in my truck, drinking rum and coke, listening to Stevie until the neighbour's complained. Went to work thenext day, and the guys were asking me what's wrong,it's like yer hung over. Told them Stevie Ray Vaughn died last night. They had no fucking idea who he was. Decided I didn't belong there any more, and quit a week later. Saŵ him a couple of times in smaller venues in Vancouver. God,I do miss that man. And yeah, there's times he could make me cry. Not many who could feel the Strat like he could. Miss ya still,Stevie....

Yes he was

agreed

Thank you Rob

Sorry I'm late to the party on this channel, is that her Dad next to her showing her the music from the past, just wondering?

@@frankrizzo4460 We explain in our first video together ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sd-0sCCX4Fs.html

You told me something I didn't know, Neal Schon. I am going to have to read more about that now Gene. Randy is coming, I am going to do a two-fer. Dee, and then Diary of a Madman in the same reaction.

@@flickeringboxofficial Awesome choices for Ozzy and Randy. In my very humble opinion, Randy Rhodes is the greatest rock guitarist of all time, that's right, even better than Hendrix and Van Halen. Would've been awesome if Randy had lives to a ripe, old age and created a bigger catalogue, but even in his short time, he was still the man.