He’s just showing off at this point! Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood | REACTION 

Six minutes into this clip and all I have heard is a narrator attempting to discuss a subject that he knows absolutely NNOTHING about. Not even in the same universe, much less the same subject matter. I yield my final ten minutes of watching this waste of precious life moments to anyone that needs some "perfect time to take a long nap" break time. Add MARKABUSI REACTIONS to my Permanently Blocked List !!! 🙄🤮🤮

He's in a league all his own , the realm of Legends ! 🙏

His voice has been described as "Honey poured over gravel". His playing was a conduit for his feelings, he never got stuck and if he hit a wrong note, he would bend it until it was correct and most people would never know. Stevie should always be watched live. Check out "Lenny" "Mary had a little lamb" "Voodoo Child" to start.

SRV is the Goat!!!!

the greatest blues player ever, BB King said SRV was the best blues player he had ever heard or played with, that's saying something

Life Without You, live at Capitol theater is a must.

Stevie didn't play guitar, he was actually possessed by it and the guitar played him

Markabusi ,if this performance doesn't impress you, there's something wrong with you 😅

They say Stevie Ray Vaughan made a deal with the Devil... No one knows what Stevie Ray got, but the Devil got guitar lessons.

You’re right: blues was black music, and very few white players were good enough to be taken seriously. Stevie was asked why he played black music, and he said that his neighborhood growing up was black, white, and Mexican, all the kids went to each other’s houses, and to him it was just music from the neighborhood. He knew Muddy Waters, who advised him to quit taking cocaine. He was accepted by the old blues masters because he came with respect to learn from them and because he could play. He was the first white artist to win a W.C. Handy Award.

There is no better because that's totally subjective. Who do you happen to like better is a better question. I like Stevie for blues, Jan Akkerman for rock, Pat Metheny for jazz, Alex Lifeson for progrock, Hendrix for psychedelic, and Terry Kath just for fun. You just can't rate musicians like you can sports players.

Nobody in the music industry has ever shown off before.

Love how you described your channel

The answer to the question of how many solos are required is clearly "one", interrupted by some complimentary vocal ornamentation. I mean, what else are you supposed to do if you can't talk to your girlfriend on the phone because it's raining, other than crank out some blistering chops until the sun comes out?

SRV's tricks were a stage-show entertainment thing. There's a line of great guitarists who also made a show for their live audience: Chuck Berry in the 50s, Jimi Hendrix in the 60s and SRV in the 80s. Each man was the greatest guitarist in his era in the rock/blues genre.

Lifeson is a great guitar player but SRV was another level of player. No disrespect Lifeson.

LOVE 2 U!!! Stevie is awesome!!!!! Psalm 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Check out Joe Bonamassa. He makes jis guitar sing. Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart live in Amsterdam, I'll Take Care Of You. Jimmy Barnes featuring Joe Stone Cold. Just a few to get you started. He also sings.

Crazy thing is...this isnt like his one great song and performance. He was awesome performer that always put on a great show. Theres a performance where he destroys a guitar while playing it...keeps tearing it up...playing...smashing it....and still playing its better than most people can play. Somehow he keeps it going. Even though he gets cheers and applause when he sings and plays, he said he was afraid to sing and play at the same time and thought he wasnt very good at it..

I’ve seen Miles Davis live about 6 or seven times. SRV is a bit different. I’ve seen him twice in concert. Yes they were both magnificent artists who were best at what they did. There are many others.

Louis Armstrong was jazz but this is definitely blues.

Time flies when you're having fun...

Stevie-Ray Vaughn, dismaying potential guitar players since 1980. A common reaction by guitarists to seeing this video is to declare that they've quit playing on the spot. Because... "What's the use? I'm never going to be half that good!" Hopefully they get over it, but I think some never recover.

Louis Armstrong was Jazz. We're not going to speak on Al Jolson. He wasn't anything positive. Electric blues was popularized by B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and too many others to mention. Stevie was inspired by the artists and the Rock icon Jimi Hendrix!

while alex lifeson is a great guitarist, SRV was spiritually transcendent. merely thinking about the relationship between Stevie and his guitar chokes me up every time. you can teach someone how to play an alex riff/song. you _can't_ teach the kind of expressiveness that stevie brought. just a pedantic note about historical origins of blues music ..... the slavery-day music you're referring to is/was called "negro spirituals" (leave me alone YT - it is the proper anthropological designation) , which does indeed serve as part of the oral tradition associated with blues ; HOWEVER, as a musical genre, Blues style is actually an off-shoot of early jazz (early-early 20th-century) , which served as the sonic substrate for the aforementioned oral tradition, which is ultimately (to be reductive) just about "life's rough". Side note: there are several variations of blues, each with their own distinct characteristics -- SRV specifically played Texas Blues , which has a strong rock-y influence. Muddy Waters (which you seem to be familiar with), is known for Chicago Blues, which is an urbanization of Delta Blues (which is probably what most people would identify with classical blues)

One of the thousands of "missing seeing concerts" regrets that I have is, being in Fort Worth, Texas (attending college) during the mid 1980's and NOT seeing SRV when there were so many opportunities to do so. I guess to me (at the time), the cost of a $10 concert ticket would be better spent on BEER. Sometime around 1996, I was randomly paired up with a guy (playing golf in Garland, TX) who became good friends with SRV in drug rehab. He said that SRV was one of the nicest people he'd ever met.

all the top guitarists were amazed of his ability to know what he was going to play 10 to 15 notes ahead

Stevie Ray Vaughn was one of the greatest guitarists of all time! He played with all the greatest blues guitarist that were living at that time are gained the respect of all of the greats, BB King, Albert King, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck etc....

SRV just being brought into a discussion with someone like Alex Lifeson shows you have taste in lead guitarist. 🤔 I’m old and was blessed to have seen both live as they were coming up while growing up in San Antonio/Austin - numerous times!!!! What do you want… Texas Blues/Rock or Rush being Rush???? Both are special!!!! I’m a homer so SRV is da man!!!!! Go figure right!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 So says Austin Tx!!🎸🎸🎸😎🍸 PS don’t forget about Double Trouble Stevie’s band. Totally top notch in my opinion!!!! 💎

SRV was fighting the demons of alcohol and drugs early on, but he finally got clean and sober. At this show, he was border line overdosing on cocaine, and yet still one of the best live performances recorded... ever!

SRV ~ 🎸🐐 The goatiest goat in all of goatness **Voodoo Child at Austin City Limits 1989** **Life Without You at Capitol Theater**

Alex Lifeson is an ASOLUTELY AMAZING guitarist, but not in the same league as SRV!!!!

Stevie was the best Stevie Ray Vaughan ever, and just happens to be my favorite of all time.

blues did come out of field songs from the late 19th century from slaves and share croppers of the south. It was bred out of gospel. Blues then split into blues and country blues in the 1920s. In the 1930s and 40s blues morphed into big band music and jazz. In the 1950s Blues, folk, country blues, gospel, jazz and big band all morphed together to make Rock and Roll with the aid of Mr. Ray Charles who did the transistion from the 40s into the 50s and then Guitar rock was born from Chuck Berry in 1955, Soul music came out of Little Richard and James Brown. Now we also have electronica, rap, metal, hard rock, soft rock yacht rock............It's still all rock and roll, and it is ALL blues.

Fools errand to try to rank guitar Masters. Too many are too good. But yes Alex, & Stevie Ray are on the list. I like Rush better, but think Stevie was the ultimate showman.

#1 in my opinion, SRV fans will find you! RIP Stevie~❤

The solos were why his fans came.✌️❤️🎶

Alex is good....Stevie is Phenomenal.....

Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of those rare folks that just feel the music. He could sing a duet with his guitar. That 1959 Strat he was playing was his go-to axe and it had two nicknames - "Number One" and the "First Wife".

Profusely sweating from all of the foreign chemicals in him …………

Just subbed. I was lucky enough to see him open up for Robert Plant in 88 and he literally seduced me with his guitar and then he sang....smooth as butter 😂. You should check out Stevie with another guitar legend Jeff Healey..look at little sister live it will blow your mind 😉. Great reaction and Peace out ✌️ ☮️ 🙏 BTW Alex and Stevie two completely different gutar styles 😀

no, blues was created in early 20s, mostly in the south

Hard to believe he was only 5'5"....

Never say you know everything as in the end you know nothing…. you are blocking yourself with your stubborn nonsense.

SRV is better! Nobody else gives you the feeling you get when he plays and he never plays a song the same way twice. It’s just pure talent and passion

He grew up in my area! i met him once at the mall. Very humble dude! RIP to one of the GOATS!

When it comes to genius.....the best in your mind is according to your taste....people who are virtuosos just love to play practice play practice play. If I was a paying customer at that stevie concert...I would have felt I paid to little to see it!

Try Jimi Hendrix

I saw Stevie twice in the 80s and it was AWESOME 👌 😅

Welcome to our Texas pride and joy 😊😊😊

😂😂😂 so happy to hear you are reacting to Stevie Ray Vaughn...really love his music, as well as other artists from this same area, John Hiatt, then Bonnie Raitt...really looking forward to this...thanks Mark

SRV was a SHOWMAN ---that was part of his act , like Hendrix

I sort of think all lead guitarists (maybe all soloists regardless of instrument or genre) are showing off. Hendrix however outshines all the showoffs in my humble opinion but then he had so so much to show off.

SRV the GOAT

Both awesome guitarists! "Better" is very much subjective. I would personally rank SRV a little higher on my list, but I think Lifeson is one of the most underrated guitarists ever, and Rush is a much bigger part of my daily musical life than SRV. I actually thought you were going to say Jimi Hendrix, when you started the question. 🤔

I have both Alex AND Stevie in my top 5! I cannot pick between the two, but DAMN the swag of Stevie is impressive!

SRV was greatly influenced by blues great Albert King. If you listen to an Albert King song, you will definitely hear his style in SRV's playing only taken to a more complex and technical level.

Plantation Blues, is what they were called ( thru 'history of the Blues course, i learned that lol)

Alright. Now do Little Wing. Same show. El Macambo. Blow. Your. Mind.

SRV = GOAT 🐐...pure self taught raw talent, channeled soul..speed, accuracy, feeling..just everything.other greats like BB King and Eric Clapton all said they felt like beginners next to SRV.

Yes the songs the slaves were singing in the fields were songs of both faith and despair were foundation where blues music came from. As some of the descendants sang and put that to instrumentation and getting noticed and moving from rural areas to the cities. New Orleans and also Northward during the “great migration” to Memphis, Kansas City,St. Louis and Chicago etc. Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Elmore James, Buddy Guy and many others influenced young white kids who made into rock & roll. The early generation of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Louis etc in turn influenced the next generation and in larger part that was the British acts that played a bluesy influenced rock and roll style. They all credit the American blues players as their influences. There is a song lyric that goes” the blues had a baby, and they named it Rock & Roll.” And that came around as those British bands (British Invasion) then heavily influenced American bands. There is of course much more to it but that gives you an idea hope it helped.

Stevie is your favorite guitarists favorite guitarist.

Thanks for your reaction... SRV was amazing...

Stevie resided in his own open channel and in a frequency all his own.

Yup, blues for sure with the Texas touch. Revered by Clapton, Van Halen, pretty much everyone.

A worthy member of the elite guitar masters...Eddie Van Halen, eruption solo live...I double dog dare you

just wait until you find out Stevie Ray was the guitar player on David Bowie's Let's Dance track

The thumbs up is for SRV.....no one better at conveying and sharing emotions...never heard a song where he doesn't give it his 110%. And self taught...didn't read music.

SRV was for sure a showboater, but very humble. Once he got on he done all he could to put on his influences. The program he did with Albert King is legendary and worth a watch

All I can say is Stevie Ray and Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey. “Lil sister” check it out and see what you think. 🇨🇦

This is a sub genre called Texas Blues. You can detect the influences of jazz, rock and swing.

I don't it's really a comparison that can be made. It's like asking who's a better songwriter, Miles Davis or Mozart?

I would say Alex is more versatile and more creative out of necessity; Stevie more transcendental. Both fantastic guitarists in my top 5. Great reaction, Mark.

Did u notice the size of the strings he was using, thickest gauge ,

If you thought that was unnecessary don’t watch any Tommy Emmanuel videos. He is to the acoustic guitar what Stevie is to the electric guitar.

Stevie’s favorite was Jimi Hendrix. He was from right down the street from me. Joke was his mom didn’t just give birth to Stevie, but his guitar too.

You just saw the greatest guitar player ever!

He could play lead and rhythm at the same time

Funny you mention Middy Waters he along with Howling Wolf , B B King and Albert King was just some of the blues artist he looked up too. You know an artist is a great and a legend when the legends that come before that artist calls that person a legend and look up to them for inspiration.

Now you have to see his rendition of Jimi's Little Wing and Voodoo Child.

Stevie Ray Vaughan is the greatest guitarist to ever breathe oxygen!!

I saw him live in 1988 and had the same look as he did at the end.

The people paid for a show and he's giving them one.

Vaughan...for sure, m8!

Bro, if youre going to be a music reactor you should have a basic knowledge of music. Maybe find a different hobby, like rap where zero musical talent is necessary

Love the accent bro! Great reaction!

I needed a translator lol

Of all of the reactions I have watched, this one rates as one of the biggest wastes of my time. First and last time I will take the time to listen to what this guy thinks. Goodbye.

Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole is better~ Loved this reaction though, got to see it live, had to see it again here on ye olde toobs~

You chose right. Pinnacle of greatness. He passed soon after.

I hear Corey Feldman plays a mean guitar. 🤘

When you said putting the guitar behind his back was unnecessary it made it necessary for me to bail on this review.

“I guess he’s alright” 😂😂😂

Then you have not heard Jimi Hendrix play. Miles Davis asked Hendrix to play with him. Hendrix's tune Red House live from Isle of Wight was epic. His videos are restricted and his live performances were a level above. It is why we have performances like this.