How the Two Greatest Guitar Players Wrote THE SAME SONG 

Last vid got hit w/ copyright and blocked worldwide, so here's another considerably less good but still very good piece of content for you. Sry bass players

Texas Flood was actually written and recorded by Larry Davis in 1958. So if Red House sounds similar, there's a good chance Hendrix was inspired by the song.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was grounded and set in the blues. Jimi Hendrix was like a Martian in the blues. Both have their own unique musical qualities.

I always fondly thought of SRV and Hendrix to be two sides of the same coin. Two extremely unique guitarists of their respective time, with of course SRV nailing multiple covers of Hendrix's music, even making it his own in some ways.

Larry Davis,1958 -- which precedes Hendrix --- wrote Texas Flood.

Wait until Tyler finds out that these guys both wrote the same song called Voodoo Child Slight Return 🤯

I must say Tyler, the quality and content of the last about half a dozen videos have been just so entertaining and great, thank you

Thanks Tyler! I love it when you do this style of video. I got to watch the original version of this video and loved it, its too bad it got claimed. I always learn so much from you're Chanel and guitar super system. Keep up the great work! 🤘🎸

Wow, you’ve outdone yourself - so much info to unpack in this one . There were times on your wide shots that I couldn’t help but wonder how some of those licks would have sounded on the baby sitar! Great playing, great video!

Bethany’s mind blown in the car had me dead🤣 loving the skits again!

Ok, the answer is VERY simple. Stevie was a huge Hendrix fan, emulated his playing, and even his look. So, of course, he is going to write and play a song like Hendrix.

There’s Hendrix then everyone else, jimi is the Goat don’t ever forget that He had soul for days!!!!!!!

Your winning man glad your talent is about guitar. Your videos make people find songs they never heard before of great albums

Beautiful.

Great one Tyler! The intro cracked me up, but I also learned something new in SRVs digitation thanks!

This is why I always come back to your videos.. Funny with a ton of useful information. Hendrix and SRV.... 2 of the best players of all times. Thanks for sharing!!!

Awesome playing

Music IS win. Very good. You nailed some of those licks as they felt them. I subscribed ✌️ 🎸

Great video man of these two icons !

Tyler lost it half way through the video, haha. Killer playing, dude, keep on doing a great job. Your videos really amuse me and there's so much to learn from you!

Awesome video!!!

this is some sacred blues knowledge. Thanks for the licks

Awesome Tyler! 🤘👍

Sick video! Chillin and riffin

What sweet tones you got there!!

I love red house, amazing song! But texas flood is absurd. I probably wouldn't believe the el mocambo version was real if it wasn't recorded

Gary Moore did awesome on Hendrix songs too!

Beautiful break down of the styles.. even me being a drummer and basses. It helps me relate to my guitares ...great content.. keep it up 🤓😎🔥

Learned those licks in the 60's, blues go's back before Jimi and Stevie

Texas Flood is nearly a perfect song. I’ll never forget when I was driving home to Fort Worth from Dallas (where SRV was born) and I had this song playing while we were in the middle of a flood. Downtown Dallas was practically underwater. In that moment I knew exactly what the song was about.

Major difference is that Jimi wrote "Red House", but Stevie Ray did not write "Texas Flood". Stevie Ray was a brilliant guitarist, but Jimi wrote many beautiful songs. Jimi also remains one of the very few artists who have taken a Bob Dylan song and made it their own (All Along The Watchtower). I have a great deal of respect for Stevie Ray, but when it comes to writing songs, Jimi was in a class by himself.

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Testify always reminds me of Hendrix so much. I was shocked that Jimi didn’t write it

Brilliant video.

Great vid 👍

From Wikipedia: "Texas Flood" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of A flat. Davis wrote it in California in 1955 and the song is credited to Davis and Duke Records arranger/trumpeter Joseph Scott. Although Davis later became a guitar player, for "Texas Flood" Fenton Robinson provided the distinctive guitar parts, with Davis on vocals and bass, James Booker on piano, David Dean on tenor saxophone, Booker Crutchfield on baritone saxophone, and an unknown drummer. The song was Davis' first single as a leader and became a regional hit." Good video Tyler, I like how you illustrated some of the difference in the styles of Hendrix and Vaughan.

Love the silly so much more when a great new insight comes with it. Nice!

Great video Tyler! And Bethany looks Killer in that pink cowboy hat and sunglasses!

really good video bro.

2 weeks ago I listened to these songs back to back and I talked about why they sounded similar to my dad.

Insane tone bro

Would love to see and hear you break down the version of Red House done by G3 with Satch, Vai, and Eric Johnson. Some of Johnson’s licks in that version are just insane, and of course, Satch shows off his bluest blues ever.

Man, I LOVE that Lake Placid Blue Strat!!! I have a much, much cheaper version; Squire 60s Vibe LPB, with literally everything upgraded. I just live that color! Fascinating comparison between the two players, also. I’ve always found their playing to be aimilar, but I chalked that up to SRV’s version of “Little Wing.” This is so much more in-depth. Very cool! Thanks.

Thanks for the awesome video and great licks. 😺 all the way until you either hear it or break a string trying.

That prs is a BEAUTY

Since that damn chopper went down, do y'all sometimes wonder, in the upside down or where ever the hell we go when we expire (hell even?) If Hendrix and SRV have been jamming the most epic jam ever since? You know it can go on for centuries and it will NEVER get old, right?

Compare the first 3 albums and ask yourself who is the best ever. Jimi tops every one before and after. SRV is great but Jimi is beyond.

Very cool!

There are tons of blues tunes that are like this.

6:05 Always so funny to hear those guitar-guru advices: "don't copy others" or "don't learn songs note for note"...how do they think did SRV learn??? he just played the hell outta every single song he liked...and he wouldn't stop until he could play the whole thing note for note as heard on the record...in order to craft your own sound, you have to have a starting point, and that starting point is your influence's licks. When you got that, do variations and make them your own.

Your "melted my own face" comment encapsulates that feeling of nailing a certain tone, playing the perfect lick, or stomping on the right pedal at just the right time (with no one else but you in the room).

So there i was, casually driving with my drone flying, shooting some beautiful cinematic clips; and this here song came on my FM radio

Thank You sO' much Tyler 🎸🎴 Music Is Win 🎵🎶✳️

REQUEST! For those of us who try so hard to sound like the greats, can you tell us what pedals you use when you are playing? You nail all the artists you play and I have a hard time as a newer player. Maybe a little picture of the pedals you’re using in the lower corner of the vid when you play? Anyway, great vid, thanks!

Great video Tyler! As a suggestion you may want to dive into Buddy Guy's catalogue since he deeply influenced Stevie Ray and Hendrix. Fun fact Hendrix wrote "Red House" originally for Buddy Guy.

My legs were weak when I saw you posted this

Tyler you remind me of the real life version of jack black in school of rock i didnt notice it till just now you have the exact energy 😅

i dont what this vid is about, but having jimi and srv made me in

Awesome

Third time trying to watch this video, hopefully it doesn't get blocked again

I feel like the difference between Texas flood and red house is that I Jimi massages your ears and makes you say “ that’s nice” and Stevie Ray Vaughan slaps you in the face and for some reason you wanna get slapped in the face again and again because he does it so well lol

hi Tyler......i do have a pretty good appreciation of Hendrix and SRV....i think Hendrix was fearless, thats where "Jam back at the house" studio version is quite different from any other song. I love the classical greats like Brahms who make massive chordal movements to bring rhythm into the tonal realm....i think Hendrix understood that the fretboard represents every imaginable instrument..... the song has reflections in the melody to time when he played with Curtis Mayfield and when distortion was not "the thing to do" wherein high tones of almost country-like bending were reinforced. would appreciate as never hear much commentary on "JBATH" TY JOSH NEW ZELAND

Hey man, I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and all of them are amazing, what’s your favourite video that you have done thanks 🤘🏼

Tyler, I love how you are dead right about the differences in their playing. Especially their phrasing. SRV really was into Jimmy. There's video's of him jamming I'm guessing in Texas in front of what appeared to be hard-core country crowd playing Jimmy. He was wearing his fringes, and all his country western clothes yet too. I couldn't tell if the crowd was pissed or enjoying it. I also noticed he has his tremolo bar on top which would drive me crazy. I was listening to SRV playing Little Wing (his almost 7 minute version) and you're definitely right about him being cleaner sounding and I was surprised that he plays it quite a bit faster (IMO). Not faster like a competition but just a bit quicker yet still sticking to the Jimmy sound. Can I ask a favor of you sir...lol. I can't or take Nugent anymore! I even challenged him to play the solo(s) on The Damn Yankees song come again because I know it is not him. Not to mention any whammy work is almost certainly not by him. I even made the challenge easier for him, I said "I will give you, or donate $20,000 to your charity if you can even tap your fingers that fast. That was just over a month ago. Well, I took a bigger shot at last night which I will gladly share with you but I want to adhere to your comment rules so I won't post them here..lol. The favor would be the video you have of him after he insulted Joan Jett (again) and then at one point tried to play guitar and he just royally sucked you were laughing and also I belive really used you ever so subtle, kind, sarcastic humor on him. Yes, I am LMAO right now thinking of that video and your reaction, comments, and so on. Any help would be great. I compared him to J. Edgar Hoover at one point if that's gives you any indication of what I might have said. Thank you Tyler! Sincerely, Jeff

Tyler, you always look like you're working so hard when you play.

Geez... I wonder who was the others biggest inspiration? And Tyler, now you are just showing off... 😎

SRV was Hendrix fan. Could it be he just started playing an old Hendrix lick without realizing it?

I didn't want to watch this one... But it's been TEN DAYS!!

So really, SRV learned a ton from Jimi. Stevie played emotionally, and had great hands. But I'm left thinking SRV never wrote anything to Jimi's level. Songs or lyrics. To compare them as players is one thing...SRV sounds a little stiff to me, but that's a different subject....Honestly, SRV didn't pick it up and take it to another level. He just played it really well. I love listening to SRV, but to compare him to Hendrix is not fair. After all these years, nobody is Hendrix. And no one will be. Just enjoy what SRV did. He was wonderful.

Hendrix stuff gets knocked offline pretty fast, but the trick seems to be playing it in standard tuning, instead of tuning down to where Hendrix was, the machinery that detects the songs to copyright strike seems to not work in standard.

Well that was pretty cool. Rock on, or, Blue on.

Das hat mir, sehr gut, gefallen.

Today is November 27th Jimi hendrix's birthday It's a good day not too hot not too cold

*plays wicked blues licks the whole video* 💙 that's all thanks

8:05 that's also the ending lick of stairway to heaven solo!

Here is something I have posted before. I saw Jimi Hendrix play, summer 1969. The place was an acoustic barn. It was not like anything, as great as it was, I ever heard recorded, or a video of him. The sound had separation, clear and covered the range. At one point during Voodoo Child, he put up a wall of sound, it felt like the bass was rolling up from the floor. Not only was it the oddest combination, of 6 or 7 sounds, but you would think, he was flipping switches to produce it. To compare him to other great guitar players, is really not the question. There was nothing to compare him to.

And this right here is why Red House has always been my favorite Hendrix song.

I love the screaming alley cat in the wee hours outside my bedroom window

really loved the video but i have a request.. why don't you try doing some covers and sing them too

The more I listened to SRV, who I love, the more I started to realize he was copying Hendrix. Just polishing up and adding a little Texas blues to what Hendrix played.

Those subtle few falling notes sliding down at the end of a lick.. in classical orchestra we called them grace notes

OK, here's my take. When Hendrix recorded Red House in the studio, all other electric guitarists should have just stopped and accepted that this was the pinnacle of electric guitar. There is no song (before or since) that is so perfect throughout its entirety in regards to the note choice, expression, attack, tone etc etc, than this. There are many other electric guitar pieces that have been recorded by many other guitarists but none of them are as perfect as Red House. The reason I say this is that after thousands of times listening to this track, I cannot think of a better way to play any of the notes that he played. Please feel free to disagree with me but remember, you're wrong!

F*** yeah !!!

Do a progression video for the passing of the torch between jimi>srv>john mayer

Aye! Nice Beemer, Tyler!

this is the third time you’ve uploaded this

What kind of backing track and/or song was played at 9:42 ? I really liked it

SRV didn't write Texas Flood. SRV was only 4 years old when Larry Davis recorded it in 1958. Writing credits on the 45 label are attributed to Scott-Robey.

Really fun video. Such tasty morsels. Thx!

That Strat takes the prize !

One thing man, don't phone and drive. We love u and don't want any accident happen

RU-vid has the uncanny ability to put a commercial or ad in at the wrong time every time 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Listen to "Gypsy Eyes" from Jimi's "Electric Ladyland" album...

"two of the greatests"..one original more or less.. the other very impressed with the former, so much so he played and dressed like him..although he, too, was AMAZINGLY good..

If you want a good Hendrix sound use a Whammy Pedal on the detune setting then you can flex the pedal and fluctuate between the detune and regular.. With some Univibe!! A slight reverb and reverse effect!!

Great work...the commercials killed the flow though.

Ps; now go straight to “little wing” jimi first then SRV, or even John Mayer at michael Jackson’s funeral, “human nature” Both are a way of knowing what they felt. That joy and sadness. The end result is the purest form of expression.

writing the comment again... I thought the same thing while listening these songs.

i liked that SRV tone and playing man. what gear did you use?

You're in a hands-free state. TN is watching you...

Oh noes! Now we need to find someone to make them play bass!