As a guitar player who loves this man's approach. What he's doing with his index finger is incredibly difficult, especially with a set of 13's on the neck. Best vibrato I've ever heard.
13's where only a bit on his career explained by Rene, his guitar tech, he then wen't to a blend bewtween low strings 13 and high strings on 12, on e flat that becomes 12 on highs and 11 on e flat, so is very playable, sorry im kinda tired of people thinking that stevie played his WHOLE career with 13''s, Rene said it, he was destroying his fingers.
Actually, that is a huge mistake. He was not a Humbucker fan but he played the shit out of a 335 depending on what he was feeling that day. I wish I had a recording of him and Larry Carlton. It was a hot ass mess because Larry could not really understand what Stevie was doing. Larry being a practitioner of notation and Stevie was a master of the pentatonic scale. That combo is like having Barbra Streisand try and keep up with Mavis Staples. It wont work because Barbra prob didn't have any black friends growing up. Stevie had a ton.
If it was the end of the 70's and they had a female vocalist then the band was called Double Trouble. That band was formed after the demise of Triple Threat Revue in 1978. The band consisted of Stevie, Lou Ann Barton and Johnny Reno (sax) from TTR, with new members Chris Layton (drums) and Jackie Newhouse (bass). By 1980 Lou Ann and Reno had left and the band was reduced to a 'power trio' of Stevie, Layton and Newhouse. Since Stevie was clearly band leader and his star was rising, they changed the name of the band to 'Stevie Vaughan and Double Trouble', which is how they are billed on the album 'In the beginning' which was recorded at that time with that line-up. The year after, in 1981 bassist Jackie Newhouse left and was replaced by Tommy Shannon. The band got a new manager who suggested Stevie call himself 'Stevie Ray Vaughan', Stevie loved it cos it sounded like 'Stevie Rave On', so the band became 'Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble'. First time that incarnation of SRV&DT recoded together was as Doyle Bramhall's backing band on the song 'Too Sorry' on his album 'Bird Nest on the Ground' in 1981. Look it up, it's here on youtube. Two years later they recorded 'Texas Flood' and you know the rest.
I would state without hesitation that the technique is perfect but much too clean to reflect Stevie on stage. Its a pity that this was never released. Still got all my LP's. A typical studio version where everybody behave like an angel while keeping the demons checked.... sadly !
Well. his drug and alcohol addiction nearly killed him in 1986. He collapsed on stage in England and realised he had a choice... clean up or die. So one could argue that he was fairly broken then. He chose to clean up, and imho his playing improved immensely, even though I didn't think it could get any better. But as far as this particular song is concerned, there were technical issues that plagued the recording. The guitar fell out for about 30 seconds during the second chorus (just before the guitar solo at 2:40) and Stevie stopped singing while they figured out what was wrong. I edited that bit out and substituted it with the third (?) chorus which was fine. There was also a very audible bang/click noise at about 1:15 that irritated the f*** out of me so I edited that out too.
@@afloydianslip8613 Well put. My comment was intended mostly as humor solely to the title word of "repaired". While there is not one of us on this planet that are not broken in some way... SRV was nearly perfect in his art. Growing up in Austin, I was fortunate enough to see SRV numerous times... before and after '86. Crossed paths with him on occasion and always admired his talent. While he himself, as are all of us, was in need of repair... his music and talent never was.
Jimmie Vaughan has them, and occasionally shows them in exhibits . The exception to this is that Guitar Center bought the strat he played “Lenny” and “Riviera Paradise” (the strat is named “Lenny”) and they also bought his “Hamiltone” guitar (the one he plays on the “Couldn’t Stand The Weather “ video, with his name inlaid on the fretboard) and both of those guitars are on display, every day , at the Guitar Center off Anderson Lane in Austin , TX
This is crazy! I mean me seeing this picture! I've seen him 3 times, met him once, and never seen a Gibson guitar in his hands! It looks weird to me. But I'm pretty freakin' weird 🙃
Hehe. You never seen the cover of "Soul to Soul" before? The photo I used is an outtake from the cover photo session, and he's holding the same guitar...
@@afloydianslip8613 how did that "Slip" by me? Sorry, couldn't resist... I remember that album name, but I didn't have it. Do you think that it's weird that I never saw a Gibson anything in his hands on stage? Did someone take a poll and the majority said "Strat only!" lol
@@johnsallee7824 Big brother Jimmie inherited them all. The storage facility he had everything stored in was burgled a few years back (Number one wasn't stolen) so he moved everything to a bank vault. Every once in a while he lets them out so people can see them, but they're not played much.
This is not the best version of this song. Chech out his live performance on the riverboat president in New Orleans. He has a keyboard player on that performance
I never claimed it was. Personally I like them both, and I'm one of those ones that believes that bringing in Reese Wynans (the keyboard player) was one of the best things that Stevie did, it added a new dimension to their work. Reese was actually bought in during these sessions, obviously before this 'patched' version was recorded, since he didn't play on it.
Hehe. He's not playing it in the photo either; it's not plugged in. The guitar isn't photoshopped; it was a prop for the photo session. The photo is from the 'Soul to Soul' album cover photo session - guitar and all.
