Stevie Ray Vaughan - Best Guitar Player - Sound Check | THIS CAN'T BE 

The performance was even cooler than the garb, by orders of magnitude! (And his threads were slick, no doubt!)

Yep.🤠

Beautiful description

I agree. I saw Stevie in 84/85 and I often think the guitar was playing him...

his swag!!!!!!!!

I hear you! Each note, is a tear shed!

Same, I was 23, pregnant and couldn't go to his last tour. On my way to work when they announced he died. I sobbed, my boss sent me home, I was 8 months pregnant.

❤Stevie's death killed all of us. But, we can cary are love for him and the band forever😢

This is actually "Scuttle Buttin", not an improv jam. The song is super dope. Just commenting for clarification.

@@sleepyboypeanut Thanks! 👍

@@guido4231 No argument there! 😊👍

I’m from Austin use to see Stevie Ray quite a bit in the 80,s it’s not the same vibe anymore for sure .

@@kennethmeeker6369 no, it’s not the same. I was in Austin in the ‘80s, and when Stevie died the spirit went out of it. No one saw it coming, and it’s so sad.

He's not even woke up yet! He comes in wiping sleep from his eyes and sucking down orange juice. SPOILE!! Stevie is right handed!! He's playing left handed here!!

@@deltonkillen8024 the video is reversed. Stevie doesn't play lefthanded, nor does anyone else in the band. Also, his No. 1 Strat isn't lefthanded either.

yes, and Tommy Shannon played with Johnny Winter too...

THE ELMO!! yeah, it's still there, palm tree neon sign and everything. It is more an event place now and dance studio during the week.

Make that the understatement of the century.

I think it was in the first biography that came out after his death where someone said, Some guitar players are possessed by their guitars. Stevie's guitars are possessed by him. I love that.

Yeah, I tried that once when mine split. I will tell you what... that'll make ya dance in a circle and scream like a little girl.

Unbelievable!

He's playing left handed!!! How great are you to be able to play like that with either hand??? Just crazy!

@@meangene6766 I just realized that before I read your comment... I thought he played right-handed...

@@jeremymcafee1371 I noticed that too and wondered if the video is flipped?

@@rayj1011 I have no idea

This is actually "Scuttle Buttin", not an improv jam. The song is super dope. Just commenting for clarification.

@@sleepyboypeanut his music had freedom built in.

True, that.

@@bthomas518 he played the early stuff using 13 to 56 but tuned down to E flat. Still very heavy. Towards the end he was using 11 to 50 according to Rene Martinez. Still pretty heavy for most folks.

Amazing he was so small in stature. And gifted with the most powerful hands ever. He was a gift from heaven called back way too soon.

Yes, but tension on strings is a bit compensated because he is tuned half step down, so its actually easier to bend strings and stuff

@@funkleberryfinn123 No. 13's are 13's, tuning down a ½ step doesn't relieve that much string tension. His fingertips were blackened from his using super glue to seal up the split callouses on his fingertips after a show.

@@donegan2comcast He also set his strings higher off the fretboard and had minimal height on the fret wire. His guitars were hard to play for anyone but him.

Depends on your preferred genre. A KMFDM soundcheck is effing badass!!

@@bthomas518 prince? nah

Yes ma'am!.. There are guitar players and then there are maestros!.. my favs are SRV EVH and HENDRIX! God Rest them✌️💛🤘

He had Albert King...style he copied

@letsgomets002 I was under the impression he blended his heros with his playing. Good stuff.

He’s better the Hendricks! Just my humble opinion!

@@williamcabell142 Hendrix is weird because he actually wasn't any good technically speaking. His knowledge of music theory was limited and he used the pentatonic scale, a simplistic blues scale. What sets Jimi apart from the rest is that he didn't seem to create music persay, but rather was the music. In many ways his lack of music theory was beneficial because he did not have the limitations that come with preconceived knowledge. He had a lot of feelings within him that he struggled to process and his emotions and music became one entity. When coupled boundless creativity the result was him being a pioneer. The vibrational wavelengths of raw emotion that he coaxed from his guitar ultimately brought to the table a sound and vibe that no one had heard before. The other weird thing is that he did really weird things to manipulate the sounds a guitar could make to a degree that some of it is extremely difficult to replicate with any precision. There's a reason he did so many Hendrix covers and also why Jimi was one of his biggest idols and influences. Without Jimi, Stevie would not be who he is. But you're not wrong, from technical standpoint Stevie is better guitarist.

The war war peddle was given to Steve by Hendricks family after he went to the family to ask if he was allowed to play Jimis songs.

He was playing right handed. The video is flipped for some reason. Noticed it on another Polo video.

It's got to be a reversed image

He was playing 13s for his early career but someone convinced him to tone down to 11s by the end for the health of his fingers lol

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I would say Billy gibbons is the last

They are all gone now. Pity no one has stepped up.

Not the last ,we have more here in Texas .

No. The music flowed out of every cell in that man's body.

Definitely not the best guitarist ever..that's a silly statement

@@letsgomets002 In your opinion. And since you like the Mets, I used to watch them in Shea Stadium.

The band is Double Trouble: SRV, plus Chris Layton on drums, Tommy Shannon on bass, and Reese Wynans on keys.