This guy defined "BAD ASS". I don't care how big your guns or your muscles are, nothing was ever badder than Stevie Ray Vaughn with a guitar in his hands, and nothing ever will be.
This is what happens when 4 incredibly talented musicians are so in sync with one another, that you feel the telepathy of their collective conversation in your soul.
Stevie was so versatile. Listen to all his music and sometimes you can't believe it's him. Stangs Swang, Chitlins Con Carne all a different style. He was no a one hit wonder. One of the best. If the greatest had a banquet he would be one of the ones at the head table.
After the dinner, they would clear a spot in the middle of the table, Chris Layton would whip out the sticks & begin beating out a rhythm on the phone books from Stevie's chair. Blink & you will miss that first low squealy growl coming from somewhere near that little dude in the cheesy mariachi suit! as he hops onto the table. And they thought he was the waiter!
Saw SRV 9 times in my life. The best was at a little Polish American Beach Club in Gardner, MA. Amazing! I bought Couldn't Stand the Weather when I was a kid without knowing who he was. we did that as kids back then. Buy a record and see who got the best one, at an actual Record store. I WON! We would watch MTV, or V66 to see the video. Damn, I miss SRV. Thank God for his music!
According to his biography, that feather was given to his brother, Jimmie Vaughan, by none other than Jimi Hendrix himself. When Jimmie's band opened for Hendrix. That's why Stevie wore it a lot.
Man, I've watched this vid at least 20 times, and it just gets better with each viewing! Reese's piano solo is just plain gorgeous. A classic example of a band that's "on fire"! Thanks for the post. SRV RIP!!
Reese Wynans is no sens piano player! With him I don't need any drug to feel soooooooooo high! Thank you man you are my piano lord and playing with my guitar lord is too much for my brain!
Listening to Reese I think he had a lot of influence on Stevie's more jazzy compositons in the late 80's. What a band!! Gives me chills every time. We need more music like this these days!!
1 of the many things i love about SRV is he always deliveres his whole heart and soul on each show he does. And he always changes it up a bit playing what his heart feels at the time. You will get the same song but not the same solo. And it's such a shame in 1990 he reached a new level of playing it was scary. Can you imagine where he would be today had he still lived.
Bammm..got the sound happening out in airwaves..electric guitar is putting out vibes and the rhythem is assounding..Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best blue's and rock n roll musician that ever climbed up on a stage and picked up his guitar and put his hands o phenomenal..RIP Stevie..what a musician
I loved this performance! So intense and raw! Double Trouble is tremendous and I can understand why SRV loved to play with them and they stayed together. They were a band of "brothers".
YESSS! Someone had to say it,and I'm glad that you did! This is, and always will be, real music. Not for the money, not for the fame, not because it's the IN thing but because it's what you feel inside that comes out. It's touching people and making them feel something. I heard a quote one time that said, "Leave your ego, love the people, play the music" and that's what Stevie was about...
@mmsun44 ... I saw him in '89, and it was impossible to tell that he and his guitar were not one entity. I've never seen anything like that before, or since... beautiful...♥
Since the 1950's I have listened to Guitar players, he is definitly the best I have heard. Technique, passion and energy he hasthe lot. His music will live forever.
The legend will live on, always. This video is a awesome piece of history right in my home town New Orleans. I played on that same tiny ass stage a few times and it is cramped. The President riverboat jammed as did the Admiral and don't forget the Warehouse where some of the greatest concerts of all time took place. God bless SRV.
I saw him in 1989 in Asbury Park. It was awesome. If you scan for "Look at Little Sister" you will find a version where he breaks a string, change guitars, and keeps the show going. I saw him do just that playing "Voo Doo Chile" and I was less than 10 feet from him. He was the best performer I have ever seen and I will always have that impression of him enblazened in my memory.
SRV makes it look so easy, God bless him, I love his music and always will. I want to teach the next generation what good guitar music consist of, SRV is a classic example. I just wish I could have seen him play. It makes me sad knowing he's gone but, grateful we had him when we did.
How the F... can you not like SRV if you like guitars in any form or appreciate music. He touches the soul unless you havent got one, maybe thats it the thumbs down crew are soulless zombies?
Great song, exceptional performance!!! This gushes out tons of passion & everybody's just tearin' it up!!! Fuckin' well-oiled machine right here!!! Thanks.
Oh my goodness I'm done with this conversation. Stevie is my second favorite musician. You guys win. I don't think he's a bad musician. I never did... You just made it seem like that's what i said. I spent a whole day reading about Stevie. He's amazing! He is my favorite guitar player right with John Mayer (who happens to love Stevie)
Oh, I love John Mayer & God bless him, he really studied Stevie, Jimi, Buddy, Clapton & all. I like that he never tried to copy. He developed his own style that transcends from blues to rock to pop. He is one of the few current day vocal and instrumental talents I listen to & buy his music. He has already proven he can hang with the best & endure unlike the rest. However...with that said; King Bee, Baby Boy, Li'l Stevie, Texas Tornado, String Bender Extraordinaire, Vaquero Gitano,...SRV done got me wrapped tightly around Old Number One's neck! Guess who John Mayer pays homage to with the tattoo on his left arm?
Love how much they expanded on this song past the studio version over the years, especially the extended solos. The version from Copps Coliseum, July 19th 1990, was insane.
Look at the audience......boucing and moving in the groove of that pocket.......as if they were seamlessly connected to what Stevie wants to put across..... Because Stevie felt it.....and it moved him........it moved the crowd.... That my friends is what creating music from the soul and then sharing it with others is all about..............It doesn't matter whose the best at this or than............its about making that connection with others.....and Stevie's honesty makes that connection.
RIP You will never be forgotten. Who cares about the others? Each one is great in their own way. That is why the blues is different. To each their own. May it never be lost. Love from north of the Red River.
Stevie's solo on this song with the perfect use of speed and timing with his glasendos (sp?) is incredible...... I am never ceased to be amazed by the slightest rake of a string(s) or a bend followed by another one is so effortless like a watershed of notes cascading off a cliff but yet just perfect in tone and iN such a firm and funky groove....... What a loss we suffered losing this musical giant........
Practice and unbelievable talent. That's why he's one of the best guitarists ever. There's stories of how he'd practice until his fingers bled, and then he'd superglue his calluses back on, and continue playing.
On this 19th anniversary of your passing... You made it look SOOOO easy. But we now it took talent. Talent only YOU had! RIP brother! You were taken away way to early!
The real tragedy of losing SRV was that once he got off drugs, everything about his music and playing was better and more focused. The band sounded better, the songs sounded better, his playing was clearer, everything. As great as he was, you really felt like he was blossoming even more...and then bang...he was gone. We should be thankful for what he gave is in such short time, and he went out on top.
Seen Stevee Ray Vaughn Live in Austin with the wife on some free tickets I won back from a radio station back in 1987 before we moved to Conneticut, were in just a few years his chopper went down in NYC.
@Jackalope40 What a great gift to have seen him. I bought this on tape when I was about 12 or 13 and instantly fell in love with his playing. I never got to see him as he died when I was a sophomore in college but I have seen Kenny Wayne Sheppard about 6 times. He was only 15 when I first saw him in a small club. Had him sign my copy of Family Style and he laughed then proceeded to torch the stage for several hours.
