Saw him in 1984 at Indiana University theatre at the suggestion of my friend’s guitar instructor … I was 16 … there was nothing on stage but amps and a modest drum kit. I had just seen Rush in Indianapolis, and this was my second concert. I recall thinking it wasn’t likely to be any good with so little equipment and no stage props … the auditorium lights were even on. He walked on stage and burned my face off … changed my life forever
That’s like when my little brother saw him, sitting on a stool in some dive bar in Austin!!!! I think Uncle Nasty’s but not sure. I’ll ask him & get back with you! tkatfun 🐈❤️❤️❤️🔮🔮
Every guitarist that I've ever seen in my 73 years played solos that just ramble like someone speaking in tongues. Endless series of notes that sound nice but say nothing. Everything that SRV played was so eloquent and just seemed to make so much sense as if he was delivering a message that was instantly understood. He didn't play music; he became music and there's never been anyone quite like him. The greatest.
His first solo in this song is perfect. The second starting at 3:53 is TRANSCENDENT. The tone, the feel....gives me chills up and down my spine every single time.
Any guitarist would kill to play just one of those two solos over their entire career, but SRV just gives you the two of them in the same song. And he even waves at the audience in the middle of one of them.
Chris Johnson It proves the old adage is right: go big or go home. 13 gauge strings on Jimmys old guitar. It’s a wonder he didn’t snap the bloody thing in half
How could he have bought such a full, lush, JOYOUS music to all who heard him?.... He was, truly, a gift to humanity!. SRV died at the age of 35. ...so did Mozart.
Yeah the organ player now plays for joe Bonamassa, if you watch the video for ‘just cause you can don’t mean you should’ he plays a sick organ solo in that
This was towards the end of his life here on earth when he was clean & sober and you can sure tell it in his playing & how sharp he was. I spoke with his amp tech after Stevie passed & he told me Stevie was a Believer and had turned his life around. He was and will always be my favorite musician in the whole world. I bet him & Albert are playin new songs together in heaven 💛
Those drugs will turn you into a super you though with super human capabilities. SRV was playing on a different level on them. His Fire was consistently huge through the entire show where most people can’t keep that level of intensity for their first 3 songs they’re already burn out.. Regardless of drugs his guitar playing and he himself is other worldly.. to a higher degree standard to the utmost!! To be honest with you, I don’t trust Doyle Bramhall!!!
I dare anybody to find a guitarist of any genre, dead or alive, who can burn down a solo equal to this mans @2:00 ! NONEXISTENT. Yes you Mr Stevie Ray Vaughan, are the greatest electric blues guitar soloist EVER! No human yet has reached the amount of firepower equal to SRV’s!! Rest In Peace Stevie Ray Vaughan 🙏🏻. Named two of my sons after this man 🙏🏻
Let's put like this, we can't replace Hendrix nor SRV... You can get any modern blues guitarrist, and all gonna sound a lot different from them, even when they cover any songs of them. Hendrix and SRV reached at the top level of their own styles. But I can imagine a "wow" from hendrix hearing that 2:00 stevie's solo. It's too impressive how he starts the solo so smoothly while was jamming a basis, I never saw hendrix do any close of that in a so clean way. One guitarrist that could do something close of it was Johnny Winter, but still basis was not so merged with the solo, always had a "break" on it, like on "mean town blues" on CPH, 1971 (live) or Highway 61 Revisited on California 1975. But, on the other hand I can think on a bunch of guitarrists that could replace Randy on Black Sabbath, his riffs were awsome, I consider that these are his best contribution on rock history. But on solo, he sounds pretty the same as van halen and other 80's guitarrists. Same progressions, tone and impro.
2:25 it's getting cinematic starting here, damn the fact that that was a live performance is just overwhelming, who could play that perfect with such intensity and rawness ?
This version may be my favorite by far, the organ solo, the increased bpm make you feel goosebumps from that drums, the pure clean bass following the drums and the special ingredient, not the guitar, but, SRV. R.I.P Legend.
Now i finally comprehend what’s up with the discoloration on top the guitar. The paint was literally scratched off from playing so god damn good!! Forever the goat ! SRV!!
if you research that particular guitar as well, you’ll discover not only was the paint chipped off, the wood had been dented from Stevie’s aggressive playing style.
#1 as he called it. Had the neck replaced a couple of times due the abuse, The tremlo was his own custom build,, . He had history working on all the guitars he owned. Truly amazing,
I made it by one day, He died the next night. Didn't know about it till Monday after work. Something in me died that day. Now when I listen to his music it is with appreciation and holding back a tear.
The first time I heard this. Butte College California. There was about 300 of us there. We were absolutely floored. We were looking at each other saying what the hell just happened to us.
Man when Tommy Shannon was brought on to replace whoever the bass player was before him, that's when Stevie Ray really took off. Proves that no matter the guitarist's talent, without a tightass rythymn section he's going nowhere.
@@kylebailey4574 he didn't pick up Tommy until a little later in his career. He had other bassists but it was back before he was really famous, in his bar gigs and club days
I'm a family friend of Tommy Shannon, knew his nephew, small world..Jimmie and Double Trouble were the humblest people I had the pleasure to meet...wish I would have met SRV
When i was about 16 I started playing guitar because of led zeppelin. They were one of the first rock bands I really got into at the time and wanted to learn how to play their songs on guitar. I remember showing my dad and his friend what I learned and they told me to check out stevie ray. I went into my room that night and listened to some SRV songs and it changed my life forever. I became obssessed with him ever since then and listen to him almost everyday. Havent listened to led zeppelin in years now lol.
Absolutely perfect. As a Blues connoisseur, I find this addicting to listen to. I mean it. I gave up everything in my life to listen to this song every second of the day. Ahhhhh Stevie R.I.P
I feel you my friend. I was a HARDCORE alcoholic and I’ve been clean and sober for 20 years. I don’t think I was ever addicted to alcohol as much as I’m addicted to watching SRV and Double Trouble performing their MAGIC!
Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, yeah. Everywhere the child went, The little lamb was sure to go, yeah. He followed her to school one day, And broke the teacher's rule. What a time did they have, That day at school. Tisket, tasket, A green and yellow basket. Sent a letter to my baby, On my way I passed it.
Stevie is such a complete master of his craft a great amongst greats, A legend forever. I have loved this song since I heard it and tried playing it back in the 80's, but this version I have noticed a couple of tributes Stevie has slipped into his performance. From 2:12 to 2:55 The riffs and sound of his guitar are a tribute to Buddy Guy And from 4:40 to 5:07 the riffs and the sound of his guitar is a tribute to The great BB King. Like I said before, Stevie is a legend.
Another magnificent rendition, of another excellent song, another connection and inspiration from another galaxy, unknown to us, but OH SO FAMILIAR TO HIM!!
I started playing the guitar back in the late 90's. Playing to my favorite heavy metal bands when my uncle said you don't nothing until you hear this. Totally blew my mind away when I heard Stevie play for the first time. I liked Hendrix but just hearing Stevie's blues was astonishing. Thanks uncle.
Always a Joy watching, and listening to Stevie play, but most especially after he got clean. You can tell he was just having so much fun, and his confidence, and playing, just went to a whole other level.
I used to give cassettes to our bellhop in Mexico as I was on my way back home after a couple weeks in the sun. There must have been a hundred or so after so many years. He spied me on the street a decade later and of all the tapes I gave him he had to now who the hell was SRV? He said that guy was unbelievable, He didn't even know what the blues were. He explained that his friends and him would have listening parties and they just loved SRV.
I will never not be sad I never got to see this man with my own eyes. Watching him plays gives me chills I never get watching a musician play guitar and I’ve seen Clapton twice. Gone way too soon.
