I remember watching this live back in the day. SRV was off of drugs and alcohol at this point, and his band was really on top of their game. Everything was looking up for them until just over a year later. The day he died was my first day of college, and a part of me died with him that day. He was my favorite guitar player at the time and I never really got over it. SRV RIP.
Same here. Saw him on Johnny Carson, clean & sober, just had a wierd feeling that he might not be around here much longer as he had come full circle. I was inconsolable as I had been major fan many years. Saw him @ San Diego County Fair @ N/C, he was obviously quite drunk but never missed a beat. All my friends thought of me as I had turned many of them onto SRV, you just gotta hear this guy!! Can't wait to see him again. RIP SRV😭
I think this is why Stevie does such great covers. His guitar is is innovative yet still maintains a bluesy edge. He keeps things close to the melody and owns those lyrics too.
EVERY interview I have seen with SRV, he ALWAYS comes across as a genuine and considerate person. You dont fake that. Stevie, you left us far too soon.
Stevie Ray Vaughn was raised in a poor family. The old ragged guitar was from his childhood where he learned Blues from the Black Masters. He was welcomed as the Only White man that could ever play the blues like a black man. He understood the blues because it was his life growing up. He almost killed himself drinking so much that he was throwing up blood. He cleaned up and was on his last tour and took the wrong chopper. He died on impact in a burst of flames of a full tank in the chopper. SRV
Well, what can I say? His job here on earth was done, and now Heaven is enjoying some great blues! They say everything in heaven is perfect, and I know he fits right in! A reunion is waiting on us, and we'll meet again.....he said so, as did Jimi...."see ya in the next one, DON'T BE LATE!"
Here is the other side of the unfairness of life. The unavailability of jobs in the rust belt drove me to Austin just in time to see SRV on the verge of stardom. Standing in the midst of a crowd of regulars at Antone's it was easy to spot the other newcomers like myself. They would be looking around like they needed someone to confirm that what they were seeing and hearing was really happening. Over Stevie's music you could read their lips, "WTF". It wasn't long before famous musicians in town for their own gig would be showing up after hours to join him onstage when he was in town. To be there after the bartenders were gone and the doors were closed felt like the greatest of all honors.
@@larryh451 Great stuff there /We didn't see him in the SF Bay much until he was starting to tour clubs who knows where . I went to The Stone in SF .About 600 people max .A friend was insistant that we go . Lucky to snag a seat off to the side of the stage , but up close .. I was one of those guys looking around with the WTF ?
It’s amazing how when he was on stage playing he had such intensity and fire. Yet off stage sitting in that chair he’s so soft spoken and down to earth. It seems that you can tell he went to hell and back with drugs and alcohol. But then he was clean and sober and had his like in a good place and so centered. A real tragedy that he was taken when he had so much left to give. I can only imagine what he would have produced over a long career.
“Matched only by his playing” I disagree, his playing is the main draw. Don’t get me wrong, he was a great singer, but his playing was on a level untouchable by anyone else.
That part where Arsenio asks Stevie if he liked rap..i personally would have said hell no..but Stevie being the class act that he is said the right thing by saying " i like all kinds of music, there is room for everything, makes room for me too". In every interview i have seen him in no matter if he was high or clean and sober he always was calm, collective, had a smile on his face, and any time people would tell him how great he is he would be shy about it and direct what he learned from his heroes.
I have the right to like or dislike different styles of music. Now if you want to see a real attack on rap here it goes. For one rap is spelled wrong they forget the silent c in front of rap. And 2 i could play rap by putting a shoe in the dryer, grab a Dr Seuss book. Pull by pants halfway down, turn my hat backwards, grab my crotch and read the book out loud throwing curse words in now and then.
my parents took me to see him in 1989 in Baltimore. I was 14 and didn't know much about him at the time. he blew the roof of the place. his playing was so nasty and so natural. nobody touches him
I got to see him around that same time in Dallas, and he blew the roof off here too! He was electric! And the music flowed THROUGH him. He was amazing!
I saw him in 85 @ pier 6 Pavilion. I was 18 and a budding drum player and a girl I was dating her uncle took a bunch of us to see him and it was the best concert experience I've ever had! In fact I got Chris Layton's drumsticks that night and still have them in my collection all these years later! I cried like a baby when I heard he had died! It's a shame cause he had finally started enjoying life without the need for the drugs and booze. RIP Stevie!
@@aitf99 I saw his last show at Alpine Valley, Wis. Practically my backyard, when we woke up and heard the news of the crash we were devastated! Gone But Not Forgotten ✌
Wăckĕrly lenny was his spouse that gave him the brown strat that he named lenny... that’s #1 his self proclaimed first wife, he said she screams for me not at me...
@Theo V...Ray Hennings Heart of Texas Music store on S.Lamar in Austin Ray gave Stevie that Guitar Mr Ray pick the guitar up in a deal with Christopher Cross..offered him any guitar in the store...On YOU TUBE there is Ray Henning yelling the story about Stevie the guitar and their Soecial Friendship anywho...missin Stevie Angels Band is Playing ! ol man way down in TX...JD
The good die young but in his case he pays homage to the greats before he passed. A household name in our home. Humility and class. A white Texan boy who loved the beautiful music of African Americans. Perfect. As a non American I thought it was perfect. Too bad that some people write this wonderful man off as a pretender. Up North, we love 'em. An American treasure.
@@shyba2011 me neither!! He was anything and everything but a pretender! Everyone of his heroes that was alive while he was playing ended up respecting him just as much as he respected them!
There are haters everywhere but srv was so much the real deal that even the black musicians he worshipped made him part of their groups. Go watch Albert king and srv and listen to Albert talk about how he taught him everything he knows from him, and how it's his turn to shine, and show the world the true power of blues music. If anything is sacred in this life as authentic as srv playing his guts out each and every second he touched a guitar then I don't know anything about music or life in general if someone thinks he is pretending to be a black blues man
RiRi Hope actually Buddy Guy did have something to say about that when he voted Stevie into the rock n roll hall fame as the greatest guitarist to have lived.
I'm seeing more and more old interviews with SRV showing up on the net and I'm always amazed at how humble and soft-spoken he was. He had such a giant presence on stage, but off stage he's always deflecting any admiration toward others (BB King, Hendrix, etc.).
I was at the last show. Walking back to the car when I heard the first helicopter take off. Woke up the next morning to the news SRV died in a helicopter crash... Sad day...
Arsenio was the real deal. Just like Steven. I was on the radio doing a car CAIRE show in84. And me and Jim Turner. Played honey bee. The phones exploded. Who was that. Man..
Arsinio was the best host, at the time. His band was great, and he has always had eclectic, smart taste. He was especially happy to be there to watch SRV in his prime. Stevie was always a gentleman, and it was great after he cleaned up, he helped a few clean up by making it the cool thing to do(at the time), he saw the rare gift he had...I remember everyone was bummed when he died in that crash. RIP, SRV.
I love Stevie and its amazing that you have this guitar thats HUGE and a singing voice that could blare like a horn but when he spoke, he spoke softly. Such was the heart of that man. Soft spoken but all heart and soul
Stevie was a genies when he is singing look at his eyes he hers every note played and is perfection not just his selt but every one playing man he is the master
I'm with everyone else here, SRV comes across as a really good guy, and kicks ass as a musician and singer. What a loss.😢 He should still be at it now.
Still can't get over that day in 1990. One of the saddest days of my life. I was working at an apartment complex on a service call. Some lady said have ya heard about the crash. I nodded my head and turned away cause I didn't want her to see me cry.
I was building a huge porch for a friend. We had just put all the rough posts in place....when it came over the radio that Stevie was gone. Never reacted to ANYthing else in my life like this, but I took my 36oz. hammer and I DESTROYED one of those 6x6 posts to splinters. Just smashed away for ten minutes....soooo fkn angry at the unfairness of it all. My co-workers just stood back and let me get it out. Finally, exhausted, I slammed my ass on the front steps.....as my buddy cracked me a beer, and said under his breath, "It should have been Clapton." We both fell out, and proceeded to drink and dance the night away. Rest In Rhythm SRV
A legend that performed and entertained his lifetime on blue's and rock..Then..left us as fast as he played all his gigs stevie Ray Vaughan and his strat played the Best music that was called sensational..RIP Stevie
Every time I watch a video of this genius playing, the same thought crosses my mind... “Gaaaawd Daaamn!!!... How’d anyone get that good on a guitar?!...”
Such a quiet, modest guy. He really spoke through his guitar. He's up there jamming with his heroes, (and mine), Jimi and BB. I so wish I had seem him live, and spend some time with him talking about music. For me, Stevie was the best rock/blues guitarist ever, period.
No one else can ever ever stand in this guy's boots, but there is one guy that I follow that might get a similar musical journey. Check out Eric Gales.
Delight Schwartz Gales is a beast! If you look at his debut cd cover(which I had in 91), he’s paying tribute to SRV with his choice of hats. Awesome taste in guitar talent by the way.
There is Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and so many other great singer/guitar players, but Stevie Ray is in a class by himself. The Attitude. And the way it looks like his guitar is a part of his body.
I wish that Stevie was here with us today so I could give him a big hug and thank him for all that he's allowed us the pleasure to have in our memories. Missing you S.R.V.!
Stevie was so humble & soft-spoken. He didn’t really have that TV/interview savvy, so Arsenio had to cut the interview a little short.... but what a performance: his guitar was his voice.
How cool to see this after all these years really cool I believe a incredible high energy badass music man I am amazed time after time when I hear his music 🎵🎶 God made him to play and for us to injoy.We miss you Mr Stevie Ray Vaughan
The morning after he died was my first day working at Celestion Industries, he used a few of their speakers in his amps. I got to sign a condolence card for his family and later the whole group went out to Bertucci's as a "Welcome to the job" party. Everyone there were all huge music fans, it was the most heartbreaking party I've ever been to.
We lost Greatness SO many years ago. He was So humble for the gifts he left us. I will be forever in awe of his seemingly effortless, but hard earned work.
One of the greatest performers of all time, incomparable soul and technique on the guitar and he overcame so much. Such an incredible loss for the world of music.
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I was fortunate to have spent about 15 minutes with Stevie alone backstage on June 26. 1990. At a venue outside Detroit called Pine Knob. I cried like a baby when I heard the news 7:00 a.m. the next morning August 27th 1990. One of the biggest loss in music in my lifetime next to Hendrix.
Thank God for GUITARS..Thank God for what time he loaned us Stevie Ray Vaughan..Entertainment and performance is what we got...U are missed Stevie...its 2020..your ROCKIN
I was at his last concert here in blossom music center in Ohio. I ended up being front row right side of stage. New to his music at 19 he played voodoo child and proud Mary in my face. I littertly prized him with my arms, saying I'm not worthy, the man changed my life. hearing of his passing the next day changed everything for the rest of my life. I can never explain how much his music means to me......
Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best performer to get on any stage..He gives his all and its sensational..That guitar knows what to do and does a great job..RIP Stevie
The days at the Rome Inn, Club Foot, Antoines, Steamboat, still 30+ years later still some of my best memories. The night at the Paramount, Tbirds coming out party, SRV opened, blew the place away. One of kind, haven’t heard it since. God rest his and Cboy’s soul
