All credit goes to Janna to upload this amazing video on her instagram. I do not own the copyright to this. This is for entertainment purposes only. With Midge Marsden. Enjoy!! / cdxtw21hywe
WOW!!!! This is great. Super rare for many reasons. No hat, Playing a Gibson (?) and playing a song he doesn't usually play along with other reasons. Thanks so much for the upload! :)
An SRV story i heard many years ago! Stevie went out to Los Angles to do a record with Mark Beno. They had taken a break from recordings and Stevie went down to the club scene in Hollywood.......He was outside listening to this band and ran to a phone booth to call his brother Jimmie and tell him, he just heard the greatest blues guitar ever! From what everyone gathered at the time, he had to have heard the late great "Hollywood Fats" After hearing that story i had to look this guy up, well He is the best to me to mix chicago and West Coast Blues that ever lived! I own everything including bootlegs of Hollywood Fats. He was a MONSTER guitar player. If you don't know of him, LOOK HIM UP.....He was also born in 1954 like Stevie.....Here's a live copy and paste tune to give a listen, the band is top notch!! "Nit Wit ~ Hollywood Fats Band Live Palo Alto '79"
When Janna met Stevie, she acknowledged she saw the cocaine and whiskey backstage, but he continued to use substances for another 7 months until he collapsed and made the decision to stop. She enjoyed their excursions together and the lifestyle he provided, but as time passed she shifted her focus off of him and onto her career. She had been modeling in Dallas, but left to share an apartment in NY with other models, until Stevie leased one for her. “Home base” was still Dallas for Stevie, where he got his main sobriety support from daily meetings at the Aquarius Chapter of AA. Dallas Sound Lab recording studio which he frequently used, was located nearby. It’s been well-documented he was uncomfortable being alone, and in a 1990 interview in the Dallas Morning News, he stated “I’m not well”. He admitted it was a daily struggle to stay clean and an author noted he carried a high risk for relapse. More than ever he needed a companion who would be available when he needed one, but Janna made herself less available and was content leaving him to his own devices. She stated he had to learn to not use substances to numb any pain he was feeling, and that it was “Ok to sit in a funk”. However, “sitting in a funk” made him vulnerable to relapse. She acknowledged they had fights and their relationship had it’s “ups and downs”. His prior marriage legally ended in June 1988 and by her own admission, Stevie asked her “many times” to marry him. She relied heavily on his financial assistance and knew it could be terminated, if she continued to delay his proposals. After finally agreeing, she then blamed her refusal to set a wedding date on their busy schedules. But by all accounts, Stevie would have eagerly accommodated. As a courtesy, Stevie asked her father for her hand in marriage, but the real issue had been persuading Janna. He had the apartment lease prepaid through the end of 1990. Pursuant to Texas law, Martha and Jimmie inherited Stevie’s estate in equal parts. Although his family extended the lease for another year after he passed, Janna filed unsuccessful lawsuits to collect more assets from his estate. Since Stevie’s death, she has tried to take credit for his sobriety and seek acclaim for her association with him. Without a doubt, Stevie was clearly committed to her. Problem is, she was more devoted to her career than she was to him.
Saw Stevie and Double Trouble in Gardner Massachusetts. When they played "Couldn't Stand The Weather" dark clouds rolled in and it started to rain. At the end of the song the rain stopped, the clouds gave way, and the sun came back out. From time to time I will meet people who were at that concert, and its the first thing that comes up in the conversation. Good times.
This recording is a treasure. Hope there is more. I know it excist a long amateur film of Stevie playing all sorts of songs at a private house party jam after a concert in Norway. He play most blues but also Creedence, Dire Straits and others.
srvguitarlegend if it took place after Stevie started dating Jana, she was likely the one who recorded it. Like she did this. So she's probably in possession of it
Timothy Howard she holds those videos close instead of trying to profit from them then probably. so getting to see any footage of him playing at home and just being himself is probably not going to happen often. and i’ve seen all the footage i can find over and over. i’m not complaining i can watch him play for days and i’d still keep watching the same footage. i just don’t get bored with it. i’ve never seen this footage though and i really enjoyed it. it is simple playing but like always he makes it interesting. i still get upset when i hear about, well you know. i don’t even want to bring it up. if i feel this strongly about the lose of him i can’t imagine what it’s like for his family and what they go through shen they think about him. i never met the man but my life changed when it happened. damn here i am talking about it. i wish there were more videos though. i always hoped that over the years more footage would come out but people seem to hold it close. i understand though. it’s personal.
@@csi2448 Which is very similar to 44 blues, which Howlin Wolf wrote in 1954!! Clapton was big into the Chicago blues you know as was John Mayall, I always go for the original not a copy
Bryan S. Very true. But I feel this was closer to Clapton. Clapton was one of Stevie's biggest influences, even moreso than Mr. Wolf, even though he was obviously a massive influence to Stevie too!
@@csi2448 I did read SRV had listened to the Cream, and Hendrix records, when brother Jimmie brought them home. I think the story goes, he looked into Clapton's background and influences along with Hendrix's influences, then found the Chicago connection. SRV around the same time found his biggest influence, Albert King a fellow Texan. Which i also believe was also one of Eric's favorite guitar players, and being Hubert Sumlin was Wolf's guitar player, you have to throw him into the mix!
Bryan S. Most definitely! ‘Lonestar’ is a documentary that was on Amazon Prime a couple years ago and I remember a couple different people saying Stevie was infatuated with Clapton and would play his music nonstop. I’ll have to watch it again, because it’s been a while. But like you said, Albert was his biggest influence. We’ll be here all day listing his influences lol. Hubert, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack, Hendrix, BB King. Stevie was like a sponge, if he heard it and liked it, he’d incorporate some of their playing into his!
