Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child Live (REACTIONS) 

He played better behind his back than most guitarists played normally.

Great reaction! I LOVE SRV!!! 😍 Thanks for playing that! His show live with Johnny Copeland doing Tin Pan Alley is a blues masterclass if you ever want to melt. It takes you to another time & place.

Original Stevie song---- Riviera Paradise, a soulful instrumental. After a full day of recording material for the album, Stevie asked his producer to leave the tape running and to turn down the lights. All alone, he recorded the guitar track on his Fender Strat. Double Trouble added the backing later, including an organ foundation from Reese Wynans.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Live at the El Mocambo) Hands down one of the best solos I have ever heard

You need to show your wife the whole concert from El Mocambo, it will blow her mind.I am a blues guitarist my self and it showcases all that SRV is in my opinion.And your wife's reaction I think that's how most of us react(ed) when we hear /heard SRV for the first (or the 500 th) time.R.I.P. Stevie, we still miss you .And you gotta do Lenny it's a must.

Double Trouble is soooooooo underrated as a rhythm section. There play allows SRV to flow wherever his heart desires.

Wolfkain, you know your stuff!! SRV is a great music giant for HalfLifeSistah's musical journey. Glad she likes it. Much, much more to come for her, I'm sure. Thanks so much for this video and good luck on your journey HalfLifeSistah.

Only Steavie Ray can make this amazing beautiful lady cry with his guitar! SRV GOAT.

Its ok to cry. I cry everytime i hear and see him play. I miss his music and what could have been had he not been taken from us so soon.

Makes me emotional too watching perfection. His combination of skill, passion, and showmanship is something we'll probably never see again in this lifetime.

The talking and her reactions are why I watch your channel. I pick up tidbits that I missed over the years, or forgot about. I'm a self professed metal head, but I enjoy blues based rock, progressive rock and metal. Pretty well any flavor of Rock. SRV just poured his soul into his guitar.

Love this song! I get my playing style from this! The song just whips! Hope you are taking care of yourselves and each other! Much love to my Sista! 🤘🏽😎

Fantastic! You really did some work. Excellent history lesson before your reaction. I have yet to see anyone do that. As usual, the reaction was great. Love that Sistah lets the emotion flow.

god damn, the way you two did this was just great 10 out of 10 thanks!!!!!!

Texas Flood is a behind the back play as well. A great full performance is Bush’s Inauguration Concert with Stevie and Jimmy. Bless you Sister, music makes me cry. And, I cry when I watch SRV because I was blessed to follow him when he was alive and miss him so much.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Copeland live doing Tin Pan Ally. SO INCREDIBLE!

"Life Without You" (Live) makes me tear up every time I listen to it. Stevie was one in a billion with so much more to give. We were robbed of a tremendous talent and by all accounts, a really terrific person. Gary Moore is a close second, in my opinion but Stevie had him but a full lap.

Hello again ,Stevie Ray Vaughn the greatest guitarist ever .And yes Albert King said Stevie is the master of guitar and Albert King was not known to throw kudos to anyone,except Stevie.

Sistahhh, you are precious. What you feel is felt by us because you connect to us.

Thank you for an outstanding reaction and for your commentary before the song I am a big fan of Stevie Ray Vaughan the GOAT his music helped me through the military you guys are awesome new sub

Tin Pan Alley with SRV and Johnny Copeland is an amazing one to check out. Great showcase of his purely Blues power.

I love the talking!! Gives the videos some amazing context and good info. Also Texas Flood live at Mocambo maybe one of SRVs best performances. Cheers!

Great reaction. SRV is definitely one of the greatest. If you want to hear an original song which he wrote himself, check out either “Lenny “from live at the El Mocambo or “Riviera Paradise “from live in Austin Texas. I highly recommend watching his live performances instead of studio versions. I am looking forward to seeing Sistah’s reaction to “Texas Flood” . The live performance of it, also recorded at the El Mocambo, is not to be missed. Thanks for brightening my day and keep on rockin’!

I've lived in Austin since the 70s, and he used to go around sitting in with different people to hone his chops. He sat with my brothers band . I saw him at aqua fest after he got cleaned up. He was amazing!

If she thought the playing behind the back was wild? SRV and his big brother Jimmy did Pipeline on a double necker and Jimmy couldn't see the guitar the entire time. Pure talent.

I personally enjoy the history you give with each reaction. I have learned a lot. I lived the 60's and 70's I thought I knew it all. Thank you! Peace.

Stevie was a true guitar legend. What a tragedy we lost him so early. May he R. I.P.

Love to watch your reaction, HalfLifeSistah. You're the first one I've seen that comsumes Stevie Ray Vaughan's blues rhythm with your very essence as well as he did.

You gotta see the live video with SRV and Jeff Healey (another phenominaly good (blind) player) together, playing 'look at Little Sister' SRV's voice kills in this one.

Stevie Ray Vaughan- Life without you, she will cry no doubt

Srv - Lenny (El mocambo) she will cry 100%

Seeing Her reaction was worth it all. SRV was a great gift to the world.

He finished that last piece with two broken strings.

What hurts most, he was so creative and talented, all that was lost when he passed. I have all his LPs, I don't just listen to one genre of music. I am kind of well rounded, listening to all kinds of music. I look at Stevie Ray Vaughan as a one of kind, so did BB King!

Life without you. Great song by Stevie

Stevie's voice has been described as honey poured over gravel.

Goddamn he's fucking good! Still not my type of music but it's good to revisit his greatness once in a while. He's like Jordan playin on a 12 foot rim against everyone else on a ten.

SRV is such a beautiful soul, and a great musician. It warms my heart when a new person discovers his greatness. I also love how much she feels the music.

26:02 "Ok that's crazy! It... it certainly is...but... it still happens." I chocked on my coffee! Fortunately it was the iced variety but well worth it had it been boiling hot.

SRV doesn't effing miss a single beat while transitioning to and from playing behind his back. He was phenomenal.

Really enjoyed the history you talked about before the song. You guys have great chemistry and I think I'm really going to enjoy your reactions.

Hello again guys! When I was in my late teens I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn in concert on the floating stage in Tulsa Oklahoma. It was a sublime experience that I will always cherish. Interestingly; I saw Stevie about three months before his death in Alaska; which is the state that I moved to in 1993 and still call my home. P.S. You guys have delightful personalities.

GOAT PERIOD

I just watched this video for the third time. HalfLifeSistah you are great and so are you Wolf. Keep up the great musical journey. You're going to love it for sure!!

Came for the reaction, received an education. I love you guys!

Haha "We're the history channel!" I thought I was done commenting. This was such a fun one!

Love your reactions it's real and authentic, and tears came to my eyes as I saw you cry, I could feel your emotion. Both of you made me day today.😀

Video is a concert in Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 at the El Mocambo best concert for a guitar 🎸God, the GOAT.

You should react to Texas flood live at Mocambo to hear his voice more..also 'Pride and Joy' is a good Stevie song

As a teenager, the great guitarists then were of course Jimi Hendrix as well as the likes of Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers, Alvin Lee of Ten Years After(sorely underrated), Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, etc....I was a young adult in my 20's when guys like Stevie Ray and Eddie Van Halen came along, and I was also listening to a lot of Ted Nugent's live stuff on Double Live Gonzo(another brilliant live picker), but I knew the first time I ever heard any Stevie Ray Vaughan that I was listening to something very different and very special. It was unheard of to see a guitarists with Stevie Ray's ability so heavily influenced by the great blues legends (Albert King, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, etc., and by Jimi Hendrix too. I've jammed Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan both for hours at a time over the years and have personally seen and heard friends of mine almost come to blows over debating which of the two was the better guitarists? My personal take on that subject is this............Jimi Hendrix came along at a time when about anything that had been done on an electric guitar to that point with rock, Jimi said, "that ain't shit, watch this," but he would sadly leave us far too soon. Having lived nearly 20 years longer than Hendrix did, Stevie Ray Vaughan with all of that talent came along and made versions of Hendrix's Voodoo Chile' & Little Wing his own, and it was as if he was saying to Jimi, "don't worry man, I got your back. You left us far too soon, but I'm gonna take your songs on to an even further rock from the sun than you got the chance to take them yourself", and I feel like that's exactly what Stevie did. But we sadly lost him far too soon also in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin all those years ago now. My opinion is that Jimi Hendrix was and will forever remain in my mind a legend, but Stevie Ray Vaughan was an absolute freak of nature that the likes of may never be seen again. Eric Clapton once said that he often would have to leave the stage after jamming just a couple of songs with Stevie because he felt so intimidated by his playing that it made him nervous he wouldn't pick up the guitar again. That's a mouthful coming from one of rock's all-time most versatile guitarists who's played with some of rock's greatest bands. We also sadly lost a young virtuoso guitarist in Duane Allman a month shy of his 25th birthday back in 1971 when he was killed in a motorcycle wreck, and in very recent years we've had to morn the passing of two other rock guitar legends in Alvin Lee who died in 2013 and Johnny Winter who died in 2014.

Original Stevie...Telephone Song is one of my favorites. Off the album Family Style. A collaboration with his brother and released a month after Stevie died.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny at the El Mocambo would be a great choice for an SRV original song ;)

Riviera Paradise, I think it truly captures the essence of SRV. It's an instrumental. If you want something with vocals you have to do Tin Pan Alley.

SRV Life Without You

Glad you’re doing SRV! Great answer Sistah! Pink Floyd! I was born in 1954 (same age as SRV) and I have to say they’re my favorite too (and I have listened to a lot of music!). But Jimi is my favorite guitarist and SRV is second, imo. You should also do Jimi’s original Voodoo Chile from Electric Ladyland. Blind Lemon Jefferson was before Robert Johnson? I also heard that Eric Clapton was supposed to be on the doomed helicopter. Since you showed Johnny Winter briefly on the video, please do one of his selections too. Jimi and Stevie both could play behind their backs and with their teeth , and Jimi with his tongue. Double Trouble was an awesome backup band too.

Dont worry abput talking . You guys talk about stuff with suubstance and give us a backstory to get a understanding of the song or artist i personaly love it

Just came across your channel as I was soaking up more of Stevie Ray, who is one of my all time favorites, and who I consider to be the greatest guitarist of all time. Period. In fact, I lived no more than 20 miles from where he was killed. And I cried like a baby. I wanted to tell you that I was particularly impressed by your knowledge of Stevie's life adventure, Wolfkain. Thank you for that. Very impressed.

"Pride And Joy", is a Stevie original.

OMG Just discovered you guys. Love. Love. LOVE your channel. I've never really seen anyone who talks as much as I do about relevant music history, et al. My girl is asleep right now, but when I show her this. She's gonna lose it. She burns on me when I start pontificating about music and literature, You've just validated my diatribes brother. Thank you!!! 🤗❤🥃

You guys are still the best. Dude, those "drip-drops" as the ear buds came out. I'm rolling.

One thing to know about the blues, is that it was very common for blues musicians to perform and record cover songs. The tradition goes back to its earliest times, when musicians started out putting old plantation and prison work songs to music, and even Leadbelly, legendary as he was, wrote very few of his own songs. Some of the great blues standards have been covered so many times, that it's impossible to tell who wrote them, and many of the songs even pre-date the advent of blues as a genre. An awesome example of this phenomenon is the Eric Clapton album "From The Cradle," which is not only a collection of blues standards, but was even recorded in the old style of having the entire band in the studio, playing together, rather than multi-track recording/mixing. Definitely worth a listen. But if you want to get suggestions for original SRV content, you'll get a phone book-sized list thrown at you, with great hits like "Pride and Joy," "Cold Shot," "Crossfire," "Couldn't Stand The Weather," "Look At Little Sister," "Mary Had A Little Lamb," "The Sky Is Crying," and my personal favorite, "Life By The Drop." (Full disclosure: That last song is my favorite, not because it's another demonstration of his virtuosity, but because it shows that he was incredibly talented, even when it was just him and a 12-string.) Anyway, I'm glad you discovered Stevie Ray, and I hope his music gives you the experiences that it's given me, lo, these many years.

Great Video!

Really enjoy that you talk about the background. Have to sub.

We feel his music in our souls

Started seeing Stevie Ray in the mid 70s in Austin 🇨🇱! Used to pay a $2.00 cover to see Stevie for 2-3 hours at the Backroom, Antone's, or the One Night! 😁 Saw him last in '85 on the Texas Flood tour. He was and still is our "Pride and Joy". 🤗 Thanks for the laughter 😂 and the tears 😭 Stevie. "Life Without You" will always make me miss you and cry 😢. RIP SRV...your music lives on. 🎸🎶😊

I love SRV, always have but take a look at Prince do While my Guitar Gently Weeps. He steeps on everyone but brings the house down.

MUST DO JOE BONAMASSA WITH BETH HART, “I’ll Take Care of You “

First recorded blues artist was Mamie Smith "Crazy Blues" 1920.

Hi guys, I'm a mad Stevie Ray fan. I have been seen 1983. I am one of the blessed one to have seen him live in concert in 1985. Absolutely mind blowing. Yes you MUST watch TEXAS Flood live at El Mocombo, This is the best Texas Flood video. Plays behind his back again. Also watch Tin Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland. So so soulful. And Life without you. And of course Lenny live at El Mocombo.

Please react to 1) "Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love" , 2) "Life Without You", 3) Riviera Paradise, 3) Tightrope, 4) Lenny, 5) Lovestruck, 6) Pride and Joy, all Stevie's original songs he wrote himself, excluding Tightrope which he co-wrote with Doyle Brammill.

You were wondering about his grinning and the bow he takes at the end of that song? Whenever he played behind his back, he would snap strings due to his immense finger strength. He played 12 gauge strings on his guitars, and this particular guitar with the SRV on the face had newer frets put on, the thicker ones originally from a bass. That is how he got that really hard string bends and those notes. SRV is an absolute legend, as I listened to him from both his Austin City Limits concerts. Proposed to my wife after showing her the VHS Copy I had after the last song Riviera Paradise, which will leave you speechless. You both have a great chemistry together, so happy to see a happy couple. (I would make this a Patreon request but I can't afford the $10.00, as my minivan's transmission died a month ago and im in a fixed income, im a retired disabled truck driver living on wife's SSI income. Long story, trust me.... ) And I am overjoyed Sistah got to see Pink Floyd's Pulse Comfortably Numb... I was raised on The Wall album. One thing you both should try, is listen to the whole album, completely without stopping, as you don't listen to the album, you 'experience' it. The songs basically flow from one to the next without any breaks. My personal favourites are "GoodBye Blue Sky, Another Brick in the wall, part 1, and then part 3 oddly enough. Goodbye Cruel World, and the masterful Comfortably Numb. Only when you hear it from the context of hearing that album you will get the meaning of it. Outstanding reactions both of you... God Bless both of you... Kimono-Gryphon < 1 Corinthians 15 : 1-4

If you want a SRV original, please... please watch SRV play "Lenny" (specifically the Live at El Mocambo version). This was the first video of Stevie that I watched, and it was a legitimate spiritual experience for me. I had to know more about him. Years later, I still crave that feeling I got when I watched it for the first time. Stevie wrote the song on the edge of his bed for his then wife, who's name was Lenny. She had mustered some money between her and some of their friends to buy him a guitar he wanted. He is playing that same guitar in the video. You can feel the emotional roller coaster he takes you on with this song. It is a guitar instrumental that needs no human words at all. It's an absolute masterpiece.

If you want to hear an awesome original from Stevie, I would recommend Couldn’t Stand The Weather. One of my favorites. Keep it up guys!

Pride and Joy is an original SRV song and is awesome one of my favorites he wrote for a girlfriend at the time

Love the dialogue. Finally some background to SRV. Keep it going!!

Keep talking you guys. I love listening. The heck with everyone else! Good job you too, and thanks!

I got a few of his solo cds as Double Trouble. The brother is truly gifted and he did the Hendrix covers justice. His music is good for when you want to just chill and listen to tunes. Also, if you have a good audio set up his music just fills out the room and the speakers.

Life Without You ✨✨✨

Ain't Gonna Give Up on Love! Original and fabulous!

Jimmy invented Stevie perfected .Stevie Ray Vaughan was just a special musician you have to appreciate them because they don't come around very often and in my humble opinion most of them have already passed away. I too and the Pink Floyd fan Gilmour will always be my favorite guitarist. But he's not the best guitarist. There's just too many of them to pick a best. Stevie Ray Vaughan is my second-favorite but for what he does I think he's the best.

A bit of trivia here. This is recorded at the El Macombo in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, and the footage of him and Albert King was recorded at CHCH T.V. studios in Hamilton, Ontario about 30 miles away.

Jimmy was guitarist for the "fabulous Thunderbirds"("tuff enough","wrap it up")

Yesssss!! You became a Pink Floyd fan very organically (Cool! haha). I think the best guitar player I've ever heard was "SRV" but my personal favourite guitar player is David Gilmour because of his style and sound paired with his song-writing ;) Have a listen to "Life Without You" on SRV's greatest hits album. That will bring a tear to your eye and the guitar work is sooooo powerful and soulful!

Did you ever tell her about how SRV plays a heavy gauge (.039 or .058 or .074) string on his guitars that pretty much nobody on this earth before, now, or ever could manipulate the way SRV did? The way he bent those heavy strings was something he’s known for and of course always seemingly broke one of them during his shows. A saying developed that his strings were “as thick as barbed wire”. Love your style Wolfkain in all your videos. I enjoy the content and conversation you bring to the videos. HLS just feels music like nobody else. True music fans and just really glad I found this channel. RIP SRV - a Texas Legend and IMO the best guitar player of any time an any genre.

Halflifesister, I have the same reaction. I am also from Dallas. I can tell you exactly where I was when I heard of Stevie's death. Very sad. 😢

💥SRV...Scuttle Buttin' live in Japan!!💥My favorite guitar players are S.R.V...Dave Mustaine...Dime Bag Darrel.👍👍👍

The only guitar player that can take a children's nursery rhyme and make a cool song out of it. Listen to " Mary had a little lamb" SRV

Pride and joy!!

SRV playing Lenny live at El Mocambo is one of the most moving experiences you will ever have. And it’s an original piece written by Stevie for his wife at the time. Please listen to it even if you don’t do a reaction to it. You will not be disappointed I promise.

Y’all would totally dig SRV-Sound Check, look for the 23 minute version. It’s a mini-concert. He comes strolling in, just woke up. Fill length fur coat. Picks up his guitar and goes right into his fingers warm up song. Stevie’s covers are his own. Don’t hesitate to do them, he makes then unrecognizable.

We love Stevie in Tampa.

Pride and joy

Love the history of the blues, and Stevie and hes brother. Thank you for the reaction!

And THATS why Stevie Ray Vaughan is regarded as one of the best guitarists ever born.

So, Sistah, it appears that really good blues affects you the same way it does me. I knew I was going to see tears. :) You've found your genre of music milady.

Listen to Riviera Paradise on Austin city limits or Rude Mood Austin city limits guaranteed tears.Also Hendrix and Vaughan in his early days are known for never playing a song the same way twice.

EVOLUTION!. My first "Metal" band I heard where I said, "Yes, This is My shite", was Anthrax. Then I started thinking??? My big sister introduced me to Kiss, Alice Cooper, Billy Joel and Journey. At some point, I had to figure out where it started, so I went backwards... Sabbath, The Beatles, Gene Vincent, Robert Johnson et.al.... but at the same time, keeping current with was was coming out in the present. Isn't it FUN!!!! I know you are more into metal than anything, Wolf, but it's all Rock n Roll to me. I play Killswitch Engage , The Supremes, Van Halen, Buddy Guy, Klover, Bad Religeon, R.E.M. Danzig, The Police.... whatever rocks and sounds good to me. As far as comparing Stevie and Jimi, I think Stevie was more about execution, whereas Jimi was all about "sound, mood, and atmospheres". GO SISTAH!!! See where your rabbit hole goes!

i love you guys!! i love yours reactions!! from CHILE

"See the Light"- Jeff Healey (insanely brilliant and unique guitar work) .... Don't miss this one! Seriously!

WOW!!! I love beautiful women that love S.R.V.! What a stunning woman!!! Steve is the G.O.A.T. Don't forget about the crazy ass gauge of sting he used...13....WOW!!!