Last vid got hit w/ copyright and blocked worldwide, so here's another considerably less good but still very good piece of content for you. Sry bass players
Texas Flood was actually written and recorded by Larry Davis in 1958. So if Red House sounds similar, there's a good chance Hendrix was inspired by the song.
Few people mentioning this, I think it's important to point out though that Larry Davis didn't actually play lead on the origanal. I can't remember the name of the person who did but they could really shred for the fifties. You can hear precisely where SRV lifted a lot of his version from.
Bro, the blues progression in both songs have been around since not too long after slaves came to America. It’s like saying since the ABC song came before twinkle twinkle little star, then one of them is more original. They both are tunes from Beethoven or whatever. It’s the blues, and it’s been around for over a hundred years my guy
I always fondly thought of SRV and Hendrix to be two sides of the same coin. Two extremely unique guitarists of their respective time, with of course SRV nailing multiple covers of Hendrix's music, even making it his own in some ways.
Ok, the answer is VERY simple. Stevie was a huge Hendrix fan, emulated his playing, and even his look. So, of course, he is going to write and play a song like Hendrix.
@@DonP_is_lostagain I don't know that but in his style of playing, Stevie copied Hendrix and Hendrix copied someone else or mixed a couple of people. The clones just do their take, whether you are talking Hendrix clones, or EVH clones. To me, Hendrix is still the best.
@@tennisnutts7370 Hendrix had big influence from Curtis Mayfield and Muddy Waters. SRV’s biggest influence was Albert Collins and his older brother. Both unique and incredible. But every great guitarist learns from their inspirations and makes it their own. You know it’s SRV and you know it’s Jimmy when your hear that first note. The greatest guitarist in the world is your favorite guitarist since one is not quantifiably better then the other
There probably won’t be a retraction. Thing is he’s already made more off this video than one that might have stated “Hendrix and Vaughn both paid tribute to an earlier artist in their own ways.” And we’re all just making it worse…
I suggest you listen to the songs all of them then go listen to tbone walker's dont put your love on me so strong. There is the red house intro texas floods rhythm which the intro is in texas flood as well so texas flood is a inversion in ways mostly in placement but hey love em all and lets all keep learning dont forget the countless before that that got all of us to where we are and where were going
Thanks Tyler! I love it when you do this style of video. I got to watch the original version of this video and loved it, its too bad it got claimed. I always learn so much from you're Chanel and guitar super system. Keep up the great work! 🤘🎸
Major difference is that Jimi wrote "Red House", but Stevie Ray did not write "Texas Flood". Stevie Ray was a brilliant guitarist, but Jimi wrote many beautiful songs. Jimi also remains one of the very few artists who have taken a Bob Dylan song and made it their own (All Along The Watchtower). I have a great deal of respect for Stevie Ray, but when it comes to writing songs, Jimi was in a class by himself.
Nobody takes away from probably one of the best songwriters of our time. Bob played it just how he wanted as how he saw it. I prefer the Dylan version personally. One of my favourite Dylan songs among others. Nobody disses a master songwriter no matter who played it. Covers are great as long as they pay homage to the writer. Hendrix payed homage.
@@jackiemorris66 I don't think it's taking anything away from Dylan. It certainly isn't dissing him. And how did Dylan himself feel about Hendrix's version of "Watchtower"? He "...amended the structure of his initial track for later live performances to be more like Hendrix’s, explaining: “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of this and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way,” adding: “Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
From Wikipedia: "Texas Flood" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of A flat. Davis wrote it in California in 1955 and the song is credited to Davis and Duke Records arranger/trumpeter Joseph Scott. Although Davis later became a guitar player, for "Texas Flood" Fenton Robinson provided the distinctive guitar parts, with Davis on vocals and bass, James Booker on piano, David Dean on tenor saxophone, Booker Crutchfield on baritone saxophone, and an unknown drummer. The song was Davis' first single as a leader and became a regional hit." Good video Tyler, I like how you illustrated some of the difference in the styles of Hendrix and Vaughan.
Texas Flood is nearly a perfect song. I’ll never forget when I was driving home to Fort Worth from Dallas (where SRV was born) and I had this song playing while we were in the middle of a flood. Downtown Dallas was practically underwater. In that moment I knew exactly what the song was about.
Wow, you’ve outdone yourself - so much info to unpack in this one . There were times on your wide shots that I couldn’t help but wonder how some of those licks would have sounded on the baby sitar! Great playing, great video!
This is why I always come back to your videos.. Funny with a ton of useful information. Hendrix and SRV.... 2 of the best players of all times. Thanks for sharing!!!
Since that damn chopper went down, do y'all sometimes wonder, in the upside down or where ever the hell we go when we expire (hell even?) If Hendrix and SRV have been jamming the most epic jam ever since? You know it can go on for centuries and it will NEVER get old, right?
Tyler lost it half way through the video, haha. Killer playing, dude, keep on doing a great job. Your videos really amuse me and there's so much to learn from you!
@@SeanWeaver Kind of... He just took a small section of the song which would become the opening riff to Testify by SRV, but all together the songs are different for sure.
Hendrix stuff gets knocked offline pretty fast, but the trick seems to be playing it in standard tuning, instead of tuning down to where Hendrix was, the machinery that detects the songs to copyright strike seems to not work in standard.
"two of the greatests"..one original more or less.. the other very impressed with the former, so much so he played and dressed like him..although he, too, was AMAZINGLY good..
6:05 Always so funny to hear those guitar-guru advices: "don't copy others" or "don't learn songs note for note"...how do they think did SRV learn??? he just played the hell outta every single song he liked...and he wouldn't stop until he could play the whole thing note for note as heard on the record...in order to craft your own sound, you have to have a starting point, and that starting point is your influence's licks. When you got that, do variations and make them your own.
Great video Tyler! As a suggestion you may want to dive into Buddy Guy's catalogue since he deeply influenced Stevie Ray and Hendrix. Fun fact Hendrix wrote "Red House" originally for Buddy Guy.
It's always irritating to me when people say that Stevie just tried to imitate Hendrix. Really, Stevie was a mix of Albert King, Hendrix, and a whole lot of Texas thrown in for good measure. Also, Stevie's tone was very different than Jimi's---much deeper and grittier. And SRV played everything with more precision; he was simply better technically than Hendrix. PLUS, Stevie played guitars with those massively heavy strings and high action, which the vast majority of guitarists, even the greats, physically wouldn't be able to play. To me, SRV was the absolute best.
I feel like the difference between Texas flood and red house is that I Jimi massages your ears and makes you say “ that’s nice” and Stevie Ray Vaughan slaps you in the face and for some reason you wanna get slapped in the face again and again because he does it so well lol
REQUEST! For those of us who try so hard to sound like the greats, can you tell us what pedals you use when you are playing? You nail all the artists you play and I have a hard time as a newer player. Maybe a little picture of the pedals you’re using in the lower corner of the vid when you play? Anyway, great vid, thanks!
Is not much the pedal that make him sound like the greats but the amps, that’s the main source of sound from your playing, but sure you’ll still need some pedals, I stack my ts9 with a steel string by vertex and I get a pretty similar tone to Stevie’s.
Hendrix used several fuzz pedals (some modified by Roger Meyer), Stevie used some version(s) of the Tube Screamer, but it’s their Strats and their amps that just add to the tone.
I like SRV but let's face it, he was a clone of Hendrix. He basically took chops Hendrix was doing and made them better thanks to the evolution of music equipments.
Would love to see and hear you break down the version of Red House done by G3 with Satch, Vai, and Eric Johnson. Some of Johnson’s licks in that version are just insane, and of course, Satch shows off his bluest blues ever.
hi Tyler......i do have a pretty good appreciation of Hendrix and SRV....i think Hendrix was fearless, thats where "Jam back at the house" studio version is quite different from any other song. I love the classical greats like Brahms who make massive chordal movements to bring rhythm into the tonal realm....i think Hendrix understood that the fretboard represents every imaginable instrument..... the song has reflections in the melody to time when he played with Curtis Mayfield and when distortion was not "the thing to do" wherein high tones of almost country-like bending were reinforced. would appreciate as never hear much commentary on "JBATH" TY JOSH NEW ZELAND
So really, SRV learned a ton from Jimi. Stevie played emotionally, and had great hands. But I'm left thinking SRV never wrote anything to Jimi's level. Songs or lyrics. To compare them as players is one thing...SRV sounds a little stiff to me, but that's a different subject....Honestly, SRV didn't pick it up and take it to another level. He just played it really well. I love listening to SRV, but to compare him to Hendrix is not fair. After all these years, nobody is Hendrix. And no one will be. Just enjoy what SRV did. He was wonderful.
Here is something I have posted before. I saw Jimi Hendrix play, summer 1969. The place was an acoustic barn. It was not like anything, as great as it was, I ever heard recorded, or a video of him. The sound had separation, clear and covered the range. At one point during Voodoo Child, he put up a wall of sound, it felt like the bass was rolling up from the floor. Not only was it the oddest combination, of 6 or 7 sounds, but you would think, he was flipping switches to produce it. To compare him to other great guitar players, is really not the question. There was nothing to compare him to.
Stevie was 4 years old when the record was released. The famed Strat had a body 1 year younger and the neck was 4 years younger than the song! Thank you for being a voice of reason. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who cares anymore
The more I listened to SRV, who I love, the more I started to realize he was copying Hendrix. Just polishing up and adding a little Texas blues to what Hendrix played.
I wonder if Hendrix would have been as influential without SRV? Who else was playing those double stop, chordal melodies a la Wind Cries Mary before Stevie made it so popular?
Man, I LOVE that Lake Placid Blue Strat!!! I have a much, much cheaper version; Squire 60s Vibe LPB, with literally everything upgraded. I just live that color! Fascinating comparison between the two players, also. I’ve always found their playing to be aimilar, but I chalked that up to SRV’s version of “Little Wing.” This is so much more in-depth. Very cool! Thanks.
Ps; now go straight to “little wing” jimi first then SRV, or even John Mayer at michael Jackson’s funeral, “human nature” Both are a way of knowing what they felt. That joy and sadness. The end result is the purest form of expression.
Stevie only used heavy strings because of his aggressive style. He used to break thinner strings way to often. So the style came first not the strings.
SRV didn't write Texas Flood. SRV was only 4 years old when Larry Davis recorded it in 1958. Writing credits on the 45 label are attributed to Scott-Robey.
I was hopelessly naive and mistaken to wonder (as this video kept bothering me for weeks) if he'd issue an update or correction in a subsequent video, but then it was back to shredding and "Everyone Is Obsessed With This Girl's Riff!!!" It's almost enough to make me think the SRV/Hendrix videos by the major content creators are a marketing tactic, to pull in the boomers, while covering a wide range for all other demographics. Like it's about the CTR, viewer-retention, impressions, and analytics in general.....instead of music. Music and business are not and should not be mutually exclusive, but Tom Petty still dedicated the record to "anyone who loves music at least a little bit more than money." I'm not sure. Maybe TH-cam was just a bad idea altogether
Thank you for this. I put a little more detail in another comment and then scrolled down to find yours. It seems like a small thing but as a 30+ year player is a major annoyance to me when those with the microphone put out misleading or flat-out wrong information while pushing the content train. The music business always had a commercial element so it's not a criticism of successful TH-camrs as much as an observation on what seems to have been lost in the technological rush towards continual content creation. If Stevie wasn't such a sweet soul, he probably would have been pissed if anyone credited him with the song without correcting and attributing it to Larry Davis. As he was, I'm sure he would have kindly offered a correction and tried to let anyone who could hear know that it wasn't his to begin with.
@@SeanWeaver thank you. No one really knows origins anymore. The last two generations barely have any connecting knowledge unless they go out of their way to find it.
@@TheIgnoramus Indeed, and it makes it more annoying to live in full awareness that if/when anyone does point out the gaps in knowledge, it tends to arouse defense, or at least dismissal ("okay boomer"), over reverence, but I wouldn't change it for anything because that music literally changed my life. I'd rather know the origins and have been deeply affected by it than to be digitally indifferent in a commercialized numbers-fueled world. Being of the last generation that started playing seriously in a world before the Internet was huge (dial-up was just starting; I was on SRV newsgroups but there was certainly no TH-cam or content-creators so to speak), there's something bizarre to me about the digitalization of the guitar world, whether in content or just in convenience. As for lack of connecting knowledge, I probably shouldn't be so harsh about the Internet itself. If it bears some of the blame, certainly it cannot be the entire cause when the guitar declined from the same mass-generational focus. Guitars are certainly selling but everything feels commercialized instead of idealized. Maybe the idealization wasn't healthy either (surprise, not all vintage gear is great and and not all great gear is vintage), but I'd still take a kid pining for a '59 Strat body with a '62 neck just because that's what Stevie used and so he had to have it too, or Bloomfield kicking the vintage guitar market into motion, or some kind of deep respect for pre-CBS maple boards because they freaked out over Eric Johnson, than the gear-industry induced content-creation hype in a depersonalized computer-screen culture where you can buy a guitar right over the Internet without even playing it first , and everything has the same personality just because the gear review on the young friend of Beato's channel ranked the best Strats of 2022. Everything feels different and frankly bizarre about the guitar in this digital era but the guitar itself goes on. It has to, and will always be here for anyone who loves it enough to want to go as far as one can go with it. The rest will be whatever it will be. It made me feel much better to see someone else in the comments who gets it too
At least you spelled his last name right! I grew up and played with Stevie who was managed by Marc Proct and the bullshit I see is cringe worthy. I played with him maybe a dozen times and was asked to join his band and a year and a half later the rest was history and it really scared me. I live in Dallas about two miles north of his mom and dad's modest home in Oak Cliff (we say O Cliff) so we know if they are telling the truth. Good tone from your Guitars SRV would approve. Like Stevie said hey there ain't but one of Him Jimi, who he Idolized and jammed to his vinyl for hours on end until he met Tommy Shannon. I'll be writing a book after JLV is gone. Good Job but you should know i'm 67 years young and feel blessed to have known him and sub with him. RIP Stephen Ray Vaughan They are still apples and oranges the song Texas Flood was written by Larry Davis and was pinned to SRV by John Hammond Senior!
I am pretty sure the song Texas flood was recorded in 1958 by Larry Davis so I think this is not a case of SRV copying Jimi Hendrix as much as it is a case of Jimi copying Larry Davis
If you want a good Hendrix sound use a Whammy Pedal on the detune setting then you can flex the pedal and fluctuate between the detune and regular.. With some Univibe!! A slight reverb and reverse effect!!
Tyler, I love how you are dead right about the differences in their playing. Especially their phrasing. SRV really was into Jimmy. There's video's of him jamming I'm guessing in Texas in front of what appeared to be hard-core country crowd playing Jimmy. He was wearing his fringes, and all his country western clothes yet too. I couldn't tell if the crowd was pissed or enjoying it. I also noticed he has his tremolo bar on top which would drive me crazy. I was listening to SRV playing Little Wing (his almost 7 minute version) and you're definitely right about him being cleaner sounding and I was surprised that he plays it quite a bit faster (IMO). Not faster like a competition but just a bit quicker yet still sticking to the Jimmy sound. Can I ask a favor of you sir...lol. I can't or take Nugent anymore! I even challenged him to play the solo(s) on The Damn Yankees song come again because I know it is not him. Not to mention any whammy work is almost certainly not by him. I even made the challenge easier for him, I said "I will give you, or donate $20,000 to your charity if you can even tap your fingers that fast. That was just over a month ago. Well, I took a bigger shot at last night which I will gladly share with you but I want to adhere to your comment rules so I won't post them here..lol. The favor would be the video you have of him after he insulted Joan Jett (again) and then at one point tried to play guitar and he just royally sucked you were laughing and also I belive really used you ever so subtle, kind, sarcastic humor on him. Yes, I am LMAO right now thinking of that video and your reaction, comments, and so on. Any help would be great. I compared him to J. Edgar Hoover at one point if that's gives you any indication of what I might have said. Thank you Tyler! Sincerely, Jeff
Thank you for being a voice of reason. Stevie was 4 years old when the original record was released. The body on Number One either wasn't even born at all yet, or was still being carved and finished at the Fender factory
Last vid got hit w/ copyright and blocked worldwide, so here's another considerably less good but still very good piece of content for you. Sry bass players
John Entwistle would probably find that hilarious
Lmao kudos to your wife your partaking. Killer hat 🤠
what exactly was deleted?
Hendrix's estate strikes again!
The last one was 14mins long I believe. I good chunk of content lost.
Texas Flood was actually written and recorded by Larry Davis in 1958. So if Red House sounds similar, there's a good chance Hendrix was inspired by the song.
You beat me to it, I was typing the same thing then I saw this comment
Few people mentioning this, I think it's important to point out though that Larry Davis didn't actually play lead on the origanal. I can't remember the name of the person who did but they could really shred for the fifties. You can hear precisely where SRV lifted a lot of his version from.
Very true.
nice, never knew that little nug!
Bro, the blues progression in both songs have been around since not too long after slaves came to America. It’s like saying since the ABC song came before twinkle twinkle little star, then one of them is more original. They both are tunes from Beethoven or whatever. It’s the blues, and it’s been around for over a hundred years my guy
I always fondly thought of SRV and Hendrix to be two sides of the same coin. Two extremely unique guitarists of their respective time, with of course SRV nailing multiple covers of Hendrix's music, even making it his own in some ways.
Yep, Hendrix is the good side, SRV is the white side.
And yet they both gleen their influences from Clapton
Nah
@@paradiswest4395 ha
Sorry you look like you’re jacking off in the intro no cap
Stevie Ray Vaughan was grounded and set in the blues. Jimi Hendrix was like a Martian in the blues. Both have their own unique musical qualities.
Ok, the answer is VERY simple. Stevie was a huge Hendrix fan, emulated his playing, and even his look. So, of course, he is going to write and play a song like Hendrix.
clickbait. the truth so simple. original vs immitaror
Except SRV didn't write Texas Flood. It had become a blues standard by the time Hendrix came on the scene. It was written in '58 by Larry Davis.
@@DonP_is_lostagain I don't know that but in his style of playing, Stevie copied Hendrix and Hendrix copied someone else or mixed a couple of people. The clones just do their take, whether you are talking Hendrix clones, or EVH clones. To me, Hendrix is still the best.
@@tennisnutts7370 Hendrix had big influence from Curtis Mayfield and Muddy Waters. SRV’s biggest influence was Albert Collins and his older brother. Both unique and incredible. But every great guitarist learns from their inspirations and makes it their own. You know it’s SRV and you know it’s Jimmy when your hear that first note. The greatest guitarist in the world is your favorite guitarist since one is not quantifiably better then the other
@@tennisnutts7370 srv takes the music to another level.
Larry Davis,1958 -- which precedes Hendrix --- wrote Texas Flood.
Don't inbox him anything you haven't won
There probably won’t be a retraction.
Thing is he’s already made more off this video than one that might have stated “Hendrix and Vaughn both paid tribute to an earlier artist in their own ways.”
And we’re all just making it worse…
I suggest you listen to the songs all of them then go listen to tbone walker's dont put your love on me so strong. There is the red house intro texas floods rhythm which the intro is in texas flood as well so texas flood is a inversion in ways mostly in placement but hey love em all and lets all keep learning dont forget the countless before that that got all of us to where we are and where were going
There’s Hendrix then everyone else, jimi is the Goat don’t ever forget that He had soul for days!!!!!!!
Wait until Tyler finds out that these guys both wrote the same song called Voodoo Child Slight Return 🤯
Wait…I thought Jimi wrote “Voodoo Chile” and Stevie wrote “Voodoo Child”, right? 😊
And Little Wing 😂
@@cecole jimi wrote both
They also both did a song called Little Wing, but Stevie couldn't come up with any lyrics so he just played guitar a lot more
I must say Tyler, the quality and content of the last about half a dozen videos have been just so entertaining and great, thank you
Thanks Tyler! I love it when you do this style of video. I got to watch the original version of this video and loved it, its too bad it got claimed. I always learn so much from you're Chanel and guitar super system. Keep up the great work! 🤘🎸
Uhhh SCAM
I mean the telegram thing
Major difference is that Jimi wrote "Red House", but Stevie Ray did not write "Texas Flood". Stevie Ray was a brilliant guitarist, but Jimi wrote many beautiful songs. Jimi also remains one of the very few artists who have taken a Bob Dylan song and made it their own (All Along The Watchtower). I have a great deal of respect for Stevie Ray, but when it comes to writing songs, Jimi was in a class by himself.
Nobody takes away from probably one of the best songwriters of our time. Bob played it just how he wanted as how he saw it. I prefer the Dylan version personally. One of my favourite Dylan songs among others. Nobody disses a master songwriter no matter who played it. Covers are great as long as they pay homage to the writer. Hendrix payed homage.
@@jackiemorris66 I don't think it's taking anything away from Dylan. It certainly isn't dissing him. And how did Dylan himself feel about Hendrix's version of "Watchtower"? He "...amended the structure of his initial track for later live performances to be more like Hendrix’s, explaining: “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of this and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way,” adding: “Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
The best version of All Along the Watchtower is by XTC.
From Wikipedia:
"Texas Flood" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of A flat. Davis wrote it in California in 1955 and the song is credited to Davis and Duke Records arranger/trumpeter Joseph Scott. Although Davis later became a guitar player, for "Texas Flood" Fenton Robinson provided the distinctive guitar parts, with Davis on vocals and bass, James Booker on piano, David Dean on tenor saxophone, Booker Crutchfield on baritone saxophone, and an unknown drummer. The song was Davis' first single as a leader and became a regional hit."
Good video Tyler, I like how you illustrated some of the difference in the styles of Hendrix and Vaughan.
Bethany’s mind blown in the car had me dead🤣 loving the skits again!
Texas Flood is nearly a perfect song.
I’ll never forget when I was driving home to Fort Worth from Dallas (where SRV was born) and I had this song playing while we were in the middle of a flood. Downtown Dallas was practically underwater.
In that moment I knew exactly what the song was about.
Gary Moore did awesome on Hendrix songs too!
There's a red house over yonder.
That's where my baby stays.
I love red house, amazing song!
But texas flood is absurd. I probably wouldn't believe the el mocambo version was real if it wasn't recorded
its better than the record!
Today is November 27th
Jimi hendrix's birthday
It's a good day not too hot not too cold
Wow, you’ve outdone yourself - so much info to unpack in this one . There were times on your wide shots that I couldn’t help but wonder how some of those licks would have sounded on the baby sitar! Great playing, great video!
This is why I always come back to your videos.. Funny with a ton of useful information. Hendrix and SRV.... 2 of the best players of all times. Thanks for sharing!!!
Learned those licks in the 60's, blues go's back before Jimi and Stevie
Music IS win. Very good. You nailed some of those licks as they felt them. I subscribed ✌️ 🎸
Awesome Tyler! 🤘👍
Since that damn chopper went down, do y'all sometimes wonder, in the upside down or where ever the hell we go when we expire (hell even?) If Hendrix and SRV have been jamming the most epic jam ever since? You know it can go on for centuries and it will NEVER get old, right?
Tyler lost it half way through the video, haha. Killer playing, dude, keep on doing a great job. Your videos really amuse me and there's so much to learn from you!
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Testify always reminds me of Hendrix so much. I was shocked that Jimi didn’t write it
Testify was an Isley Brothers record. Jimi played on it as session-player prior to The Experience. Stevie just covered it
@@SeanWeaver Kind of... He just took a small section of the song which would become the opening riff to Testify by SRV, but all together the songs are different for sure.
Hendrix stuff gets knocked offline pretty fast, but the trick seems to be playing it in standard tuning, instead of tuning down to where Hendrix was, the machinery that detects the songs to copyright strike seems to not work in standard.
"two of the greatests"..one original more or less.. the other very impressed with the former, so much so he played and dressed like him..although he, too, was AMAZINGLY good..
6:05 Always so funny to hear those guitar-guru advices: "don't copy others" or "don't learn songs note for note"...how do they think did SRV learn??? he just played the hell outta every single song he liked...and he wouldn't stop until he could play the whole thing note for note as heard on the record...in order to craft your own sound, you have to have a starting point, and that starting point is your influence's licks. When you got that, do variations and make them your own.
this is some sacred blues knowledge. Thanks for the licks
Awesome video!!!
What kind of backing track and/or song was played at 9:42 ? I really liked it
Great video Tyler!
As a suggestion you may want to dive into Buddy Guy's catalogue since he deeply influenced Stevie Ray and Hendrix.
Fun fact Hendrix wrote "Red House" originally for Buddy Guy.
It's always irritating to me when people say that Stevie just tried to imitate Hendrix. Really, Stevie was a mix of Albert King, Hendrix, and a whole lot of Texas thrown in for good measure. Also, Stevie's tone was very different than Jimi's---much deeper and grittier. And SRV played everything with more precision; he was simply better technically than Hendrix. PLUS, Stevie played guitars with those massively heavy strings and high action, which the vast majority of guitarists, even the greats, physically wouldn't be able to play. To me, SRV was the absolute best.
I feel like the difference between Texas flood and red house is that I Jimi massages your ears and makes you say “ that’s nice” and Stevie Ray Vaughan slaps you in the face and for some reason you wanna get slapped in the face again and again because he does it so well lol
yawn
Awesome playing
REQUEST! For those of us who try so hard to sound like the greats, can you tell us what pedals you use when you are playing? You nail all the artists you play and I have a hard time as a newer player. Maybe a little picture of the pedals you’re using in the lower corner of the vid when you play?
Anyway, great vid, thanks!
Is not much the pedal that make him sound like the greats but the amps, that’s the main source of sound from your playing, but sure you’ll still need some pedals, I stack my ts9 with a steel string by vertex and I get a pretty similar tone to Stevie’s.
Hendrix used several fuzz pedals (some modified by Roger Meyer), Stevie used some version(s) of the Tube Screamer, but it’s their Strats and their amps that just add to the tone.
I like SRV but let's face it, he was a clone of Hendrix. He basically took chops Hendrix was doing and made them better thanks to the evolution of music equipments.
Would love to see and hear you break down the version of Red House done by G3 with Satch, Vai, and Eric Johnson. Some of Johnson’s licks in that version are just insane, and of course, Satch shows off his bluest blues ever.
Your winning man glad your talent is about guitar. Your videos make people find songs they never heard before of great albums
i dont what this vid is about, but having jimi and srv made me in
There are tons of blues tunes that are like this.
hi Tyler......i do have a pretty good appreciation of Hendrix and SRV....i think Hendrix was fearless, thats where "Jam back at the house" studio version is quite different from any other song. I love the classical greats like Brahms who make massive chordal movements to bring rhythm into the tonal realm....i think Hendrix understood that the fretboard represents every imaginable instrument..... the song has reflections in the melody to time when he played with Curtis Mayfield and when distortion was not "the thing to do" wherein high tones of almost country-like bending were reinforced.
would appreciate as never hear much commentary on "JBATH" TY JOSH NEW ZELAND
Sick video! Chillin and riffin
Great one Tyler! The intro cracked me up, but I also learned something new in SRVs digitation thanks!
So really, SRV learned a ton from Jimi. Stevie played emotionally, and had great hands. But I'm left thinking SRV never wrote anything to Jimi's level. Songs or lyrics. To compare them as players is one thing...SRV sounds a little stiff to me, but that's a different subject....Honestly, SRV didn't pick it up and take it to another level. He just played it really well. I love listening to SRV, but to compare him to Hendrix is not fair. After all these years, nobody is Hendrix. And no one will be. Just enjoy what SRV did. He was wonderful.
TH-cam has the uncanny ability to put a commercial or ad in at the wrong time every time 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
So there i was, casually driving with my drone flying, shooting some beautiful cinematic clips; and this here song came on my FM radio
Beautiful.
Compare the first 3 albums and ask yourself who is the best ever. Jimi tops every one before and after. SRV is great but Jimi is beyond.
I choose Hendrix any day but that’s just my preference
Great video man of these two icons !
Great vid 👍
Well that was pretty cool. Rock on, or, Blue on.
Tyler, you always look like you're working so hard when you play.
You're describing guitar face. It's very common.
Hendrix all the way. I love the Texas blues mastery of Vaughan but Hendrix is Blues, soul, R&B, Funk, Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelia.
Tyler you remind me of the real life version of jack black in school of rock i didnt notice it till just now you have the exact energy 😅
Do a progression video for the passing of the torch between jimi>srv>john mayer
SRV was Hendrix fan. Could it be he just started playing an old Hendrix lick without realizing it?
2 weeks ago I listened to these songs back to back and I talked about why they sounded similar to my dad.
Here is something I have posted before. I saw Jimi Hendrix play, summer 1969. The place was an acoustic barn. It was not like anything, as great as it was, I ever heard recorded, or a video of him. The sound had separation, clear and covered the range. At one point during Voodoo Child, he put up a wall of sound, it felt like the bass was rolling up from the floor. Not only was it the oddest combination, of 6 or 7 sounds, but you would think, he was flipping switches to produce it. To compare him to other great guitar players, is really not the question. There was nothing to compare him to.
texas flood was written by larry davis in 1955
Stevie was 4 years old when the record was released. The famed Strat had a body 1 year younger and the neck was 4 years younger than the song! Thank you for being a voice of reason. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who cares anymore
I didn't want to watch this one... But it's been TEN DAYS!!
The more I listened to SRV, who I love, the more I started to realize he was copying Hendrix. Just polishing up and adding a little Texas blues to what Hendrix played.
I wonder if Hendrix would have been as influential without SRV? Who else was playing those double stop, chordal melodies a la Wind Cries Mary before Stevie made it so popular?
writing the comment again...
I thought the same thing while listening these songs.
Man, I LOVE that Lake Placid Blue Strat!!! I have a much, much cheaper version; Squire 60s Vibe LPB, with literally everything upgraded. I just live that color!
Fascinating comparison between the two players, also. I’ve always found their playing to be aimilar, but I chalked that up to SRV’s version of “Little Wing.” This is so much more in-depth. Very cool! Thanks.
Ps; now go straight to “little wing” jimi first then SRV, or even John Mayer at michael Jackson’s funeral, “human nature” Both are a way of knowing what they felt. That joy and sadness. The end result is the purest form of expression.
Brilliant video.
really good video bro.
Listen to "Gypsy Eyes" from Jimi's "Electric Ladyland" album...
That prs is a BEAUTY
10:58 "I really think Texas Flood might be an ode to Red House." Seeing as Larry Davis put out the record in 1958, not likely!!!
You're in a hands-free state. TN is watching you...
Trying to find the lost blues lick...
Would you suppose that the SRV aggressive style is due in part to the heavy string vs Hendrix style which uses light strings?
Stevie only used heavy strings because of his aggressive style. He used to break thinner strings way to often. So the style came first not the strings.
Oh, and the answer to your question in your video is.., Jimi Hendrix.., always.
SRV didn't write Texas Flood. SRV was only 4 years old when Larry Davis recorded it in 1958. Writing credits on the 45 label are attributed to Scott-Robey.
I was hopelessly naive and mistaken to wonder (as this video kept bothering me for weeks) if he'd issue an update or correction in a subsequent video, but then it was back to shredding and "Everyone Is Obsessed With This Girl's Riff!!!" It's almost enough to make me think the SRV/Hendrix videos by the major content creators are a marketing tactic, to pull in the boomers, while covering a wide range for all other demographics. Like it's about the CTR, viewer-retention, impressions, and analytics in general.....instead of music. Music and business are not and should not be mutually exclusive, but Tom Petty still dedicated the record to "anyone who loves music at least a little bit more than money." I'm not sure. Maybe TH-cam was just a bad idea altogether
Well Stevie didn't write Texas Flood, and it was around a little less than a decade before Red House. So no, they did not write the same song.
Srv version of texas flood is different from the original so i guess he means his specific version
@@imrikeinan9955 different? Quicker tempo but its the same.
Thank you for this. I put a little more detail in another comment and then scrolled down to find yours. It seems like a small thing but as a 30+ year player is a major annoyance to me when those with the microphone put out misleading or flat-out wrong information while pushing the content train. The music business always had a commercial element so it's not a criticism of successful TH-camrs as much as an observation on what seems to have been lost in the technological rush towards continual content creation. If Stevie wasn't such a sweet soul, he probably would have been pissed if anyone credited him with the song without correcting and attributing it to Larry Davis. As he was, I'm sure he would have kindly offered a correction and tried to let anyone who could hear know that it wasn't his to begin with.
@@SeanWeaver thank you. No one really knows origins anymore. The last two generations barely have any connecting knowledge unless they go out of their way to find it.
@@TheIgnoramus Indeed, and it makes it more annoying to live in full awareness that if/when anyone does point out the gaps in knowledge, it tends to arouse defense, or at least dismissal ("okay boomer"), over reverence, but I wouldn't change it for anything because that music literally changed my life. I'd rather know the origins and have been deeply affected by it than to be digitally indifferent in a commercialized numbers-fueled world. Being of the last generation that started playing seriously in a world before the Internet was huge (dial-up was just starting; I was on SRV newsgroups but there was certainly no TH-cam or content-creators so to speak), there's something bizarre to me about the digitalization of the guitar world, whether in content or just in convenience. As for lack of connecting knowledge, I probably shouldn't be so harsh about the Internet itself. If it bears some of the blame, certainly it cannot be the entire cause when the guitar declined from the same mass-generational focus. Guitars are certainly selling but everything feels commercialized instead of idealized. Maybe the idealization wasn't healthy either (surprise, not all vintage gear is great and and not all great gear is vintage), but I'd still take a kid pining for a '59 Strat body with a '62 neck just because that's what Stevie used and so he had to have it too, or Bloomfield kicking the vintage guitar market into motion, or some kind of deep respect for pre-CBS maple boards because they freaked out over Eric Johnson, than the gear-industry induced content-creation hype in a depersonalized computer-screen culture where you can buy a guitar right over the Internet without even playing it first , and everything has the same personality just because the gear review on the young friend of Beato's channel ranked the best Strats of 2022. Everything feels different and frankly bizarre about the guitar in this digital era but the guitar itself goes on. It has to, and will always be here for anyone who loves it enough to want to go as far as one can go with it. The rest will be whatever it will be. It made me feel much better to see someone else in the comments who gets it too
Great video Tyler! And Bethany looks Killer in that pink cowboy hat and sunglasses!
At least you spelled his last name right! I grew up and played with Stevie who was managed by Marc Proct and the bullshit I see is cringe worthy. I played with him maybe a dozen times and was asked to join his band and a year and a half later the rest was history and it really scared me. I live in Dallas about two miles north of his mom and dad's modest home in Oak Cliff (we say O Cliff) so we know if they are telling the truth. Good tone from your Guitars SRV would approve. Like Stevie said hey there ain't but one of Him Jimi, who he Idolized and jammed to his vinyl for hours on end until he met Tommy Shannon. I'll be writing a book after JLV is gone. Good Job but you should know i'm 67 years young and feel blessed to have known him and sub with him. RIP Stephen Ray Vaughan
They are still apples and oranges the song Texas Flood was written by Larry Davis and was pinned to SRV by John Hammond Senior!
Beautiful break down of the styles.. even me being a drummer and basses. It helps me relate to my guitares ...great content.. keep it up 🤓😎🔥
All roads lead to Jimmy Hendrix, Albert King, Freddy King, Chuck Berry, Carl Hogan, Charlie Christian, Sister Rosetta Tharp and a handful of others.
one of the best quotes from this channel:
"A squeeling cat auditioning for an opera, that's a happy thought."
10:07
*plays wicked blues licks the whole video* 💙 that's all thanks
Blues is more of a tradition than originality
It’s funny because I was just listening to Texas flood and I was thinking this sounds like red house. And then this video popped up
I am pretty sure the song Texas flood was recorded in 1958 by Larry Davis so I think this is not a case of SRV copying Jimi Hendrix as much as it is a case of Jimi copying Larry Davis
If you want a good Hendrix sound use a Whammy Pedal on the detune setting then you can flex the pedal and fluctuate between the detune and regular.. With some Univibe!! A slight reverb and reverse effect!!
Red House and Texas Flood have absolutely nothing to do with eachother
I've also heard that David Bowie and Queen wrote the exact same song.
Well, they were both probably under significant pressure from their labels, pushing down on them.
@@bubkusjones 😂
I love the screaming alley cat in the wee hours outside my bedroom window
I've been mistreated. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. DIO
What sweet tones you got there!!
Great work...the commercials killed the flow though.
SRV was cleaner & I get why people would say he’s a better player, but SRV wouldn’t have sounded much like SRV w/o the Hendrix influence
My legs were weak when I saw you posted this
Insane tone bro
Bethany's hat was the real star in this video
Tyler,
I love how you are dead right about the differences in their playing. Especially their phrasing. SRV really was into Jimmy. There's video's of him jamming I'm guessing in Texas in front of what appeared to be hard-core country crowd playing Jimmy. He was wearing his fringes, and all his country western clothes yet too. I couldn't tell if the crowd was pissed or enjoying it. I also noticed he has his tremolo bar on top which would drive me crazy.
I was listening to SRV playing Little Wing (his almost 7 minute version) and you're definitely right about him being cleaner sounding and I was surprised that he plays it quite a bit faster (IMO). Not faster like a competition but just a bit quicker yet still sticking to the Jimmy sound.
Can I ask a favor of you sir...lol. I can't or take Nugent anymore! I even challenged him to play the solo(s) on The Damn Yankees song come again because I know it is not him. Not to mention any whammy work is almost certainly not by him. I even made the challenge easier for him, I said "I will give you, or donate $20,000 to your charity if you can even tap your fingers that fast. That was just over a month ago. Well, I took a bigger shot at last night which I will gladly share with you but I want to adhere to your comment rules so I won't post them here..lol.
The favor would be the video you have of him after he insulted Joan Jett (again) and then at one point tried to play guitar and he just royally sucked you were laughing and also I belive really used you ever so subtle, kind, sarcastic humor on him. Yes, I am LMAO right now thinking of that video and your reaction, comments, and so on. Any help would be great. I compared him to J. Edgar Hoover at one point if that's gives you any indication of what I might have said.
Thank you Tyler!
Sincerely,
Jeff
Stevie didn’t write Texas flood though
Thank you for being a voice of reason. Stevie was 4 years old when the original record was released. The body on Number One either wasn't even born at all yet, or was still being carved and finished at the Fender factory