Legend has it the neck of the guitar was actually broken after this because of how hard he played, I'm not even making a joke there's a bit on Wikipedia about it if I remember right
@@lukapejkovic918 Yes you're correct, the guitar in this video was owned by Stevies friend, and Stevies hands were so strong that they actually cracked the neck, which is absolutuely phenomenal. "Used on MTV Unplugged. and probably the same guitar Stevie used in 1985 for a benefit show, during which he played his first public acoustic set. This guitar actually belonged to Stevie's friend and personal assistant Timothy Duckworth. Timothy recalls that Stevie's hands were so strong that he accidently cracked the neck. The Hard Rock asked Stevie if they could have the damaged guitar, and Timothy said okay. I assume it is the one which has been on display at the Dallas Hard Rock Cafe for many years." - www.stevieray.com/gear.htm
He was thee best BLUES GUITARIST PLAYER EVER In My World, he jammed on his guitars and how he could sing, my God I've never seen STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN and DOUBLE TROUBLE. What a band STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN WAS THEE BEST BLUES GUITARIST AND SINGER EVER. DOUBLE TROUBLE a GREAT BAND..
He had the smoothest playing style I have ever seen. He made it seem absolutely effortless, like a walk in the park on a sunny day. A true master in every sense of the word.
I cried like a baby over the dinner dishes then went to a f'in' meeting that night. I never had the opportunity to see him live in concert ~~ I still cry when I realize the immensity I missed. Never compare as there isn't any comparing of music yet~~ I missed ~~Gary Moore~~ live too~~~~~~ Blessed with live music~~ spoiled is more like it~~ born & raised in SanFrancisco in 60's ~~~~ I still cry at all those I missed experiencing live in concert. MTV & Unplugged was one if the best ideas anyone ever came up with. We need more of this unplugged in the world today. All that electric music came from creation without wires~~~~ it us the m I st awesome thing to be there when songs are being created. The best are simple~ yet~ usually come from ~~~paying your dues~~ ~~~result~~~~ playin' the bad @!$ Blues ~~~~~~
Never ever be a STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN EVER THEE BEST GUITARIST I HAVE EVER SEEN I WAS @ STILL AM HOOKED ON THE BEST. LOVED STEVIE'S JAMMING WITH DOUBLE TROUBLE, HIS SINGING. THEY'LL NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN NEVER.🤠
Legend. He’s on near god status here in Austin, statue and all. I love hearing the stories from all the Austin OGs about going to see Stevie Ray Vaughan for $2-3 dollars downtown and drinking 50cent cold beers. You could go out with $10 bucks and come home with change…
It was really a $7-10 cover, but on Wednesdays all the clubs had nickel, dime or two bit Beusch Beers. LoL! It was alot harder to get that 10-15 bucks back then tho. If you were a kid, (me) you only made $4.25 an hour. It was fun trying to cram 30 people into 4 cars.
The people that got to see him are starting to die off. We just keep this man’s legend alive. People 2000 years from now need to know this really happened. That a guy like him really existed
im from argentina and i turned 16 some months ago, i been playing 1 year along and the best thing that i could discover was this man and his songs, its one of the few musicians that has the greatness to enter inside my heart
I was stupid and never went too see any of his shows. But in 1988 I drove too the tower show in Philadelphia from Jersey. Last minute decision. I got a 40 and hung out near the side exit doors. I'm glad I waited. Saw some women looking for autographs and he drove out. Didn't say anything but reached and shook his hand. I just remember his eyes most. I just turned 20 a few days before.
I saw him at the inaguration of the Chicago Bles Fest in 1985. After almost 40 years, it is still the best I have ever seen. I will always miss him - there is no other that even comes close.
I’ve been working on and off again on something for Steve for over 15 years now… and I’m finally going to release it as one of the very first few episodes of my series on TH-cam. My intentions are exactly what you said… to let people know how amazing of a human being this guy was.
Stevie Ray Vaughn played the guitar like nobody else and had a voice that sounded as good live as it did on a track. RIP SRV. You’ll always be my favorite on the guitar.
This must be the only time in history when the audience clapping along wasn't completely annoying. Plus they also didn't start totally missing the beat, which also happens a lot.
@@The11eleven Are you talking down about STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN @ DOUBLE TROUBLE BAND AND KEYBOARDIST, FUCKING GREAT SONG. WHAT THE HELL YOU TALKING ABOUT?🤠🔥🤠 FOREVER.
Its cause the room is small. A Lot of times when you hear the Audeince clap along and it goes out of sync its cause the sound is taking time to travel to the back of the auditorium so when the claps travel back to the front(where the mics are) it creates a natural delay. So depending on how big the space is the audience literally cannot clap in time. its impossible.
The strongest and most disciplined fingers to control that 12 string in such a way. And you know he's playing with super heavy gauge strings (he always did). What a hero.
Apparently Stevie borrowed this guitar from a friend for the unplugged show. The friend later noticed what Stevie hadn't.... his hands were so strong that he cracked the fucking neck of the guitar LOL - true story look it up. What an animal SRV was. RIP.
It’s true, SRV’s close friend and personal assistant Timothy Duckworth loaned him his Guild JF6512 12-string. He confirmed the neck was cracked in *several* places! The guitar was acquired or donated, and is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas.
One more piece of trivia: SRV knew his strength. He cracked the neck of “Number One”, his 1963 Fender Strat. They took the neck off his red Strat to replace it.
@@nzmorcr Stevie jammed hard that was hi thing, and he did damn well. DOUBLE TROUBLE had no problem keeping up.with him. Great trio then added the KEYBOARDIST and oh how they jammed.🤠🔥🤠
+Christopher Hitchens It is from MTV if you watch the video they say it's MTV Unplugged. They are owned by the same company. The video was taken from a VH1 broadcast.
No we were alive and in front of the screen when the MTV Unplugged episode aired in 1990. Google the facts before calling anyone dumb. If VH1 aired it at a later date, that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that this was shot and aired for MTV Unplugged.
T.J. Ash I forget where I heard this from but evidently Stevie borrowed that Guild 12 string from a friend and by the time he was finished playing this show, Stevie had cracked the neck on it. If true, that’s insane how hard he played.
@@mathematicsiscool1434 He played 13 gauge strings on a guitar built to his specs. Eric Clapton tried SRV's guitar one time and handed it back. He didn't have the hand strength or dexterity to play SRV's guitars. He often broke strings playing and his crew had multiple guitars to switch out. I have read he could go thru 3 guitars a night when performing. He often used baking soda and gorilla glue on his fingers and nails to close wounds or reattach calluses from playing.
Yeah STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN played 12 @13 strings. Never heard him until 2020 he was singng "WITHOUT YOU" brought tears to my eyes. HEARD THAT GUITAR JAMMING I"ve got 100% songs on my telephone. He made me want more, AND more so I'm very much a fan of our TEXAS BLUES ROCKER UNTIL I DIE, FOREVER STEVIE💛=Love🤠= STEVIE.🔥=HOW HOT HE COULD JAM OUT THOSE SONGS ON HIS GUITARS.
hendrix is universely considered the best SRV may be your faveroute but if we’re talking about best, hendrix is the most influential and inventive and his stuff still is shocking 50 years later SRV is great but he can’t hold a candle to hendrix
Stevie wasn't just fast, he could be very melodic and rhythmical at the same time, while keeping his originality (a kind of "bloody" texan blues) that's why he sounds so good, it's a mix of good stuff...
@@raicebannon1936my great uncle Bunny got to see Stevie in concert back in the day and told my granny, “He has the strongest fingers I’ve ever seen”you’re quite right. Especially here he’s playing a damn 12 string
No one had any idea how hard it is to play this piece on an acoustic guitar...the way Stevie could mute all the string's he want to while all the while letting the strings ring out that he wanted...and to it on a twelve string is almost impossible... I've tried to so it and I couldn't even come close to making sound like this...we all sure miss your genius Stevie....🎸🎸🎸
A lot of it has to do with his strumming hand. As guitarists we often are, rightfully so, focused on what our heroes are doing on the fretboard, but SRV was as skilled an unique with his picking and strumming as with anything going on with the neck. Truly one of a kind.
DEAR GOD WHAT A TALENT!!!.. Obviously when you speak of SRV you think of the guitar virtuoso that he was BUT He had The Voice to complement that guitar...Then let's not forget the look the soul and the person he was.. RIP SRV!!!... Brilliant!!!!!
+Steve P He was even more amazing live, serious shit, loved ever drop of sweat he hit me with, I had to get to the front & center stage, small venue, fanfuckingtastic!!!!
I remember watching this on MTV.. and I felt bad for the next act it was a three person group who looked scared to death knowing the three of them could not do what he just did. SRV Legend.
I was there that night. SRV and Joe Satriani didn`t want to play together, even MTV tried to arrange it.Different playing styles was the reason they said. I came there to see my idol Joe Satriani live, but i have to admit.....Stevie Ray Vaughan was in another league.
@@bigmike2464 : I wouldn't want to play with SRV, either. I'd have to keep stopping to pick my jaw off the ground. Very uncomfortable. Must safer to just listen 'n' watch the man.
When I think of the musicians I've admired that died early, Hendrix, Janis, Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Moore - Stevie Ray Vaughn's is the one that hurts the most and gives me the greatest sense of loss. I believe he had so much more to say, musically, I believe we got to hear just a fraction of the talent inside that man. RIP SRV
Man funny you say 29 years later cuz I'm 29 and watching this for the 1st time. Been grooving to the man for a minute but didnt know he had a unplugged set, nasty
This song will take a lifetime to learn and what he played on acoustic would take 2 tifetimes to learn. No bends and just pure love and drive! Stevie is the best gift our generation ever received!!
What a talent. What a loss to the world. I usually, and rarely, use the word master with classical musicians but, for me, this man was a musical master
Stevie Ray Vaughan stuff on an electic guitar is one thing. Stevie Ray Vaughan on acoustic is another. Stevie Ray Vaughan on a 12 string acoustic is a totally different animal. He was a true American Treasure because not only was he good on electric guitar with three guys backing him up he was just as good with a twelve string acoustic. Rest In Peace dude.
Saw SRV in 84' in his hometown Dallas, Tx at the Reunion arena. Member that place? He opened get this for the Moody Blues "Nights in white satin" cool right? On the marquee in big, big letters it said Dallas welcomes THE MOODY BLUES. In small little ones it read just like this w/special guest stevie ray vaughn. No capitals, no nothing. Me and my bud I was 16 yrs old. 8th row just to the right of center, we had 3 fat killer doobs. We smoked and we were laughin our asses at anything because we were high and my bud was just a funny looking guy. So he said well "Billy we gotta sit through some clown named Stevie Ray Vaughn then the Moody's come on". I was like yea cool very cool, but,but first Stevie right, with his SRV NO 1 strat came on w/Double Trouble. Probably within maybe 3 minutes that's all it took. We saw the greatest bluesman to ever live. For me and I've seen so many greats live here's my list Santana, Page, Gilmour, Dimeola, Satriana, Lifeson, J. Vaughn, Beck, S. Howe, S. Stills, Eddie Hazel, Ag. Young, R. Trower, Mike Campbell, L. Buckingham, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Healey. Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke, Stanley Jordan, Pat Methany, Jeff Buckley...A few others I can't think of at the moment. SRV easily the greatest guitar player I've ever seen and man that's sayin something.
I was lucky enough to see him live 3 times. The last time with Doctor John, John Lee Hooker, Joe Cocker, and BB King. Fantastic jam at the end. 1990 in Los Angeles. HE WAS THE BEST.
i Mean its really hard debate but to be honest every guitarist have his own specialty and Srv was the fastest and for me the best blues player. Jimi is influential and did a lot for the guitar like giving the tools For Srv to be awesome but i think in the end the both of them had different vision in music but i have to say srv i think the fastest shredder but again maybe Jimi didnt live to his full potential
@@lucas123bigman Listen to SRV doing Little Wing. He plays it better than Hendrix. That's how you know SRV is better. SRV has all the soul of Hendrix, but he is on another level of technical ability.
+Ian Mastrangelo yeah, but satriani is a shredder and srv a blues player, even if shredding is harder, srv is one of the few blues player who can really make a blues be hard to shredding levels.
Best quotes I've heard .... Stevie Ray Vaughan played the guitar like it owed him money... The guitar needed a cigarette after Stevie was through... Stevie Ray Vaughan didn't play guitar....he was the guitar..
my fave was a quote from clapton himself... "stevie was an open channel. music flowed through him. even i have to sometimes stop and think about whats coming next. not stevie. with him it was effortless."
Stevie didn't play music; the music played Stevie. He was the instrument, the channel the music was coming through on. His whole body intensity and groove was how he stayed on the beam.
I saw him for the first time here in Baltimore in 1983. I was 17 and bartender friend of mine said, "Go see this guy." I did. SRV was seven bells of fucked up, on the bar playing, knocking over drinks...but he wasn't there. His body was physically there, but he was on some other plane...wish I could describe it better. The sounds I heard coming from his guitar...never heard anything like it since. Rest in Peace, Stevie.
And not a single false note in the whole video. This dude was in absolute control of that guitar and every single sound that came out of it. Truly incredible. I remember seeing a John Mayer interview several years ago, where John said that SRV was untouchable because of his raw energy. Stevie would bring it every single time he touched a guitar. Some guys might get close for maybe a night or two throughout their whole tour, but he was doing it every night. You really can hear the pure talent and energy in every song of his. And really a great voice...and my favorite part of the video is when he finishes that last song, after nailing like four straight licks in a row, he looks up and grins and I can tell he's like, "well damn that was cool."
7:30 is some amazing finger work.. Just to listen to it blows your mind then to see his fingers fast as lightning. You were one of the worlds premier guitar players RIP/ SRV.
Wow that first song on a 12 string (Rude Mood) Just unbelievable no words can describe that talent. One of the greatest the world has ever seen. Rest in peace. He died the year I was born.
Because he was such a fantastic guitarist, his great, great vocals are too often overlooked. Just gifted all the way around. And, of course, a tragic, heartbreaking loss, especially since he had finally found sobriety and peace.
I always try to point that out to folks as well. Stevie's vocals are so underrated. he was such a great vocalist as well, and a lyracist as well. he was such a complete package, people just overlook everything outside of his guitar playing, which is a shame. I think early on he recorded alot of covers because he lacked the confidence in his own songwriting, but as time went on it was proven he was a fantastic songwriter. his original songs are classics that hold up as well as any of the covers he did. And that voice . Man, he had such a gorgeous tone and he could communicate so much emotion in his voice. I prefer his voice more than Clapton, Hendrix, or any of the Blues greats.
Kind of eerie that this was filmed roughly seven months before SRV's tragic demise in a helicopter crash; and at the end, the host says, "Stevie's gotta go catch an airplane, he's outta here..."
I get a lot off flack from North Oak Cliff. That's Dallas for you all who don't know. People say it's "ghetto". Grow up! SRV Grew up next to me. Makes me proud
Wow I hadn't watched this in a while. It's good to remind yourself every once in a while how good he really was and that we were lucky to be alive when he came along. This was the year I graduated high school, so one could see we're all a little spoiled by the execellence of the past. Just further highlights that excellence in anything isn't as valued any longer as it once was.
I had the privilege and good fortune to see Stevie Ray & Double Trouble perform along with Carlos Santana in upstate New York, Rochester, before we lost him. My brother turned me onto Stevie before the radio stations began playing his music. It was ultimately the best concert I've ever been too. There is no one, and I mean absolutely NO ONE WHO COULD FILL Stevie's shoes, or even come close. He is, by far, my favorite artist. I had everything Stevie Ray had ever recorded included all bootleg. Sadly, it was stolen from me. Nothing could ever replace my collection of the greatest blues guitarist ever! He is, to me, the ultimate blues guitarists/ vocalist of all time. God bless you Stevie for no one could ever fill your shoes. I'm so greatcoat to have had the opportunity to see him live. No one could take that from me. One of your truest fans, Gina Macaulay. I love you brother, rest in peace.
Best blues guitarist ever. Name one other that had more of an impact than him. This guy put blues on the map. And the radio. Everywhere. Miss you Stevie.
This performance put "unplugged" on the map. After Stevie, other artists tried, but nobody ever played as well as he did that night. It was a special night. 35 years was far too little for him to be on this planet. RIP - Heaven has some great musicians.
the only other performance that i think is as good is Alice in chains but its a completely different genre but there is just as much emotion in their performance as there is here
my 12 string watches this when im not at home
Lol Valdemar!
haha
Underrated comment
Mine does as well but never told me - until she read your line :D
After this my 6 guitar strings want make babys, than will be 12. Sry gor bad english
that guitar walked bow legged for the rest of its life
The guitar walked bow legged for the rest of it's life? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Ah shit....... Nobody's gonna top this comment
Ha ha. Gold..
Legend has it the neck of the guitar was actually broken after this because of how hard he played, I'm not even making a joke there's a bit on Wikipedia about it if I remember right
@@lukapejkovic918 Yes you're correct, the guitar in this video was owned by Stevies friend, and Stevies hands were so strong that they actually cracked the neck, which is absolutuely phenomenal. "Used on MTV Unplugged. and probably the same guitar Stevie used in 1985 for a benefit show, during which he played his first public acoustic set. This guitar actually belonged to Stevie's friend and personal assistant Timothy Duckworth. Timothy recalls that Stevie's hands were so strong that he accidently cracked the neck. The Hard Rock asked Stevie if they could have the damaged guitar, and Timothy said okay. I assume it is the one which has been on display at the Dallas Hard Rock Cafe for many years." - www.stevieray.com/gear.htm
😂
After this, I looked at my acoustic like a man who couldn't satisfy his wife.
Hahahaha
SRV cucked us all.
😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏
Hope your acoustic isn't eyeing up your brother
And its a 12 string! Double hurt
we need a rhythm guitar lead guitar and a singer.
Stevie "hold my beer"
While I call Johny Winter for ya
It’s “hold my whiskey”
@@marklarson3003 That’s a funny comment. Even funnier that Stevie would more than likely agree with you lol.
"Hold my cocaine"
GREAT COMMENT.🤠👍🤠👍
It's a fucking joke how good this guy was on guitar.
He was thee best BLUES GUITARIST PLAYER EVER In My World, he jammed on his guitars and how he could sing, my God I've never seen STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN and DOUBLE TROUBLE. What a band STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN WAS THEE BEST BLUES GUITARIST AND SINGER EVER. DOUBLE TROUBLE a GREAT BAND..
Fucking GUITARIST EVER.
Not a joke a very talented GENIUS, A PRODIGY @ more. He made his music and guitar and voice his own style. What a God given talent.
@@peggyconner5643 Damn right !
GOD CREATED STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN FOR THE WORLD TO ENJOY.🔥🤠
To see a blues cat play that well without his strongest weapon the bend. Like seeing Jordan dominate in dress shoes.
Whats a blues cat?
@@redxiii1049 cat is just a term of endearment, another word for person
@@JungleJuiceJoey thanks
@@oinkooink it's what Michael Jordan dominates in
Lol yeah😂😂
Shame MTV isn’t interested in showcasing talent like this and hasn’t been in a long time.
All the talent is gone
NPR Tiny Desk is the closest we have to this now.
Mtv still exists?
@@dvr1337yeah it’s RTV now. Ridiculousness 24/7 lol
8:43 😅
I was lucky enough to get to see him twice! He would mesmerize the whole audience! Rest In Peace, Stevie Ray Vaughan!
He had the smoothest playing style I have ever seen. He made it seem absolutely effortless, like a walk in the park on a sunny day. A true master in every sense of the word.
Chris J and he did it using 12 gauge and 13 gauge strings. Man had hands like a Greek god.
Chris J the guitar was an extension of his body.
@@andywoodin5886 indeed! And it was amazing. One of a kind l must say.
They say it takes a master 10,000 hours to master their craft. Stevie Ray must’ve hit 25,000 or 30,000...
Eric Clapton said that when he heard SRV for the first time. I've just watched Hendrix on accustic guitar, three classes under SRV.
6 months before his death...truly at his prime.
I cried like a baby over the dinner dishes then went to a f'in' meeting that night. I never had the opportunity to see him live in concert ~~ I still cry when I realize the immensity I missed. Never compare as there isn't any comparing of music yet~~ I missed ~~Gary Moore~~ live too~~~~~~
Blessed with live music~~ spoiled is more like it~~ born & raised in SanFrancisco in 60's ~~~~ I still cry at all those I missed experiencing live in concert. MTV & Unplugged was one if the best ideas anyone ever came up with. We need more of this unplugged in the world today. All that electric music came from creation without wires~~~~ it us the m I st awesome thing to be there when songs are being created. The best are simple~ yet~ usually come from ~~~paying your dues~~ ~~~result~~~~ playin' the bad @!$ Blues ~~~~~~
Never ever be a STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN EVER THEE BEST GUITARIST I HAVE EVER SEEN I WAS @ STILL AM HOOKED ON THE BEST. LOVED STEVIE'S JAMMING WITH DOUBLE TROUBLE, HIS SINGING. THEY'LL
NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN NEVER.🤠
I totally agree, got clean and he took off.🤠👍🤠👍🤠👍🤠👍🤠
Thank you for your reply, FOREVER STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN @ DOUBLE TROUBLE.🥰👍🤠
Prime he surelywas and then some. He's an INTERNATIONAL GUTARIST ICON. FOREVER STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN.👍🔥🤠🔥🧡🤠🔥🤠🧡
Legend. He’s on near god status here in Austin, statue and all. I love hearing the stories from all the Austin OGs about going to see Stevie Ray Vaughan for $2-3 dollars downtown and drinking 50cent cold beers. You could go out with $10 bucks and come home with change…
I wish I had experienced that.
🤘best city on earth🤷♂️the little big city.my home.
"...and come home changed forever" fixed that for you
It was really a $7-10 cover, but on Wednesdays all the clubs had nickel, dime or two bit Beusch Beers. LoL! It was alot harder to get that 10-15 bucks back then tho. If you were a kid, (me) you only made $4.25 an hour. It was fun trying to cram 30 people into 4 cars.
Friend went to college in Austin and randomly walked into a bar and saw a 17 year old kid tearing it up. Turned out to Be Stevie!
The people that got to see him are starting to die off. We just keep this man’s legend alive. People 2000 years from now need to know this really happened. That a guy like him really existed
im from argentina and i turned 16 some months ago, i been playing 1 year along and the best thing that i could discover was this man and his songs, its one of the few musicians that has the greatness to enter inside my heart
That's pretty doomer that first sentence lol. Stevie died in 1990... plenty of the people that got to see him are still alive lol
I was stupid and never went too see any of his shows. But in 1988 I drove too the tower show in Philadelphia from Jersey. Last minute decision. I got a 40 and hung out near the side exit doors. I'm glad I waited. Saw some women looking for autographs and he drove out. Didn't say anything but reached and shook his hand. I just remember his eyes most. I just turned 20 a few days before.
I saw him at the inaguration of the Chicago Bles Fest in 1985. After almost 40 years, it is still the best I have ever seen. I will always miss him - there is no other that even comes close.
I’ve been working on and off again on something for Steve for over 15 years now… and I’m finally going to release it as one of the very first few episodes of my series on TH-cam. My intentions are exactly what you said… to let people know how amazing of a human being this guy was.
I didn't know MTV played music.
The "M" stood for "music" back in the day. Now it stands for "muddled."
😂😂😂 not for sometime.
Alas there was a time
Sit down, let me tell u a tale of forgotten lore....lol
Hahahaha.....
Stevie Ray Vaughn played the guitar like nobody else and had a voice that sounded as good live as it did on a track. RIP SRV. You’ll always be my favorite on the guitar.
Ya know what's interesting? He thought he wouldn't have a good voice for the blues. Are you kidding me?!!
The truest thing ive read in a while.
A BEAUTIFUL SOUL FOR STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN.💜🤠🔥👍
The reason his voice sounds the same is because it was before auto tune lol you had to really know how to play
FOREVER STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN MY MAN, HIS SINGING WOW.🤠🤠 FOREVER.
This must be the only time in history when the audience clapping along wasn't completely annoying. Plus they also didn't start totally missing the beat, which also happens a lot.
That shit is annoying AF!
GREAT COMMENT ABOUT STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE BAND AND KEYBOARDIST.🤠🔥🤠
@@The11eleven Are you talking down about STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN @ DOUBLE TROUBLE BAND AND KEYBOARDIST, FUCKING GREAT SONG. WHAT THE HELL YOU TALKING ABOUT?🤠🔥🤠 FOREVER.
Its cause the room is small. A Lot of times when you hear the Audeince clap along and it goes out of sync its cause the sound is taking time to travel to the back of the auditorium so when the claps travel back to the front(where the mics are) it creates a natural delay. So depending on how big the space is the audience literally cannot clap in time. its impossible.
@@darkmikolai Good point! I never thought of that
We NEED to bring MTV Unplugged back. Give talented artists a challenge to prove they are not just artists but performers too.
Except a lot of artists died shortly after doing it.
Day@@elusivelectron
if stevies not playing pride and joy in heaven I don't want to go
For real dude
Put me down for his rendition of "Leave My Girl Alone" in heaven.
Life by the drop for me
Ha!
Riviera Paradise
The strongest and most disciplined fingers to control that 12 string in such a way. And you know he's playing with super heavy gauge strings (he always did). What a hero.
@@TheWoozawoozand where is your video playing a twelve string?
Didnt he play with 13s?
I was 10 when I first saw this ♡
Actually towards the end of his life he switch to lower gauge strings because of bad tendinitis
Fantasic
I’m just here to say, thirty years later, we still love you SRV!
33 years later
@@cindyfitzgerald4500 I posted that comment three years ago
@@anonymous11201 😂😂oh boy what was I thinking oops 😬
Apparently Stevie borrowed this guitar from a friend for the unplugged show. The friend later noticed what Stevie hadn't.... his hands were so strong that he cracked the fucking neck of the guitar LOL - true story look it up. What an animal SRV was. RIP.
It’s true, SRV’s close friend and personal assistant Timothy Duckworth loaned him his Guild JF6512 12-string. He confirmed the neck was cracked in *several* places!
The guitar was acquired or donated, and is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas.
One more piece of trivia: SRV knew his strength. He cracked the neck of “Number One”, his 1963 Fender Strat. They took the neck off his red Strat to replace it.
@@nzmorcr Stevie jammed hard that was hi thing, and he did damn well. DOUBLE TROUBLE had no problem keeping up.with him. Great trio then added the KEYBOARDIST and oh how they jammed.🤠🔥🤠
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN had very strong HANDS that's what's so good about his music.🤠🔥🤠
@@nzmorcr that happened because of an audio equipment fell on number 1 and broke the neck not because of stevie playing it
Back when MTV actually played music.
***** you mean VH1?
+Kris Prutzman Yes. I am pretty shure the clip is from MTV unplugged though...
+Christopher Hitchens It is from MTV if you watch the video they say it's MTV Unplugged. They are owned by the same company. The video was taken from a VH1 broadcast.
Christopher Hitchens theres a vh1 watermark on the screen you guys r dumb
No we were alive and in front of the screen when the MTV Unplugged episode aired in 1990. Google the facts before calling anyone dumb. If VH1 aired it at a later date, that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that this was shot and aired for MTV Unplugged.
12 string. Genius. Thank God this is here for us to see. No one would believe otherwise.
Just thinking about the same.. Out of this world!
T.J. Ash I forget where I heard this from but evidently Stevie borrowed that Guild 12 string from a friend and by the time he was finished playing this show, Stevie had cracked the neck on it. If true, that’s insane how hard he played.
Pretty sure SRV could play any guitar....or shovel or anything with strings for that matter
@@mathematicsiscool1434 He played 13 gauge strings on a guitar built to his specs. Eric Clapton tried SRV's guitar one time and handed it back. He didn't have the hand strength or dexterity to play SRV's guitars. He often broke strings playing and his crew had multiple guitars to switch out. I have read he could go thru 3 guitars a night when performing. He often used baking soda and gorilla glue on his fingers and nails to close wounds or reattach calluses from playing.
Yeah STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN played 12 @13 strings. Never heard him until 2020 he was singng "WITHOUT YOU" brought tears to my eyes. HEARD THAT GUITAR JAMMING I"ve got 100% songs on my telephone. He made me want more, AND more so I'm very much a fan of our TEXAS BLUES ROCKER UNTIL I DIE, FOREVER STEVIE💛=Love🤠= STEVIE.🔥=HOW HOT HE COULD JAM OUT THOSE SONGS ON HIS GUITARS.
The greatest guitar player of all time.
No it's not, SRV is.
hendrix is universely considered the best
SRV may be your faveroute but if we’re talking about best, hendrix is the most influential and inventive and his stuff still is shocking 50 years later SRV is great but he can’t hold a candle to hendrix
@@imisaac398 I couldn't disagree more. I really couldn't.
Zach alright mate i respect your opinion
@@imisaac398 Good to know, feelings mutual.
Stevie, you have no idea how much we want you to return to this earth and bring us some rocking blues!
Man do we miss you :(
I'D PICK STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN TO COME BACK AND JAM 1,000 000X THAN HE DID.🤠🔥🤠
Playing like that on a fkn 12 string acoustic. WOW.
Gibson Blues A fucking 12 string!
+Gibson Blues Am I the only one that wanted to punch that annoying host in the face?
Phlem Phlam It's his damn Pauly Shore voice.
yea crazy. and hitting all those clean notes at the Same time
with that giant ring on his left ring finger... what a monster.
What I find even more impressive about this is the fact that he’s playing a 12 string and still not missing a single note
It's heartwarming hearing the applause for SRV during that insane acoustic session. Back when actual musical talent was appreciated.
It sure in the hell was BEST IN THE WORLD.🤠👍🔥
SO DAMN GREAT GREAT COMMENT ON STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN'S ACCOUSTIC SESSION. THANKS.🤠🔥🤠
I’ve never heard anyone play a 12 string like this. Amazing!
Leo kottke is one to listen too. Not to take anything from SRV
Check out Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Stevie’s guitar playing was so great, people tend to overlook his fantastic singing. RIP
no point talking about his guitar playing. out of this world.
but his voice...
always perfect and so expressive
SO TRUE....amazing, perfect!! the best! Sharing my admiration with a British on the other side of the ocean, with the first Jack Bruce...
Stevie wasn't just fast, he could be very melodic and rhythmical at the same time, while keeping his originality (a kind of "bloody" texan blues) that's why he sounds so good, it's a mix of good stuff...
His hands and fingers are quite strong. Each note really pops. That is very hard to do.
@@raicebannon1936 Those big bends he does at the first fret on a 12 string are just about impossible to pull off, it takes amazing strength.
@@raicebannon1936my great uncle Bunny got to see Stevie in concert back in the day and told my granny, “He has the strongest fingers I’ve ever seen”you’re quite right. Especially here he’s playing a damn 12 string
Dude, he was playing that on a 12 string guitar. Those things are freaking hard to play! He is such a legend man!
The action and string size on his strat made this level of acoustic dexterity possible. He was a beast, yet super smoooooth
Never thought I'd see someone abuse an acoustic guitar like that. This is amazing
That's no abuse, that's called making love to your instrument!
He always said play it like a fucking man! Haha - we miss you Stevie!!
I heard he broke the neck of that guitar from playing it that night
Then you havet seen Tommy Emmanuel...
@WE GRABBED TRUMP BY THE BALLOT hate to break it to you bub, he did.
No one had any idea how hard it is to play this piece on an acoustic guitar...the way Stevie could mute all the string's he want to while all the while letting the strings ring out that he wanted...and to it on a twelve string is almost impossible... I've tried to so it and I couldn't even come close to making sound like this...we all sure miss your genius Stevie....🎸🎸🎸
on folk is so hard
While playing it on a 12 string acoustic, too. I cant even imagine how shredded my finger tips would be after playing this song lol.
@@eldiablo3794that’s a 6 string
@@perijon00 it's a 12 string, dumbass
A lot of it has to do with his strumming hand. As guitarists we often are, rightfully so, focused on what our heroes are doing on the fretboard, but SRV was as skilled an unique with his picking and strumming as with anything going on with the neck.
Truly one of a kind.
I'm most amazed by the fact that the audience was clapping on beat.
It's a smaller room so the sound hit the audience in time enough for them to actually keep time with his time
That's pretty normal for me lol
@@jomama3236I see this on every comment by you. Not necessarily true. They might just be on time
DEAR GOD WHAT A TALENT!!!.. Obviously when you speak of SRV you think of the guitar virtuoso that he was BUT He had The Voice to complement that guitar...Then let's not forget the look the soul and the person he was.. RIP SRV!!!... Brilliant!!!!!
+Steve P Voice???? You mean like Muddy Waters? Albert King?
+Steve P He was even more amazing live, serious shit, loved ever drop of sweat he hit me with, I had to get to the front & center stage, small venue, fanfuckingtastic!!!!
better than Muddy Waters or Albert King? were you his lover? lol!
+Steve P There were a lot of awesome blues guitarists out there, but damn! Texas Blues? I love it!
+Arnold Ehret I would put him above those two. It's a matter of style of course, they're all great.
That's when MTV was good. Good old times.
And when it was about music too, not just teens humping.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
MTV 91=Stevie Ray Vaughn and Joe Satriani
MTV 17=Fetty Wap and Miley Cyrus...
Well music has been sucking for a good while now lol I really don't blame MTV
I remember watching this on MTV.. and I felt bad for the next act it was a three person group who looked scared to death knowing the three of them could not do what he just did. SRV Legend.
i aint ever heard someone make an acoustic sound so good. RIP SRV
I was there that night. SRV and Joe Satriani didn`t want to play together, even MTV tried to arrange it.Different playing styles was the reason they said. I came there to see my idol Joe Satriani live, but i have to admit.....Stevie Ray Vaughan was in another league.
I envy you. That must have been some night.
strange, since Satch is heavily influenced by Blues.... not like SRV, but still....
Was there some kind of beef between them?
@@bigmike2464 : I wouldn't want to play with SRV, either. I'd have to keep stopping to pick my jaw off the ground. Very uncomfortable. Must safer to just listen 'n' watch the man.
You have no idea what idea I'd do to see him live, twelve string or not. I bet this was amazing.
he had to have had the strongest fingers known to man....totally amazing
I have heard stories of Stevie crazy glueing skin from his callous feet to his finger tips.
Some brute strenght indeed. It came from his soul I guess. Just the human body doesn't have that strenght
@Savage Buttsniffer well it was actually 56 - 13s but he always plays it in eb tuning. speaks for its self really
@@daveberswick5372 most
@@YAN-vi1ct Weren't the middle strings thinner, though? I've read a few times that only the E strings were from a set of .13s.
Not even in my wildest dreams could i imagine having SRV's level of talent and skill. Gone too soon.
When I think of the musicians I've admired that died early, Hendrix, Janis, Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Moore - Stevie Ray Vaughn's is the one that hurts the most and gives me the greatest sense of loss. I believe he had so much more to say, musically, I believe we got to hear just a fraction of the talent inside that man. RIP SRV
Even 29 years later, That SRV performance STILL Amazes Me!
Man funny you say 29 years later cuz I'm 29 and watching this for the 1st time. Been grooving to the man for a minute but didnt know he had a unplugged set, nasty
goosebump raising performance, this is why we call him "legend "
This song will take a lifetime to learn and what he played on acoustic would take 2 tifetimes to learn. No bends and just pure love and drive! Stevie is the best gift our generation ever received!!
GaWd damn son. Kill'in it. SRV was not from this planet. He never died, he just went home.
Best comment. SRV ruled.
Yep!
What a talent. What a loss to the world. I usually, and rarely, use the word master with classical musicians but, for me, this man was a musical master
You can still hear that undeniable pure Stevie even unplugged.
Stevie Ray Vaughan stuff on an electic guitar is one thing. Stevie Ray Vaughan on acoustic is another. Stevie Ray Vaughan on a 12 string acoustic is a totally different animal. He was a true American Treasure because not only was he good on electric guitar with three guys backing him up he was just as good with a twelve string acoustic. Rest In Peace dude.
just a comment to appreciate Stevie's voice...his voice was made for blues as Layne Staleys voice was made for grunge...both incredible live
Im a big AIC fan and SRV cool you would bring up the great Layne.
@@josephhornbeck4710 nice to cross paths with you fellow kindred spirit
Definitely appreciate the Layne mention 2 of the best at what they do gone to soon .
Stevie had incredibly strong hands and he was an amazing player.
Saw SRV in 84' in his hometown Dallas, Tx at the Reunion arena. Member that place? He opened get this for the Moody Blues "Nights in white satin" cool right? On the marquee in big, big letters it said Dallas welcomes THE MOODY BLUES. In small little ones it read just like this w/special guest stevie ray vaughn. No capitals, no nothing. Me and my bud I was 16 yrs old. 8th row just to the right of center, we had 3 fat killer doobs. We smoked and we were laughin our asses at anything because we were high and my bud was just a funny looking guy. So he said well "Billy we gotta sit through some clown named Stevie Ray Vaughn then the Moody's come on". I was like yea cool very cool, but,but first Stevie right, with his SRV NO 1 strat came on w/Double Trouble. Probably within maybe 3 minutes that's all it took. We saw the greatest bluesman to ever live. For me and I've seen so many greats live here's my list Santana, Page, Gilmour, Dimeola, Satriana, Lifeson, J. Vaughn, Beck, S. Howe, S. Stills, Eddie Hazel, Ag. Young, R. Trower, Mike Campbell, L. Buckingham, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Healey. Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke, Stanley Jordan, Pat Methany, Jeff Buckley...A few others I can't think of at the moment. SRV easily the greatest guitar player I've ever seen and man that's sayin something.
Thanks for sharing.
Billy Pilgrim i know a musician by the name of Mike Campbell is the one you are talking about from Kansas City?
Given the other people listed, he's probably referring to Tom Petty's lead guitarist.
No UbraFractus is right it's Tom Petty's guitarist.
You're right it was Tom Petty's guitarist I was referring to.
I was lucky enough to see him live 3 times. The last time with Doctor John, John Lee Hooker, Joe Cocker, and BB King. Fantastic jam at the end. 1990 in Los Angeles. HE WAS THE BEST.
You lucky bastard
What a line up
just simply one of a kind, bloody brilliant playing a 12 string like no other blues has been done solo...RIP
0:00-2:50 - Rude Mood
3:04-6:47 - Pride and Joy
6:55-10:10 Testify
i Mean its really hard debate but to be honest every guitarist have his own specialty and Srv was the fastest and for me the best blues player. Jimi is influential and did a lot for the guitar like giving the tools For Srv to be awesome but i think in the end the both of them had different vision in music but i have to say srv i think the fastest shredder but again maybe Jimi didnt live to his full potential
@@lucas123bigman there was only a 2 year gap in their careers, before their respective deaths.
@@lucas123bigman so I wouln't say neither really did.
@@lucas123bigman Listen to SRV doing Little Wing. He plays it better than Hendrix. That's how you know SRV is better. SRV has all the soul of Hendrix, but he is on another level of technical ability.
not testify, fail
damn the helicopter!
29 years from today
@BRUNNO oh okay
Damn the pilot! The other 3 helicopters made it back safely.
free masons set him up, clapton was supposed to be on that heli instead of him
Avena Who allowed the helicopter “pilot”, who’d had 3 accidents already, continue flying...especially at an event like this??
Stevie Ray Vaughan was a giant of singer and player. I think he married the blues, rock and jazz together. Miss him so much!🙏🤗❤️
If this wasnt recorded, I wouldnt believe my ears. Hell I still dont believe my eyes
GREATEST FUCKING COMMENT EVER.🔥👍🤠
Played that 12 string with such ease, still impressive to this day
ghostrid3 TIL THIS DAY!!!!!!
It was a borrowed 12 string and he cracked the neck from playing
it was he and satriani. satriani said after he saw stevie ray he wanted to go home.
sammy reynolds No doubt! How the heck are you supposed to follow that and look impressive!? lol
+Randy Chips Lmao
+Ian Mastrangelo yeah, but satriani is a shredder and srv a blues player, even if shredding is harder, srv is one of the few blues player who can really make a blues be hard to shredding levels.
+aleaallee blues is about the feel, and that's a hard thing to convey
Bob binks but i wasn't speaking about feels
Saying he took the blues to a whole other level is an understatement. Rest In Peace legend
Every time see a new video of that man playing is incredible, watch Texas flood from the Elmacombo
We miss you SRV.
Best quotes I've heard ....
Stevie Ray Vaughan played the guitar like it owed him money...
The guitar needed a cigarette after Stevie was through...
Stevie Ray Vaughan didn't play guitar....he was the guitar..
Stevie made a deal with the devil. Not sure what Stevie got, but the devil got guitar lessons.
Now that is funny
my fave was a quote from clapton himself...
"stevie was an open channel. music flowed through him. even i have to sometimes stop and think about whats coming next. not stevie. with him it was effortless."
John Mayer said Stevie played like “a rage without the anger”
Stevie didn't play music; the music played Stevie. He was the instrument, the channel the music was coming through on. His whole body intensity and groove was how he stayed on the beam.
I sure wish I could have seen this man live, I know there has to be people still alive that watched this !
Yep saw him every night I could. All over Austin. The Rome Inn, Antone's steamboat springs.
I saw him for the first time here in Baltimore in 1983.
I was 17 and bartender friend of mine said, "Go see this guy."
I did.
SRV was seven bells of fucked up, on the bar playing, knocking over drinks...but he wasn't there. His body was physically there, but he was on some other plane...wish I could describe it better.
The sounds I heard coming from his guitar...never heard anything like it since.
Rest in Peace, Stevie.
I am so damn glad that I had the privilege of see this legend live.
And not a single false note in the whole video. This dude was in absolute control of that guitar and every single sound that came out of it. Truly incredible.
I remember seeing a John Mayer interview several years ago, where John said that SRV was untouchable because of his raw energy. Stevie would bring it every single time he touched a guitar. Some guys might get close for maybe a night or two throughout their whole tour, but he was doing it every night. You really can hear the pure talent and energy in every song of his.
And really a great voice...and my favorite part of the video is when he finishes that last song, after nailing like four straight licks in a row, he looks up and grins and I can tell he's like, "well damn that was cool."
7:30
is some amazing finger work.. Just to listen to it blows your mind then to see his fingers fast as lightning. You were one of the worlds premier guitar players RIP/ SRV.
I agree..!
Stevie...you're our pride and joy.
All the MASTERS of the instrument, bow down!
omg i can't breathe....I'd give my liver to have seen him live....
I saw him live right around this time in Manchester N.H. with Joe Cocker and America. Was an incredible show. It was an outdoor show in veterans Park.
***** LUCKY! I was only 6 when he died
Rhiannon Kyle
Yes it was truly an amazing performance.
I wish he was still alive. I'd go to every concert. He was truly amazing and brilliant.
Rhiannon,
You're funny
Wow that first song on a 12 string (Rude Mood) Just unbelievable no words can describe that talent. One of the greatest the world has ever seen. Rest in peace. He died the year I was born.
I didn't know the 12 string could even sound like that. This is an amazing live performance!!
His groove is so tight that when he does any accent it just feels incredible. And he’s accenting all the time. Incredible.
Because he was such a fantastic guitarist, his great, great vocals are too often overlooked. Just gifted all the way around. And, of course, a tragic, heartbreaking loss, especially since he had finally found sobriety and peace.
I always try to point that out to folks as well. Stevie's vocals are so underrated. he was such a great vocalist as well, and a lyracist as well. he was such a complete package, people just overlook everything outside of his guitar playing, which is a shame. I think early on he recorded alot of covers because he lacked the confidence in his own songwriting, but as time went on it was proven he was a fantastic songwriter. his original songs are classics that hold up as well as any of the covers he did. And that voice . Man, he had such a gorgeous tone and he could communicate so much emotion in his voice. I prefer his voice more than Clapton, Hendrix, or any of the Blues greats.
Honestly one of the best guitarists who ever lived
Stevie chitarrista pazzesco, secondo me il migliore sotto l aspetto blues. Inarrivabile!!!
Holy cow, man! Just the best ever.
Kind of eerie that this was filmed roughly seven months before SRV's tragic demise in a helicopter crash; and at the end, the host says, "Stevie's gotta go catch an airplane, he's outta here..."
Yeah I felt the same way.
Creepy! Felt same way
Just how Stevie said "pride and joy" when asked what he was gonna play mAkes me love him that much more.
Not only is cool to see him translate tunes to a 12 string acoustic but it also highlights his ability to sing
He was an amazing guitarist, I could never be as good as him if I lived a 100 life times, musical genius!
SRV best ever and that is past, present,until the end of time
amen to that
AMEN end of story. RIP SRV
Completely Agree!!! God I miss him..just imagine how much more he could have given humanity..both in music and in wisdom..cherish this man.
SRV 1990 and FOREVER mother fuckers!!!!
I get a lot off flack from North Oak Cliff. That's Dallas for you all who don't know. People say it's "ghetto". Grow up! SRV Grew up next to me. Makes me proud
You know you're a legend when the crowd is your metronome
There are many great guitarists but SRV will always be my favorite...
He was the best I ever saw, and it’s not a close one.
Stevie is making that 12 string sing like no one else can 🔥🔥
How did I miss this? Rude mood on a 12 string acoustic? Incredible! I miss SRV!
Saw this back in the day it came out. Bought my first 12 the next day. Traded in my Ibanez and never looked back.
… and he blew satch off the stage.
Wow I hadn't watched this in a while. It's good to remind yourself every once in a while how good he really was and that we were lucky to be alive when he came along. This was the year I graduated high school, so one could see we're all a little spoiled by the execellence of the past. Just further highlights that excellence in anything isn't as valued any longer as it once was.
I had the privilege and good fortune to see Stevie Ray & Double Trouble perform along with Carlos Santana in upstate New York, Rochester, before we lost him. My brother turned me onto Stevie before the radio stations began playing his music. It was ultimately the best concert I've ever been too. There is no one, and I mean absolutely NO ONE WHO COULD FILL Stevie's shoes, or even come close. He is, by far, my favorite artist. I had everything Stevie Ray had ever recorded included all bootleg. Sadly, it was stolen from me. Nothing could ever replace my collection of the greatest blues guitarist ever! He is, to me, the ultimate blues guitarists/ vocalist of all time. God bless you Stevie for no one could ever fill your shoes. I'm so greatcoat to have had the opportunity to see him live. No one could take that from me. One of your truest fans, Gina Macaulay. I love you brother, rest in peace.
30 years later-still get the chills. He was one of a kind.
Master of acoustic and electric guitars ! A Legend !
Cantaba como los dioses y tocando la guitarra era un tornado salvaje. Un blues muy distinto a todos los demas. Desde Argentina.
Well put!
Best blues guitarist ever. Name one other that had more of an impact than him. This guy put blues on the map. And the radio. Everywhere. Miss you Stevie.
🫶
This performance put "unplugged" on the map. After Stevie, other artists tried, but nobody ever played as well as he did that night. It was a special night. 35 years was far too little for him to be on this planet. RIP - Heaven has some great musicians.
Man, I wonder when this was? I saw him live right around this time in Manchester N.H. with Joe Cocker and America. Was an incredible show.
the only other performance that i think is as good is Alice in chains but its a completely different genre but there is just as much emotion in their performance as there is here
Nirvana was better bro
6:24 - SHE'S MA PRIDE AND JOY.... What the voice my friends! Outstanding!
How have I gone my whole life not realizing stevie has an unplugged album