“When I play, I play sort of like talking, you know, syllables, you say a sentence here, a sentence there and then, I’ve to stop and think for something else to keep my conversation going. But his didn’t seem to be that at all. It was fluent, he flowed when he played. He could get something going and it was like a song and it would just go on and on. Ideas continuously flowed, I don’t have that. There is not a lot of people that I hear that have that but Stevie had it.” - BB King
SRV felt the music. His brother Jimmy said SRV never played the same song twice the same way. Always feeling it. To me that is what made him so great. He was born to play the guitar. Thanks for reaction
This is Texas Blues..... I was lucky enough to see SRV live a few times. We were so blessed in Austin in those days when we were still fairly known as the "Live Music Capitol of the World."
I am sitting 20 feet away from the spot on which I learned of Stevie's death. It was the day he died, 27 August 1990, just before I was leaving for my night shift job. I cried.
"Stevie was an endless, open channel that music just poured out of. He made people who'd never touched a guitar in their life want to pick one up and start playing, and he made those of us who'd played live onstage with him before want to quit.".................Eric Clapton.
I listen to Stevie everyday, those blues make me verrry happy. Stevie was also inspired my Django Renault who was a great guitarist in the 1920’s. You have to watch Stevie play Tremolo strumming magnificently, he blows everyone away.
Don't mean to be picky, but it's Reinhardt just in case someone wants to look Django up. I do want to thank you for mentioning Django's influence on SRV. I hope your comment opens musical doors for others.
Thanks so much - this is widely known as one of his most iconic live performances.. the thing that surprises me most about this is that he never broke a string (lol) -- appreciate your reaction!
I've watched dozens of reactions to this performance. I don't play myself so it was good to get your insights into the little things he's doing to create this sound that passed me by before. Plus you didn't get overly technical. Good job!
His guitar was the other band member. SRV I was fortunate enough to see him 2 times. Memorizing. One show w/ Bonnie Rait , one w/ Jeff Beck they did a duo and just jammed for like 10 min and when they paused the audience was totally silent for a few seconds so wrapped up in the performance.
The running joke around my way is that SRV makes people want to learn guitar and makes those who play guitar want to quit. You should check out his song "Mary had a little lamb" live at Austin city limits.
Great reaction! Subscribed for my pal, SRV!❤ Love to watch you check out Stevie’s “Tin Pan Alley” performance with Johnny Copeland. Absolute Blues FIRE!
SRV, used the heaviest gauge strings, that 57 fender would allow. And as you will see in future live perfomances , he manages to break strings. Power Passion Love . ❤
I’ve seen SRV 3 times in NYC and once my girlfriends and me nearly got thrown out of the world famous Radio City Music Hall for trying to dance in the aisles. His opening act at that show was Robert Plant and the Honeydrippers, lol. And I am also a die hard Zeppelin fan.
The Elmo is a legendary bar in Toronto, it's not very big, but many great bands have played there, the Stones and ELO just name a couple, this concert was broadcast live on a local TV station, but I was lucky enough to be there.
You've got the pronunciation right Matt, but regulars referred to it as "The Elmo". Great place for amazing music, although I sadly missed that show 😢 I have a suggestion: How about "LOOK AT LITTLE SISTER" live with SRV and Jeff Healey? Not sure if you've ever seen Jeff's guitar playing.....if not, it's unique. Sad that both are no longer with us. Thank you for your reaction!
Nice Reaction! I saw in the comments on another reaction that SRV makes people who don't play gutar want to play and he makes people who play guitar want to give it up.
I once read a review that said about SVR on this track that SRV did a history lesson blues techniques and then some... I'm sure the touching the head of the neck is a queue to the band the guitar is going behind his back 🙂
I bought the record Texas Flood unknown of who SRV was. It was the album art front cover, and then seeing the GREAT John Hammond sitting there grinning with the Band. I said, you know; This has to be GOOD! A month later in Miami, i saw SRV opening for the 1960's rocker Mitch Ryder. It was one of those Jammy Awards show for local Talent and Bands. There were a few thousand people there, and i'd say 95% had no clue as to who SRV was.....When the band finished there set, there was a 30 minute break. I went to the bar food area, and it was like Bee's buzzing...it was the repeated WTF WAS THAT GUY???? 2 days later i drove up to Cocoa Beach Fl. and at a club called BRASSY'S the band did an almost 2 hour set. It was even more stunning than in Miami, where they did maybe 45 minutes. For the next 4 or 5 years i saw SRV 5 or 6 more times. Then August 27th 1990 happened! I was without a musician to follow, who really grabbed my attention,,,,, UNTIL seeing and hearing DEREK TRUCKS! Between the Derek Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers and the Tedeschi Trucks Band i've had that void filled. Both are innovator's and like the old jazz guys who played for the moment and improvised... playing differently every night...Duane Allman was the same, but had such a short lived career!
watch Stevie do Voodoo Child at Austin City Limits, he changes tone and switches the pickups and turns knobs like 30 times in the first 8 bars. 30x might be conservative estimate.
You actually earned my subscription I want to see how deep you are going into music like SRV couldn't read music didn't know the chords but he was all about the sound and that's my life in a nutshell other than I actually do know the technical things but of course I'm nothing near his level except on the keys have a great journey and I will be watching I'm retired after forty two years in the business just looking for my replacement
Sadly I was at Stevie Ray Vaughn's last concert the night his helicopter crashed after the show at Alpine Valley Wisconsin August 26th 1990. The fog was so bad after the show that we stopped and got a hotel room on the way home. The lineup was SRV, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray Stevie's brother Jimmie and Buddy Guy. It was the best concert and the worst concert of my life. RIP SRV!
@@mattlovesguitar12 Stevie found out the label was stalling on gettin' the guy his bread so Stevie started sending him cheques until he was certain he was getting his royalties
Ok, but I know in my heart, anyone into guitar for 30 years...already knew about SRV, Joe Satriani Jimi Hendrix Jeff Beck etc. And at some point heard either the guitar or a rendition. If you ever need a suggestion or two for great songs most people have never heard lmk.
You owe it to yourself to check out Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healey playing live. Also anything else by Jeff Healey I'd love to hear your take on his guitar playing and his method of playing, a Canadian legend and we all miss him.
SRV and Albert King discovered and promoted Jeff Healy in Canada, where I’m from. They became great friends, Jeff was at Stevie’s last venue and was heartbroken for years 😢
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“When I play, I play sort of like talking, you know, syllables, you say a sentence here, a sentence there and then, I’ve to stop and think for something else to keep my conversation going. But his didn’t seem to be that at all. It was fluent, he flowed when he played. He could get something going and it was like a song and it would just go on and on. Ideas continuously flowed, I don’t have that. There is not a lot of people that I hear that have that but Stevie had it.” - BB King
Stevie could barely speak most of the time, though. I think he was a feral child whose only friend was a guitar.
The G. O. A. T
It's supernatural how he does all that and is still so unbelievably CLEAN. Even the bends
I loved this reaction. Someone that knows,,,watches and comments at the right time.
@@stangsswang8355 facts!
srv’s take on little wing was my most listened to song this year - love love love
SRV felt the music. His brother Jimmy said SRV never played the same song twice the same way. Always feeling it. To me that is what made him so great. He was born to play the guitar. Thanks for reaction
This is Texas Blues..... I was lucky enough to see SRV live a few times. We were so blessed in Austin in those days when we were still fairly known as the "Live Music Capitol of the World."
I am sitting 20 feet away from the spot on which I learned of Stevie's death. It was the day he died, 27 August 1990, just before I was leaving for my night shift job. I cried.
"Stevie was an endless, open channel that music just poured out of. He made people who'd never touched a guitar in their life want to pick one up and start playing, and he made those of us who'd played live onstage with him before want to quit.".................Eric Clapton.
I liked it when you called this "extreme blues." I myself call it "the blues on steroids." At any rate, Stevie was the absolute BEST!!
I listen to Stevie everyday, those blues make me verrry happy.
Stevie was also inspired my Django Renault who was a great guitarist in the 1920’s. You have to watch Stevie play Tremolo strumming magnificently, he blows everyone away.
Don't mean to be picky, but it's Reinhardt just in case someone wants to look Django up.
I do want to thank you for mentioning Django's influence on SRV. I hope your comment opens musical doors for others.
Oops, it was a typo 😎
Stevie had a great Vibrato to his vocals. Opera singers have admired his vocal abilities.
Thanks so much - this is widely known as one of his most iconic live performances.. the thing that surprises me most about this is that he never broke a string (lol) -- appreciate your reaction!
You can definitely watch plenty of "Stevie Ray broke a string" here on TH-cam.
One does not simply listen to SRV, you experience him.
The comment about bending 2 strings was new to me, thanks for catching that Matt.
I've watched dozens of reactions to this performance. I don't play myself so it was good to get your insights into the little things he's doing to create this sound that passed me by before. Plus you didn't get overly technical. Good job!
His guitar was the other band member. SRV I was fortunate enough to see him 2 times. Memorizing. One show w/ Bonnie Rait , one w/ Jeff Beck they did a duo and just jammed for like 10 min and when they paused the audience was totally silent for a few seconds so wrapped up in the performance.
The running joke around my way is that SRV makes people want to learn guitar and makes those who play guitar want to quit. You should check out his song "Mary had a little lamb" live at Austin city limits.
Yes! The 1989 Austin City Limits one. He had been there in 1983 but the 1989 one is superior
Speechless is the correct reaction. That's the greatest sh*t that ever was.
Great reaction! Subscribed for my pal, SRV!❤ Love to watch you check out Stevie’s “Tin Pan Alley” performance with Johnny Copeland. Absolute Blues FIRE!
God only ever made one and that one was SRV......RIP
Nicely done, brother.
SRV, used the heaviest gauge strings, that 57 fender would allow. And as you will see in future live perfomances , he manages to break strings.
Power Passion Love . ❤
He was a peak level musician
the best guitarist ever
The TAB sheet for this would be insane lol
I’ve seen SRV 3 times in NYC and once my girlfriends and me nearly got thrown out of the world famous Radio City Music Hall for trying to dance in the aisles. His opening act at that show was Robert Plant and the Honeydrippers, lol. And I am also a die hard Zeppelin fan.
The Elmo is a legendary bar in Toronto, it's not very big, but many great bands have played there, the Stones and ELO just name a couple, this concert was broadcast live on a local TV station, but I was lucky enough to be there.
“I haven’t seen this yet.
Except for the first minute…
First couple of minutes”.😂😂😂😂
SRV did cover Taxman.
Small trivia.
You've got the pronunciation right Matt, but regulars referred to it as "The Elmo". Great place for amazing music, although I sadly missed that show 😢
I have a suggestion: How about "LOOK AT LITTLE SISTER" live with SRV and Jeff Healey? Not sure if you've ever seen Jeff's guitar playing.....if not, it's unique. Sad that both are no longer with us.
Thank you for your reaction!
I saw Stevie a few days before the crash. So grateful I was able to witness him live.
You are extremely fortunate!
Nice Reaction! I saw in the comments on another reaction that SRV makes people who don't play gutar want to play and he makes people who play guitar want to give it up.
Yes, "Mary had a little lamb" live at Austin City Limits, please.
I once read a review that said about SVR on this track that SRV did a history lesson blues techniques and then some...
I'm sure the touching the head of the neck is a queue to the band the guitar is going behind his back 🙂
Welcome to texas
I bought the record Texas Flood unknown of who SRV was. It was the album art front cover, and then seeing the GREAT John Hammond sitting there grinning with the Band. I said, you know; This has to be GOOD! A month later in Miami, i saw SRV opening for the 1960's rocker Mitch Ryder. It was one of those Jammy Awards show for local Talent and Bands. There were a few thousand people there, and i'd say 95% had no clue as to who SRV was.....When the band finished there set, there was a 30 minute break. I went to the bar food area, and it was like Bee's buzzing...it was the repeated WTF WAS THAT GUY???? 2 days later i drove up to Cocoa Beach Fl. and at a club called BRASSY'S the band did an almost 2 hour set. It was even more stunning than in Miami, where they did maybe 45 minutes. For the next 4 or 5 years i saw SRV 5 or 6 more times. Then August 27th 1990 happened! I was without a musician to follow, who really grabbed my attention,,,,, UNTIL seeing and hearing DEREK TRUCKS! Between the Derek Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers and the Tedeschi Trucks Band i've had that void filled. Both are innovator's and like the old jazz guys who played for the moment and improvised... playing differently every night...Duane Allman was the same, but had such a short lived career!
Listen to ‘Lil Wing’ from the same concert. Will NOT disappoint!!!!! 👍
watch Stevie do Voodoo Child at Austin City Limits, he changes tone and switches the pickups and turns knobs like 30 times in the first 8 bars. 30x might be conservative estimate.
He's surgical.
Make sure it’s the 1989 show!
Abbastootly!! I knew someone would mention it!!!!!!!!!!
you are the first to notice that he tuned one string while playing. he was that good
He timed it to fit in with what he was playing, too.
You actually earned my subscription I want to see how deep you are going into music like SRV couldn't read music didn't know the chords but he was all about the sound and that's my life in a nutshell other than I actually do know the technical things but of course I'm nothing near his level except on the keys have a great journey and I will be watching I'm retired after forty two years in the business just looking for my replacement
Stevie didn't play guitar, he was actually possessed by it and the guitar played him
Sadly I was at Stevie Ray Vaughn's last concert the night his helicopter crashed after the show at Alpine Valley Wisconsin August 26th 1990. The fog was so bad after the show that we stopped and got a hotel room on the way home. The lineup was SRV, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray Stevie's brother Jimmie and Buddy Guy. It was the best concert and the worst concert of my life. RIP SRV!
Love the reaction. Nice to see a guitar player doing this. New sub.
Thanks for the sub!
"Texas Flood" was not written by SRV but by Larry Davis and Joseph Scott. First recorded by Davis in 1958.
Thanks for that info.
@@mattlovesguitar12 Stevie found out the label was stalling on gettin' the guy his bread so Stevie started sending him cheques until he was certain he was getting his royalties
You should hear SRV’s Voodoo Child
Subbed on strength of SRV and potential lesson vids.
Ok, but I know in my heart, anyone into guitar for 30 years...already knew about SRV, Joe Satriani Jimi Hendrix Jeff Beck etc. And at some point heard either the guitar or a rendition. If you ever need a suggestion or two for great songs most people have never heard lmk.
srv didn't play guitar. he made them sing
Try some Gary Moore "The Messiah Will Come Again" Live
You owe it to yourself to check out Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healey playing live. Also anything else by Jeff Healey I'd love to hear your take on his guitar playing and his method of playing, a Canadian legend and we all miss him.
SRV and Albert King discovered and promoted Jeff Healy in Canada, where I’m from.
They became great friends, Jeff was at Stevie’s last venue and was heartbroken for years 😢
SRV and Albert on "In Session" a studio in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Great Footage
i hope i’m half as dope as you are when i’m your age
And keep in mind that SRV used 013 to 060 strings
And he played with the heaviest strings he could find
He used the heaviest gauge strings available.
Those aren't guitar strings... they're elevator cables. He used insanely thick strings (and bent them with ease).
He had extremely strong hands and fingers. He used a lot stronger strings
Don’t forget that he’s playing 12 gauge strings
Welcome to the Rabbit Hole. ❤😂
Loving the rabbit holes!
STEVIE RAY could not read music ..always watch him live
I think he used thicker than normal strings, so he had to have steel fingers to do some of those bends.
And he broke them all the time anyway. He must have had hooves on his fingertips.
and all with ridiculous string gages... 13-56 or something like that 😲
Yet, there wasn’t too many notes.
The Beatles suck bro worst band in history seriously I mean that no clue how they’re famous can’t play can’t sing shocking shit drummer
The Beatles suck bro worst band in history seriously I mean that no clue how they’re famous