Believe this was labeled "Electrified Blues" when the Blues came back to the US with the British invasions of the mid-1960s and into the 1970: Led Zeppelin, Savoy Brown, John Mayall, Eric Clapton (Cream), Stones, and more European musicians who appreciated this style sooner and longer than Americans who didn't know what they were missing in the original form of the Blues.
🤠 Stevie never could read music. He was self-taught and played by ear. Every performance was different and unique, and I believe he's the greatest guitarist who ever lived! 🎸💜👍
My pops never learned to read music either. Started off singing while drumming for his band in the 60s.. after 2 years he decided it would be better to get out front while singing.. so he sat down and taught himself.to play rhythm guitar in 10 days. In just a month he could play guitar on every song in their set.. about 15 songs. Now he can play 10 different instruments.. and has still never learned to read music. All by ear.
It's a lot more interesting to watch him play from these live videos and stuff than it is to hear his songs on the radio. Any time I hear his songs on the radio I've never really got in to him, but when you see the live thing it makes a lot more sense to me the hype around this guy. I do think though that it's sort of that stupid thing that he's bigger/more popular or respected because he died than he ever would have been if he was still around. I really hate that that's a thing, but it is. A dozen other artists come to mind regarding that too, but anyway I digress lol.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 I grew up in Austin during the time Stevie was starting out, met him once and was neighbors with his brother Jimmy, who's a serious blues guitarist in his own. For a long time during Stevie's early career he had a small hardcore group of fans, but many considered him "that Jimi Hendrix wannabe". It's wasn't until he played on David Bowie's Let's Dance album that he was rightfully accepted almost universally in Austin, especially after refusing to tour with Bowie for that album due to Bowie's management reneging on an agreement to have Stevie's band Double Trouble open for them on the tour.
That's not sweat pouring from him, it's soul, pure soul. Stevie couldn't read sheet music, he just played from his heart and soul. Stevie was the GOAT. Period. And I cried like a baby when he was killed some 30 miles from where I lived then. He was the greatest pure guitarist ever, in my opinion. RIP Stevie. Your greatness lives on forever.
I grew up in Austin, TX. When I was in high school, we used to sneak into Antoines Blues Bar and listen to a 19 yr old SRV rip the place up. What a gift he was.....what a childhood!
Didn't grow up there but lived there from 78 to 86.....then again 95-2000. I can't say I can call it home, but every time I go back it sure feels like it. Not as much of fan of Austin today. Not nearly as eclectic but people seem to think it is. The word got out...then Austin sort of ...died. Still a great city though. Just not THAT city. I knew Clifford Antone, and Mark Katz and Tommy Steiner...and others. Some still there today...living...that I won't mention. Spent a lot of drinking time at 12th and Lamar, living in the Clarksville district. I miss those days. Now I have grandkids and shit....lol...worked at ARLUT for many years. Lots of good memories from that place as well. This nation changed, a lot, after 911. Most don't even realize it. Austin changed as well. The shit our government did, taking our privacy and rights away. And here we are.....wondering how it happened. Everyone blaming everyone else. LIttle did I know I was part of the problem. But back in the day...Austin...TEXAS...YA'LL....where the Cowboys and the hippies and eventually the techies...all lived together in peace. The cowboys are gone, the hippies are now 'hipsters' ....and the rest would be too politically incorrect for me to mention, no matter how true it is.
I can't believe you guys don't know about SRV! He's considered one of the greatest if not THE greatest guitarists in history, watch more of his live stuff and I guarantee you'll become fans
You guys should have seen my face when I found out SRV was white. I grew up in the 70's in the American south in the ghetto. I played guitar. I heard SRV on the radio and was blown away. I saved up some money to buy the album. I got to the record store, found the album. I stood there in shock starring at the cover for 10 minutes in disbelief. I had to confirm with the store employees that this was indeed the same SRV I heard on the radio!😂😂😂
Imagining the confused look on your face... 😆😆😆 My first exposure to him was when he released "Little Wing" (one of my favorite songs by many previous artists including J.H.)... STING had just covered it and Stevie's was an instrumental, so I had no preconceptions as to his race, but after hearing it on the radio I immediately called a friend of mine who worked at the record store and told him to bring me a copy. You guessed it... Sold out. If we had only had the internet back then! Happy ending... I found one lone copy the following day at a SHOPKO department store, in the wrong album slot... If anyone out there was hiding that copy and returned later to grab it... SORRY!. 😬🙄
@@Darth.Fluffy Just the thought that someone actually mentioned Tab Benoit here left me in awe. I never get tired of hearing him and his style of real Louisiana blues. More people need to know of him!
I saw Stevie 4 times and every show was totally different, but each just AWESOME. The first time only about 50 people showed up, but after that he gained a huge audience here in the States.
I saw him 4 times also & have to agree, every show was different. He was big by the time I saw him. My favorite all time. Clapton spoke very highly of him in 1991 Rolling Stone interview.
he's giving a clinic about how to play beautifully, freely without boundaries, while still technically playing over a common blues chord progression (dictated by the bass guitar primarily) edit: this is for the blokes, in case they were wondering lmao. i assume many SRV fans are privy to the style
Hey guys. Quick data dump on Stevie. Sadly he died way too young in a helicopter crash after a gig one night. After several years of battling addictions to booze and drugs he was fully clean and sober. He had turned his life back around, and was playing as well as ever. He learned to play by watching his older brother who is a very fine guitarist as well. He had told Stevie never to touch his guitar when he wasn't home, but Stevie would take it out and play it anyway and is basically self taught. Many people in and out of the music biz believe Stevie is the best of all time. Eric Clapton said the first time he heard Stevie he was in his car and SRV was on the radio. Clapton had to pull over and listen for fear he crash his car not being able to concentrate, and thought about going home and smashing his own guitar. A group of bluesmen and other guitarists were doing a show and a reporter asked them (jokingly since they were among the greatest themselves) who was the best. B.B. King spoke up and said well Stevie Ray is amazing and they all agreed. What Mike was saying about this music being unscripted is true. It was said that if you saw Stevie 3 different nights he would play the same song 3 different ways. Sometimes longer or shorter depending on how the crowd was reacting. Check out a live video of him doing Little Sister. Enjoy!!!!
me too...I remember everything about that moment...had to pull over because of the tears. The impact of that man on music wasn't lost on me as a 22 yr old female.
they technically did, because of how heavy his strings were, which were 13 gauged guitar strings, he would actually play so much there would be holes in the tips of his fingers. his solution? he would fill them with baking soda and use super glue to seal everything off.
One of the best blues guys to ever walk. If he had lived, there's no telling how great he'd be now. We'd all love to play like Stevie. I'm only 43 so maybe when I grow up.
A couple of things. Yes, there were “naughty substances” involved. At the time of this performance, SRV was still using a lot of coke and would continue to take shots of whiskey with coke added during the shows. The performances before he got clean and sober were legendary and very intense. I was lucky to see him play many times around Austin back in those days. He was a true prodigious talent, maybe the best intuitive guitar player I’ve ever seen live. He was like a conduit that music flowed through. He was never lost in a song, even during lengthy improvised sections. Never a clunky transition or searching for where to go next. That’s a rare thing. There are people who can compose and perform more impressive music than what SRV did with the blues, but put them in a jam session and see who shines as a true talent and not just a rehearsed guitar hero.
That is the best comment on Stevie that I've seen. I only heard his music in Jan of 2020 and have been a fan since. Did you ever eead Texas Flood a biofraphy from 2019? The ionly person who refused an interview was Jeff Beck, I know they played together but as your connent so beautifully says several guitarists were intimidated by the fact his entire being was a conduit. Even so people like Clapton could be breathless and at the same time admire and love Stevie.
I fortunate enough to see Stevie Ray four times three times in the 80s and then once in 1990, the following tour he toured with Jeff Beck, that's the tour I missed. Right before we lost him.🎸🎶
@@davidmolina3520 much envy! The only bucket list I have was seeing Bob Dylan live at our Southern Illinois University. He was so intoxicated most didn't realize the songs he was singing.🙄 Still crossed off a bucket list.
Saw Bob Dylan in 1975 or 76, on the Desire Album Tour. It was totally awesome! Dylan and his band were on the money, the whole band was a well-oiled machine.
"He's a good guitar player", that's the understatement of the Century, doesn't get ANY better than SRV, was in Austin during the late 80's early 90's, had the absolute pleasure of seeing him, mind blowing.
I'm a music connoisseur. Music is my life and I love all genre's and SRV is by far, no question about it, my favorite all-time across all genre artist. He only had a 7 year career as a known artist when he died, and yet he's regarded as one of the best. And the catalog of music he left us in such a short period is amazing. The only thing more amazing is how Daz can watch this with such a look of being unimpressed by what he's hearing and seeing! I mean aside from the fact he can play like nobody's business, did you not see him playing lights out behind his back WHILE singing? Lol! ;-) I've seen this vid literally hundreds of times and I still get amazed.
Texan here. I can remember in my 20s when I would hit the bars on the weekends. I'd come home afterwards, throw on SRV and have a couple more beers. Dude was a legend.
I have to say that was a rather subdued reaction, you guys. This is considered by more than a few folks---myself included---as perhaps the greatest guitar performance ever captured on film.
Saw him perform at the wellington Town Hall, New Zealand, along with his big brothers and his band the fabulous thunderbirds back in the mid 80's. He was the best as far I'm concerned. Rest in peace stevie.
NOBODY ever did it better. SRV was head and shoulders above all and it was no secret! cool to hear your still listening to Marcus King he's right up at the top these days with Derek Trucks of The Tedeschi Trucks Band. substances you say Stevie had his no doubt and at this stage in life he was out of his mind on blow but got himself clean and sober and was at the top of his game when the end came in the helicopter crash in 1990. RIP SRV.
Love Office Bloke Mike starting to squeeze one eye on the solos. He wanted to be it. Jesus I hope Dazz it at least tapping his foot. Don't be afraid to show the emotion boys. Cheers!
Seen SRV in the 80s on Valentines day in Knoxville Tn. One of the best shows ever had to pick my jaw off the ground several times that night. The mans in class all his own RIP
Stevie Ray the pride of Oak Cliff a suburb of Dallas, Texas. You can drive around and see murals of Stevie Ray on buildings. It’s awesome see that he is remembered for the legend he was.🎸
What an experience it would have been to see SRV at the El Mocambo on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Probably sat at most a couple of hundred people. Venue was upstairs where it could get pretty warm, so Stevie's really sweating it here. Attracted some big names like the Rolling Stones.
I'm glad that you all did this song i got to see him live in 86 and he was definitely my favorite guitarist before he passed.You are missed very much R.I.P. Stevie Ray 👍
Ok, that settles it. I want to be British. As an American, I CANNOT just sit and listen to this song without moving. Don't know how you boys kept it under control.
I wasn't born when he was around or died but I'm from Austin, TX where he pretty much hung his hat, my dad showed me all his music when I was growing up & he is a state legend to this day even has a statue by the lake here.
Late to the party gentelman but wanted to let you if you don't already know yes a few things "chemicals" were involved when he played here but I was blessed to have seen him shortly before he died so he was sober. I have to say seeing him in a small venue he played the same or better sober he was mesmorizing to watch and I was heartbroken when I heard he died I cried knowing that we lost not only the GOAT but a beautiful human being which as you read about him you'll find out...a terrible loss to his family and all that knew him including millions of fans who loved him!!! RIP SRV 🙏 ❤🎸 I'm glad you enjoyed this😊
Im from Dallas, where SRV was born and grew up (Oak Cliff), and I live in Austin now, where he was, up until recently, worshipped as a sort of music deity. Ive always called his style dirty blues, or pervy blues.
He played notoriously heavy guitar strings which just adds to his mystique and skill. Other guitarists are surprised to find out he played 13’s. His manager said his hands were so strong he could actually bend the neck slightly when he got into it. Very cool, humble guy. It was one of those horrible moments when we found out that he had died. I was having an unusually great day until that news hit me. I just wanted to get my workday over, go home, get drunk and listen to STEVIE RAY the rest of the night. That’s exactly what happened. Here in San Antonio, the local radio rock DJ played nothing but him for the rest of the night. I’ll never forget that day. Sorry to be a bummer but my mind went there just now. It’s better to celebrate the the music and legacy he so strongly worked to achieve. One of a kind, that guy. A TEXAS son.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was just like you Dave... started out loving heavy metal in middle school (thanks to my big brother) but by my junior year in high school, I found myself heavy into blues exploring different regions and eras. Love watching y'all enjoy the ride.
I SEEN HIM 5 TIMES DURING HIS LAST FEW YEARS .. WHEN EVER HE CAME TO NEW ENGLAND WE WOULD FIND A WAY TO SEE GET TICKETS AND SEE HIM.... BEST SHOW WAS AN OLD MOVIE THEATER 2ND ROW CENTER STAGE.. HE BROKE A STRING PLAYING LITTLE WING AND THE RODIE WAS THEIR HOLDING ANOTHER GUITAR FOR HIM SO FAST HE GRABBED IT AND KEPT ON PLAYING WHILE THE RODIE TOOK CARE OF THE REST NEVER MISSED A NOTE.. TRUELY AMAZING , AND WAS, STILL IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER..AND MY PERSONAL NUMBER 1 ON MY LIST
There are no posers in the Blues! Grew up with the greatest Rock and Rock/Blues artists ever but the Blues brings something intangible to a song. SRV has so much soul and his tone is unmistakable! I can't believe you guys are not familiar with his work! He's the Blues GOAT at the late 20th century.
I only made it to the El Mocambo once right before it closed in the late 80s. It had a vide to it that you don't find anymore. The Gasworks was similar before it closed a few years later (the re-opened Gasworks was a shadow of its former self and the El Mo was a dance club last time I was in T.O.).
One thing none of the many of reaction video hosts I have seen never comment on is that this is just ONE song out of an entire concert! He played with this level of skill and endurance on every song! Just think how totally wiped he was after each concert!!!
Wow. I've never before seen a TH-cam reactor not even blink the first time they saw Stevie Ray whip the guitar to behind his back and keep playing like a madman. And we got no reaction from any of the 3! Possibly a slight smile from behind his hand from one, but if you didn't have the SRV vid feed you'd never know when they saw the switch. Maybe if Stevie Ray was jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing behind his back? What does it take to impress these guys?
Okay, look up Stevie Ray Vaughn "Soundcheck" just woke up, half asleep, smoking a cigarette. Picks up a guitar cold and proceeds to shred for 18+ minutes a performance that done by anyone else would have them pumped up screaming " that was my best set ever!!" But Stevie- "I was just warming up....."
If you dont know SRV, you've been missing a LEGEND. A GENIUS. He was EPIC. BRILLIANT. "THE" Master Class. We lost an American ICON, a HERO when we lost him. The Music World has never been... & will never be... the same. 🙏 💔 🇺🇲 ✌
First time I heard Stevie on the radio, I was blown away. Picked up the album (cassette) Texas flood the next day but my Sony Walkman was broken. Sat in my brothers new car listening over & over again for hours until he found out what I was doing & yanked me out. He forgave me a few days later after he himself heard Stevie for the first time.
Not to worry about the Theory lessons. Stevie Ray famously talked about the fact that he couldn't read music at all, and when he thought about the 'rules' too much it messed him up. This is pure self taught brilliance.
SRV is a legend, but look up Jimmy Vaughn and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, his brother is another legend of blues. Both in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Stevie was with no doubt the GOAT! I cannot believe that none of you were totally blown away especially when he threw the guitar behind his back and played with the exact same mind-blowing skill as he did with it in front? Really? do any of you have any idea just how hard that is and not only that, but he had his strings higher off the pickup than normal and that makes it so much harder to play physically and technically. He was truly the Greatest Of All Time and it kind of shows that none of you have any idea what a GREAT Guitarist is!!!
The blues speaks to us because we all secretly want to be that mysterious quiet brooding guy drinking alone in a dark corner of the bar, looks like he's been through it and hard as nails... The "He's got stories but I doubt you wanna hear 'em..." kinda dude...
his unique sound came from the fact that he played with the thickest strings you can find and was probably the only one who could man handle his guitar...the rest of us would have shredded our bloody fingers trying to play it ..look at the size of his hands and his talent was out of this world
There is a great interview on You Tube with Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton of Double Trouble about Stevie. He never planned a certain time when he'd do the behind the back or whatever and he didn't do it at every show. They didn't even had a set list of songs they would play. There is no one better on the guitar. Loved the reaction.
I saw him live at Evansville Indiana, a young metal head has his musical direction spun, he opened doors. SRV was killed in a terrible helicopter accident at Alpine Valley, Troy Wisconsin after a show there. In 92 I went to see the Grateful Dead at Deer Creek 🦌 NE of Indianapolis and they blew the doors down, my musical interests expanded along with my mind lol. SRV was a killer show, he'd just gotten clean, was working 12 steps during the show...the roads a monster, he blew me away. Please do Billy Strings, not Dust In A Baggie though, everyone does that. John Prine, wsg Iris Dement In Spite of Ourselves, he was stolen from us by COVID19 so fucking sad. He was an outspoken Veteran, anti war and wrote beautiful music that spoke to you, made ya laugh, think and smile. Made me cry, shocked me but this crap has been ...you all know.
I don't know who might have covered this, but I doubt they could do it justice. I used to live in Austin, and probably saw him live about a dozen times. A Texas legend.
This is Pure Texas Blues, boys.
SRV is a legend.
Absolutely, he was a genius!!
Makes me feel like going to Continental in Austin and jamming out.
Blokes trying to understand Texas.
Believe this was labeled "Electrified Blues" when the Blues came back to the US with the British invasions of the mid-1960s and into the 1970: Led Zeppelin, Savoy Brown, John Mayall, Eric Clapton (Cream), Stones, and more European musicians who appreciated this style sooner and longer than Americans who didn't know what they were missing in the original form of the Blues.
🤠 Stevie never could read music. He was self-taught and played by ear. Every performance was different and unique, and I believe he's the greatest guitarist who ever lived! 🎸💜👍
Neither could the Beatles.
Just like Hendrix. A true musician
SRV 🐐
My pops never learned to read music either. Started off singing while drumming for his band in the 60s.. after 2 years he decided it would be better to get out front while singing.. so he sat down and taught himself.to play rhythm guitar in 10 days. In just a month he could play guitar on every song in their set.. about 15 songs. Now he can play 10 different instruments.. and has still never learned to read music. All by ear.
@@betsyduane3461 the beatles?..what in the hell are u trying to say???
I'm a straight up metalhead, but I can always jam this guy. Best guitarist in the world to me.
It's a lot more interesting to watch him play from these live videos and stuff than it is to hear his songs on the radio. Any time I hear his songs on the radio I've never really got in to him, but when you see the live thing it makes a lot more sense to me the hype around this guy. I do think though that it's sort of that stupid thing that he's bigger/more popular or respected because he died than he ever would have been if he was still around. I really hate that that's a thing, but it is. A dozen other artists come to mind regarding that too, but anyway I digress lol.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 💩👎
@@djjazzyjeff1232 I grew up in Austin during the time Stevie was starting out, met him once and was neighbors with his brother Jimmy, who's a serious blues guitarist in his own. For a long time during Stevie's early career he had a small hardcore group of fans, but many considered him "that Jimi Hendrix wannabe". It's wasn't until he played on David Bowie's Let's Dance album that he was rightfully accepted almost universally in Austin, especially after refusing to tour with Bowie for that album due to Bowie's management reneging on an agreement to have Stevie's band Double Trouble open for them on the tour.
Same here. My dad always made me watch his videos when I was a kid. Good guitar playing like this, probably made me respect the shredders of metal.
His tone is harsh af, I love it. Right down in the dirty.
This is what it looks like when someone is doing what he was born to do. RIP Stevie.
That's not sweat pouring from him, it's soul, pure soul. Stevie couldn't read sheet music, he just played from his heart and soul. Stevie was the GOAT. Period. And I cried like a baby when he was killed some 30 miles from where I lived then. He was the greatest pure guitarist ever, in my opinion. RIP Stevie. Your greatness lives on forever.
I grew up in Austin, TX. When I was in high school, we used to sneak into Antoines Blues Bar and listen to a 19 yr old SRV rip the place up. What a gift he was.....what a childhood!
Hold those memories close, you are so lucky.
If you grew up in Austin you should know how to spell Antone's. ;)
Didn't grow up there but lived there from 78 to 86.....then again 95-2000. I can't say I can call it home, but every time I go back it sure feels like it. Not as much of fan of Austin today. Not nearly as eclectic but people seem to think it is. The word got out...then Austin sort of ...died. Still a great city though. Just not THAT city. I knew Clifford Antone, and Mark Katz and Tommy Steiner...and others. Some still there today...living...that I won't mention. Spent a lot of drinking time at 12th and Lamar, living in the Clarksville district. I miss those days. Now I have grandkids and shit....lol...worked at ARLUT for many years. Lots of good memories from that place as well. This nation changed, a lot, after 911. Most don't even realize it. Austin changed as well. The shit our government did, taking our privacy and rights away. And here we are.....wondering how it happened. Everyone blaming everyone else. LIttle did I know I was part of the problem. But back in the day...Austin...TEXAS...YA'LL....where the Cowboys and the hippies and eventually the techies...all lived together in peace. The cowboys are gone, the hippies are now 'hipsters' ....and the rest would be too politically incorrect for me to mention, no matter how true it is.
@@satexman2585 so true! The city isn't what it used to be....
Damn lucky u!
I can't believe you guys don't know about SRV! He's considered one of the greatest if not THE greatest guitarists in history, watch more of his live stuff and I guarantee you'll become fans
Tons of things to know about in this world you don't know about. Not surprised at all
@@Frankincensedjb123 I'm surprised because they're big music fans and Stevie is well known...odd comment
I agree with the office blokes...can't name one song with this guy.
@@davidcooley275 wow, and you're pretty old, amazing
Lol... some reactions!
Zzzzzzzz
His performance at El Mocambo is one of the best live performances I've heard.
Goat.........Period. Life long Player here. Goat. Watch that Whole show. Amazing. RIP Stevie.
You guys should have seen my face when I found out SRV was white. I grew up in the 70's in the American south in the ghetto. I played guitar. I heard SRV on the radio and was blown away. I saved up some money to buy the album. I got to the record store, found the album. I stood there in shock starring at the cover for 10 minutes in disbelief. I had to confirm with the store employees that this was indeed the same SRV I heard on the radio!😂😂😂
Lol... I had the same reaction to Tab Benoit.
Imagining the confused look on your face... 😆😆😆
My first exposure to him was when he released "Little Wing" (one of my favorite songs by many previous artists including J.H.)... STING had just covered it and Stevie's was an instrumental, so I had no preconceptions as to his race, but after hearing it on the radio I immediately called a friend of mine who worked at the record store and told him to bring me a copy. You guessed it... Sold out. If we had only had the internet back then!
Happy ending... I found one lone copy the following day at a SHOPKO department store, in the wrong album slot... If anyone out there was hiding that copy and returned later to grab it... SORRY!. 😬🙄
@@Darth.Fluffy Just the thought that someone actually mentioned Tab Benoit here left me in awe. I never get tired of hearing him and his style of real Louisiana blues. More people need to know of him!
Best story I've read in a while.....hilarious!!!
@@DaisyMae0929 . Actually, Is there anyone else bearing the Blues torch for this generation? Tab is it.
I saw Stevie 4 times and every show was totally different, but each just AWESOME. The first time only about 50 people showed up, but after that he gained a huge audience here in the States.
I saw him 4 times also & have to agree, every show was different. He was big by the time I saw him. My favorite all time. Clapton spoke very highly of him in 1991 Rolling Stone interview.
Had the chance to see him at Antonio's in Austin. Didn't have the money. Thank God for the invention of video tapes and Austin City Limits.
he's giving a clinic about how to play beautifully, freely without boundaries, while still technically playing over a common blues chord progression (dictated by the bass guitar primarily)
edit: this is for the blokes, in case they were wondering lmao. i assume many SRV fans are privy to the style
Love SRV. Thank you for the reaction!
In short, improv.
He makes my top 5 of entertainers I never saw and regret. So damn good.
Hey guys. Quick data dump on Stevie. Sadly he died way too young in a helicopter crash after a gig one night. After several years of battling addictions to booze and drugs he was fully clean and sober. He had turned his life back around, and was playing as well as ever. He learned to play by watching his older brother who is a very fine guitarist as well. He had told Stevie never to touch his guitar when he wasn't home, but Stevie would take it out and play it anyway and is basically self taught. Many people in and out of the music biz believe Stevie is the best of all time. Eric Clapton said the first time he heard Stevie he was in his car and SRV was on the radio. Clapton had to pull over and listen for fear he crash his car not being able to concentrate, and thought about going home and smashing his own guitar. A group of bluesmen and other guitarists were doing a show and a reporter asked them (jokingly since they were among the greatest themselves) who was the best. B.B. King spoke up and said well Stevie Ray is amazing and they all agreed. What Mike was saying about this music being unscripted is true. It was said that if you saw Stevie 3 different nights he would play the same song 3 different ways. Sometimes longer or shorter depending on how the crowd was reacting. Check out a live video of him doing Little Sister. Enjoy!!!!
SRV is the only celebrity that caused me to shed a tear when he died.
me too...I remember everything about that moment...had to pull over because of the tears. The impact of that man on music wasn't lost on me as a 22 yr old female.
For me, his death isn’t the only one who made me cry... but he is in very select company to get that reaction from me.
I didn't cry but the only 1 I felt a loss from was Chris Cornell
what about Eddie?
Stevie Ray and Waylon Jennings for me. 😥
Almost 31 years since we lost Stevie... RIP
Scuttle buttin' has one of the most insane riffs he's ever played. Like I don't know how his fingers didn't fall off.
Sometimes they did. Stevie just glued them back on. (True story).
they technically did, because of how heavy his strings were, which were 13 gauged guitar strings, he would actually play so much there would be holes in the tips of his fingers. his solution? he would fill them with baking soda and use super glue to seal everything off.
One of the best blues guys to ever walk. If he had lived, there's no telling how great he'd be now. We'd all love to play like Stevie. I'm only 43 so maybe when I grow up.
BB King said SRV was the best blues guitarist he'd ever known
@@azizmooshoolov8922 If anyone would know, it's BB.
Nobody in the entire world could play with the intensity of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
A couple of things. Yes, there were “naughty substances” involved. At the time of this performance, SRV was still using a lot of coke and would continue to take shots of whiskey with coke added during the shows. The performances before he got clean and sober were legendary and very intense. I was lucky to see him play many times around Austin back in those days. He was a true prodigious talent, maybe the best intuitive guitar player I’ve ever seen live. He was like a conduit that music flowed through. He was never lost in a song, even during lengthy improvised sections. Never a clunky transition or searching for where to go next. That’s a rare thing. There are people who can compose and perform more impressive music than what SRV did with the blues, but put them in a jam session and see who shines as a true talent and not just a rehearsed guitar hero.
That is the best comment on Stevie that I've seen. I only heard his music in Jan of 2020 and have been a fan since. Did you ever eead Texas Flood a biofraphy from 2019? The ionly person who refused an interview was Jeff Beck, I know they played together but as your connent so beautifully says several guitarists were intimidated by the fact his entire being was a conduit. Even so people like Clapton could be breathless and at the same time admire and love Stevie.
Intelligent comment. I see your point. Well put
Well said, Pablo. ☮️
Marcus King was Stevie Ray Vaughan's mentor, they became best friends had toured all over the states in and Europe.
Stevie Ray The Sky Is Crying. There's just something about the blues and he was brilliant.
Yeah but Texas blues is so much better than Chicago blues. Just sayin.
I fortunate enough to see Stevie Ray four times three times in the 80s and then once in 1990, the following tour he toured with Jeff Beck, that's the tour I missed. Right before we lost him.🎸🎶
@@davidmolina3520 much envy! The only bucket list I have was seeing Bob Dylan live at our Southern Illinois University. He was so intoxicated most didn't realize the songs he was singing.🙄 Still crossed off a bucket list.
Saw Bob Dylan in 1975 or 76, on the Desire Album Tour. It was totally awesome! Dylan and his band were on the money, the whole band was a well-oiled machine.
@@davidmolina3520 you lost Jeff Beck?! Did he ever turn up?
As a Texan I can tell you that SRV is Texas royalty.
He's a good guitar player. Understatement of forever!!
"I'd love to play guitar like that." No one will ever play guitar like that in my life time.
"He's a good guitar player", that's the understatement of the Century, doesn't get ANY better than SRV, was in Austin during the late 80's early 90's, had the absolute pleasure of seeing him, mind blowing.
I'm a music connoisseur. Music is my life and I love all genre's and SRV is by far, no question about it, my favorite all-time across all genre artist. He only had a 7 year career as a known artist when he died, and yet he's regarded as one of the best. And the catalog of music he left us in such a short period is amazing. The only thing more amazing is how Daz can watch this with such a look of being unimpressed by what he's hearing and seeing! I mean aside from the fact he can play like nobody's business, did you not see him playing lights out behind his back WHILE singing? Lol! ;-) I've seen this vid literally hundreds of times and I still get amazed.
Daz checked out when he saw the song length lol
For me, all 3 looked dead and unimpressed. They knew they'd be hammered if they didn't say they were impressed. Just my opinion.
its similar to hendrix who only had a short 4 year known fame and turned electric guitar on its head and is still revered today as a legend and master
Some people have no soul. If you dont get this I feel sad for you.
I think there’s some Disney songs they might like, say something from Little Mermaid. If you can’t appreciate this, skip it. SRV is a legend.
There would be no metal or rock without the blues. Most rockers/metalheads are huge blues fans.
The epitome of understatement at 4:50: "He's a good guitar player."
Texan here. I can remember in my 20s when I would hit the bars on the weekends. I'd come home afterwards, throw on SRV and have a couple more beers. Dude was a legend.
Dallas tx Born lived in Austin tx RIP SRV the best the guitarist ever
I have to say that was a rather subdued reaction, you guys. This is considered by more than a few folks---myself included---as perhaps the greatest guitar performance ever captured on film.
SRV “Coldshot” and “Tightrope”. You’re welcome
Saw him perform at the wellington Town Hall, New Zealand, along with his big brothers and his band the fabulous thunderbirds back in the mid 80's. He was the best as far I'm concerned. Rest in peace stevie.
These guys display the full range of human emotions from A to B.
I was actually acquainted with him in our early, early years (shows my age). Can't say enough about his awesome talent. Dallas loves our Stevie!!
Saying, "He's a good guitar player." is like saying, "Fred Astaire could dance a little."
It amazes me not only that Stevie could play behind his back, but doing that and NEVER hitting a bum note is unbelievable to me.
NOBODY ever did it better. SRV was head and shoulders above all and it was no secret!
cool to hear your still listening to Marcus King he's right up at the top these days with Derek Trucks of The Tedeschi Trucks Band.
substances you say Stevie had his no doubt and at this stage in life he was out of his mind on blow but got himself clean and sober
and was at the top of his game when the end came in the helicopter crash in 1990. RIP SRV.
You have just watched, quite possibly, the greatest guitar player to ever live!
Love Office Bloke Mike starting to squeeze one eye on the solos. He wanted to be it. Jesus I hope Dazz it at least tapping his foot. Don't be afraid to show the emotion boys. Cheers!
Seen SRV in the 80s on Valentines day in Knoxville Tn. One of the best shows ever had to pick my jaw off the ground several times that night. The mans in class all his own RIP
Awesome reaction guys. Stevie ray vaughn life without you live at the Capitol theater 1985 is awesome you guys will love it.
Welcome gentlemen. I last saw this man live over thirty years ago and there hasn't been anyone close to being as good.
Stevie Ray the pride of Oak Cliff a suburb of Dallas, Texas. You can drive around and see murals of Stevie Ray on buildings. It’s awesome see that he is remembered for the legend he was.🎸
What an experience it would have been to see SRV at the El Mocambo on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Probably sat at most a couple of hundred people. Venue was upstairs where it could get pretty warm, so Stevie's really sweating it here. Attracted some big names like the Rolling Stones.
I'm glad that you all did this song i got to see him live in 86 and he was definitely my favorite guitarist before he passed.You are missed very much R.I.P. Stevie Ray 👍
Ok, that settles it. I want to be British. As an American, I CANNOT just sit and listen to this song without moving. Don't know how you boys kept it under control.
And zero reaction to when he put it behind his back!!!??? WTH lol
@@thedaddork I didn't even see them blink an eye !!
I wasn't born when he was around or died but I'm from Austin, TX where he pretty much hung his hat, my dad showed me all his music when I was growing up & he is a state legend to this day even has a statue by the lake here.
Stevie Ray is one of a very few guitarists that I would call a master.
SRV's music 🎶 is timeless
Thankfully I got to see him play. Incredible!!! Never going to forget it. No one else could possibly replace him.
SRV covered Little Wing. Yes SRV does Hendrix!
SRV's Little Wing at El Mocambo is one of my favorite videos ever
The only person who ever did justice to Hendrix as covers in my opinion
Also Voodoo Child.
I'm Eric S not you pal and of course he does he's famous for his rendition of voodoo child
@@erics8018 I never claimed to be you. WTF is your problem?
Stoneface while SRV puts the guitar behind his back and melts the stage. I thought this was reaction, wtf?
you absolutely have to react to his cover of voodoo Child by Hendrix!!
I'm always impressed by the great guitarists, but none of them make my jaw drop the way live Stevie Ray does.
Late to the party gentelman but wanted to let you if you don't already know yes a few things "chemicals" were involved when he played here but I was blessed to have seen him shortly before he died so he was sober. I have to say seeing him in a small venue he played the same or better sober he was mesmorizing to watch and I was heartbroken when I heard he died I cried knowing that we lost not only the GOAT but a beautiful human being which as you read about him you'll find out...a terrible loss to his family and all that knew him including millions of fans who loved him!!! RIP SRV 🙏 ❤🎸 I'm glad you enjoyed this😊
actually life troll, he was sober = a whole paragraph of bs ..
He played the guitar on David Bowie's Dance. Stevie Ray Vaughn style of music is called Texas Blues.
Oh SRV a fellow Texan who rocked the world with his guitar playing .
Im from Dallas, where SRV was born and grew up (Oak Cliff), and I live in Austin now, where he was, up until recently, worshipped as a sort of music deity. Ive always called his style dirty blues, or pervy blues.
He played notoriously heavy guitar strings which just adds to his mystique and skill. Other guitarists are surprised to find out he played 13’s. His manager said his hands were so strong he could actually bend the neck slightly when he got into it. Very cool, humble guy. It was one of those horrible moments when we found out that he had died. I was having an unusually great day until that news hit me. I just wanted to get my workday over, go home, get drunk and listen to STEVIE RAY the rest of the night. That’s exactly what happened. Here in San Antonio, the local radio rock DJ played nothing but him for the rest of the night. I’ll never forget that day. Sorry to be a bummer but my mind went there just now. It’s better to celebrate the the music and legacy he so strongly worked to achieve. One of a kind, that guy. A TEXAS son.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was just like you Dave... started out loving heavy metal in middle school (thanks to my big brother) but by my junior year in high school, I found myself heavy into blues exploring different regions and eras. Love watching y'all enjoy the ride.
I was fortunate enough to have seen them live 3 times, definitely the GOAT as far as I'm concerned.
I SEEN HIM 5 TIMES DURING HIS LAST FEW YEARS .. WHEN EVER HE CAME TO NEW ENGLAND WE WOULD FIND A WAY TO SEE GET TICKETS AND SEE HIM.... BEST SHOW WAS AN OLD MOVIE THEATER 2ND ROW CENTER STAGE.. HE BROKE A STRING PLAYING LITTLE WING AND THE RODIE WAS THEIR HOLDING ANOTHER GUITAR FOR HIM SO FAST HE GRABBED IT AND KEPT ON PLAYING WHILE THE RODIE TOOK CARE OF THE REST NEVER MISSED A NOTE.. TRUELY AMAZING , AND WAS, STILL IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER..AND MY PERSONAL NUMBER 1 ON MY LIST
Stevie is and will always be the GOAT! He is the one person who has passed away that I would love to see.
SRV is brilliant. Total GOAT. I love his music.
Such a RIDICULOUSLY talented musician and such a shame he died so tragically and so young only 35 years old 2 years younger than I am now
Also gotta listen to "Little Wing" or "Pride and Joy" by SRV.
I'm so glad Office Blokes finally got to react to this! Amazing song, amazing guitar player!
There's nothing like a delta blues for your soul man just reaches in and grabs you and you can't get it out
Yea! First for once! SRV is the GOAT...and so are the blokes!
Mann I’ve drank a lot a beer through the years listening to SRV , good for y’all enjoy. Texas here.
There are no posers in the Blues! Grew up with the greatest Rock and Rock/Blues artists ever but the Blues brings something intangible to a song. SRV has so much soul and his tone is unmistakable! I can't believe you guys are not familiar with his work! He's the Blues GOAT at the late 20th century.
I only made it to the El Mocambo once right before it closed in the late 80s. It had a vide to it that you don't find anymore. The Gasworks was similar before it closed a few years later (the re-opened Gasworks was a shadow of its former self and the El Mo was a dance club last time I was in T.O.).
Finally. The best guitarist ever.....yes. Eddie V said it. I agree. I have been waiting a year for you to do Texas flood. Thank you fellas
One thing none of the many of reaction video hosts I have seen never comment on is that this is just ONE song out of an entire concert! He played with this level of skill and endurance on every song! Just think how totally wiped he was after each concert!!!
SRV ‘s guitar was his third arm. He felt his way thru music. No thinking just playing. He never checked his fingers. Eyes closed all the way through
I have that same guitar strap. Stevie Ray Vaughn is one of my biggest guitar idols
Wow. I've never before seen a TH-cam reactor not even blink the first time they saw Stevie Ray whip the guitar to behind his back and keep playing like a madman. And we got no reaction from any of the 3! Possibly a slight smile from behind his hand from one, but if you didn't have the SRV vid feed you'd never know when they saw the switch. Maybe if Stevie Ray was jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing behind his back? What does it take to impress these guys?
Okay, look up Stevie Ray Vaughn "Soundcheck" just woke up, half asleep, smoking a cigarette. Picks up a guitar cold and proceeds to shred for 18+ minutes a performance that done by anyone else would have them pumped up screaming " that was my best set ever!!" But Stevie- "I was just warming up....."
If you dont know SRV, you've been missing a LEGEND. A GENIUS. He was EPIC. BRILLIANT. "THE" Master Class. We lost an American ICON, a HERO when we lost him. The Music World has never been... & will never be... the same.
🙏 💔 🇺🇲 ✌
First time I heard Stevie on the radio, I was blown away. Picked up the album (cassette) Texas flood the next day but my Sony Walkman was broken. Sat in my brothers new car listening over & over again for hours until he found out what I was doing & yanked me out. He forgave me a few days later after he himself heard Stevie for the first time.
Not to worry about the Theory lessons. Stevie Ray famously talked about the fact that he couldn't read music at all, and when he thought about the 'rules' too much it messed him up. This is pure self taught brilliance.
I believe this was recorded before Stevie got sober, so he was probably drunk and/or on cocaine, yet still played like this!
SRV is a legend, but look up Jimmy Vaughn and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, his brother is another legend of blues. Both in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Did anyone else yell at their computer, "Hey... he's playing behind his back!" You know trying to get a reaction to that from these blokes?
Stevie was with no doubt the GOAT! I cannot believe that none of you were totally blown away especially when he threw the guitar behind his back and played with the exact same mind-blowing skill as he did with it in front? Really? do any of you have any idea just how hard that is and not only that, but he had his strings higher off the pickup than normal and that makes it so much harder to play physically and technically. He was truly the Greatest Of All Time and it kind of shows that none of you have any idea what a GREAT Guitarist is!!!
Voodoo Child live from Austin City Limits Fffnnn amazing
The blues speaks to us because we all secretly want to be that mysterious quiet brooding guy drinking alone in a dark corner of the bar, looks like he's been through it and hard as nails... The "He's got stories but I doubt you wanna hear 'em..." kinda dude...
Obviously major influence HENDRIX. STEVIE is the man! I saw him once in Austin. It was a hellava once!
his unique sound came from the fact that he played with the thickest strings you can find and was probably the only one who could man handle his guitar...the rest of us would have shredded our bloody fingers trying to play it ..look at the size of his hands and his talent was out of this world
There is a great interview on You Tube with Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton of Double Trouble about Stevie. He never planned a certain time when he'd do the behind the back or whatever and he didn't do it at every show. They didn't even had a set list of songs they would play. There is no one better on the guitar. Loved the reaction.
Stevie Ray is the blues!!!!
Texas Legend
RIP Stevie Ray. He died in a helicopter crash on August 27th 1990 for those who are new to his music. Very much loved by his fans....
Alpine valley Wisconsin remember the day
You have to do Norm McDonald 12 minute joke.. hilarious
The aristocrats?
I saw him live at Evansville Indiana, a young metal head has his musical direction spun, he opened doors.
SRV was killed in a terrible helicopter accident at Alpine Valley, Troy Wisconsin after a show there. In 92 I went to see the Grateful Dead at Deer Creek 🦌 NE of Indianapolis and they blew the doors down, my musical interests expanded along with my mind lol.
SRV was a killer show, he'd just gotten clean, was working 12 steps during the show...the roads a monster, he blew me away.
Please do Billy Strings, not Dust In A Baggie though, everyone does that.
John Prine, wsg Iris Dement In Spite of Ourselves, he was stolen from us by COVID19 so fucking sad. He was an outspoken Veteran, anti war and wrote beautiful music that spoke to you, made ya laugh, think and smile.
Made me cry, shocked me but this crap has been ...you all know.
I agree with the others. SRV is the greatest master of the guitar ever. Complete control of the instrument.
I don't know who might have covered this, but I doubt they could do it justice. I used to live in Austin, and probably saw him live about a dozen times. A Texas legend.
If you'd heard SRV, you would never forget!! RIP, August 27, 1990