That’s a great quote, I’m going to steal it for when someone asks me about SRV, brilliant!

OH Man,I Love that!!!!!WILL USE IT, TOO

Have always loved SRV but Joe Bonamassa is a close second. With Beth Hart, he’s in another sphere…..

No. Guitars have nightmares of Stevie. They know they would get beaten

@@seanx40 OK you are right!! After all his guitar looks like it was passed down from Rory Gallagher

It’s sad that the saying “the brightest stars burn out the quickest” is true

Even MORE unfair that he FINALLY got clean & sober. Such a sad thing.

Many things are unjust and unfair. Just enjoy an appreciate them.

I think it’s heartbreaking but at least he was happy and in a good place being sober.

Think about his brother Jimmy. He was the musician in the family before SRV came along and became the GOAT. Poor Jimmy, but yea for all of us to get to witness this talent. And not that Jimmy isn’t great as well.

And you are watching him make love with his "first wife"

I have been SRV fan for twenty- five years. And Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King we’re-my I first introduction to blues music I got interested in both of them exact same time.When I was 16 years old and at the time And learned a bit later that he died six years before in a plane crash he was such amazing gifted guitar player and singer. Every time I listen to his music I wonder what could of accomplished if he still alive today. He been gone for 31 years.But I have a feeling it’s going to Inspire many guitarist and many more years to come and generations to come.

Amen Brother

Preach, brother. Preach.

Saw him in Austin once. It was a hellava once!

So many reactors I’ve seen have to stand up and try to walk it off in the middle of the video. The disbelief is hilarious. Mouth open, staring into the camera saying nothing and looking for an explanation of what they are seeing and hearing. Ha ha! It’s between him and RUSH for blowing Tubers minds! Pure joy!

And to think, he must have had a similar moment listening to his heroes. And it didn't make him go "I can't do that". It made him go "I'm gonna do that". And even if you don't have his talent, it is still good to try to follow in his footsteps.

Just think if you were a tenth as good you would be a great guitarist hahahaha

Amazingly whether on purpose or by accident, his guitar tone matches his voice. Therefore in between singing , his guitar acts as a second voice to continue telling the story without him having to say a word. It’s incredible.

I learned note for note. Took a decade. You can do it.

Exactly! Well stated!!

Picking up a guitar and wanting to play like SRV is as futile as picking up a basketball and wanting to play like MJ….good luck and enjoy ✌️

It still tears me up I never got to see him live. I saw Buddy Guy open for BB King maybe almost 20 years ago now, part of Buddy’s show was talking about people he’d played with and playing a little bit of their music. He spent a good deal of time talking about Stevie and what he had done to elevate the blues in his short time. Buddy’s love for the man was palpable.

@@corneliuscrewe677 Buddy Guy is another great player. I met him briefly many tears ago

Lucky Guy.....l wish

My brother saw him about 20 times in East Texas but I I never did 😢

The greatest guitarist EVER

That's cool story. And there's only one way he knew how to play the guitar.

Little Wing.. SRV was Heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix. Third Stone from the Sun is also Stellar. Live versions of course. And if you want some smooth SRV, Riviera Paradise or Lenny. So much of a catalog yet...so Little. We Loved him Here but the Light loved him more...and took Him back. Rest Easy my Friend.

Tommy was Johnny Winter’s bass player too! All that Texas Blues goodness!

“playing the living shit out of the guitar.” Beautiful!!

That was a club in downtown Dallas called The Cave. My sister went there and saw him. She talked about him a lot. I was so jealous cuz I wanted to go. Later I brought it up to Stevie and he couldn’t believe anyone knew of it still.

I don't know whose version I prefer, his or Jimi's. I mean they are bad ass versions of the song.

There is also a video of him playing Voodoo Child behind his back while he breaks 2 strings doing it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pstjepqhlsCRqIk.html

I think his version is better than Jimi’s.

Little Wing #2.

its even better than hendrix

Listen to Danny Gatton play Sleepwalk all the way through in a bar in DC. Then find him playing anything else that he did and you will be blown away. Sometime online they cut the second half of sleepwalk off so make sure you hear the whole thing. Also listen to Roy Buchannon, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, Glen Campbell.

He really did man. He was my inspiration to play guitar my dad showed me his music when I was 16 and it’s all history from there

So effortless but still like it was just draining him every note.. he put his all into every note, just pure passion and love of the music

Please react to either the bands the sword to pentagram

SRV is a religious experience. I remember where I was when I heard he died. It’s like remembering where you were on 9/11.

Hendrix was the doing this back in 1966 people.

The greatest ever...

@@user-sq3xm6ll3i facts

I believe So also'

He ripped a 12-string acoustic on MTV's unplugged too. His hands were insanely strong.

All the soulful intonation in every note. Most people are just happy to play the notes.

Definitely. I used to get intimidated but now I look for musicians who are way better and I aspire to that.

Yes..that was Stevie's interpretation..you need to find your own... don't give up.

it helps if you started practicing when you were like 5yrs old.

No amount of practice will make you a truly exceptional musician you are born with it. you could practice for 100yrs and be technically brilliant but creativity can't be practiced.

Agree this is inspiration to play

Regarding the necks he used, what you said isn't actually true. SRV always used standard Strat necks on his Strats. I believe the last iteration of his No 1. Strat used a 59 neck on the 54 body. His guitar tech had to finally replace the original neck with another vintage piece because the old one had been refretted too many times. The base fretboard wood was worn down to the point of no return. Most Mustangs had a 24-inch scale. A Fender Stratocaster has a 25.5" scale. If you were to mount a Mustang's neck onto a Stratocaster body, not only would it not fit correctly, but the intonation would be incredibly off. The distance between the bridge and the nut has to be bisected by the 12th fret. Otherwise the guitar would sound constantly out of tune. So no he did not use Mustang necks on his Stratocasters.

@@gholwiih I literally came here to say the same thing. You are spot on. I will also add that one of the neck changes was because a piece of stage equipment fell on the neck and broke it.

@@gholwiih Guess I mis-remebered interview with his tech Rene. Thanks for correction.

Incredibly large, powerful hands possessed by a very small man. Certainly a very special gift from heaven. God brought him home so he could enjoy the best tunes first hand. SRV is rocking the Angel Band!

Ya beat me to the thumb trick. He got that from Jimi Hendrix. Many guitar players adopted that but none could make it sing like SRV.

Actually, there's several versions of how old he was when he started playing. One is he was 7 and another version is he was 13. Neither the less, it was also said he had a great ear and never learned how to read sheet music! There's reports and supposed quotes he said that his older brother was playing guitar, so he thought he would do it too!

yessss ,i learn at 22 to play guitar and today my level is very good ,im 30 , dont stop , just play dude , age is a number.

Yeah, little Stevie probably played ten hours a day from the time he was about 8 until he was 14 or 15. At that point his band was killing local clubs and it was just a matter of time.

@zackr6 Big brother was his biggest fan and a helluva guitarist in his own right. They played alot together and even recorded an album. The doubleneck strat video is a must.

Kenny Wayne's fantastic. Definitely do yourself a favor and check him out!

Kenny is super! SRV was the Guitar God! Nobody at all as slick as that little fellow. Damn best guitar slinger ever to play. God Bless his soul! They will never be another SRV!!!

Kenny Wayne shepard is awesome. blue on black I really love but he wasn't shit compared to Stevie.

RIP Jeff.

Him and srv did a song together

@@scottanderson2807 I remember seeing that. It was amazing!

I don’t even play an instrument, I just appreciate good music. He makes the guitar sing. Like you said, it’s all the taste and timing, the tone, fade in, fade out. One of a kind.

What bugs me is when people say "He was just born to play guitar." Sure, to be THAT F*N amazing, he had a predliction for it. But to GET that great, he played 25 hours a day for almost thirty years

That’s a fact. I’ve been playing guitar for 30 years myself, and while I don’t consider myself to be more than a mediocre to average player myself, sometimes something will come out of my hands I didn’t know I could do. The music does indeed play you👍

It is my understanding he did not read music either! So amazing!!!

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Alex....DON'T EVER GIVE UP!! You've gotta start somewhere. Do you think SRV came out of the womb playing like that? HELL NO......PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!! That's how you get good. When you get frustrated....PLAY HARDER WITH DETERMINATION! Just think about this for a moment, you have something available to you right now, that people who were trying to learn guitar back in the day didn't have.....KZfaq. Anything about guitar that you could possibly want to learn, is a click away, right at your fingertips. Any chord, any scale, any mode, any song.....there's a quality tutorial posted here. Back when I started playing, you had 3 options to learn, 1.) Pay for, and take in person professional lessons, or purchase course/theory studies on cassette and VHS/BETA tapes.. ( Anyone remember Metal Method?) and learn to read the accompanying tablature that came with the lessons. 2.) Have a friend or family member who was a good player, and who were willing to take the time to teach you. 3.) Sit in your room alone for endless hours, chugging away, breaking songs down, note by note, chord by chord, to figure them out and how to play them. Life today as a budding guitarist has never been easier. For the amount of time you've been at it, you are showing good progress. Especially for doing it on your own with no teacher. You've got a good ear, and a sense of pitch, that's the key...so you're already a few steps ahead of the curve. Don't let SRV intimidate you.....you are just learning to crawl, you can't run alongside of a god as a newbie, lol. Look at SRV as inspiration, and let some of his soul and feel creep it's way into your playing as you progress. Trust me....his licks and hooks will stay embedded in your head, even if you don't initially realize it. Great reaction.....legendary guitarist...taken from us way too soon, but at least we have his recordings and videos as a remembrance, and roadmap to the blues. As always, Peace and love from Baltimore, Md. U.S.A.!!

Not true at all. He had lessons DAILY from his brother Jimmy Vaughn.....who learned things from other players and brought that back home to Stevie. They'd play to albums all day long. If a person were truly "self taught" they'd have their own way of stringing a guitar and their own tuning of it etc. Nobody is truly "self taught" there are others that came before them that they draw inspiration from. So not in the spirit of being self taught or in reality was Stevie "self taught." But the true genius of any player comes from within.....that cannot be taught.

I was under the impression he was a protege of Albert King.

100% fact and truth ! Put in the time and make no excuses to not learn, practice to improve. It takes time to get there... but it's worth everyday you give it. It can't be taken from you and you can play for the rest of your life if physically able. You can learn sections and phrasing from greats like SRV and develop your own style that sounds like "you". I loved this reaction video as it was spot on for most everyone that plays guitar... he is uniquely gifted.

@@sauletto1 Players like SVR are like unicorns. Every once and awhile, they cross our life's path.

Too bad he was playing the bass line, still pretty decent regardless

Agree

Best Texas Musicians * Best Musicians Ever, including all the badasses that came out of Texas 👍👍… SRV was a blessed individual, def one of few that were one with his instrument.. so effortless but you could tell was nothing but passion and love, it literally looked like it was taking all his energy from him as he played and he gave it all every time 👍🔥

THE best👍🤘❤️

I do as well...Three CD's + the DVD. It is my holy relic to the great SRV.

Thank the music gods it was recorded, because El Mocambo as a whole is one of the greatest performances of any musician anywhere anytime.

I would add Pantera's Live in Moscow 91' to that list as well. 🤘🤘

I was there ....it's the only memory that I hope never fades.

@@stevelennox8575 you lucky SOB. That's awesome.

Eric who??? Lol

Sorry, that was JImi Hendrix in London, and Clapton was visibly shaken after watching Hendrix play for the first time. Pete Townsend of The Who, said to Eric Clapton, this guy is going to put us all out of business. Stevie Ray Vaughn was only about 9 yrs old when that happened, and it is a Fact it was Jimi Hendrix, that Clapton freaked out about. Tell the truth!

I think Clapton said to someone standing next to him off stage, while watching Stevie play, how am I supposed to follow him?

@@827dusty Clapton commented though, in SRV's biography, that he(Clapton) was struggling on a kind of basic(?) guitar at one of his concert warmups or rehearsals, and SRV picked up the same guitar and just made the guitar cry. He was definitely blown away by SRV playing the first time he heard him!

@@827dusty Clapton has stated several times that he was intimidated by Stevie Ray. He felt that way the first time he saw him live. Right up to the last 2 nights of Stevie's life. Both of those shows, Clapton watched Stevie for 20 or 30 minutes then had to stop. He said if he'd watched Stevie's full set he wouldn't have been able to join him for the encore/jam they did at the end. So the truth is Clapton felt that way about both Hendrix & SRV. And it's admirable that he's been so open about it. High praise for both, coming from him.

Good advice

Haha just wrote that. 100% agree

Yes life without you live one of my favorite performances by him

Just make sure it's version of "Life Without You" live in Newark, NJ in 1985. The greatest SRV performance ever!

@@bostonwhofan yea that one lol

"When Stevie finished a set all of his guitars needed cigarettes" - lmao, succinct

i remember seeing you at that show what a night,

I'm with you - consider this an up vote for Gary Moore.