How loud was it? Since el mocambo is a small venue and SRV had some huge amps it must’ve been insane!

Lucky you what a memory to have I saw Stevie in 1986.

Really cool! But do you keep searching up videos of this performance to mention this fact in comments as a feat of your life?

@@MrOjeeeee I’m betting yes

How could there be boos in the crown, never understood that part

Calm down happy methehappyone, yes SRV, is a great guitarist in blues, but, watch HENDRIX, OR JIMMY PAGE, LIVE, TO SEE WHAT THE GODS OF GUITAR ARE ABLE TO DO OK!

.....and a fantastically loving human being, as well. With respect, I love all these guitarists you mentioned, Julien, but y'all should probably check out some of the current top guitarists. It's scary to see this instrument's evolution. SRV, Page, Hendrix,.... they're legends for a reason, but they've very clearly passed the torch. Check out: Plini, Tosin Abasi, Tim Hensen & Scotty Lepage, Sithu Aye, David Maxim Micic..... The list is long.

@@julienmarquet8612 Hendrix was sloppy good, SRV was much cleaner. Both gone to soon. However Hendrix O.D. and Stevie was clean and died in an accident. Paige has always been my favorite 😍

@@qmiller9 Ho please man! Seriously! It's not onpy about technical skills bro! It's abput creativity, imagination, technical skills! All the guys you're talking about, never created anything! They picked up what HENDRIX, PAGE CREATED MAN! THAT'S WHY THEY'RE SO MUCH BETTER! LISTEN TO JIMMY PAGE, LED ZEPPELIN LIVE AT THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 1973 LIVE! THEY'RE NOT HUMAN ANYMORE! WATCH HENDRIX LIVE AT WOODSTOCK 1969! ON ANOTHER PLANET! OR HENDRIX BAND OF GYPSIES ALBUMS, BOTH, THE 1ST ONE, AND THE 2ND ONE FROM 1997....IT'S UNMATCHABLE! BY ANY GUITARISTS! THOSE 2 GUYS ARE ALWAYS ON THE 2 FIRST PLACES, IN THE RANKING OF THE BETTER GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME! BUT, THE REALITY, IS THAT THEY ARE IN THE EANKING OF THE BETTER MUSICIANS, COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME! SERIOUSLY, I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU LIKE NEW GUYS, BUT, DON'T COMPARE THEM TO THOSE LEGENDS! I'M PLAYING GUITAR SINCE 25 YEARS! I TRIED TO LEARN ALL THE KIND OF MUSIC, ROCK, BLUES, JAZZ, CLASSIC, FLAMENCO, ETC, ETC.... AND, THE 2 GUYS, I, STILL, CAN'T PLAY LIKE ARE THOSE 2 DUDES! SO PLEASE, BE SERIOUS! OR, YOU THINK THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLES LISTENING TO THEM ARE ALL STUPID, TO THINK THEY ARE THE BEST? AND, ALL THE GUITAR HEROES, ARE STUPID TO SAY THEY WERE THE BEST?

AMEN RIP SRV THE BEST GUITARIST EVER

Cray was on stage with him during his last show / last song.

Robert said that? Yah i could see crayz saluting Stevie,stevie was very personably person very easy to approch just like Keanu,all the great artists have magic? ....

cray was right, but being fair, is no legend

Technically, a lot of guitarists can play exactly his songs and style note for note, and emulate his sound nearly perfectly. But to duplicate his voice, that is another matter. And to duplicate his live stage performance while also playing and singing just like him, well, forget it.

As nasty as floolaborg

It changes you forever

SAME!! And I’m a damn 54 year old man! Best reaction to SRV on KZfaq

I heard he had to use such heavy gauge strings because the lighter gauge strings kept melting when he played. RIP SRV

Stevie played true blues, never played it the same way twice. Also at this time in his life he was almost always drunk and high on cocaine. And he still could play the hell out of that old guitar!

Yes Stevie used heavy strings, but he also had his guitar down tuned to D flat.

@@fposmith Yes, and I'm sure what you are trying to point out is that, by tuning the strings down, it made them much easier to play, including at the 1st fret position. It also didn't hurt that he played all day and all night either 👍😊😉.

13s and tunes to Eb like the old blues players.

Ive bn told he often used -13 gauge strings-CABLES-! Had to shred his fingers the way he played.. bending them as he did. G O A T ! Rip steve..12/19/22. Blues giant. Awesome man and talent. None like him.

@@fposmith I dunno. I got 12s in D on a guitar and they're still pretty heavy. To bend like he does takes some strength and finger calluses. To do it night after night for years seems insane. Meanwhile, Billy Gibbons went from 8s to 7s. Now that I understand ;-)

Well damn, man, I'm envious! That must've been amazing! What years did you get to see him?

@@TheMidnightModder Started in early 80s in the bars in Ft Worth & Dallas

Bless you, bless you bless you

I did too. I got to have a drink with him on a couple of occasions and later in concert. He was such a humble and nice guy. I didn't know who he was when I first met him. I was in this little bar Lubbock Texas with some friends there was probably only 7 people in the whole place. He was being social with everyone. After a bit he went on this tiny stage played for 20 min straight after having just played a concert. He blew me away then. He will be greatly missed

​@@digitalblues01 Started in the 1970s I use to see Stevie and The Triple Threat Revue with Lou Ann Barton at the Rome Inn on Sunday nights around 1975 or 1976 he was great, also with Paul Ray and the Cobras at the original Antone's opening for Muddy Waters in 1975 RIP Stevie

Got to throw my Freddie King in there

Albert collins

Just happened to see this today and thought I would try to catch you. My name is Gary and I’m 72 I have been lucky enough to see all the greats including Jimi In Detroit. They are all amazing. I seen Stevie along with Jeff Beck. My love will always be for Jimi . Man those were the days.

I'm no guitar connoisseur but am reminded of Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, especially playing 'Somebody help me'. Similar sound because he started in bands that could not afford a rhythm guitarist - had to be both.

your so right he just plays his souls music and his expression is always original, I find it a bit frustrating at times that people and even musicians and guitarists seem to think when they try to play a song like this that they need to try and copy, they must spend hours and hours trying to do everything a master like SRV does and I think they often dont realise that Stevie just played without even thinking, he was just following the music in his heart,, I really dont like to try and copy a lead break another guitarist has recorded, firstly its just way too much work and secondly my heart and soul have their own music that I want to play,, I will never sound like Stevie or any of the other greats, but i do sound like me and i think thats something we should all aspire to as musicians,,

​@@hugokappes4077 Hear hear, agreed - & not only in pursuit of broadening and perfecting, finding personal joy in our music, dancing, painting, whatever your source of fulfillment may be, but just in the very worthwhile course of our lives and self-acceptance❤

Totally agree, it just oozes out of him!

Tommy Shannon was also Johnnie Winters's bass player.

@@johnmurray1525 yes, it does. Good way to describe it.

@@armadillotoe yes, Tommy is a world class bass player.

I loved how you describe that place when Stevie played,, that zone where your just in the music as you play is a gift from god,, sometimes at home when I practice i get there, but on stage lol, nope,, one day maybe,,

there is always so much hyperbole in most comments but your is literally correct - or understated. Not one human out of one billion can play guitar like SRV did. Or fewer than that. We shall not see his like again. I saw him twice in concert and many times on videos and every time I am amazed. Every. Single. Time. He is one of those folks that if you didn't know he was real, you'd think people were making it up.

Come to LA and hang out for a minute…

...1947..mes mesmerizing

He wasn't from Austin. He was from Dallas. Oak cliff to be exact.

@@keithbryant3796 Correct...but once Antone's opened, he played Steamboat 1873, Antone's and other clubs on 6th Street and around Austin...formed Double Trouble, then he blew up. He was a central part of the Austin Blues scene, which was the scene in Austin (that and hill country folk stuff from Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley and Guy Clark) long before indie music started taking over. His statue was put on Auditorium Shores.

Under-rated comment.

Alvin Lee wasn't too shabby, either.......

@@guidosarducci absolutely! Very precise intonation and a master of tone.

@@scottbloom6871 Indeed! 🙂🙂

Let’s not forget Buddy Guy. I saw him hold a single note once, while drinking a cup of tea…. And he sipped it, with his pinky raised….

When I learned that he hit the sky hill, I was actually hoping that it was Clapton or one of the others because of the very reasons you mentioned !

I would think that Stevie made mistakes in his playing just like every other guitarist especially an improvising genius,, its just that no one would ever be able to tell because he knew how to use every sound and note and even if he landed somewhere he didnt want to be he just made it right,, we will never know and it doesnt matter because it always sounded amazing,,

Austin 1989 I think.

Caught you again, boy you really do get around, I seem to find you everywhere. 😉I mentioned in my comment that I wasn't expecting to start laughing so hard at Verdy's reaction to him playing behind his back, and then singing at the same time. It wasn't so much that it was funny, but I think more of a joyful reaction at seeing how amazed she was, and the joy of knowing she got to see it.

@@LeeKennison this is such a great channel of course we are here. It fun seeing someone enjoy something that you know they are going to like, makes the world a little warmer.

​@@Hartlor_Tayley Yeah, I agree. My problem here is that I am usually a couple of weeks behind once I get to them, so I normally don't comment. I fixed that tonight by turning the notification bell on. I don't know why I didn't do that earlier since I always love her reactions. Sometimes I need just the reaction, not the deeper analysis of some of the other channels I frequent.

@@LeeKennison sometimes a smile is all the analysis I need. I like the notifications too.

@@LeeKennison here’s a pleasant flashback for ya. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g65mqatnlrGqp6c.html

he is the greatest even Clapton when he heard SRV agreed to that.

Stevie was supposed to open for Clapton once & after hearing Stevie play Eric refused to play after him

You lucky dog !!!