Mick Jagger Loved Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Mick Jagger Loved Stevie Ray Vaughan

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The Rolling Stones invited Stevie Ray Vaughan to New York to play a showcase for their record label. This is the story of that crazy evening. I learned this story in the book, Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire
by Joe Nick Patoski, Bill Crawford.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
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@otisgibbs 2 жыл бұрын

What's your favorite Stevie Ray Vaughan song?

@Gratefulman1965 2 жыл бұрын

Personal Favorite SRV song, Tin Pan Alley ( AKA Roughest place in town) Does Stevie have a weak song? Thanks Otis!

@sicilianeye 2 жыл бұрын

Scuttle Buttin'. I'm stupefied every time I hear it. How the HELL did he do that?!

@steveo7116 2 жыл бұрын

Texas Flood Live at the El Mocambo. In my opinion he set the standard in which all blues guitarists are to be compared. Stevie was and is the G.O.A.T

@chrisbrowning6102 2 жыл бұрын

Life By The Drop

@ronaldschuurman3967 2 жыл бұрын

Pride and Joy

@martinmcgimpsey9750 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan twice and in my humble opinion, he was one of the best guitar players I ever saw! Rest In Peace Stevie you are missed!

@jmad627 2 жыл бұрын

Saw him only once and I concur with you opinion. One of the best, if not the best, guitar player I ever saw…and heard.

@crct2004 2 жыл бұрын

I was fortunate to have a much older friend take me to see most of the guitar greats alive at the time from a young age and Stevie was not one of the best, he was the best. no one compares. I was feeling kinda sorry for myself just now until your comment made me realize how truly fortunate I actually have been.

@jfromstate8581 2 жыл бұрын

My pops went to go see Stevie for his first time with his sisters who mind you got them all kicked out of the concert before he even finished his 2nd song lol my dad was mad but he just shrugged it off and told him himself he’d see him again when he came back to town , 3 months later Stevie passed away … pops never got to see him

@neillbaxter9613 2 жыл бұрын

On of the best you ever saw?! Who have you seen haha

@crct2004 2 жыл бұрын

@@neillbaxter9613 Not sure who you are talking to but I am gonna indulge myself in a trip down memory lane, I am sure I will leave some (a lot, I blame tequila) out, ok off the top of my head in no particular order, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck, Albert King, Albert Collins,, David Gilmor, Carlos Santanna, Brian Setzer, Neal Schon, Elizabeth Cotton, Steve Cropper, Dicky Betts, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Tony Iommi, Dave Edmunds, Andy Summers, Link Wray, Mike McCready, Warren Haynes (not a nice guy met him at Ronnie Earl show - Ronnie super nice guy great player), and on and on but I was young, about 16 when my 37 year old friend started taking me to see pretty much everybody alive at the time but I didn't know who most of them were and had a taste for tequila so I even had to resort to looking back to concerts like Guitar Greats at the Capitol Theatre 1984 and such, now it's hurting my brain cuz I know he took me to many more that my female brain did not memorize like dudes are so good at. Anyhew it was a blast and I feel like one of the luckiest people on the planet to have had a friend like that. First time I saw Stevie Ray at the Beacon Theater 1983 blew my mind, was up there with giving birth to my children as one of the best experiences of my life. Some day you might even hear of me, lol. My friend also bought me my first guitar and my second, the 1965 Gibson I still have.

@stuartewoldt1513 2 жыл бұрын

There is a ocean of blues guitarists. To be able to have you're guitar sound and personal licks be recognized within 4 seconds of listening. Stevie Ray Vaughan is that man

@robertdowneypeenis6139 Жыл бұрын

"Boy there's a lotttt of guitar players out here, they just play fast and don't got no soul, you get em both" Albert King to Stevie Ray

@genogeno6643 2 жыл бұрын

Saw Stevie and Double Trouble in Gardner Massachusetts. When they played "Couldn't Stand The Weather" dark clouds rolled in and it started to rain. At the end of the song the rain stopped, the clouds gave way, and the sun came back out. From time to time I will meet people who were at that concert, and its the first thing that comes up in the conversation. Good times.

@bigdaddymojo2005 Жыл бұрын

True SRV fans cannot pick a FAV song...Stevie was GREATNESS...Pristine talent...his WHOLE CATALOG is DIVINE.

@Checobeep 2 жыл бұрын

Dude had the greatest guit tone of anyone in .. possibly ever. I'm struggling to think of another player with such a great sound. There are lots of players with unique and beautiful guitar tone but none like Vaughan. I remember the day he died. I was gutted. Guy was a master.

@gunboom 2 жыл бұрын

Billy Gibbons has some good tone.

@PoeticInsanity 2 жыл бұрын

Jerry Garcia, David Gilmour,

@Mjr._Kong 2 жыл бұрын

Marty Stuart

@karenstanley964 Жыл бұрын

I agree 100%❤

@karenstanley964 Жыл бұрын

Not a single “git-picker” could ever master the beautiful blues and guitar 🎸 ever

@LuisGonzalez-kw1pv Жыл бұрын

Little sister. When he breaks the guitar string and changes guitar never stops singing not missing a beat or nearly a note. What a treat to see. What a awesome talent. Cant get enough

@kevinhuber8723 2 жыл бұрын

Losing Stevie was about the end of the innocence for Me. Growing up a gearhead I had seen my favorite race driver die in an accident and then SRV goes down in a helicopter. I was sad for months.... it still hurts. I recently bought and read the two volumes on Stevie by Craig Hopkins and they helped ALOT. SRV single handily revived the Blues scene in America. The old masters catalogs all took an uptick. I would have to say "Lenny", "Stangs Swang" and "Rude Mood" would cover a few favorites.

@darrelmorgan6266 2 жыл бұрын

Well said I could not agree with you more!

@BobbyGeneric145 2 жыл бұрын

Who was your favorite driver? Mine was Senna.

@kevinhuber8723 2 жыл бұрын

Swede Savage

@jackhammer7824 2 жыл бұрын

JEFF GORDON, DON GARLETS , STEVE McQueen

@kevinspringborn495 2 жыл бұрын

Texas flood my fav

@bobwallace1880 2 жыл бұрын

Read "Texas Flood". Saw Stevie Ray and Jimmy many times here in Austin. Hard to describe how good he was. Thanks Otis! Keep up the good work.

@mikemulligan1798 2 жыл бұрын

Saw Stevie 6 or 7 times , turned all my friends on to him in the eighties, some of it is getting a little bit blurry. But some of the finest concerts I’ll ever see…. “ Life Without You” is right up there. Keep on Chooglin’ Otis.

@pmoney3688 Жыл бұрын

People know greatness when they see it, doesn’t matter what kind of music it is

@mesaeddie Жыл бұрын

How do you not love Stevie? I feel so lucky to have seen a year before he passed away. I still miss him . He was by far the best I ever saw.

@jedishaw6771 2 жыл бұрын

All Stevie Ray Vaughan songs are my favourite!! 😀

@jaimedolcesinnersole 2 жыл бұрын

I still love Tin Pan Alley for that deep, dark, raw, masterful guitar playing amd vibe..and i also love Tight Rope..and also the songs on Family Style..i love everything he did..i saw him 4 times..i wish i had seen him more..

@sistersuetube 2 жыл бұрын

Its the best...

@ambitionx1639 Жыл бұрын

You’re not human if you can watch Stevie play and feel nothing but love and exceptionalism

@Nudiescorner 2 жыл бұрын

Around 1982 my friend who worked at Atlantic records asked me to come along to the Cat club NYC to see a new talent. They had tables on the floor and we had the one in front of the stage. A woman named Eve Moon opened up for Stevie Ray Vaughan. She was spectacular. But when Stevie came out... He blew us all away. It was a very incredible night.

@homersreluctantodyssey2508 2 жыл бұрын

his live versions of voodoo child were awesome, glad i got to see him a few times

@acousticarchivefortwayne930 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite SRV song always seems to be to one that's playing at the time. He was so great. Amazing how immense talent can be with immense talent and not recognize the full potential.In the end maybe it was all for the best. The path Stevie took made him a legend.

@mojo6778 2 жыл бұрын

I really liked the live performance of Tin Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland, Blues At Sunrise on the Albert King album In Session, and live performance of Lenny performed at Austin City Limits.

@geneb.9619 2 жыл бұрын

I still tear up thinking of the loss of Stevie..going RH un out to buy this book today..thank you Ottis..I saw Stevie 10 times in my life..I was truly blessed..

@charlieroth4207 2 жыл бұрын

I just loved his voice so much..I mean the guitar playing of course but Stevie sang from his whole heart.

@bjorntannberg1581 2 жыл бұрын

I will definitely read that book. I saw SRV at Ritz in Stockholm in the spring of 1984. A memorable concert. My favorite SRV song would have to be Couldn't Stand the Weather.

@edwardroberts7053 2 жыл бұрын

Riviera Paradise is a song that I can't get enough of. Haunting vibes and beautiful jazz, very soulful Miss him dearly 🥺 Thank you for enlightening us all!!

@benwright9238 Жыл бұрын

You know the story of the recording right? They ran out of tape just in time

@willpassinault3650 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Stevie at a small venue in Phoenix called Celebrity Theater in 1985. He played for 2 hours and it seemed like 10 minutes......time just stopped

@crct2004 2 жыл бұрын

I am one of the luckiest people to have gotten to see him, FIVE times! A favorite song is tough but his version of Little Wing is my favorite piece of music, I can't even say piece since any version of him doing it is a direct link to the divine for me. God bless brother, I really enjoyed this insight into a night in the life of my musical hero.

@subversivelysurreal3645 Жыл бұрын

Much ❤ love right back atcha!! I have favorite performances (like Montreux 1985), after the booing, because it’s an awesome comeback at the place where he had been booed by an extremely small but persistent crowd in the audience (who were people who dripped with privilege, and were still too miserable within themselves to LEAVE, and enjoy the experience of being at a festival in Switzerland)-I know that it shook Stevie up and pissed him off, and two years and a Grammy later, he brought Johnny Copeland onstage and you just FELT his happiness. I also enjoy his later performances where you can see the sobriety by the clarity of his eyes, and knowing that he had said, ‘I never felt so good in my life’, because I love Stevie so much, I just feel like I especially enjoy seeing him perform as a happy human, who was able to enjoy what he gave us all…and, ohmigod I’m crying, not bawling but it’s just such a-wrenching loss. He deserved children and grandchildren, and for EVERYONE to know what a beautiful person he was.

@dmzabo3914 2 жыл бұрын

Well who didn’t love Stevie Ray Vaughn? Mick Jagger knows talent when he hears it.

@jaytay8637 2 жыл бұрын

But he won't pay for it.

@babkeebabkus8177 2 жыл бұрын

so did david bowie who got stevie ray to play on the 'let's dance' album

@msalty2823 2 жыл бұрын

Love Stevie Ray, and was lucky enough to see him several times including playing with Buddy Guy. His raw fearless style of guitar and blues has a way of grabbing you by the groin and making you feel tension and energy in every song.

@midnitesunblues 4 ай бұрын

🎸If anyone, ever, has earned and deserves his place as a true music Legend, it is Stevie Ray Vaughan. 🌠

@garlandthomson7501 Ай бұрын

When i got sober his music and trying to play it,helped me

@seancarroll2757 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the live versions of little wing are incredible and the last time he played Rivera paradise before the crash is incredible.the second time he played Austin city limits is a much watch, along with El Mocambo

@davidkendall9688 2 жыл бұрын

"Couldn't Stand the Weather" I'm a big fan and love most everything he did, but that one just has some special appeal for me. I saw him many times, but the first time was at a festival in Memphis on a little outdoor stage in the early 80's right before he broke big in the public eye. It was one of the most magical musical experiences I've ever had involving some mind-blowing weed, a raging thunderstorm that hit right as he finished his encore "Voodoo Child," and a mad dash through torrential rains and wind so fierce that it blew funnel cakes and cotton candy down the street as I ran for shelter. That is a great book. Nice job as always, Otis.

@SimpleManGuitars1973 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't Stand the Weather is the greatest blues guitar album ever for me.

@karenstanley964 Жыл бұрын

I’m loving this song 🎶 I’ve seen him several times in Memphis because I’m a native of Memphis Tennessee. If he or 😎 bro Jimmy were there, so was L… pure heart 💜 and soul… I’m envious of the talent he had. I will always love 💕 my man Stevie Ray Vaughan. Salute to the best guitarist ever. Rock on, buddy 💙🎸🎸💙

@sandipage9525 Жыл бұрын

I was at that show ..I will never ever forget it. .my first time ever too..

@ronhamilton6652 Жыл бұрын

Tin pan alley. I love sitting in my blue room. It's my man cave with some friends or by myself and putting g on srv. And get in the mood and my face recover head phones and listing his guitar talk toe I git to see him in Evansville iIm thinking 2 shows before his trdgic desth.....at mesker Ampitheater. Which is Silll there but no longer open but a memory of Stevie when only 1200 people showed up on his In Step crossfire tour. .... 2 legends gone but not forgotten. REST IN PEACE STENEN RAY VAUGHN. AND. RUST IN PEACE MESKER AMPHITHEATER. YOU BOTH ARE MISSED

@otisgibbs 2 жыл бұрын

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@songwriterfortruth4601 2 жыл бұрын

You're Welcome & Thank You For This Video

@pauld3188 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Otis, one of the only bright spots during the panademic was finding your station

@anotherjoshua 2 жыл бұрын

Mick passes on a musician who caused him to piss his pants. Incomprehensible

@Cuardaitheoirfirinne Жыл бұрын

It's vacillates for me all the time, but "So Excited" - the live version from Live at Ripley's. Of course its impossible to pick a favorite, but that for me captures his everything. My eldest brother saw him front row 4x, and he had an extra ticket for the last show he saw which was touring with Joe Cocker in Portland, OR. It was a legendary performance and he wouldn't take me. I was bitter for years because I am so into guitar. I had an SRV signature straight straight out of the NAMM show when they were first introduced with a Brazilian Rosewood fretboard. I loved that guitar; to my eternal shame I sold it to a terrible person thinking I needed the money. Now I'm just glad my brother got see and hear him so many times. Many years later I got to see Jimmie 4x and shake his hand at the end of the show. Grip like steel and the nicest man. Thanks Otis, you have a great voice and channel. I found the more recent book, Texas Flood by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort even better so if you haven't read it there is some more joy in your future.

@rexoates4484 2 жыл бұрын

Like Clapton said, Stevie’s inspiration just never dried up.

@alexbowman7582 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t Clapton meant to fly on that helicopter and he didn’t?

@gl15col Жыл бұрын

I think my favorite song of SRV's is Tin Pan Alley live with Johnny Copeland. Not just the magical guitar and his voice that was perfect that night, but his respect and affection for Johnny. He was a humble man who always gave credit where credit is due.

@felixramirez6898 2 жыл бұрын

Long live S.R.V. , Lord I still miss him . My favorite song is Riviera Paradise . He always dedicated it " to all those still suffering ". God Love Him .

@harrylazard805 2 жыл бұрын

I knew little about SRV when I saw a film of him playing with Albert King on PBS and I would always watch it when replayed every few years.. What a treat that was! I've seen it on KZfaq so it's circulating out there. Great close-ups of two blues greats jamming and playing off each other. Makes me want to look it up and watch it again.

@harrylazard805 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcus_starr My thanks to the Canadian who came up with the idea for that show....

@SimpleManGuitars1973 2 жыл бұрын

They released that as an album when I was a teen in the late 90's and I spent hours and hours and hours and hours playing along with it. I'm "self taught" but the truth is Stevie was my "teacher" the same way Albert and Jimi were Stevie's "teacher". Every guitar player can learn something from Stevie. He's definitely not the most "technical" player ever but there has literally never been another human being that played with his intensity and there never will be.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist 2 жыл бұрын

In Session 1983

@SL-vi4tk Жыл бұрын

The greatest musician compliment ever... BB King said "I don't have it, Stevie had it."

@pktdbgnzwl Жыл бұрын

i clearly remember the moment i heard of SRV passing. Me in a local mountaineering store buying gear for a wilderness trip, the local radio playing on the sound system. Music stopped & the dj delivered the news. Stunned. Unreal. Couldn't process. He played his heart out & worked his azz off sometimes playing 2 shows in one night. The heli ride was maybe essential to get to the next gig. 😔

@treyrosenmeyer9097 2 жыл бұрын

All of them, Otis. Stevie was transcendent.

@michaelsoucy7618 2 жыл бұрын

fav song.... you better leave my girl alone. Just the way his eyes roll back in his head when he sings the first line just floors me.

@celebrityimpressionstogo 2 жыл бұрын

@Michael Soucy You’re not kidding!! I agree!

@gotthardish 2 жыл бұрын

I know Stevie didn't write it, but Texas Flood has got everything within the composition, especially the live version. Passion, flare, fire, aggression, and downright honesty!

@kb3809 2 жыл бұрын

Got to see Stevie Ray at La Semana Alegre in San Antonio in April 1990. 16 years old and with a beer in my hand.

@rrebein Жыл бұрын

Gotta be "Pride and Joy," although there are so many great ones. I first saw SRV play in Salina, Kansas, in 1984 or 1985, and bought every record he made on the day it came out. Genius guitar player and all around great dude. RIP, Stevie.

@stevieray7920 2 жыл бұрын

I can't pick a favorite, but I can't help but adore "I heard a voice last night". The story behind it is just as good as the rest of the man was to us.

@robertbrown1839 Жыл бұрын

When he’s playing Texas Flood ****BEHIND HIS BACK **** while he’s singing you almost can’t believe what you’re looking at! YOU HAVE TO WATCH HIM PLAYING LIVE TO APPRECIATE HOW AMAZINGLY TALENTED HE IS. Look him up on video, expand your mind as to what guitar playing could be… this is merely a piece of wood with metal strings ……..and he touches your soul.

@michaelgautreaux6824 Жыл бұрын

Stevie Ray and Double Trouble opened for the Stones at the Astrodome in Houston in 81 with ZZ Top playing next. Great show.

@MarkGardner66Bonnie 2 жыл бұрын

I had the privilege to see him live twice back in Michigan. He is why I own and Play a Strat today...The man had THE BEST TONE of anyone I have ever heard...I was really glad to hear that he was sober and good with God...I look forward to hearing again one day...

@tonym994 2 жыл бұрын

see 'Rise of a Texas blues man' on KZfaq. and 'live at El Mocambo'.

@mroche1088 Жыл бұрын

Can never get enough of his version of Little Wing. Had the opportunity to see Stevie Ray and Double Trouble with the Fabulous Thunderbirds opening at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois in 1986. Very fortunate.

@joshmartin1938 Жыл бұрын

Saw same tour at Kiel Opera House St Louis. Was totally-totally--- blown away.

@nlumby 2 жыл бұрын

Great post Otis ...thanks! :)

@otisgibbs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Neil!

@robertwynkoop7112 2 жыл бұрын

Lenny is the greatest emotive blues instrumental of all time…. Much love, thanks Otis!

@dannysheffield2531 Жыл бұрын

My Dad got to see him @ Blossom’s in Ft. Worth somewhere around ’81. He said he was wearing a sombrero with dingle balls around the brim. Must have been golden.

@michaellevesque8084 2 жыл бұрын

Here I am, listening to you at work, busting out laughing, and getting strange looks. I wouldn't have it any other way Otis.

@patrickreninger5044 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. I am from Chicago, so when Stevie was first getting national airplay on rock radio I was a little skeptical when everyone was heralding the new guitar god. Back in the early 80's, you could see Buddy Guy, Otis Rush or Luther Allison any weekend. Stevie was an original alright. Lenny was the song that souled me. The quality of the writing you read was as impressive as the story.

@lorim8070 2 жыл бұрын

Lived in Texas for 21 years really like Stevie Ray

@thomasjones3239 2 жыл бұрын

1980, Austin, UT Campus Union, Double Trouble. Glory days they were. Hoping you get Joe Nick in for one of your episodes. He’s the real deal. Thanks Otis!

@Leonkcirtap 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, I’ve seen SRV in Bonn Germany ! And during my trip in California, he died ! Love Stevie… Pat from ⬛️🟨🟥 🎸

@theresadmytriw4138 2 жыл бұрын

Too many to choose between them! Love all of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s songs 😎🎸🎶🎶🔥

@Ybor-ld6uq 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Otis. Riviera Paradise.

@scottdenson926 Жыл бұрын

My Brother Joel Denson and I were at Manor Downs in 1980 . He was GREAT ! I was in Alaska at the bowling alley and I Bowie singing "Let's Dance" or "China Girl" . Then the Killer "Albert King" bends , I thought ...that sounds like Jimmie Vaughn's Brother! Oooo yes ! Blues Bull's Eye !

@nikangalilee7955 2 жыл бұрын

I met Stevie Ray for the first time in the 80's. He opened up for Cyndi Lauper at the University of Buffalo campus spring break fest...I went back stage after the show and the whole band signed my spring break hat...Stevie Ray wrote.."Thanks for making it be the day Stevie Ray!" I met him again at a concert in Oneonta on the Hartwick campus I believe... I took pictures with him and I recommended to his bandmate that they should add a keyboard player...which later they did...I wonder if they will mention that if asked because they said that they didn't need a keyboard player being a blues band. You mentioned Johnny Winter...well Stevie Rays bassist Shannon used to play with Johnny Winter. His manager went by the name Dop... in the early days they were easy to meet and hang out with ..Later they really took off and I caught them at the Pier show in New York.

@paulharty3081 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I heard of SRV. He was mentioned in a guitar magazine. Lonnie Mack and Mick Jagger were very effusive in their praise for him. He hit a year or two later.

@LeoWuerde 2 жыл бұрын

SRV - the greatest guitarist ever....no doubt. This man is the Pantheon of Bluesguitar. Listen to him playing the classic Hendrix Blues standard "Voodoo Child" and you have no further questions....

@hypnocracy6102 2 жыл бұрын

Spring of 1984 I'm driving east on 58 going from Greensboro NC to Hampton Roads Va. somewhere east of South Boston to see the Grateful Dead that evening...Voodoo Child comes on WROV in Roanoke and I'm perplexed I had every recording of Jimmy Hendrix and I had never heard this cut...then it sinks in Guitar is awesome but something about the vocals aren't right...I listened mesmerized till the announcer said "That's a cover of Jimmy Hendrix's from the new Stevie Ray Vaughan album Can't Stand the Weather". Remember it to this day the very FIRST time I ever heard Stevie Ray Vaughan.

@SimpleManGuitars1973 2 жыл бұрын

Man it has been over 20 years since I read that but I loved it. The story in there that sticks out the most to me was when Jimmy comes in drunk and hears Stevie messing around on stage when nobody was in there and Jimmy tells Stevie that he "sounds like Robin Trower" and Stevie literally sat his Strat down and walked right up to him and punched him right in the face! Then he cried like a baby for hitting his big brother who was also his hero. The book makes Stevie a total human being and that's probably the best thing about it.

@markalbershardt3649 Жыл бұрын

Stevie Ray Vaughan is my favorite

@edwardpittar648 2 жыл бұрын

A great story, a great story teller and a smooth, bourbon voice there to do it all justice. Thank you Otis.

@felipezamora-marquez8067 Жыл бұрын

What a great story! I love SRV and I don't have a favorite song. It is so fresh to listen all gis music.

@jack6136 Жыл бұрын

I went to hearSRV several times at pier 84 NYC and he had the Allman Brothers open for him! 😮 Each band was STELLAR and Outstanding in every way! SRV lived up to the hype As far as live performance is concerned you couldn’t ask for a finer musician! The palace theater in Passaic New Jersey was unbelievable!

@Lost-xl6im 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Austin during late 70's and early 80 . SRV was playing at a club every night with Marsha Ball and eventually DT . you can only play 12 bars blues for a limited time . .it gets old .

@gudgengrebe 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that the stones passed on giving SRV a record deal shows that they are motivated by money, not true emotion. I first heard SRV here in England by chance on the radio. It was a complete live recording and I only heard it by chance. At the time, I had just split up from a woman that I truly loved and I had just found out that she had been cheating on me. I was depressed and lonely and living in a tiny rented apartment. But during the time SRV was playing, all my sadness blew away. His music was so magic. It took me away from my blues. Wonderful band. I was feeling suicidal, but listening to the band, I forgot all my problems. Great artist.

@pdive01 2 жыл бұрын

I'm gunna buy that book...Thanks Otis! Awesome stuff from long ago but SRV's contributions to bluesmen throughout the world will go on forever, Mick and the Stones know that too....

@jamicutsforth6731 Жыл бұрын

Life Without You. My favorite song by SRV

@beauranheim8694 Жыл бұрын

Saw SRV a few times during my college days in Austin (81-85). Even saw him get booed when he opened for the Clash! I love Scuttle Buttin' for showing off what he was capable of with a guitar. Pride and Joy is probably my favorite with vocals.

@larrysnyder2273 Жыл бұрын

I saw Stevie Ray open for The Moody Blues at the Civic Auditorium in Omaha, NE- November 1983. He wore the classic brimmed hat and the black guitar strap with the white notes on it. I was just a kid who had no idea who he was. But he blew me away! Been a HUGE fan ever since. Rest in peace Stevie Ray.

@robertwynkoop7112 2 жыл бұрын

Who would guess that blues lovers like the Stones would pass on the greatest blues player of the day, one of the all time greats. As to selling enough albums, no wonder Rolling Stones Records no longer exists with those kind of evaluations….. He was good enough for Albert King. I guess the management was more interested in parties than transcendent talent! Ridiculous! The music business…..

@csi2448 2 жыл бұрын

Stevie dealt with it until he was finally able to get someone to sign him. Before he got signed by the legendary John Hammond, he was constantly told by damn near everyone that he should switch genres, cause the blues just doesn't sell. I have a bootleg from a show in 1988, when Stevie was touring in Canada (opening for Robert Plant) and he told the crowd after a song, "Texas Flood just went Gold in Canada. So thank you for proving everyone wrong that told me that the blues doesn't sell!"

@karenjones1848 2 жыл бұрын

Stevie was meant to solo

@stuartewoldt1513 2 жыл бұрын

I remember combing thru a pawnshop and found a SRV CD. Not thinking much of it, I just grabbed it thinking meh I'll give it a try. Man was I shocked. Thank you SRV, thankyou

@scooteranthony6297 Жыл бұрын

That’s an awesome story. I wonder how long after that did Bowie discover him and have play on Let’s Dance. After that Bowie wanted Stevie to join his band and tour. Which would’ve meant lots of money for Stevie. But he turned it down because he want to start his own band. Which was a risk because Blues music was not popular outside the dive bars and small clubs. But he had his own vision. And when Texas Flood came out. The vision was realized. Not only was Blues revitalized, it was loud, it was hard and it had balls. And it could fill stadiums in the US and Europe. He was so special and taken from us way too soon. Greatest guitarist that ever lived in my book.

@richardirvin4839 2 жыл бұрын

I met Stevie on a Street Corner waiting for his bro Jimmy to pick him up.He went to a criopacter just seen his video on MTV and I'll be darn there he was.My Dad was in a nursing home and I decided to walk over that day Stevie had a show that night and he was so cool we talked for ten min offered me a back stage pass cause I was taking care of Dad but of course I did not Make it family comes first but it was cool man real cool Favorite song is all of Them Really

@tasosdiaforetico7377 2 жыл бұрын

You tell a great story, great work.

@1959LP4U Жыл бұрын

Texas Flood and The Sky is Crying are essential deserted island songs I couldn't do without!!!

@nodice8312 2 жыл бұрын

First stevie ray album i got played for 3 days continually..maybe more! Mary had h little lamb...loved it...

@Freeontheland2030 2 жыл бұрын

Anything and everything he ever played is my favourite,,lol.

@johnswenson6559 2 жыл бұрын

In the fall of 1967 on a dark , wet Friday nite some high school friends came by the house and took me to a pizza joint on Lemmon Ave in North Dallas. They had heard somewhere that there was a band worth listening to playing there. The place had an odd balcony around a not very large dining area where we took our drinks up to and found a table. There wasn’t a band but there were two “ kids” with guitars and amps sitting in facing so they could see each other’s hands as they played excellent knock offs of Cream, Hendrix, and other tunes that I did not recognize. I was amazed and perplexed because they looked no older than us but had hair down way past their collars, which was contrary to Dallas School District policy, one was dark haired the other was blondish. They ignored the diners, who weren’t paying attention anyway. One big guy in a cowboy hat leaned over and asked if they knew any Merle Haggard, the dark haired kid, looked back saying, “We’re playing the blues tonite, so if you can’t dig it?” and just shrugged his shoulders and went back to playing. It was years before I decided that it had been Jimmy and Stevie Ray. One of those guys led an exciting enough life that he had no memory of that night and I can’t get in touch with the other guy. I’m not making this up.

@rogerwilliams2629 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to hear another Texas blues great, check out Allan Haynes. Hes been in Austin for years, but e used to pay the same clubs I did in Houston in the 70s, with Tommy Shannon on bass. Well worth checking out.

@chadcollins6068 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble in '86 opening for Dire Straits in Toronto on the 'Brothers in Arms' tour. He was just coming up then but me and my 16 year old friends all knew who he was. I hadn't even realized he was on the bill because my friend had my ticket and I never saw it until after. Boy was I surprised. What a night with Mark Knopfler and Stevie Ray Vaughan together. I didn't see him again but I did get to play on the same stage he did 8 years later with my own band. That was pretty cool. We even played some SRV that night too, to commemorate.

@sunlight253 2 жыл бұрын

~WOW!!...Stevie was one of the greats,cannot believe that about the stones!!!!

@jackpott8587 2 жыл бұрын

We were lucky. Saw Stevie with Blackbird, Paul Ray and The Cobras, Triple Threat Review and Double Trouble. Was at The Austin Opry House for the recording of “Live/ Alive”, and “Live at Steamboat Springs”. Many Antones Shows, the one time they played The Armadillo, The Paramount Theater opening for The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and The Wedding Night at The Rome Inn. Stevie and Tommy liked to set in on GospelNight at Soap Creek Saloon on South Congress with Junior Franklin and The Golden Echoes. And they were the first Austin Band to play at the new Erwin Center when they opened for The Moody Blues. Riverfest- Check. Good times!

@maxdelozier5752 2 жыл бұрын

Willie the Wimp...saw him at the Jazz and Heritage festival in New Orleans...continues to blow my mind 40 years later

@scottstevens1657 2 жыл бұрын

I seen Stevie Ray twice . He was my age. Ain’t nobody had more heart and soul when they played the blues. A loss that can’t be replaced.

@energyasylum997 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool brother!! Long live the blues! I named two of my sons after the Texas blues giant! (My boys are still in grade school , but THEY KNOW who SRV is! As for my favorite song from him, that’s a tough one. I prefer listening to his live stuff because each individual performance is unique and that’s what I love!! I tend to feel the energy from his live stuff better! Though, there are some that stand out to me. For example: • 1989 ‘City of Lights’ performance in Los Angeles song “Leave my little girl alone” (the bends Stevie achieves from his opening solo…..WOW! I’ve never heard him stretch THAT much , yet) • Or SRVs “Mary Had A Little Lamb” on the ‘From Dusk till Dawn’ soundtrack , showed his fire and attack on that cut!!

@matthewmaguire3554 2 жыл бұрын

I was at the Stevie Ray Vaughan show in NYC (only time I saw him) when it was rumored his audition for the Stones.

@candacemenard4229 2 жыл бұрын

Too many awesome songs to choose❤

@deeman1 Жыл бұрын

Scuttle buttin... that shows all his talent, and for me it is a fresher version of Hideaway. When i first heard it, it drove in my bones and i thought, that this was the coolest guitar i´ve heard.

@ronniebrown2517 2 жыл бұрын

to make a long story short....sometime during the 80s i was walking north on a railroad track in south austin forcing myself to remember where i lived and where i was going....had a cool interaction with a guy at a house in the middle of a field next to the tracks....did not know who it was at the time but later found it was stevie....he was not a regular guy, he had an aura that was of another dimension....

@johnvoorhees7881 Жыл бұрын

Most folks say that Hendrix or Clapton were the best, but after further review, I'll say STEVIE! Dude was on fire! Glad I got to see him in Philadelphia, by MYSELF because my "friends" didn't think he was good enough to go see. Boy, were they wrong. One of a kind. Cheers 🍻