Neither Jimi Hendrix, nor Stevie Ray Vaughn, could read music.... it's pure talent pouring out

He's one of the Few people that when he plays the guitar can bring tears to my eyes because of what you feel in his music.!

Life without you...Capitol theater any of his songs from that concert ...he is mesmerizing 🥰

Stevie Ray saved me from the 80s. To me as a teenager, he sounded like mahogany in a world full of plastic. I got to see him at Universal Amphitheater in '84 - which changed the way I hear guitar ever since. He died shortly after I arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1990 - seemed like a bridge burning behind us, with a little less waiting at home. Your reactions are awesome - take care.

Stevie Ray had another version of Voodoo Child live at the Cotton Club, but I like this version better because he just zones out on this one for sure and you get to see his finger movements and his riffs and I love his black outfit. I loved your reaction to this video. You are so humble and honest and beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

His walk off is so cool! Not to say anything about the GOAT HE IS! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Double Trouble is the one of the great rhythm sections ever!

that sound comes from a foot pedal called a wah pedal. the one he used belonged to jimi hendrix and was given to him cause jimi was his favorite guitarist

This is from one of his appearances on Austin City Limits a PBS show. This was a Jimi Hendrix song. Stevie went and asked Jimi's father for permission to record the song. Jimi's Dad is said to have given Stevie Jimi's Wahwah pedal that makes those sounds possible. Jimi was one of Stevie's idols.

SRV 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥 There is another great version of this where he plays the guitar behind his back and breaks a string and just carries on like the legend that he is Just keep doing you 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

You'll begin to love him - the man the person - who overcame his addiction issues via 12 Step after collapsing in 85 - he emerged and remained sober for 5 years until he left us. The best video to begin to begin to know the man behind the magic is "Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Lesson." Loving your journey and how you are sharing it - truly a great job. He is using what is called a "Wah Wah" pedal on the floor you step on to control the 'wah' sound. A very difficult and creative (Hendrix does this ame trick in the original) way to use this pedal is how he manages to do that fading unique awesome effect where it seems like he is just shoving his guitar to get that one note to fade out like he does in the intro. This video is from 1989, clean and sober and reaching new heights of mastery - 1 year later to be cut short :( . The older 'El Mocambo' version of his playing is so unbridled and incredible, like the first Texas Flood vid you did - I love that version of his playing so much, but recovery takes a while and he was finally combining his new clear and purposeful life and playing to become even greater as a sober man - that being said the stuff he did in 82 and 83 - it was from another dimension, so really no perfect analysis here....but safe to just say we all love him and he was as great a human being as he was a guitar God.

I can't think of a better introduction to the Blues, than Stevie Ray Vaughn ;) Enjoy the ride, it's a great one!

stevie really knew how to make a guitar sing

As a guitarist and knowing how to make all the sounds he gets out of his guitar at a basic level..I'm in awe at how well he did it. A genuine master.

Yes anyone who was over 10 during Woodstock knows that guitars can make these sounds - it's called a "Wah Wah" pedal and is from the late 60's onward. This is a Jimi Hendrix song and in fact Stevie is using Jimi's actual Wah Wah pedal here.

Gotta check Stevie from this same show doing Stevie Wonder's song "Superstition" great reaction btw...he breaks my brain too !!😂😂

I just love your reactions to Stevie Ray Vaughan!!!! May I suggest Life Without You live from the Capitol Theater. It is sooooooo good!!!! You will be amazed on a whole new level. Be sure it is the one from the Capitol Theater

check out riviera paradise next by stevie the live version..its very smooth and mellow...beautiful song

Debbie, you seem to be casting about for the right words to describe what watching him play (and yes, he must be watched to fully appreciate what he does in my opinion) does to you, so I'm going to provide a suggestion here: he melts your face off? SRV was heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, and so recorded a number of Jimi covers, this one included. My personal favorite, and one I highly HIGHLY recommend is "Little Wing". His rendition of that song is, imho, where he proved to me that he had transcended beyond Jimi...and I don’t say that lightly at all. It brings me to tears almost every time I hear it, and very few songs do that to me. Jimi Hendrix is considered by most to be, if not the greatest guitarist that ever lived, then certainly one of the most innovative, and I have revered Jimi since I was a kid, so it is hard for me to say that anyone has ever been better. But SRV was. There...I said it. But I bet they're jamming together up there right now, as kindred souls. There at the end you described the sound he was creating as a "wah-wah-wah" sound...and that is exactly what it is, created by a foot pedal (unsurprisingly called a wah-wah pedal) that is basically a tone filter that does largely the same thing that the tone knob on the guitar can do, but can be manipulated while playing, which the tone knob really can't. HOWEVER...if you watch closely while he is playing, he is constantly manipulating the tone, volume, and pick-up knobs on his guitar while playing to adjust his sound, all without disrupting the song at all. His guitar is not a separate entity. It is very much an integral part of his body and soul, an instrument of expression not unlike one's voice, hands, or facial expressions that is integral to himself. That is why he is the GOAT. RIP, Stevie. I miss seeing you at the Black Cat on 6th Street in Austin, Texas all those many years ago. Here is the link to "Little Wing" live. It is an instrumental. No words are necessary. As a fellow empath, you'll feel it too. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5x3aJZzss3Zl6M.html

LOL, Thank you for your average/normal perspective. It's refreshing. He has a wawa pedal and when he was bouncing he was continually pressing a foot pedal ( both are foot pedals) Stevie Ray is one of a kind, Truly legendary.

Also a song that does not get reacted to much but is great from same venue is leave my girl alone he plays a violent guitar

Another song from this same performancer that is a MUST SEE is "Couldn't Stand the Weather"....Epic performances by everyone in the band....

Born in Dallas Texas lived in Austin Texas the greatest guitarist ever has been and ever will be this was on Austin city limits RIP SRV WE ALL MISS YOU

Love your enthusiasm for our Stevie.❤️Donna G

Ain’t gonna give up on love is pure blues/ soul!

So many videos now of SRV playing and the screen is shared with folk/fans acting all amazed... The stage does NOT need to be infected with these people. The Lord himself must have thought, "this guy needs to be in heaven!".

Please watch early Stevie Ray at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1982 appearance. Hideaway & Rude Mood, where he’s the essence of cool!!!

Another SRV must is "LIFE WITHOUT YOU" at the Capitol theatre ...you jaw will hit the floor.

So glad you are doing srv reactions! Some others are "couldn't stand the weather " "dirty pool" " superstition " just to name a few, all of srv songs are incredible! ♥

Check out his songs "life without you" Live @ Caputal theater & "Tin Pan Alley" with Johnny Copeland LIVE I know You've been blown about away by what you've seen from him so far, well girl get ready when you watch these 2 you're gonna be on the floor or the ceiling one.

Ya have to realize one thing about Stevie's performances .. He plays both lead and rhythm guitar on one guitar. No .. he never learned to play guitar with lessons and no .. he doesn't read music either. SRV learned to play by ear. He was self-taught. He would put on the record of whoever at the time and play the song back until he gets it down pat. If you go back and watch #Texas Flood at the EL .. watch his mouth/lips when he really slows down the song to a crawl. He is mouthing, mimicking the sounds of the song. People said that when he did this, it made it easier for him to find the 'notes'/sounds on the guitar neck and play.

Yes you gotta check out “life without you live at capital theater” the guitar playing is next level and there is a part of the song that applies to today’s social climate.

He is using a foot pedal called a Wah-Wah to get the sounds you were asking about. He was amazing I saw him live about 30 years ago. RIP

He was an open channel. Music flowed through him. I saw him play live many times. It was something I'll never forget. His music touched so many people.

This was Stevie doing a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song, but Stevie puts his own spin on it. RIP SRV.

This is a cover of the song by Jimi Hendrix, written and recorded by Jimi in the late 1960s. He used a floor pedal that the guitar would plug into, with an output cord from the pedal to an amplifier. The pedal, when switched on, would vary the tone of the guitar from bass to treble when you rock the foot control lever up and down. This creates a "wah wah" effect. The device is aptly named a "wah wah pedal". Hendrix used a Vox pedal. Before he became known, he started his group "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" in England, where the Vox was acquired. When Hendrix was touring, as the pedal narrative goes, Stevie Ray's older brother, Jimmie Vaughan, was working with the Hendrix tour and got Hendrix's wah wah pedal. Well after Hendrix died, Jimmie V gave the pedal to his aspiring kid brother Stevie Ray ... and the rest is history. The original Jimi Hendrix recording of "Voodoo Child (slight return") - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpqKraeJq5OmmKc.html There is the much longer, slower blues version of this song recorded "live" in a studio. It is on the "Electric Ladyland" album. It is 15 minutes of in your face guitar virtuosity - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atKBZLhq25zbeoE.html This why Stevie Ray idolized Hendrix and his brother.. he

The Ending of that song hits YOUR SOUL!! 🤯🎸🔥🐐😍😁

He was using a wah pedal on that one. The absolute best guitar raw talent that ever was

Stevie was known to use the toughest guitar strings available. Yet if you watch closely, you can see how effortlessly he bends the strings to achieve many of the effects you hear. This is a testament to the incredible strength he had in those hands, which also testifies to the hundreds of thousands of hours he spent with a guitar in his hands. Add that Mozart level talent and you get the most amazing guitar performances ever!

Riviera Paradise (Live From Austin, TX). Promise; it's awesome

More on the anomaly--"Extra Ray Vaughan": Back in that day, no one played like him, (they still dont!) no one dressed or looked like him. (He was gorgeous too. If ya didn't notice!) No one had a genuine, sweet & ego free personality like he did. Another gem at the opposite end of Voodoo Chile to check out is Riviera Paradise. It showcases his jazz side influenced by George Benson, Wes Montgomery & Django Reinehardt. A great example (in a nutshell) of the scope of his talent. He rarely performed it live. IMO his best performance of it is during this same show in Oct 1989. Austin City Limits. Diehard superfans describe him as you did, having an alien connection. Just a joke to the majority but with the way he evoked emotion in his playing & how it showed on his face when he went into The Zone (duende as the bluesmen call it) I say there he goes again communicating with the mothership! Not to sound like a weirdo but there may be some truth to it! Let me explain that away: He did have a keen interest in UFOs & the extraterrestial! Read up on his iinspiring & bittersweet life story in the biographies Texas Flood, Caught In The Crossfire & chronobibliography Day By Day, Night After Night. I call these books my SRVibles. They're the most accurate & factual. Rave On Stevie💜 P.S. Watch his 2nd (1985) performance at Montreux. Good example of his vocal ability. Will give you goose bumps!

You want a great clip of SRV, then find his concert sound check video. He looks like he just rolled out of bed and plays the shit out of the guitar

SRV was the conduit through which the music flowed!

Also when you get a chance you should check out “look at little sister” by Stevie featuring Jeff Healey, Jeff was blind but was an amazing guitar player, he lost his sight at the age of one to cancer and passed in 2009 I think to lung cancer, Jeff said in an interview once he love playing with Stevie because it never was a competition just music. Also Jeff stared in the movie Road House with Patric Swazy.

The unusual sound you hear comes from the use of a foot pedal. Watch it again and note when he extends his right foot. This song was written by Jimi Hendrix, who excelled with the foot pedal. SRV is paying tribute to Jimi and taking this song to another level.

You should watch him and his brother Jimmie Vaughn play together on a double necked guitar. At the same time. The song is "Pipeline". Stevie always thought his brother Jimmie was better, but we all know Stevie is the GOAT!!

Wherever Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimmi Hendrix ended up the place will be rocking for eternity.

Thanks! One of the best guitar players ever.

Please react to the versions of two songs from this 1989 performance on the Austin City Limits show. The first is Riviera Paradise and the second is Couldn't Stand the Weather. You'll love them both, I promise!

I'd like to recommend for your dancing and listening pleasure Stevie and Johnny Copeland performing Tin Pan Alley.

That "wah wah" sound comes from a modulating WahWah pedal that the guitar signal is routed through. The pedal was actually the one owned by one of Stevie's idols....the late Jimi Hendrix. This song is a cover of Hendrix's original.

This is from the 1989 concert on Austin city limits, he was on fire that night and you can tell how alive and focused he feels compared to some of his earlier booze and drug fueled performances. After recovering from a near death emergency from his own excesses, with help from friends and family he turned it around and i can see how much more healthy he looked here. Sadly after all that, one year after this concert he was gone.

He gets under your skin and you end up just being amazed. Many of the best guitar players from multiple genre' felt the same way and the quotes from the very best about Stevie are fantastic. Slow things down a little, try the songs Lenny and Rivera Paradise or maybe Life by the Drop.

One thing that fascinates me is how he is constantly adjusting the guitar, diistortion equipment, etc. to get just the effects he wants, all without missing a beat. He was always "in the zone" but still very much aware of where the music was taking him and what he needed to do to get there. He's certainly one of the very top guitarists of all time. RIP 😢 You hit the nail on the head when you said that he didn't play the guitar, he was the guitar.

I saw him play live in a small venue in Detroit , changed my guitar playing. he was the best

I play guitar and watching SRV is overwhelming 'cuz he's throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it and it takes several watchings for me to soak it all up, and even years and countless listenings later...watching him play still makes me bugeyed. Truly inspired and perhaps even channeled at times. P.S. At the beginning and the end, he's using a WAH pedal to get that wah wah sound but, like everything else SRV does...it's next level.

I know and I cry, still, Knowing he's no longer here.

Some people are born with the music in 'em. SRV was on of those blessed ones and he had the divine fire in his fingers.

Your mouth was just dropped the entire reaction. Overload x10! Tin Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland and SRV should be the next enjoyment for you.:)

Stevie and Eddie VanHalen i concider to be the most influencial guitar players, Ed changed the world of guitar and Stevie made blues mainstream cool again and influenced alot of players to make the guitar emote again.

I rarely ever watch a vocal coach reaction. They constantly pause, try to sing along, talk about things that I don't understand. I just want to hear an average person react to music that I love because I am an average person that loves music. I simply adore SRV! His music brings me so much joy, but at the same time it gives me an ache in my heart because he isn't with us any more. There are only 4 artists that do this to me, Elvis, Prince, Jani Lane (Warrant's lead singer), and SRV. Great reaction!

Hi coming from England when I was young growing up listening to this Awesome music I am now retired and still listening to this Awesome music👍👍👍👍 all the best from Nottinghamshire UK

People that knew him well would say he almost never put down the guitar. Tens of thousands of hours of intense study, practice and devotion and hands that could strangle an elephant, lol. Cheers!

Stevie and his guitar become one from the first note. Jim

What he uses to make the wah sound is actually called a Wah Wah Pedal.

The G.O.A.T.!!!!

its originally a jimi hendrix song. this is stevies cover of it sis

Lol The look on your face in the beginning is pure panic. I always wondered what I looked like watching his first concert. I have to assume that’s it. 😂

He was using a Wah Wah. Technically it's a Bandpass Filter where the frequency of the resonance peak is moved up and down in the spectrum. In the old days it was a pedal where you put your foot on and use it like a pedal in a car. There's also Auto or Touch Wah, where you don't move a pedal, but Control the effect with your picking dynamics... All very technical... 🤓😂

Little fun fact for you,,..the foot pedal SRV is using belonged to Jimmy Hendrix and SRV went and asked Jimmy's father If he could use it to do this song with and Jimmy's father gave it to him .

I agree with you. SRV is one of the greatest guitarists who ever lived. IMO, he is the best rock/blues guitarist ever.

He has a wah pedal on floor to do wah wah sound and a drive pedal etc. But not only a master at guitar he is a master at sounds,,,,some of that solo is playing while he slaps 5 way switch back and forth so power is going from front pickup to bridge pickup real fast,,,plus his amp is dimed so the valves are screaming,,,,lol

“That was the longest note in the history of the land of ever.” Perfect 🤩 🎸

If you can stand being floored by more greatness, watch and listen to Jeff Healey play SEE THE LIGHT. Jeff Healey was a blind guitarist of phenomenal ability, who, as it turns out, was discovered by Stevie Ray Vaughn. The two of them also have video together called PRIDE AND JOY, from Stevie's first album. Stevie also loved the great bluesman Albert King. He was thought to be difficult and hard to impress. But the two managed to play together and produce some magic beautiful together. The songs I remember them playing were BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN and DON'T LIE TO ME. You're doing great. Keep going. Enjoy.

I can understand that you were exhausted after this song. It's a lot to take in. WOW

oh plus the trem changes his strings from tight to loose,,,a master at controled feedback

👏🙌👏🙌‼️Another great reaction Debbie💯 I sure am enjoying your fun filled, gobsmacked, face peeled back journey down the Stevie Ray rabbit hole. And yes. His intensity, passion, and joy of playing can be overwhelming and exhausting. This means now is the perfect time to introduce you to a mellower chill side to his playing with a reaction to Riveria Paradise from this same venue which is Austin City Limits 1989. It is his musical expression of a soothing and healing balm sent out and dedicated to all who are still out there suffering in any way. He created this after his own hard won sobriety from rehab and recovery. Of all his magnificent work, for me this remains one of his finest. Here is the link kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acmPa7mGsZvOm6c.html And please, I appreciate your honest reactions and when I am in the mood for a more in depth breakdown there are very great reactors to turn to but you understand and appreciate this music on a deeper emotional level and intuit the emotion conveyed that is spot on. Thanks for bringing this today✌️👏🙌. I look forward to your reaction to Riveria Paradise. I noticed many commenters requesting it as well you can thank us later✌️💙

Just freaking amazing isn't it😘🤣

BB King said most good guitarists played in words, he (BB) played in sentences-Stevie Ray played in paragraphs.

You can't see his feet activating a pedal called a pitch-shifting-delay but honestly I've never heard anyone else use one quite like this.

the vibrating his guitar part his foot is going up and down on a Wah pedal that you cant see....that's how it does that. his body is shaking because he's pumping that pedal up and down

I can't wait for your discovery of JEFF HEALEY!!! Try the song "See the Light" from a show called Night Music in 1988.

I grew up in the 60s+ 70s with some of the best guitarists of all time ❤💯👍👏

The GOAT.

The sound he makes at the beginning is made using a Wah-Wah pedal.

There was times he played so much, at the end up playing he would have to super glue his fingertips back together.

That wah sound is from what's called a wah wah pedal. And if you really watch his hands, he's constantly messing with his volume and tone knobs as well as the pickup switch on his guitar. To get the right sound. He was the best.

YOU ARE GOING TO BE BLOWN AWAY BY A GUITAR VIRTUOSO 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯👏👏👏👏

Stevie is using a wah wah pedal (an effects box on the floor) to make that sound. Commonly used in reggae, many in rock, like Jimi Hendrix have used it well. Stevie also has a fuzz tone pedal, and a rotosphere pedal (making that wowowowow sound by tweaking the pedal with his foot.)

*Beautiful Beautiful Deb* .... so the sound in the beginning you were bewildered by is a wah wah pedal. The sound you were baffled by right after is/was a foot pedal that overloads the feedback.... Also, the song is a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" *not* Child.! It is more of a tip of the hat to Black cadence.... so you got the REAL DEAL.! I could droll on but I thoroughly enjoyed this.!!! *David* .....

Love your reviews - keep up the great work.

Doll. Please check out Stevie and Albert King in session. Albert was a god/mentor who was tough as nails but luved Stevie. You'll see where a lot of Stevies sound came from.

It's called a Wah-Wah pedal which he controls with his foot.

The "whaw, whaw, whaw" sound he's making with his guitar is throught an electronic effects foot-pedal called the "whaw-whaw pedal" or "cry-baby pedal."

Here is Liliac's new song called Carousel just released a few minutes ago.

He has effects electronics to get many those sounds, they are foot operated switch boxes and pedal boxes on the stage floor. One is called a WAH WAH pedal and others distort or cut parts of the sound out. Combining these with talent, creativity and experience he arrives at this sound. The effect you see him use at the end is called a whammy bar. These effects methods are not new, they have been around since the 50's and 60's and continue to evolve but there are purists that like to keep it vintage and analog.

It's ok lady, we understand. When you witness absolute perfection it can be overwhelming.

This is a cover of a Hendrix song. Hendrix was one of SRV's big influences. You have to be pretty confident to even attempt to cover Hendrix but he pulls it off.

That guitar was a hand me down from his older brother that he reworked to his style of playing 😊

I started guitar at age 9 so I’ve been playing for 45 years, so twice what Stevie played and I’m half as good as him (on a good day) lol. So yes I can get those sounds out of a guitar but but I would have been almost ashamed to play in his presence lol. 😂😂😂 I’m not too proud to admit it either, there’s no shame.

You have the prettiest "stank face" on KZfaq! Love your fun and honest reactions.