I sure am....music today in general doesn't match up.

This guy!!!

2024 now, lol

The man put the blues engage the world and myself some hope 😎🎸

I am

I never got over it myself. My favorite guitar player as well.

Thats why he only did the studio work with bowie and didnt go out on tour. His coke use was out of hand

bob kelly read the book genius

Same here. Saw him on Johnny Carson, clean & sober, just had a wierd feeling that he might not be around here much longer as he had come full circle. I was inconsolable as I had been major fan many years. Saw him @ San Diego County Fair @ N/C, he was obviously quite drunk but never missed a beat. All my friends thought of me as I had turned many of them onto SRV, you just gotta hear this guy!! Can't wait to see him again. RIP SRV😭

The Cool Cat with The Hat & The Strat 🤩

Just thought I'd tell you stevie going to be featured on pbs.oct17 10am.central.austin city limits.

@Braylon Brennan okay bot

Agreed.. i don't know why there'd be even ONE thumbs down.. how? why??

@Joel Howard Bruh dont fall for that

The person that doesn't like SRV doesn't exist

hell yah

Rory Gallagher or Gary Moore would be nice also

Bob Marley.

Him and Randy Rhoads.

Hendrix and Stevie

Nobody ever talks about his voice! It was like " honey over gravel"

I think this is why Stevie does such great covers. His guitar is is innovative yet still maintains a bluesy edge. He keeps things close to the melody and owns those lyrics too.

i loved him so much that i named my youngest daughter after him Stevie Re"Lopez

Right on, he had a fantastic voice and always sang perfectly live. I wonder if he had perfect pitch.

He never liked his voice but yeah, a vocal powerhouse

I am 83 and I think he is perfect

When he plays Voodoo child he's in a trance!

Only tge best of the best

"Get there it's" killed him. His helicopter NEVER should have flown that day.

ALLEN COLLINS STEVE GAINS JIMMY HENDRIX RANDY ROADS EDDIE VAN HALEN ROY CLARK

Kevin I'm with you. Hendrix 1st S.R.V. BEST.

@@alexxxx9221 you don't mention Clapton ?

@@shyba2011 I was mentioning the ones who past away😉👍😎

@@alexxxx9221 ok sorry about that. In that case shout out to B.B. KING.👍😎🐶

Well, what can I say? His job here on earth was done, and now Heaven is enjoying some great blues! They say everything in heaven is perfect, and I know he fits right in! A reunion is waiting on us, and we'll meet again.....he said so, as did Jimi...."see ya in the next one, DON'T BE LATE!"

@Doug Richardson So true. Like losing Neil of RUSH this year - dammit.

me too, bro. on that awful day, i shed many tears

Here is the other side of the unfairness of life. The unavailability of jobs in the rust belt drove me to Austin just in time to see SRV on the verge of stardom. Standing in the midst of a crowd of regulars at Antone's it was easy to spot the other newcomers like myself. They would be looking around like they needed someone to confirm that what they were seeing and hearing was really happening. Over Stevie's music you could read their lips, "WTF". It wasn't long before famous musicians in town for their own gig would be showing up after hours to join him onstage when he was in town. To be there after the bartenders were gone and the doors were closed felt like the greatest of all honors.

@@larryh451 Great stuff there /We didn't see him in the SF Bay much until he was starting to tour clubs who knows where . I went to The Stone in SF .About 600 people max .A friend was insistant that we go . Lucky to snag a seat off to the side of the stage , but up close .. I was one of those guys looking around with the WTF ?

Same here. He was so modest.

SuperAce5150 truly a humble man. . . "There's room for everybody "

I still cry

Stevie Ray Vaughn was raised in a poor family. The old ragged guitar was from his childhood where he learned Blues from the Black Masters. He was welcomed as the Only White man that could ever play the blues like a black man. He understood the blues because it was his life growing up. He almost killed himself drinking so much that he was throwing up blood. He cleaned up and was on his last tour and took the wrong chopper. He died on impact in a burst of flames of a full tank in the chopper. SRV

Derek Smith ...What year did he die? I had never heard of him...sad to say, but...Wow, he was great!!

Hide arseo Stevie don't hide

Have you ever heard their live jam session that was recorded in Ontario Canada I believe it was? Blues After Sunrise. Unbelievable brother!!

I wish stevie Ray was still here also. Saw him in 1988 in orono me.put on a he'll of a show.

He already did bro

And Albert sure should know

He was so genuine and sweet and soft-spoken. I remember once wondering if he knew Jesus.

Lord knows, I certainly hope he did. I was so hurt when he died and that’s the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear of a loss; Was he Saved?

Could you imagine if Arsenio asked the NWA rap group if they liked Polka music?

Stevie made the guitar talk, scream,and cry. He played the hell out of it. He was good as BB King.

@Frank Lopez ok what did i say to deserve getting attacked? Of course youtube is full of trolls

I have the right to like or dislike different styles of music. Now if you want to see a real attack on rap here it goes. For one rap is spelled wrong they forget the silent c in front of rap. And 2 i could play rap by putting a shoe in the dryer, grab a Dr Seuss book. Pull by pants halfway down, turn my hat backwards, grab my crotch and read the book out loud throwing curse words in now and then.

@@odudi listen 2 93 til infinity by souls of mischief man change ur mindset

TREVORJ.BLUES89 I truly believe that he would be the GOAT if he were around. He and Eddie.

TJB_GTR he always is

Guitar_Music_Tube🎶 me too my man, me too

Yes me too. Greatest 🎸 in my lifetime

Guitar_Music_Tube🎶 mm

it's now 31 folks with no taste....

Now 60. What a bunch of miserable bastards they must be.

Now 62 people are in need of a labotomy.

No shit

If a music video does not have Bieber in it, I vote down. It's my policy.

“Matched only by his playing” I disagree, his playing is the main draw. Don’t get me wrong, he was a great singer, but his playing was on a level untouchable by anyone else.

+Gary Allen Amen brother!!!

I get sad thinking about how he left this world but his music always takes me to another level. We miss you Stevie!

+Gary Allen Amen. Texas Loud, Texas Proud!

Guess you never got to see Johnny Winter!!

I did, but SRV was way better, sorry.

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Yeah man….was fully on top his game and never played/sounded better

Patrick Wagener Listening to him anytime is great but listening after getting baked is mind blowing

You must have had some pretty cool parents.. What an experience!

I got to see him around that same time in Dallas, and he blew the roof off here too! He was electric! And the music flowed THROUGH him. He was amazing!

I saw him in 85 @ pier 6 Pavilion. I was 18 and a budding drum player and a girl I was dating her uncle took a bunch of us to see him and it was the best concert experience I've ever had! In fact I got Chris Layton's drumsticks that night and still have them in my collection all these years later! I cried like a baby when I heard he had died! It's a shame cause he had finally started enjoying life without the need for the drugs and booze. RIP Stevie!

Nobody!!!

He certainly was.

Yep

Amen to that. I still think about him. I was 19 when he passed and remember that day so clearly.

Hey we have the same last name 🤣🤣

@@aitf99 I saw his last show at Alpine Valley, Wis. Practically my backyard, when we woke up and heard the news of the crash we were devastated! Gone But Not Forgotten ✌

NEVER FORGOTTEN!💜

I think buddy guy would have something to say about that but stevie most certain carried the torch for the old guard at that time

Mark Cowart Jimi Hendrix and Stevie both were best

Clapton should be in every conversation. All different type of players, not one better th an the other.

Clapton is on record (along with credible witnesses) as calling Stevie the best guitarist he ever heard. But I do hear what you're saying.

RiRi Hope actually Buddy Guy did have something to say about that when he voted Stevie into the rock n roll hall fame as the greatest guitarist to have lived.

Plus the strings

Lenny.

Your so right... he’s the altoid of guitarist.

Wăckĕrly lenny was his spouse that gave him the brown strat that he named lenny... that’s #1 his self proclaimed first wife, he said she screams for me not at me...

@Theo V...Ray Hennings Heart of Texas Music store on S.Lamar in Austin Ray gave Stevie that Guitar Mr Ray pick the guitar up in a deal with Christopher Cross..offered him any guitar in the store...On YOU TUBE there is Ray Henning yelling the story about Stevie the guitar and their Soecial Friendship anywho...missin Stevie Angels Band is Playing ! ol man way down in TX...JD

How did you meet him? Did you get to chat with him much?

2019 and us blues junkies still wonder "what might have been" with this cat.... And yet, his catalog will live forever with us.

I don't know anyone calling SRV a pretender.

@@shyba2011 me neither!! He was anything and everything but a pretender! Everyone of his heroes that was alive while he was playing ended up respecting him just as much as he respected them!

There are haters everywhere but srv was so much the real deal that even the black musicians he worshipped made him part of their groups. Go watch Albert king and srv and listen to Albert talk about how he taught him everything he knows from him, and how it's his turn to shine, and show the world the true power of blues music. If anything is sacred in this life as authentic as srv playing his guts out each and every second he touched a guitar then I don't know anything about music or life in general if someone thinks he is pretending to be a black blues man

Best ever

Saw him a couple months prior..opened for Joe Cocker. Thought it should've been the other way around

I was at the last show. Walking back to the car when I heard the first helicopter take off. Woke up the next morning to the news SRV died in a helicopter crash... Sad day...

Paul Vienne I was at his funeral 109 degrees hottest day on record in Dallas

Same, still hurting.

Yeah, Reece was killing it!

ancientpelican - Amen!! RIP Stevie

Arsenio was the real deal. Just like Steven. I was on the radio doing a car CAIRE show in84. And me and Jim Turner. Played honey bee. The phones exploded. Who was that. Man..

No one else can ever ever stand in this guy's boots, but there is one guy that I follow that might get a similar musical journey. Check out Eric Gales.

Delight Schwartz Gales is a beast! If you look at his debut cd cover(which I had in 91), he’s paying tribute to SRV with his choice of hats. Awesome taste in guitar talent by the way.

Barry Cohen Just did. Thanks for pointing us to true guitar talent. I will be sure to stay abreast of this kid as he matures and develops musically.

Josh Smith is pretty nuts, I recommend checkin him out

Just watch SRV triple pick behind his back live at the El mocambo in Texas Flood. No one can hold a candle to him. Enjoy Pickin in Paradise Stevie 🎸🎶🎶

I remember seeing him for the second time, at what was then called 'Great Woods' in Mansfield Ma. when he took the stage (headlining a blues festival) I knew I was watching a legend. he touched the first note, and I remember feeling the vibrations of that note under my feet (no need to tell him to turn it up),which was in the grass section of this music shed. he was received like the guitar slinger- legend he was .wearing a blazer, I wondered if he felt the heat like I did. in less than a year, he was gone.

he was a hard act to follow.

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He was fine as wine !!

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I was building a huge porch for a friend. We had just put all the rough posts in place....when it came over the radio that Stevie was gone. Never reacted to ANYthing else in my life like this, but I took my 36oz. hammer and I DESTROYED one of those 6x6 posts to splinters. Just smashed away for ten minutes....soooo fkn angry at the unfairness of it all. My co-workers just stood back and let me get it out. Finally, exhausted, I slammed my ass on the front steps.....as my buddy cracked me a beer, and said under his breath, "It should have been Clapton." We both fell out, and proceeded to drink and dance the night away. Rest In Rhythm SRV

i was just sitting here thinking that Arsenio was one of the worst, most awkward late night hosts I've ever seen.

You're so wrong, just look at the drummer's suit.

Music definitely straight downhill. But at least we have Trump shredding some really rank government officials.. he's my SRV replacement fix..

@@jaymorgan8017 trump can get a gig with the prison band ,once they get used to him !!

@@jaymorgan8017 trump is nothing but a zionist who does nothing but pander to Jews and their money. He constantly talks about low black, and latino unemployment but wont even stand by or mention the very people who got him into office and that is working class white Americans. This country is turning blue due to demographic change and trump does nothing about it.

all the replies to this coherent comment are SHITE

And the drummer is now with Kenny Wayne Sheperd.

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AMEN TO THAT

Yes Sir!

you can't brag, if you are a nobody

Absolutely

never see a man playing a guitar like that again!!!!!!!

He digs into that guitar neck like a rabid dog!

Amen brotha

You were at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin The Nite he died

Tightrope was another one on that album Dealing with addiction... However I never put two into together about instep And of course the 12 steps he was following

Dont forget about Roky Erickson

Lightnin Hopkins

Freddy King “The Texas Cannonball”

Johnny and Edgar Winter.

Doyle Branhall ll

He would've. He liked Terry Kath, too.

Patriot 1 RWB from a different demension. saw him in 83😃

They are completely different styles. Page played many styles even fusion jazz , Hendrix and Clapton are different. And say that he is the best guitar player ever is false. I thing you exaggerate a lot . There’s flamenco players or others guitar styles that beat SRV. Internet exaggerations.

... I love SRV. I own every album, I download every bootleg I can find. The man was a blues god. ok? Still, the kind of statement you made is BS. Stevie himself was modest, soft spoken and a class act. He gave credit to all the greats, and said he learned from them.

Concur that Patriot 1 RWB!

@@kryfon good point.