The greatest guitarist who ever lived, he wasn't a player, he and the guitar were one, he was a conduit to the music which just flowed through his hands, he could play anything.

Props to Chris Layton on drums, and Tommy Shannon on bass. There's a wall of thunderous sound coming off that stage, and it's only 3 people. The definition of the term Power Trio!

He's a guitar god. I met him once decades ago, really sweet and really humble. He has been missed all these years.

He was actually adjusting one of the knobs on his pedals. The tone wasn't quite right for him. Another fun fact, Stevie was legendary for his strong hands. You'll see he has his eyes closed about 90% of the time if not more. He used 13 gauge strings which are some of the thickest and are difficult to bend but he would still break strings.

When be bends down, he's adjusting his effects pedals.

He liked playing in small bars where he might not be recognized. One night playing the calluses on his fingers came off and his fingers were bleeding, he super glued them back on and went back out and kept playing. That's love of music.

Yes, I watched him live and talk to him. He was a man that loves at what do. He loves the blues. He had hart and soul in his music. He died the year I graduated high school 1990. The first guitar was given to him by his brother was named "Jimbo" a 1951 Fender "Nocaster". The SRV guitar is named "Number One". His brother has the guitar now. His brothers name is Jimmie. RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan. A brother love is for life.

Legit guitar God. This level does not happen that often and leaves us way too soon.

Little Stevie Ray Vaughan, fact, his last concert has at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, in a small town in Wisconsin called East Troy, and I'm very blessed to say I was there😁✌

u really out here introducing me to whole new genres tho.. i have never heard of this dude, but u right, he straight dope!

Stevie don’t be playing around, you guys should hear Look at little sister by him! So amazing.

Bb king called stevie ray vaughan the greatest guitar player ever in any music as did Eddie van halen said as well

Love Saint Stevie forever! He played that guitar with his whole body and soul.

His band, "Double Trouble" played right with him so give them credit too.

I will never forget that morning in 1990 when I woke up and heard the horrible news. Rest In Peace.

Stevie was adjusting the knobs on his foot peddle. He was a perfectionist. This is one of those rare performances when he didn't break a string. He used the heaviest gauge strings available, designed to not break, but he broke them on a regular basis. You can see him bending the s...t out of them on the close ups.

Stevie Ray Vaughn, aka: MR. Austin City Limits. That has to be the best live performance by any musician, of any kind of style. You are in my opinion, o e of the greatest, if not the greatest guitarist of all time. That guitar from that video is in a museum in a glass casing, along with all his memorabilia. Go rest high on that mountain Stevie Ray, your .music will never die , neither will your memory. G.O.A.T.😇🥰🤣💯💥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

He didn't even have to look at the guitar man he felt the music rolling through him and it was God Given

No, he did not drop anything...he bent down to adjust the knobs on one of his foot pedals on the floor....and fyi...the face is called "stank face" 😉😬

SRV was not only about his playing but also his guitar setup with crazy thick strings and his amazing guitar TONE.... one of a kind..... simply amazing. Died in helicopter crash on tour with Eric Clapton who was in the other helicopter that made it ok.

The greatest. His passion is unbelievable. He felt every note he played.

At the end of the song when he switched style, he was playing to his idol, Jimi Hendrix, in Jimi's style of play. A lot of people debate who was better. SRV would have despised that. He loved and was probably Jimi's biggest fan.

"If I don't see you in this world See ya in the next one Don't be late Don't be late" Chilling....considering his early, untimely and tragic death. Legend, greatest person to ever pick up a guitar, kind, compassionate human being...... So happy and proud to say I got to see him live 5 times.

SRV is the GOAT. So amazing to watch. He never played Voodoo Chile the same way twice. This is my all-time fave, lightning fast version. I think he was sober during this time after getting treatment. Another legend gone too soon. RIP

He was from Dallas, he is truly an Icon and in my opinion..... The GOAT!! He is missed. The Man and his guitar were ONE! He was born to play the strings!! RIP Stevie!!!👍🏽

Stevie playing “Texas Flood” live at the El Mocambo is a must see and hear.

When I first visited Austin TX I jogged around the whole city and randomly came across a SRV statue. I knew then I loved this city

Tin Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland and Stevie Ray Vaughan! If you want to see where Stevie Ray is in his element, Texas Blues is where it is! It's one of the greatest performances I've ever seen!

Adjusting his tone, I'm so happy you guys have experienced SRV, once I heard SRV for the first time, I've been a fan since... Prince was bad, but SRV was a virtuoso, the GOAT.. He kept Jimi's sound and still added his own, that's super hard to do at the same time when covering someone else song.

I saw him play twice back in the day in Illinois Ill never forget it, noone sat down for almost two hours. It was like watching a God play guitar. I got the news at work when he died, we were stunned for about five minutes. Stevies the best blues/soul player ive ever seen.

Prince isn’t even in the same category as Stevie.....”real talk”.

I have a long list of favorite guitarists, and at the top (of the list) is Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I had many chances to see him perform live, but unfortunately put it off and then it was too late. I've heard that he was a very humble man, never bragging about his talent and always giving credit to the great blues musicians who he learned from. R.I.P. Stevie

When he covered Jimi Hendrix tunes he did them serious justice!!!!!!

Prince and SRV had very similar influences growing up. Good ear!! 🔥🔥👊👊

Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash over East Troy, Wisconsin on August 27, 1990 at age 35. He is buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park which is located in Dallas, Texas. He was and still is a legend, Rest In Peace SRV!!!

You've watched the best guitarist, to have lived. There has been and will never be anyone like him .

Stevie Ray was a SWEETHEART! ❤MY STEVIE RAY.

I still tear up talking about his passing 31 years ago. I remember where I was when I heard. RIP Stevie--so much love and respect.

That's the most solid bass I've heard in a while. He and the drummer are tight as hell.

Stevie Ray was one of my 2 favorites. PRINCE was an amazing all around artist and could kill the guitar. For any doubters watch his COACHELLA performance of, "CREEP" it's mind blowing

I can't get enough of your reaction videos. The diversity is just awesome! All I have to give is my love for you both! Keep entertaining please. Much love ❤️ ❤️

I went to one of his concerts and I just stood there and cried like a baby through the whole concert. It was like I was in the presence of god. The video doesn’t do it justice. Being there in person was unbelievable. Best concert I’ve ever been to in my life. I quit going to concerts after that night cause I knew I would never see another one as good as this. Unbelievable !!! I know he dropped his pick once and picked it up without missing a beat.

So happy to see y'all enjoying STEVIE RAY VAUGHN he was a very special man! This was one of his last shows before he passed I would love to see you do his live TIN PAN ALLEY WITH JOHNNY COPELAND. AMAZING BLUES MASTERPIECE 💜💜💜

I was lucky enough to have seen SRV play just one month before he died in 1990 - one of the best shows I ever saw. What made it doubly tragic was that he was newly clean and sober and was playing at the top of his game (as you observed). He was so grateful to be alive and made a point of letting the audience know. If you want to get a taste of another side of Stevie, I highly recommend this emotional track (Riviera Paradise) from the same show you just watched (Austin City Limits 1989). This is one of my all-time favorites: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acmPa7mGsZvOm6c.html - it was one of the last things I watched with my Dad before he passed earlier this year.

He died Aug. 27th 1990...not the 28th. Died in the mountains of East Troy, Wisconsin in a helicopter crash just minutes after finishing a concert. SRV was invited to that concert by Eric Clapton...who was supposed to be on the same copter as SRV. When Clapton saw SRV for the first time in 1983, SRV opened for Clapton's world tour beginning in Clapton's home town of London. Clapton had never heard of SRV before and when he went into the audience to listen to Stevie Ray, he immediately canceled the world tour. He said "He's the best guitarist I've seen..." and walked away like he'd seen a ghost, I SAW that interview and the concert on BBC in 1983.

My personal favorite 🎸 thanks mom and dad for having me grow up on this!

The Pride of Texas! To date, the best Guitarist ever. No master guitarist can match his level of: difficulty, clarity, sound, and in doing all, utilizing (out of necessity) the heaviest gauge guitar wires, and still break ‘em. RIP GREAT ONE.

That guitar was an extension of his body. Unbelievable talent. We lost a good one when SRV died.

He's the only celebrity, sports, film or music that i almost cried when he died.

He’s that good, people never hear how good that drummer is.

I was fortunate enough to see him live in the late 80’s before he died. It was amazing!! He’s the only one who could have dared to play Jimi Hendrix and could pull it off!

I think he’s adjusting his equipment, tweaking his sound mid performance, which is crazy because he doesn’t miss a beat doing it. If you haven’t seen it. He switches guitars mid performance in a few videos because he breaks his string. Still doesn’t miss a beat. Dude was legendary.

I see where a few people say he bends down to adjust the knobs on his foot pedals to tweak the guitar tone, but that's what the foot pedal itself is for. When he's bending down it's to quickly grab himself a new guitar pick as he had just broken the one he was using. Right there on the floor in front of him is a little rack holding a boatload of them as he breaks so many throughout each song and show. Great reaction, I was fortunate enough myself to see him live two weeks before his fateful helicopter crash.... I'll never forget that show...

I grew up in Austin & Stevie was Austin. As a child he would listen to the black delta blues & Chicago blues guitarists & play note for note & the made it his own. He heard Hendrix & he became his idol. In this performance he had got clean from drugs & found God, then died in the heli accident. He used to get so coked up, sometimes he had to be helped to the stage, but when they put his guitar in his hands he would play like he was sober & channel Hendrix through his fingers.

The goat period Stevie was taken too soon imagine what still could have been

Hey guys i was a stage hand at the capitol theater in Passaic N.J when Stevie Ray played. i was like 15 feet away on the side of the stage while he played. actually meet him during sound check and after the show. He was a great man. if u have not checked it out u should. Stevie Ray at the Capitol theater in Passaic N.J October 1985.

Check out Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Capitol Theater. Life With out you.Great guitar playing on this song.

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Austin City Limits, live 81 or 83, Voodoo Child cover the. Greatest blues guitarist and singer, ever! This is a Hendrix cover. Bowie had him play on his Let's dance , album. Then asked him to join his band. SRV turned him down!!😮😮 Greatest guitarist ever!! Died young, leaving the Montreux Jazz Festival, in a terrible helicopter crash. RIP to SRV. U should watch all his Austin City Limits, concerts! Ironically, first time he went to Montreaux, he was booed mercilessly, they felt he wasn't Jazz enough! When he went back in 95, he was treated as the reigning god of the show! And then he died...if u watch just one more of his vids, it should be from this show, Texas Flood! His look, blues voice, guitar ability, showmanship... God purpose built this man to play the Blues! There's been a lot of great guitarists , but combined with his voice, look, presence, voice, showmanship and ability , there's only him. Besides Eddie Van Halens' Frankenstein guitar, this is the most valuable guitar on the planet, and his brother, Jimmy Vaughn, has it! If u asked people for a list of top 20 guitarist all time, most people's would be very similar. But if u said, out of that list, who's complete... stage showmanship, ability, presence, perfect voice to the music, no thinking or delay in his freestyle, song writing, etc., There's only SRV! I've always said, Prince was a brutal guitarist, he does a live version of While my guitar Gently Weeps. With like 10 of the best living guitarists , and he smokes them all! But he could learn guitar and showmanship all over, from SRV!

Tommy Shannon on bass, Chris Layton on drums really driving things along for SRV. They were a tight group.

I was blessed to see him a few times & had tix to see his next performance here in Phx, a month or so before he died in that helicopter crash. 😭😠 He was set to play at the AZ State Fair. We, instead, had a kegger party in his honor, blaring his music all night. He was taken from us too soon! ❤️

To say Stevie is talented is a colossal understatement. Stevie was one of those rare, once in a generation, supremely gifted people that were born to do what they do. Stevie idolized the great blues players of his time and those that came before him. Whenever he would play with the likes of B.B. King, Albert King and, Johnny Copeland and the rest he always showed them the greatest respect and admiration. Stevie was a very humble person. He received the highest honor, praise and respect from the best blues players of his era during his time on earth. Stevie was heavily influenced by Jimmy Hendrix and all of the greatest black blues players during his time, but his greatest influence and mentor was Albert King. Stevie idolized Albert. He would spend as much time with Albert as he could so that he could learn how to play like Albert. Rock guitar legend, Eric Clapton was so impressed by Stevie’s talent that when he was scheduled to play after Stevie during a blues concert Eric, refused to go on. When asked why he wouldn’t go on, Eric said, “How do you follow that?” Eric said, “I have never seen a man more at one with his ax than Stevie Ray Vaughn is. Stevie received high praise from B.B. King, Albert Collins, Howlin’ Wolf and so many other great blues players. It was at the time of Stevie’s death that he was finally receiving the national recognition that he deserved. Two weeks before Stevie died in that helicopter crash my brother saw Stevie at a blues concert that had Joe Cocker head lining with Stevie and Double Trouble backing him up. My brother didn’t know who Stevie was before the concert and when he described his concert experience to me he said Joe was good, but Stevie Ray Vaughn blew him and the rest of the crowd away.

You better leave my little girl alone by Stevie Ray is absolutely insane! You won’t see anyone play the blues better! You won’t be sorry:) Nice reaction fam!

They actually put up a statue of him in Austin Texas. RIP Stevie Ray, you are loved and missed.....

Tin Pan Alley with Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Copeland!! My very favorite!! Play when you can....😜 I’ll be waiting!! ❤️Tennessee

What gets completely missed (it’s so subtle) is the knobs he’s constantly hitting and switching as he’s playing this song. It’s so incredible

Dont come knocking when u see the party rocking

Most guitarists make faces or move their heads weirdly while they play. It lets all the tension, while playing,, to come out from somewhere other than their hands. There are many funny faces and head movements to be seen.

You need to hear Stevie Ray Vaughan “pride and joy”

Pride and Joy ❤️from Stevie Ray Vaughn!!

He made a deal with the devil. I don't know what stevie got but the devil got guitar lessons. Joking

Gone way too soon!! RIP SRV!! and my Brother, y'all are so right about those bottles!! THEY ARE THE BEST!!! 👍👍👍🤜🤛😊😊

Lucky enough to see him before he died. Was in a gym at Northeastern University and they had those folded seats on the floor of the gym. By the end of the 1st song, all the seats were stacked against the walls and everybody was dancing their asses off. Was awesome ! Good stuff guys !

Watching this musical genius, made me think of all the computerized music we have today & how fewer kids are playing instruments. Makes me worried for the future of music! At this rate, a day will come where instruments will be a thing of the past & there's nothing like watching a musician play an instrument like it's an extension of their body & soul! We gotta keep encouraging the youth of today & tomorrow to play instruments!

Read an article about SRV. His manager said he needed to started playing with his eyes open to connect with the audience. He would play entire songs with his eyes closed!!

Great reaction guys! Stevie was a true class act. He could have recorded Voodoo Child without permission, but he actually visited Jimi Hendrix’s father to ask. If you want to see the true soul of the man, both musically and personally, check out Life Without You recorded at the Capital Theater. Amazing.

I saw SRV in a lil pub In Virginia Beach. Only 150 peeps there. Then I went to 9 more of his shows. He died same day as my grandmother and me and my brother cried a lot that day. He was the best!

I use to see Stevie at the Rome Inn in Austin Texas back in 1975 and 1976 he had a band called The Triple Threat Revue with Lou Ann Barton and W C Clark, cover charge was $3.00 , man he was always great ,RIP Stevie , guys you should do a video on Freddie King a blues guitarist that influenced Clapton, Stevie, and countless others , he was called The Texas Cannonball, and died young 45 or so of a heart attack , love your show

Celebration of Blues and Soul Texas Flood. Amazing performance.

I can't feel anything but good vibes!!! Give the drummer some . True reactions Half , yes that's his guitar 😂.

I saw him play live 3 times....each time was like a religious experience....when he played the fabric of time and space bent towards him and you could not look away....sweet and humble off stage....a God onstage....Eric Clapton said he was the greatest blues guitarist he'd ever seen....and he played with Jimi....he is still missed.....once in a century kind of genius....they should blast his music out into space so the aliens know we're cool....RIP SRV....

Watch SRV "Little Wing" live at the El Mocombo

Played with BB King and all the great Blueds players. Stevie did.

Saw him three times in concert. Amazing every time.

He taught himself to play and could not read music. It came from his soul. Check him out with Johnny Copeland doing Tin Pan Alley and the him performing Little Wings

Prince and Stevie playing together in Heaven now. RIP Prince and Stevie.

You're correct, He was at Alpine Valley theater in Wisconsin with Eric Clapton, his brother Jimmie and Buddy Guy that I've seen twice. He was 35. It was August 27 , 1990. My cousin was born the same day!

PRINCE was Fantastic- STEVIE RAY was Remarkable. 9:35-40 is some serious Voodoo sound, and Stevie is the Witch Doctor. Whenever I see the image of that iconic black hat overshadowing that famous face, I get chills. 11:50-12:00. RIP, King SRV.

He always had control of the sound on stage.... He would always say jimmy hendricks was the greatest that what made him play. He was just amazing

He was at Alpine Valley...East Troy, WI...performed, then copter struck one of the ski hills midflight while leaving late at night from the concert area. Was a very foggy night and pilot missed his route. Lived a couple miles from Alpine Valley ski resort. A vast area used as a venue for big-name talent concerts in the off season. Drew 20,00-40,00 attendees.

SRV, on a plane of his own. got to give some love to that drummer too

Stevie n guitar melted together as one!!

SRV is proof that the candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. RIP SRV

Jeff Healey blue Jean blues 💙... another epic song and guitarist... he was blind and played on his lap...

Austin City Limits. My mom took me to this show for my birthday. Long live the Texas legend!!!

Saw him in the early 90s twice in 2 years I'm 59 now and still never heard and won't in ny time see anyone like him . RiP

They called that guitar #1, it had also been called his wife. Never been anyone like SRV. Love your channel, You two are a great couple.

Let the church say amen, "you gonna learn today"....In my opinion the best ever

I remember when he died, greatist guitarist ever. He would have been great getting older.

in one video you can see the string break and he doesn't miss a beat.💚

Thanks for sharing one of my faves. Had to pull my car over to grieve when I heard the news of his passing back in the radio days. Note the other comments about fiddling with his pedal settings when he kneels down. You can see his pedal box in a few shots that are not so close up to him. Thanks again! Love u guys.