Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan (Pt 1)

[guitarclubca]

It's kinda funny they booed stevie , His performace was flawless . The people that booed stevie were either uneducated about the blues or felt a little threaten by stevie .

Stevie comes out of nowhere plays amazing and sets a new standard for the blues in the 1980's . Thank god for STEVIE RAY

[ishkb]

My favourite version. The first version I heard.

[EACK82]

Shmoks...don't know what good music is!

[rohw0016]

smokin and watchin thissss amazing

[SRVBASE]

5:22 only stevie ray could make people dance like that to the blues.

[colorblindheartful]

SRV preffered 13, 18 or 17 no

[JHLittleWing]

get rid of this video, he's not feeling it at all and it blows. get the el macombo version.

[spindlerat]

What a disrespectful crowd - booing such amazing talent and entertainment! WTF is wrong with them?! Makes you admire SRV even more for carrying on playing his heart out even with the crowd against him.

[colorblindheartful]

hell yeah you can see that hes giving everything he has hoping that he comes through and brings something to them, even as he is fought by them he continues

[rohw0016]

@spindlerat ya and this is like my favorite version of Texas Flood dude... maybe a close second behind the Live at El Mocombo (spell?)

[Miles98892]

@spindlerat yeah man. people are messed in the head ey

[JustDom89]

he's bending those strings like they're 9's...LOL

[csi2448]

I always love watching Stevie near the beginning, right before he got big. I may have like him better after he got clean, but it's still cool too watch him play not matter what. And to those saying he's using 13's here, earlier in his career like right here, he was up in the 16 and 17 range. He switched to 13's later in his career and 11's right before he died to save his hands. R.I.P. Stevie!!!!!

[woodjoewood]

mate he was not playing with 16s he said he tried them once but limited his playing.

[csi2448]

I read an interview where he tried 18's once and he limited his playing while playing with 18's

[Dabomb782]

most probably 13's

if it was 17's, you wouldn't be able to see the fretboard, man!

[grga888]

No, SRV did use 18's.

As csi2448 said, he played them at one point of his career. He was a king of heavy strings!

[BluesTS808]

BOOOO??? haha are you serious i would fucking kill every one in the audience right now

[jov4]

And you are in serious need of a check up from the neck up, bro.

[RobinofSactown]

Just posted- I audiotaped this tune in 1983 in San Francisco- click on my name above- he had caught fire that year- was the Bowie Tour of 83 the one he refused a job on because he had his own record to support? He had to be nervous at Montreaux- TV cameras and a quiet unappreciative audience.

I think this is where Bowie saw him tho - the work on "Let;s Dance" really helped him get heard- China Girl, Let's Dance, Modern Love- SRV fans should have it in their collection- his only non- blues songs!

[rosanamod]

David B and Jackson Browne were in audience that night & met Stevie for the 1st time after the show. Jackson was the one who offered DT his studio free of charge to use at their convenience & that's where Texas Flood album was recorded in 3 days. David wanted Stevie to leave DT & play in his band but Stevie turned him down to stay with DT. In the vid Lets Dance, David "plays" guitar but he can't play. That was Stevie on the album. Thanks for sharing. A lot of people don't know this.

[jduran9123]

not only that, but david bowie made millions when stevie was in the band..and the cheap mother fucker gave stevie 300 bucks..out of the millions he was making..fuck david bowies faggot ass

[wesbeebub]

yeah i think mick jagger already did!

[sixOHHfour]

LOL!!

good call

[SteadyHaze]

If you look at Chris' face during this performance, you can pick out the instances in which Stevie makes mistakes, if you couldn't yourself

[myromanceischemical1]

Stevie ray Vaughn is the all time greatest guitarist of all time. Just watch him..... the music is just spilling out of his pores. He is the greatest ever

[muchwanogypsy]

man i love hearing stevie play on number 1 fender cam out with a replica i think its over $2000

[1957fenderstrat]

over 10000

[TheBeeste]

OMG justlook how FAT are those strings he's bending! Just f*ing AWESOME!

[TheCanadianGuitarist]

yup, hes got .13 strings (usually on acoustics). And he tunes down a half step (Eb) so its easier to bend, and slide ect.

[irockj9456]

yeah but he was 1/2 step down, so the tension is released, and its almost as easy as some 11-54 in standard tuning to bend and slide, i think. I personnaly tried it and saw almost no difference (11 in standard tuning or 13 tuned 1/2 down). anyway SRV for ever! peace dude

[1957fenderstrat]

I garuntee you can't bend 13's tuned to e flat like you could 11's in standard. Then everyone would have SRV's tone.

[irockj9456]

I can but not for a long long time cause then the skin on my finger is all fucked up

[1957fenderstrat]

Lol. Why is that?

[irockj9456]

what

[polettielvio]

ich war dabei , SRV for ever

[jonkontant]

SRV,still the king

[Acousticroy]

Wait... did he get boo-ed in the beginning? Why?

[yellowbookjones]

They did not like him the first time he played this festival...then he came back famous and loved him...go figure

[terzolilu]

:-O loooove this performance..

[zackdog93]

theres bands that can play fast like dragon force but stevie's music has soul and is just awsome wich makes him the greatest guitarist EVER

[TheGerberKing]

dragonforce has no soul at all, but i still like their misic.

[tkojams]

stupid Swiss. they were in the preasence of greatness and were too dumb to take notice

[ledzeppelinrulesya]

fuckin dicks booin poor stevie before he got  famous.. man they sure must have felt shitty when stevie started selling millions

[VonMeeganshmoot]

@ledzeppelinrulesya Yeah, when he came back to Montreux a few years later, it was completely different. He even won a grammy for this performance and was practically

boo'd off stage.

[Swodaem]

Putting Stevie's tone to one side for a sec, anyone know how Tommy Shannon got that nice bass sound out of his Fender Jazz?

[matstj]

still some jerks out there, who can´t separate sweden from switzerland?

[bluecoolie]

one of the best things about stevie ray is he never ever played a song the same way as before. everytime he played it, it was different. yeah i agree im not much of a fan of the tone but either way this man is a guitar god....very very few were as good as him. wish he wasnt dead.

[busevski]

Was and will to be.

[BIBBBO]

SWEDEN ???

[Probesoul]

Google: Ronnie Jones Electric Church

[COCKRICHARD1]

srv...you are the one !!!!

[hihats]

the real shit...right here.srv-we will never forget.

[Bizzsaw]

Does anybody know what amp he used to get to that high level of clean without the amp distorting?

[tomnookingtons]

Fender Twin Reverb. I have a '71 Twin Reverb and I can crank it to 10 with no distortion.

[jdawg4098]

His amps were in the recording studio that night and couldn't get them to sweden, he used the stages amps. The article I read said that they were just some generic stage amp he had to overdrive, but they were so loud he had to put towels and blankets over the speakers.

I hate the tone here, personally.

[nuudge01]

i know huh...he usually has this warm tone to his and this tone is just so...dry...but i mean blues in sweden...wow...im from Cali and moved to texas and just fell in love with this man's work

[bddc1121]

u need to listen to this version on the montreaux 82 album ... its so much better on a good sound system. My favorite versions- original album, this one, then MTV version on Blues At Sunrise album...

[nuudge01]

hey i took your advice....wow....thanks man this is great, im just ...wow my ears are in HEAVEN!!!

[1957fenderstrat]

the amps were 2 twin reverbs. the werent bad at all. just not what he was used to. A bit brighter. I yes i think both had 2 12" speakers and had to put blankets over them because of volume.

[jdawg4098]

...How do you know Montreux's amplifiers were twin reverbs?

He did put blankets over them. I read an interview from his guitar tech at this gig.

[1957fenderstrat]

LOng story short im doing a research project on stevie and my school has access to websites with articles from guitar magizines and newspapers, stuff you would have to pay for online. So i was reading some stuff on him and i printed out a 10 page article on his way to montreux. I could send it to in an e-mail. send me a freind reqeust :)

[jmarcoj1]

i would REALLY love for you to send me those, i didnt know he used 2 twin reverbs here. i always thought he exclussively played his super reverb and his vibroverb and occasionally paired them with a marshall, which model, im not sure, BUT ID LOVE TO READ THOSE ARTICLES

[1957fenderstrat]

sure i just accepted your freind request. Im going to have to get back on to these websites and find them. There is also some interveiws with rene martinez and some cool stuff. Ill send it to ya. Just send my your email cuz there kind of big.

[BillyC15]

i might have read some of those. Would you mind sending me a private message w/ the links to those pages?

[1957fenderstrat]

Yeh!

[STINISSS]

are you serious?? shit

[BillyC15]

wtf why did it end there?

[rbm18]

wow~!

[Karwash24]

I actually think he held back cuz he usually purposely plays some really hard loud notes but i think that the crowd may have made him adjust to their styilistic preferences he's still trying to please everyone and let them enjoy his performance

[wes1220]

Stevie showed his class at this gig...despite the vitriol against him, he played beautifully and never digged back at the audience...he was hurt by the booing, but his class was his good karma... discovered by Bowie that night

[Karwash24]

I really like this version it's version it's very clean

[Swake]

The boo'ers show how snobbish and narrowminded the 'JAZZSCENE' actually is.

Stevie was way above that shit.

[Verdugothewatcher]

SRV is one of the greatest to ever wield a guitar.

And to hell with those who booed him down, they can go jump in a pit of fire.

[rohw0016]

the people there were expecting a low key acoustic night and stevie came with loud amps and that pist the crowd off, not all of them but most of them.

[holjesus]

man, i half to say i really dig this. he just keeps going. keeps playing, ignores the boo's.

[STINISSS]

he's got some balls

[aerosmithica]

wWAT THA FUCK IS WRONG WITH THOSE IGNORANT FUK HEADS!~!~!! how dare they boo to the king?... id like to see them on stage and play even a single onte/.fukwits..

[JamesMoi1981]

It is absolutely shameful that he got boo'd on stage there. So sad.

[SamborRayVaughn]

Ah but fortunatly for SRV David Bowie was in the audience and later asked him to perform on his album which I dont no the name of. This helped him boost his music career and SRV returned to the same stage the following year and blew the audience away

[bluesman520]

the album is called "let's dance" and it was produced in 1983 i believe

[dmmcmaster2007]

yeah with like the same songs

[zeppelin2392]

the album was lets dance

[LoganHankins]

u are correct. it was bowie who boosted his career. Though stevie later refused to go on tour, he did agree to the album. Bowie can pick em. SRV and Reeves Gabrels

[rexanater]

So much soul in his playing. Can't even put it into words.

[velocityidp]

Not the best version from SRV... this was early in his short career. Sad that the crowd was actually BOOING him throughout the entire set that night. Nuts...

[Lewah69]

I bought a record years ago from the Montreux festival in 1982 with various great artists but that´s my favourite blues tune on it, thanks so much for posting this so i could see it in motion, i think this is his best version he played from that song, absolutly great!!!