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  • very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!! number one still has some finish on her :)

  • Stevie is the best! GOD has him right by his side playing for him!

  • Absolutley unfuckin beleivable as always......SRV just to good !

    thanks mate...

  • Amazing footage! Thanks!

  • muchas gracias!!!! q bueno q maestro srv , q grande lpm , 

  • its a shame you didn't tape the whole show, but thanks for taping what you did!

  • Ah thank you so much for uploading this! As others have said, this is a very rare crown jewel you have shared with the world. Thank you.

  • his guitar is young...

  • great rare footage of the master

  • Before youtube, I was only able to see the label released stuff and a couple of bootlegs I was to get my hands hand. To have all these performances uploaded from people all over the world is awesome. They are all treasures, but this one is the crown jewel.

  • WOW!

  • Thanks so much for posting this! Great to see Stevie in the early days. Any more footage???

  • @guitarcat67 This is every second of the video that I shot that day. I've been kicking myself for 30 years that I didn't shoot more.

  • How'd you like to run sound for SRV..."Umm Stevie, I'm going to need you to turn it down to 7 or something-because these house speakers are fucking on fire."

  • Thank you very much for posting this extremely valuable video !!!

    SRV's playing and vocals were unique, raw power, PURE MAGIC. Miss him.

  • That's one special man.

  • The headstock on Number 1 has the tape on it from being repaired!! I love to see the sunburst still have shine on it in this video and then the last videos of it being all cracked up and dry from the road.

    What a man, what a musician!

  • Damn! How much was his bail that night. He HAD to have been arrested after this performance because to play that mean has to be illegal! He was just tearing it up. Much more so than on any of his studio albums! Thank you SO much for posting this. Long Live SRV!

  • GRACIAS!!! por compartrlo!!

  • This is incredible, thanks so much for posting! It's interesting to see how number one aged from 1980 - 1982! hehe

  • THANKYOU So very much for the footage. My goodness this is magic here, Thanks 1000000000000000%

  • Holy crap, pure adrenaline!

  • LOVE this clip THANK YOU!!!

  • Sound quality is still better than some cameras today.

  • Thanks for uploading this.EPiC!

  • Thanks for sharing this rare footage of one of the greatest musicians ever. I listen to Stevie everyday and always will.

    When are they going to make a biography movie of Stevie.

  • wow this just made me day incredible it jus goes to show how much talent this man had he was special

  • he definitely refined his technique. but i love stevie ray so much anything

    he ever played is golden to me.

  • man theres gotta be more footage from this show!

  • @danimation777 - There should be, but there isn't. I was the only one shooting video during the afternoon and the video I posted of SRV is every second of what I shot of him that day. Had I known how historically valuable this recording would be, I would have shot his whole set. However, videotape was expensive and I only had so much tape with me that day, I was saving most of it to record my band, the Planets, later that day.

  • @Softcorps 4:13 someone videotaping.

    contact him!!!

  • What a fantastic day this was. Tornado Jam has got to be brought back! One of the things I remember about that day was when a guy borrowed the owner of KLLL's 1956 Rolls Royce, parked the car on a slope, and for got to put the emergency brakes on! Into the water the car went. And I was in that car about 2 weeks earlier. Great music all day & night, from what I remember of that night. Cops didn't bother with drinking, as long as it didn't get out of hand.

  • @jay50alexander - Actually, the Rolls Royce incident took place at the second Tornado Jam in Lubbock which was a year after this video was shot.

  • this has got to be some of the rarest footage of early srv,outstanding!!!!!

  • is that Jeff Beck as stevie's roadie in the green shirt at the end ?.............lol

  • Thanks for FILMING!!

  • kind of odd....no middle p/u on "Number One" for this show !!

  • Jackie Newhouse !!!

  • I'm gonna play this song tongiht with Jackie Newhouse at The Victory Grill in Austin. If you all are around, you should come out!

  • How people can say that this man was not one of the greatest of all time amazes me.

  • @bunkman64

    Never heard any people saying such a thing. Did you really?

  • THIS IS GREAT thak you for posting ♥♥♥♥♥ !!!! :}

  • This performance always takes my breath away. Seemed like even Stevie was surprised at the notes he was able to pull out of that guitar of his. He was, and still is, simply amazing!!!

  • what more could we have had from SRV? I'm glad to have what he gave us.

  • Where in Lubbock was this?

  • @rjm512 - It was at Buddy Holly Park.

  • sweet

  • Awesome footage..

  • I played a gig last night with Jackie Newhouse and we did Voodoo Chile just like he used to do it with Stevie. And he used the same bass as in this video!

  • You thrill my heart! This is the best capture I've seen yet. I stood in front of those speakers many times, and this made me feel it again. awesome. thanks ever so!

  • Thanks for sharing your video.

  • haha that rocks

  • The sound was much better when the camera man moved over by the bass player. Either way, very cool. Thanks for posting.

  • @Pjaynes781 - I shot this video using the microphone on the camera. When I was standing directly in front of SRV's amps, it was LOUD, LOUD, LOUD and it overloaded the microphone and caused the distortion you are hearing. (It was also really uncomfortable for me, too!) When I moved out of the "line of fire", the sound improved.

  • @Softcorps Awesome, what a story. I do sound editing / engineering, I figured you were only using the camera mic. Very cool, I'd love to hear the story behind this particular event.

  • @Softcorps thanks for posting. Great insight to the amazing talent of SRV. 

  • @Softcorps yeah you can hear it Phase as you move, Stevie must have been pealing paint off tress with those Vibroverbs on 10.. This footage is so Epic..you deserve a medal my friend.

  • Incredible to see this video ! SRV for ever .....thank you for posting !

  • What's astounding is that this video only has only 26 000 view even though it was posted over 2 years ago... What a find!

  • that's not Tommy on bass is it?

  • @wellab7 No, that's Jackie Newhouse, the original bass player. That's what makes this video even more rare.

  • @Softcorps Yeah, Jackie and I talked about this video recently. He still plays regularly in Austin....

  • @TheRealJohnnyGlass If you don't mind me asking, what did Jackie have to say about this video?

  • @wellab7 Tommy was playing with Johnny Winter at that time.

  • Totally stunning performance. I was lucky anough to see SRV's only show at Madison Square Garden when he double billed with Jeff Beck. I'll bet most of the people in this crowd - sitting on the tops of trucks and standing in front of the stage roped off like they're at the bank - still remember this show. Thank G*d we still have this footage (and thank you John!)

  • The more I watch this video the more I cant believe how awesome this is, its a SRV that was young and had nothing to loose, could play anything he wanted without restrictions. Then at 1:00 onwards you see his 2 super reverbs, a legend with a budget..

  • @waynechanhaoran Actually those are Stevie's 1 and 2 VibroKing with Cesar's mods and the grille removed to get 'em to sound a little more trebly.

  • @TheRealJohnnyGlass Vibroverb not Vibroking that amp hadn't been invented yet :-D

  • @Stratblooz ....and good luck trying to find those old '64's. last decent one I saw went for 5 grand and had a stock 15" JBL...sounded like a million bucks.

  • WOW! This is really cool!

    Thanks for posting!

  • Thanks for sharing this. So interesting to see Stevie at this stage - not surprising that his style was fully formed!

  • Amazing! thanks a lot

  • Look at all of those people messing up the grass.lol SRV always liked coming to Lubbock because he wasnt known as just "Jimmy's little brother", he was just a popular.

  • @Softcorps dont you have more footage......??? if so, would you upload it ???

    say yes please please please please please please

    thanks by the way

  • @pedrinme, this is all the footage of SRV that I shot that day. It was a day-long music festival and I had a limited amount of videotape. (It was expensive at the time.) Had I known how valuable this SRV recording would become, I would have used all my videotape on SRV and not recorded any of the other bands.

  • @Softcorps

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  • thank you for posting this!!.so beautifuL!!!..i saw Stevie Ray Vaughan 4 times...and it changed my life...peaCE.J

  • AMAZING video! Thanks for sharing!

  • WoW, Thank you for uploading this priceless video.

  • wow - awesome footage, thanks for sharing :]

  • good on you for putting this on, good stuff!

  • lord have mercy! incredible footage

  • Absolutely killer! Love and miss you sweet man! xoxoxo

  • THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS­SSSSSSS

  • the rarest gem on youtube

  • Thats the best I think I've ever seen his first wife look. Thats back when she was young though.

  • Priceless footage! Thank you so much!

  • Softcorps is correct. I was with Stevie & the band that day. Unless something else has surfaced recently this would be the earliest video outside the immediate family. Stevie knew this was being filmed & was tickled by it AND THE PLANETS WERE A GOOD BAND!!

  • I saw him at the world's biggest party that Budweiser threw in downtown Dallas. The Thunderbirds came on first and then SRV. IT was about 500 degrees outside that day.

  • If i had a time machine i would come back here and record this in HD. WOW

  • AMAZING PIECE OF FOOTAGE!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! NUmber one looks so...clean haha

  • Wow! Very cool of you to put this up.....I'm sure SRV would approve.

  • A real jem. Thanks a lot.

  • wooow man you lucky devil!! you knew a guitar god!!

    thanx for the video!

  • whoa

  • WOW

  • This is awesome! I have a good friend who loves Stevie, but doesn't care much for his early stuff. I beg to differ!!!! He's like a racehorse at the starting gate - and raring to go. Even at this age (26?) he'd been playing guitar for 20 years, so he was accomplished. Not completely refined yet, or the artist he was to become - but he was so full of energy. A legend in the making! Love it! Thank you for posting this early look at my favorite bluesman.

  • @SRV4evr if your friend doesnt like the early years of SRV than hes not a real fan of his music...... ALL of his music is the best!! theres truly not one song of his or double troubles that i dislike, and im sure everyone else agrees!!!

    Drew

  • @bakeaked I agree 100%!!!

  • @SRV4evr i def prefer the early stuff, its prob the most ferocious guitar ever played by anyone ever!

  • Wow. wow. Holy cow wow.

  • dude this vid is clutch! thanks for an awesome add!

  • Stevie and Number 1 both look pretty young here.

  • You were in The Planets? I still have your album. Interview, Sweet Nothings, great songs. Great band. I must have seen you all 30-40 times at Fat Dawgs. Thanks for posting this. I have a very bad video copy of The Planets doing 3 songs at The Tornado Jam recorded off a TV show that played in Lubbock not long after the concert. It included Jay Boy Adams, The Planets and Joe Ely Band. The guy who shot it has posted some much better quality versions from that show on Youtube, from Joe Ely's set.

  • Didn't get a chance to see Stevie until 1987, and the venue and crowd here looks similar...very cool for you to post this...a 1000 thanx...

  • Thank you so much Softcorps!!!!! I can't believe that people have the audacity to complain about your efforts!!!!! have you seen Joe Bonamassa??? tremendous blues player!!!!

  • Saw Stevie 6 times ..that might not seem like much to a texan but I`m in canada..

    you just didn`t pass up chance to see him...

  • OH MY GOD!!!!!! WHo would go and play after this guy.....Unbelivable...

  • One of the best pre 82 srv clips I have seen, his playing here if as good as it gets.

  • These are the kinda videos I love to find at 3:30 in the morning.... great Little Wing intro. SRV didn't lose an ounce of showmanship over the years..... Number 1 seems pretty healthy, he really beat the heck out of it over the next 10 years..... dig it man. thanks!

  • incredible!

  • Thanks a lot, what a treasure !!!!!!!

  • Wow, Thanks so much. I really wanna try to bring back the Tornado Jam. R.I.P Stevie

  • wow you shot this? you are very lucky, you saw stevie live! lots of people will kill for that honor :P

  • Yes, I shot this video. I actually knew Stevie pretty well at this time. SRV with Double Trouble and my band, the Planets, played a lot of the same clubs.

  • thats not true theirs a video on here from 78

  • Sorry that you didn't enjoy the video, at least you didn't have to pay to see it. According to a number of SRV archivists, my video is the earliest known video available to the public. If there is an earlier video on YouTube why don't you provide a link to it?

  • @Softcorps sorry my mistake i must of read the date wrong on another video

    and i didnt say i didnt enjoy it ,its actually one of my favorites and when you said you edited it i thought you ment their was more, cuz i thought it was kinda weird that there were random shots of little wing in the begining.

    hey if you like stevie videos you should check out my playlists and the channel: grga888 and cricketttttt

  • @Softcorps this guy is right! but its probably recorded on vinyl or recorded on a reel to reel... but no real video recorded footage of him

  • to bad its edited ,wuz up wit dat

  • I did start and stop the recording at the time by hitting the record button on the camera, so in that regard it has been edited. However, every second of the footage I shot of SRV that day is contained in this YouTube video

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you. this is great

  • incredible one!"!"12!"12!!

  • Good GOD! Thank you Softcorps for this gem. I figured out the math. Stevie was 21 yrs. old here. Killin' it!

  • I did the math, too. He was exactly 25 years, 7 months, 9 days old on the day this video was shot.

  • @Softcorps

    Cool. Thanks for the correction.

  • Ta heaps for posting this video. Much appreciated to see SRV playing a smaller stage in his earlier playing days.

    Love It !!!

  • PLEASE POST MORE!

  • Man this is like finding a lost treasure. I have recordings from those days. SRV would have been 23 years old here. He looks so young. Think the audience had any idea of the budding genius they were witnessing?

  • wow his guitar number 1 is barely worn here

  • Wow--priceless!

  • Thank you - A real gift to the SRV fans - greatley appreciated.

  • Thanks Softcorps, really good stuff. I've never seen this before. I've been collecting SRV "thangs" for 15 yrs or so. G1.

  • There is a good reason that you hadn't seen this prior to about 18 months ago. I shot it and it had been in my private collection until recently. Only a select few of my friends had seen it.

  • Well I certainly appreciate you sharing w/ us! Hey, just thought of this, I have audio of SRV's AA story as he's speaking to a group and his AA memorial as given by Rene Martinez after SRV passed. I

  • Yeeeessssssssssssss!!!!

  • Thanks for the quick reply! This indeed is priceless as stated by U4Eu. It's equivalent to Alan Lomax's tapes. Thanks John ... Thanks Stevie Ray Vaughan.

  • Awsome!! Thanks for posting softcorps. Was this up once then taken down? I lost track of it. Is there a whole concert or is this it?? Thanks again..

  • Yes, this had been up once before and I took it down briefly. Some idiot claimed that this was his video and was threatening legal action. I shot this video myself, so his claim was absolutely ridiculous. This video includes every second of video that I shot, a recording of the entire concert does not exist. I've been kicking myself for the last 30 years that I didn't tape the entire set but videotape was expensive and I only had so much with me that day.

  • Absolutely priceless video!!! Thanks, John, for sharing this with us. Even though we could all see his talent, none of us realized what these shows would eventually come to represent. RIP SRV

  • John, Incredible Thank you!

  • number 1 looks alot different with all that paint and no stickers on there

  • I was 10 when we went to this concert. Look at every one, no one had an idea at what genius we had in front of us that day. Sadley enough my Dad and I had just bought tickets to his scheduled performance in Lubbock, when he died

  • I was 10 when we went to this concert. If any one remembers it started raining. We were sliding down the mud hill. Look at everyone one no one had an idea of what genius we had in front of us that day. It was my birthday my Dad and I had just bought tickets to a SRV concert in Lubbock the day he died. Sad day.

  • It didn't rain at this concert, you must be thinking of the second Tornado Jam a year later.

  • awesome early vid, thanks for posting

  • wow, this is an awesome video

    I'm just wondering what was going through your head softcorps

    were you thinking that someday Stevie would be famous?

  • Stevie was a friend of mine and I certainly thought he had the potential to be famous, but I didn't know it for sure at the time.

  • thank you for posting this vid of the early stuff

  • thats some serious energy going through stevie..he sure did give it his all !!

  • this is great footage. Thank you so much for uploading it. It is so great to see SRV in the early years. Never seen material with Jacki Newhouse before. As ever, Stevie was a fearce as ever and intensity of his playing just the same as in the later years. He is a legend!

  • 4:39-4:52 my hand would have fallen off by then... Just an Amazing guitar player....Period! who ever recorded this mustr have been in La La blues land!

  • I recorded this SRV video and, yes, I was enjoying myself.

  • Hey is that an early version of Little Wing at the begining? Do you have any other videos of SRV's early years? Thanks for posting this video.

  • Never makes a mistake.....NEVER!

  • the best,manignific

  • That's the 'Dog' Bollocks' right there!

    To coin an English term.

    Thankyou man.

  • Interesting 5*****

  • brilliant!

  • I jamed with Jackie Newhouse once. he likes to play a little softly but damn good bass player

  • please !!! upload show complete!!! Thanks Marco de ARGENTINA.

  • Sorry, this is all the show that was recorded, there is no more. Every second of video that I shot is included in this clip.

  • Fantastic, Thanks for the post !

  • It's cool to see Number One before all of the customizing he eventually did to it!

  • SRV i love you

  • one of the amps looks like a clothes washer XD

  • Thank you so much for posting.

  • Thank you so much for posting this video. This seriously made my day.

  • great video thanks for the post.

  • for anyone who wasn't born yet, and loves stevie ray!!!! this gives them a chance to take a peak into stevies early years!!!! i just wish i hadn't forgot my camera!!!!! connie

  • Vive SRV!!!!!

  • fantastic...and is jack newhouse on bass, before tommy shannon...

    thanks a lot for the video!

  • Yes, that's Jack Newhouse on bass.

  • yeah he says it a few seconds after he finishes little wing

  • Not only Stevie looks young but look at No.1 it looks to be in fairly good shape.... NICE!!!!