Stevie Ray Vaughan - Sweet Home Chicago (Part 1)

[psuno12]

I never got to see SRV play but when you listen to his music it feels like he is right there in the room.

[psuno12]

I only wish that I had the talent that SRV had so I could spread the joy he always did in concert.

[johnhadda]

This cut Is AWHSOM..!!!..

[TheSniperteamtango]

There is its called The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. on Epic C.D. drop me a line and ill burn it for you and send it .

[krogmank]

RIP SRV - He died just a mile or two from where I'm sitting now. So much talent, gone too soon.

[Knowledgeboy100]

Sounds like they're drawing on 'Dust my broom' in the opening. Sounds fucking incredible, all those guys together was something special.

[harriware]

He will always be my "Pride & Joy" -Gone but not forgotten!

[CTX125]

This an awesome show! Thanks for sharing this one

[BluesForever999]

Rest and Rock in Peace, Stevie Ray :)

[robertanthony975]

This will sound crazy, but I'm convinced Stevie was a little gift from God. For people I know, Stevie hit them on a spititual level. God gave us Stevie for such a short period. Through his music we can glimpse Heaven!

[Mr1963chevy]

@robertanthony975 why is it that,it seems,all the greats die young.i only wish stevie and so many others could have stay just a little longer,atleast to give one more album.just think of all the great extra music we would have.

[dielauwen]

I told him when he was visiting his grandma in NY to stay away from choppers. He didn't listen. We were both teenagers then. I last saw him on Longisland and he said he was goin west to a Fest.

[BigBean557]

Love and respect, it's up to the individual to determine whether they are good or evil.

[maskwbi]

After the final show at Alpine Valley concluded, all of the musicians boarded four helicopters bound for Chicago,. According to a witness, there was reportedly haze and fog of varying intensity with patches of low clouds. Despite the conditions, the pilots were instructed to fly over a 1000-foot ski hill. Vaughan, along with three members of Clapton's entourage,. At about 12:50 am the helicopter departed from an elevation of about 850 feet, veered to the left and crashed into the hill.

[dharmabum66]

@maskwbi I was at the show, and it was foggy. A haze hung thick in the air. It was like soup driving back to Madison.

[Deazify]

ive heard a lot of tunes, blues is my favorite so far, im young, but i was raised with bluegrass and blues Festivals, so im hooked on it, SRV can sure as hell play and that should be enough said.

[serpentinecreature]

Stevie Ray's music was a language of its very own,and it was "spoken"so beautifully! Thank you.

[TheDutchGame]

Noithing better to start your day of then with a li'l blues.

[CaliUndergroundSound]

he's watchin around somewhere

[sewallm60]

where the fuck is the video fucking idiot i can get a cd and hear SRV this is fucking you tube a video site get it

[TeeAreify]

@sewallm60 Why are you such a dick?

[sewallm60]

@TeeAreify cause you're an idiot you cain't post a video on a video site don't waste everyones time

[TeeAreify]

@sewallm60 First, nice misspelling of a four-letter word.

I'm not surprised though -- can you read? Look at my username. Now look at who posted the video. Now back to my name. Notice anything?

Why are you trying to berate someone for taking the time to share something they feel is worth sharing? If it's not something that interests you, find something else to watch.

[bigboy1010101able]

well it was either Clapton or srv i dont which would be worse

[jspiderw]

Agreed, justinzeppelin, SRV is unmistakeable from the rest.

[sho942000]

Ain't death a bitch.

Glad I found this recording though. Someone needs to round up all of the SRV concerts that are on video and put them on a couple Blue Ray DVDs

[RecklessTruth]

SRV IS THE BEST EVER!!!

[nolandegroot]

@RecklessTruth whas!

[mrbluesking1]

Jam In Peace SRV

[mrbluesking1]

SRV is and always will be the best guitarist in the world. He made other great guitarists quiver when he played because he flat out out schooled them in every way. A true Master of guitar and just being a fucking legend !

To be able to play with the string thickness he did is awesome, to pull off those bends and crank as hard as he did without your fingers falling off is super human. Stevie, it was because of you that i first picked up a guitar, Im honourd to have heard your tallent and music..

[xstefanie89x]

Usually I'm not big on live music unless I'm at a show, but this is something else. This is live music of epic proportions. RIP Stevie.

[motokev]

I agree, its easy to pick out SRV, he's the one showing the others how to play. 

[merlinshat007]

this is rockin / puts my mind at ease / he will always be with us

[627257stingray]

@merlinshat007 your spot on there brutha,

[rickeygottheblues]

thats buddy guy singing and most of those increadable licks in the first half is signature buddy guy steve plays toward the end

[pallerti]

Stevie is my HERO - rest in peace Voodoo Child...

[bluesatsunset]

Seems really weird but I actually feel guilty thumbing this up knowing what happened to the greatest guitarist of all time just a few, short hours later. Feels like a thumbs down but fuck...How could anyone not thumb up anything this incredible man did on stage?? Uploader deserves the green thumb for taking the time to let so many people who maybe don't realise what Stevie meant & means to so many people to this day.

RIP Stevie....I can almost hear you jamming with the Bulldozer right now.

[brodemonz]

why was this not recorded on camera ??

[irishsetterarchie]

This was not Stevies last jam.....he's jammin with someone you would be surprised to hear play and he's learnin some new riffs and I can hardly wait to get there!!!!!!

[TheMitchtuber]

srv is not dead he is in the heart and soul of every true blues fan.. srv is king..

[bobke114]

Saw him many times around Austin. The best guitar player/singer of blues in many many years. People forget how good Stevie was on vocals. I kinda tend to agree with ya jouster. The music sorta died for me when Stevie died. I saw Buddy down here two weeks later at the old Antones. It was an unforgetable weekend,really good stuff.

[jouster701]

This was the day the music died. I was there... It was one of the most moving nights of music. I still shed a tear when I listen to this song

[kurtcommon]

I saw him a day before in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

[vanhalenpwns]

@kurtcommon lucky mother fucker

[CaradaysRedux]

Heaven's rocking now.

[jehovahuponyou]

HOW ABOUT ALBERT PEACH ON THAT MARTIN KAZOO, PEOPLE? YEAH!

[PAT3978]

He played his best performance there that night. He had a dream he was going to die a few days earlier I read somewhere. Unparalleled genius he was

[dylanput]

I was at both of these shows, Saturday and Sunday night. It was a life changing moment. I had no clue what Stevie was all about and seeing him changed my entire outlook on music. Truly a miracle of a weekend. Still have both ticket stubs.

[1brannon10]

I can't even put into words the emotion that I feel from hearing this.

[caseyjones67]

he died right after he left this show right

[SRVBASE]

@caseyjones67 yeh.



[nolandegroot]

@SRVBASE did the guitar survived the crash?

[ElessarInvictus]

@caseyjones67 I was 6 when he died. Probably 1st grade.

[estreetbill]

@caseyjones67 Yeah, that's right. As I remember the story going Stevie had asked Eric Clapton if he was in any hurry to leave, and Eric said no. Stevie asked Eric if he could have his seat on the copter that Eric was supposed to be on. All the dude wanted to do was get back to jam with the guys at Buddy Guy's Blues Club. Then the tragic wreck happened. And we lost the greatest guitar player that the good Lord had given us. The tears still flow down my nose 22 years later. The best!

[Gary280276]

I get goose bumps when I hear SRV play, he is also responsible for the very sore finger tips I had when I first started to play the Guitar thanks to SRV I had no choice other than to buy a Guitar and learn to play, now I know just how good you really need to be to sound that good with little ease Just awesome

[MurphyPictures]

have you ever heard of something called the butterfly effect? it states that any action, even the beat of a butterflys wings, can drasticly change the world, i believe it has, because if robert johnston, buddy holly, lynyrd skynyrd, stevie ray, kurt curbain, jimi hendrix, duane allman,to name a few, had have never died, music would be so different, so much better today, i guess us rock and blues fans just lucked out. :( r.i.p stevie, i guess people now-a-day cant appriciate what reall musi is :(

[rocknroller1231]

@MurphyPictures i agree. but i have a similiar but different theory. i call it the Lightning Boy theory. you see, stevie ray just emerged and came in burnin so hot and so damn good, it left him with somewhat of a short run. same thing with hendrix, cobain, almot every skynyrd guitar player, etc. players like B.B king, buddy guy, clapton and stevies brother jimmy, are all just hard workers, and damn good ones at that.

[bobke114]

@rocknroller1231 Add Magic Sam to that list of great ones that did not stay around long

[dlong6184]

Was anybody at this show?

[twolf811]

Truly "The Day the Music Died" RIP SRV

[avrajsingh123]

I think Stevie knew he was going to go, because nobody just plays like that, no matter who you're on stage with.

[TNTMan93]

Stevie's solo was the best.

[TheTrigger900]

you can tell which ones stevie and if you can,t you need a hearing aid. lol. he out play eric, r sure. i like eric but he plays miles ahead of eric,

[TheTrigger900]

you can tell which ones stevie and if you can,t you need a hearing aid. lol. he out play eric, r sure.

[komine866]

there are legendary guitarists then... there's Stevie =)

[bingonotthedog]

i havent been able to find any videos of him on the 26 of august but i found one from some guy on youtube when he was performing on the 25th

[redcaps8]

Miss ya srv, wish you made more tunes before you left.

[Andyvswild]

@redcaps8 Wish you never left is more like it. Imagine the stuff he would have wrote today!

[cjselbs]

is that eric clapton 

[steira21]

what a sad recording

[jessemiles320]

If you know Stevie's sound, you know that he used a tubescreamer and the thickest strings. Therefore, his sound was superior to everyone else. Ha.

[Chickenwitasoreleg]

You should be able to tell SRV straight away no one bar Kenny Wayne Shepherd ever came close to that bottom heavy honey tone

[SuperCrackerjacks]

Love Stevie. But Jimmie is introduced twice. And he´s worth of it. Between 5.46 and 6.35 is perfect Jimmie playing the blues. He was Stevie´s biggest influence!

[jp593]

0:56, stevie passing more love our way

[kupacore]

yo bros whos playin at 2:52, is it stevie or buddy?

[Mihayeru]

@kupacore that would be Buddy :)

[kupacore]

@Mihayeru awesome



[justinzeppelin]

i wish you could find the soundboard mix of this. so it would be easier to tell when srv is playing from the others.

[SRVBASE]

@justinzeppelin if your an SRV fan its easy squeezy to 'tell' which one stevie is

[justinzeppelin]

@SRVBASE well i am a SRV fan hardcore and i can tell which is him but id rather be able to hear it better ya know.

[owneichensehr08]

@SRVBASE thats such an accurate statement hah..it really sticks out

[JolietBanditProduct]

@SRVBASE Indeed it is. No offence to anyone but you can tell stevie's style from everyone else.

[achilles1975one]

@justinzeppelin eric clapton talks of being nervous to go on after stevie...'i got to go on stage after this guy"(stevie)

[cleggryan]

@justinzeppelin from 5 mins in.

[stevierayDOM18]

@justinzeppelin There was no original audio of his song. Only people who were there were able to catch ausio by taking footage by themselves.

[DrStrangelove346]

Curious, does anyone know what the last song it was

[chadcy75]

Also, from the way that video was shot, I would think that the whole show exists on videotape or film somewhere. There were a good many cuts from at least two cameras, maybe as many as three or four, and it would be nice to see it again!

[chadcy75]

Hmm...... yeah. The video used to be posted on here a good while back, but I guess it was deleted. When I say a good while back, I'm talking five or six years, maybe longer, but I know for sure that it used to be on here, because a friend sent me the link, and I watched it several times. It's too bad it's not on here anymore, because it was nice to see who was playing what, especially when Stevie would just come in out of nowhere!

[chadcy75]

Is the actual video for this performance still around anywhere?

[SRVBASE]

the truth is there has to be. i would bet my house that video exists because that day at the alpine valley there were over 35,000 people, so the chances are that video exists definatley. its probably in a private collection somewhere.

[grga888]

@SRVBASE Probably in possesion of the Vaughan family or some very lucky fan who shot it that very night, unfortunately within fans and trading circles it is still a big mystery, but anyways it definetely exists.

[RedWolf3487]

@SRVBASE I've seen vids of it on TV documentaries.

[secretagentYTer]

@SRVBASE WHOEVER HAS THAT RARE VIDEO, PLEASE SHARE. POST IT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE.

[kikster93]

@chadcy75 Yes there is. It's on Youtube here. Just look for it, "Stevie ray vaughan alpine valley footage. ;)

[kikster93]

@kikster93 But its not this concert. Its the show at alpine before this one but it's still the alpine valley concert.

[mt4001]

if he was still alive, do you think the course of music would have shifted more to blues? or have stayed on the same track its on now?...

[BrickFrigid]

prolly stay the same as it is now unfortunately

[SRVBASE]

stevie would certainly have something to say about it.

[CROCKPOO]

He is my favorite player but I don't like it when they he was the best. I don't think anyone is the best so just enjoy ALL OF THEM and don't put a number 1 on anyone.

[Luis00152]

i wish i woulda been alive at that time

[DaDrummer66]

Damn right...frankovanin

[TheLespaul56]

This is the last song he played live

[frankovanin]

man, I just love his music, we lost a true Master of his art