Erica Clapton shook over Jimmie Hendrix before Vaugh was ever known. Not saying Vaugh wasn't a good guitar player. When I first heard him, I personally thought he was black.(lol). And I have alot of his songs, but Jimmie made alot if guitar player shake when he reformed rock and roll...
I didn't get to see him but I was just heading to bed when my local radio station out of Appleton WI came on with breaking news that his helicopter had crashed and SRV had died. I cried for our loss and I sit in awe whenever I listen to him play. Rest in peace my brother, you are missed.
Even Eric Clapton stood in his dressing room back stage shaking in awe of this force from heaven and felt ashamed that he had to come out after him, knowing in his heart that he could never reach the same level.
I met him the day he died while we were playing the Alpine Valley golf course before going to the show. I sliced to the right of the fairway right by the back stage picnic area. He came down by the fence when we were yelling his name. Super nice guy, very humble. He signed my ticket for the show and I still have it today. It is my greatest possession.
@HKmatmadness It was a Spiritual Experience getting to see them play up close in old school blues clubs back in Dallas. In '81 I saw him set the stage right tweeter on Fire! playing Voodoo Child Slight Return at Mother Blues . My date & I got to go them out the stage door & chat them up while the club got another tweeter & aired out the smoke with fans.You should try an' Astral Project during sleep to The Otherside & see him play a concert & bring that memory back with you to your waking world.
Jimi and Stevie were gifted ..they funneled energy from a higher source ....listen to the accounts of the peple that played with them...they were rock and roles greatest ....
I just hope one day people could would just stop judging Stevie and Jimi. They were and still are great and deserve to be respected for who they are not just someone to compare to someone. Live on Jimi and Stevie.
To expect SRV fans to rave and drool about Hendrix on a SRV vid is arrogant. How many Hendrix fans sing hymns of praise about SRV on Hendrix vids?? I am sick to death to find zombified hendroids polluting every SRV vid with the boring "Jimi was better" cliché. Even the fact that this video marks his last hours on Earth wouldn't stop them (or rather you) from being disrespectful
Where would we be without the caveman who first stretched an animal skin over cylinder of birchbark and began hammering on it like a demon possesed? No backbeat? No blues and rock....
jesus christ everyone shut up already. They are all great fricking guitarists and thats that. Nothing more needs to be said just shut up and listen to it!
Is it just me, or was anyone else expecting to see SRV's "final concert"? Geesh. At least title it correctly: "Stoned person's camerawork set to SRV music"
He is playing like a man who {subconsciously ?} innately knows he is going "home" -it is said that he was very happy that day ...coupled with his intense playing - maybe he supernaturally senses his new beginning .
It's interesting to hear this after so many years. Alpine Valley was a terrible place to see a concert, but I'm glad I was there to see Stevie Ray play for the last time. The main billing was Eric Clapton, but I went to see Stevie Ray. I was so sad to hear about the crash on Monday morning, I could hardly work.
It's not important who people consider to be better or worse at anything.. just listen to the music.. people like that weren't out to be considered "the best" they just had a great love for their music. @The19763 way to go at criticizing people for doing something and doing the thing you're criticizing people about in the same comment.. fag
everybody stop the Hendrix v Vaughan vs fuck knows who bullshit, only faggots compare legends! the facts are stevie ray was without any doubt the greatest blues guitarist of all time and Hendrix, well.................Hendrix was just Jimi. ~LongLiveTheKing~
SRV was incredible. Trower wasn't even close to the passion of this man or Jimi. And this version here is the best Voodoo Child that was ever played by man. Hendrix was the most creative guitarist, a true genius. So was SRV. For anyone to suggest that Trower is superior, you have to be pretty dumb. Sorry, but seriously. Pretty dumb. You can't beat Jimi Hendrix at his own game. But SRV did it with his own versions of Voodoo Child in 1989/1990.
@sandiegoled13 Do you know who rollingstone mag ranks as the number two guitarist right behind jimi? dwain allman I would not have thought of him but if you listen to him he had some licks, just another one who went befor his time
Ok all you freaks out there.. yea Robin Trower, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray cut across all others chords and made them their own ....why the hello do you have to fight about it. Face it... they all belong to same club now. If you act right you might get in too!!!!!
All of this "greatest guitar play ever' discussion is foolish without mentioning Terry Kath of Chicago. Even Jimi stated that TK was the best that he had ever heard! All were fantastic in their own right, but NO ONE is the best. Different tastes for millions of us.
I love SRV but Hendrix was a genius, period. Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner" alone puts him in a class with the timeless greats like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Mahler...
@5507156693 Hey BUD. The only disrespect happening around here seems to be coming from you (towards me). Comparing Jimi to Beethoven et al is no more ridiculous than comparing him to SRV (possibly less so, in fact). If you can open your mind long enough to learn something you might consider listening to Matt Haimovitz playing Hendrix
Well, do you expect SRV fans on the comment section of a video from his last day of life to embark on some mighty praising of Clapton and Hendrix? There are other vids for doing so. Damn, have some respect
Excellent comments. I might add that Jimi's style personified to me a wild "abandon" that I've rarely heard matched by anyone, his trademark feature if you will. Yes, he wasn't nearly as precise in some respects as a few of the aforementioned guitarists, but no one before or since and match the wild extemperaneous style that he had, almost willing or bending the guitar to reproduce a sound that was in his head, and not on the frets.
But remember that Stevie Ray loved Jimi's playing....there's room for two great guitarists to coexist. Well, maybe not...maybe that's why they're both gone.
Stevie's truly great, one of my favs. However, whenever these "they were the greatest" lists are compiled it always breaks my heart that Rory Gallagher isn't listed, who imho was the best live blues/rock player ever, would give a 120% whether he was playin' for 30 or 30,000, and they don't mention Peter Green of the original/REAL Fleetwood Mac, who did the original "Black Magic Woman" among other wonderful blues/rock, solo or jammin'.
Hendrix was an innovator, let him rest. Without him we would not hav what we have now. SRV was a brilliant blues musician, one of the best of all time. Lets enjoy and be thankful they lived and played and gave us this gift.
Without Hendrix we wouldn't have what we have now...And what do we have NOW to thank Hendrix for? BTW it just downed on me that without Les Paul, called father of the rock sound, we wouldn't have Hendrix... and for some reason he never gets credits. Maybe because he didn't have the luck to be part of that infamous 60s hippie hype
@5507156693 Stevie Ray, Hendrix and Les Paul have something in common indeed: They each had something nobody else on this planet did...and Les Paul is, besides the inventor of the Les Paul guitar, widely regarded as the father of multitrack recording and, thus, music as we know it today.
You have to admit though Hendrix was a musical genius and put on a great show, but Stevie Ray Vaughn will always be my favorite guitar god. My soul cries for him still. <3
How 'On Earth' can you compare S.R.Vaughan to J.M.Hendrix?????!!!!!!!!One was a (black)'Voodoo Chile'...the other was -possibly - one of the greatest 'feelin' tuned' guitarists to even get close to some of Jimi's better moments........ Fuck your 'points of view & opinions' :just ge2t off on it ,for what it is ! Creashonrebel
SRV put an absolutely different feel and emotion into this piece. I can't imagine any of Hendrix’s psychedelic renditions on the soundtrack of Black Hawk Down; Stevie's version fitted in perfectly
I was there I got my ticket free at the Minnesota state fair... What a show man talk about the best of the best, but SRV showed them what it means to do it right. We were all in awe
@tetraviolet - Not 'passing to a higher plane', rather resting in death. See Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, Genesis 3:19, 1Corinthians 15:6. But do not fear - it's not the end.
Billy Cox sat in my living room in Nashville as we played a video of Jimmy from Berkley college bootlegged..an interview with Dick Cavett... then Austin City Limits featuring up and coming guitarist "Stevie Ray Vaughn" and said, and I quote: "He's got that Hendrix sh*t down" ! Both musicians were awesome performers artists and people. All musicians steal from other artist of the time and from the past..Greatness is and always will be..and for me anyway thats more than enough.
bottom line: trower is better, if you dont agree YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT! take that as you will....it still makes you dumb. im sure your gonna say "ive been a guitar player all my life and i have a degree" but your a fucking liar ( just wanted to get that outta the way now) take it from someone who has a well versed musical ear....trower is better
@samuraisixstring No you're a fucking idiot for thinking that he is better than SRV. They may be on the same level with different playing styles, but he is in no way better. Oh yeah and did any of RTs songs get nominated for grammys? No. And besides can you even imagine the music SRV would be putting out if he was still alive? It would blow everyone out of the water. Everyone.
@samuraisixstring I guess I'm an idiot because I had never even heard of trower before your ignorant statement received such negative feedback. Hard to argue someone is the best when the most views any of their video's has isn't even a fraction of other guitarists...
i always find it amazing how folks argue over who was best or better, or greater, when these guitarists are all part of a greater whole...without diversity and different directions what would we have left?
possibly the crap that record companies today dish up
and robin trower puts both hendrix and vaughan to shame! if you think im crazy do yourself a favor and listen to the robin trower live album from the 70's......you'll see!
@5507156693 I love everything Trower has ever done. I think he's better than Hendrix but not Stevie. Robin and Stevie both had amazing technique . Their music showcased their knowledge of melody and musical structure.Hendrix relied on gimmick . Burning guitars, triping his brains out on stage, and using feedback and distorted,overdriven tubes to define your "music" is the sign of a master showman and entertainer, NOT a master guitarist..
That's a little harsh on Hendrix, don't you think? He's won a special place in the history of rock and I wouldn’t challenge the fact though I've never been an outspoken fan of his. Anyway, I don't even want to discuss Hendrix while listening to one of SRV's last performances on Earth. It feels like disrespecting the man
@samuraisixstring IMHO you are smoking crack if you think that. But opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and other peoples' stink worse than your own.
opps i was wrong they both went down in helicopters within weeks of each other , but not the same one, and of course it's california we've always had the best drugs!
This was Not his Last Concert ! He played at the concord pavilion and jumped on a helicopter with Bill graham after the show , they hit some high power wires right by there, and that was His last night on Earth
Albert King was like a father to Mr. Vaughn, and his biggest influence. However, jimi wasn't far behind as a great influence to stevie ray. Jimi made some of the best music ever to exist and nobody can deny that. Why argue about who's better.... just enjoy! I do believe that both hendrix and srv may have sold their soul for their talent, thus accounting for their unfortunate early departure. However if you notice Clapton has had longevity and success but is not as great as either jimi or srv!
@thyamelate spooky and probably the most persuasive argument for the existence of the devil I have ever heard!! Nice one!!,,,,,,oh and therefore God!! Though funny how they were both very humble nice geezers!!
stop that stupid competition,you learnt nothing from the masters,they both are angry with us because we are not enjoying their music,instead we are fighting each other like kids.come on people shut up and listen.
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The comparisons are pointless. Doesn't everyone realize Stevie worshiped Jimi, along with Albert King, Lonnie Mack. He wouldn't want any of his heros dissed.
Actually as Chris Layton stated SRV never had "idols"; only lots of musicians he loved and admired very much. Worshiping is the patent-eligible Hendrix fans specialty
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if both stevie and hendrix were alive, they'd probably ask all of you to stop bickering on who's truly the best. it's all about CONTEXT ppl.. if u ask who was more creative, ppl would say hendrix hands down.. he practically invented a whole generation of rockers, including stevie himself (only malmsteen would be so arrogant to say hendrix had no influence in his music)! but if u ask who was the better showman/performer, without a doubt it goes to stevie.. BUT STILL BOTH ARE GENIUSES! SO CHILL..
To call SRV a 'Hendrix invention" is beyond laughable. Hendrix was not even his biggest influence if I can take his own words for it. BTW, Malmsteen is by far not the only one omitting Hendrix's name from the list of their influences. As for creativity, being radically unconventional is not the only way to be creative
@Jessrama The Style that Jimi Hendrix invented is his own! I'm not trying to take anything away from SRV, he is a great player, one of the greatest guitarmen of all times in fact! Not as inventive as Hendrix though, wich he is heavily influented by. Although SRV wrote alot of his own songs he constantly returns to play Hendrix, both live and on studio recordings. Songs such as Little Wing, Voodoo Child, Third Stone From The Sun.
I agree, Hendrix was great but his tone was usually weak (except on Band Of Gipsies) he was also pretty hit and miss regarding how good his playing was. Even when Stevie could barely stand from all the whiskey and Cocaine he never missed a beat.
@chooseyourblues YEAH EVERYONE RIPPING ON HENDRIX IN HERE IS A FUCKING LOSER LIKE ANY OF YOU CAN PLAY BETTER, JUST TALK A LOT OF SHIT AND DREAM OF HAVING 1/10000TH OF HIS ABILITY/CREATIVITY/TALENT/SUCCESS ETC. ETC. DREAM ON.....HENDRIX'S TONE WAS WEAK...GET A LIFE.
@chooseyourblues However, with all due respect to SRV, Hendrix was more than a guitar player, he was an innovator. A real artistic type that opened up the electric guitars to all kinds of possibilities that others ran with and refined.
Innovator? Even Jimi Hendix said that Drake Levin (yes of Paul Revere and the Raiders) did things he never saw before. Even HE recognized those who came before him. Where did Jimi get that "playing the guitar behind his head" thing? From Drake Levin. There were people before Jimi who could play and, like you said, there were those after him who improved upon his stuff. Hendrix was who he was because of them. Right place at the right time with the right stuff.
@WallyPost You are right. Hendrix had the great luck to be in the right place at the right time. And he had incorporated lots of things done before him in his style. That's how the world evolves; nothing comes out of nothing. If only the hendrix purists could found the brains to get it
@WallyPost Playing guitar behind your head is a gimmick. I'm talking about opening the potential of electric guitars to new directions. Hendrix's biggest influences were blues players. You'll notice that SRV is playing Hendrix's music. I saw SRV live six times back in the late 80's and 90's; at his shows he played "Manic Depression", "Third Stone from the Sun", "Little Wing", "Voodoo Child" and more.
Yeah, that's true SRV did play Hendrix's tunes. If you think that Hendrix opened the "potential of electric guitars in new directions" he picked up from those before him. Jeff Beck was the innovator before Hendrix. Hendrix was a lot of show, flash, and new sound in 1967. He was doing what Beck had done 2 - 3 years before. Yeah, playing behind his head was a gimmick, but, he USED it. He didn't invent it. And, what guitar players weren't blues influenced back then?
@WallyPost Name one Jeff Beck song before 1967 that was as far out as "third stone from the sun". I might also add that more people cover Hendrix songs than any guitarist from that era: RHCP, John Mayer, Garry Moore, John Lee Hooker (covered Red House on an album), Eric Johnson, SRV, Sting (Little wing), Bela Fleck and the Fleck Tones, and many others. Not to mention that Miles Davis lists him as one of the chief influences for the Fusion Jazz movement.
@WallyPost Oh yeah, I forgot about Beck's Bolero. There is room for more than one innovator though, son. Hendrix was one of them. Just consider how many other musicians have given the nod to Hendrix and that is all the evidence you need. It's ok not to like Hendrix, but to deny the inspiration he's had for countless musicians, some of them pioneering in their own right, is ridiculous. SRV would certainly list him as chief among his influences (and Albert King)
Okay ... okay ... you win. Hendrix is THE BEST EVER. And, you know more than anyone about guitar playing, Hendrix, and the countless musicians he inspired to the level just beneath his vaunted status.
@WallyPost Didn't say he was the best ever. There are a lot of great guitarists and musicians. Just trying to say that he was one of the chief innovators and pioneers of guitar in the era which he lived. A lot of his contemporaries would agree with that statement.
@opticage SRV said as a teen he learned to play all Hendrix songs ‘cause they were "fun to play". But what does this show? Hendrix played tons of covers too. The man was damn inspirational because he played with a reckless abandon spitting on every rule of "good" guitar playing that ever existed and liberating other musicians to experiment. But his stage gimmicks and sound tricks were by far not his invention. BTW he was never SRV's chief influence. I'd suggest taking Stevie's word for that
@Jesrama1 Well since I'm anonymous here...I went to the same AA club in Austin as SRV. He had a special affection for Hendrix. Look at the live at El Mocambo footage...he is wearing a copy of the same kimono that hendrix wore later in his life.
@opticage Mate, that kimono was not invented by Hendrix. E.g. I've seen Buddy Guy wear the same type long before Hendrix. And to learn and play somebody's songs is a sign of affection for sure, which is still a bit different than major influence
Put Hendix in his historical context and find one person at that time that was playing anything asdifferent and radical as "Third Stone from the Sun". Furthermore, look at the anecdotal evidence: John Lee Hooker, when asked what his favorite blues song is, he said "When I hear Red House it makes me want to get up and choke my mother". Miles Davis, when asked about Hendrix, he said "It's that motherfucking machine gun"
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@Jessrama i'm not putting him down; i love SRV as i said. i've listened to both of them a lot. and it's just that some of the stuff jimi played was from another planet. his tone, the sounds he created, i haven't heard anyone fully replicate him. as SRV said himself, there is only one jimi hendrix.
SRV was more interested in hitting the right notes...Jimi was into putting on a show. Jimi was into getting high and getting laid...SRV was into playing guitar. SRV was a guitar players guitar player.
@bigtorquehemi ABSOLUTE rubbish!! Did you ever see Hendrix live? I did from the first row. Sure he had some tricks, but to say he wasn't serious about the guitar is pure silliness. By the way, have you tried any of those tricks?
@bigtorquehemi Not true. Hendrix was always talking to everyone about guitar, in his short career he had jammed with a ton of musicians. Also he took it almost every where, he made everything he did with his drive. he got drugs and girls because he didn't exactly have a happy til he made it. Hendrix was always trying to make the most of life.
Judging from Eric Burdon’s words Hendrix was headed for the downslide toward the end of his life; the way he died kinda proves it. Stevie was on his way to full recovery when he died. Anyway, I'm sure both men died way before giving all they could
@5507156693 Both great loses, true Hendrix was reportedly tired of playing shows with the same songs night after night he wanted a break.His death remains very iffy though.
@BroadcastedByMe Hey,SRV is not gay.And Hendrix didn't invented playing guitar,before him there were great guitarist as well,like Django Reinhardt (he had only three fingers on left arm),Robert Johnson etc.Hendrix was influence to electric guitar,not ,,inventor of playing guitar''(it sound pathetic) Both of this guitarists were getting there soul into song.And they are equal for me.I hope we are going to have chance to watch this kind of guitarists again..
Jimi not only didn't invent guitar playin; he didn't even invent all those tricks he got so famous for. And he was just a human; imperfect like all of us
Oh, yes. We all know Chuck Berry invented Rock'nRoll toward the end of the 70s and Les Paul invented the modern electric guitar after he saw Hendrix playing it at Woodstock. But your statement is best proven by Eric Clapton who invented the Blues in 1964.
Always nice to hear smart people talking if only virtually
@5507156693 No one man invented the blues, my friend. As great as Clapton is, and he is great, if anyone invented the Blues it would be Robert Johnson or Son House. And they had influences as well.
@bigtorquehemi there is no need to compare the two. stevie had his own issues with getting high which is why he and my brother used to go to meeting together. back in the day, he died five years sober. what do you think he was doing previous to those five years? getting high and getting laid. like we all were.
For the sake of actual accuracy, less then 4 years. And his main issue was alcohol. Not that the matter is of any relevance but if it has to be discussed lets stick with the facts
@tlynch1218 If you read my initial post on this video it says nothing about Hendrix. Hendrix was a great musician, and an innovator. He took the guitar to a different state. But, IMO, SRV was a better musician.
@bigtorquehemi a cleaner guitarist yes probably, he played guitar longer than hendrix was alive. Although he was no where near as experimental as jimi was. technically better guitarist yes, not a better muscian.
This explains nothing. Stevie was a great musician the way he felt music and conveyed it. Technicality comes in second. As Zakk Wylde used to say, "You don't hear a great guitar player; you feel them"
@5507156693 how does it not? it means he is more experienced and more technically proficient than hendrix, jimi was getting even better later into his career and died before he reached his peak, he was trying new things where as stevie didnt branch off.
More experienced doesn't necessarily mean more technically proficient and getting better. Today Clapton is neither better nor more technically proficient than in 1966. From what I've heard and read on Hendrix, toward the end of his life he was not exactly getting better. As for the "branching off", actually SRV "branched off" a few times but what does it matter? If he loved the Blues enough to stick with it and not follow some profitable fashion I can only respect him more
@5507156693 But he was technically, clapton isn't as good as he was during 60s because he is in his 60's now! he also said he isn't as good as he once was, well well past his prime.Hendrix's improvisations was getting longer, cleaner and he was becoming a funkier guitarist
@5507156693@5507156693 SRV was a bluesrock player. Hendrix croosed over genres and did anything that was possible to do at the time, technically SRV wasn't as sloppy as hendrix, but jimi was improving, compare jimi's earlier voodoo child to his 70's versions
I'd join Buddy Guy in his statement that Stevie was a 120% Blues player . Maybe just for fun he "branched off" on several occasions what you've obviously missed. Hendrix's always been referenced as a 60s classic rock guitar player mostly of the psychedelic type. What other genre did he play? Maybe you mistake his "I'll-do-what-I-wanna-do-on-my-guitar" craziness for another music genre?
@5507156693 He didn't follow any fashion, he was himself, what was in at the time followed him, hence the legions of new guitar players that tried to emulate him afterwards, he dabbled in blues, rock and funk
Every age has a prevailing music genre. It is kind of fashion since with time it's always replaced by something new. OK, Hendrix joined in the classic psychedelic rock and had he's personal style for sure. Maybe the others followed him but he certainly learned a lot from them, too. That he was one of those who inspired future generations is not surprising; his "free" style was so liberating. And BTW, he explicitly stated his unwillingness to be viewed as a Blues player
Hendrix and Stevie do belong in the same class. They were both innovaters and ass kickers. If Hendrix had the chance to play with Stevie im sure he would of learned something but realize Stevie got the chance to learn from Jimmie indirectly and I believe subconsciously Jimi wrote Little Wing for Stevie to play.
(jimmy for jimmy page, marshall for james marshall hendrix *jimmi hendrix*, and vaughan for stevie ray vaughan!) i like to say i got a little legend in me!! :)
I did get goose bumps , it's weird , I got goose bumps last few times I played that live , maybe it's just the thought of all the greats that have played it , and the greats yet to come , who will look back on Hendrix, and SRV , and go WOW , wish I was that influential , talented , and fucking amazing !
Erica Clapton shook over Jimmie Hendrix before Vaugh was ever known. Not saying Vaugh wasn't a good guitar player. When I first heard him, I personally thought he was black.(lol). And I have alot of his songs, but Jimmie made alot if guitar player shake when he reformed rock and roll...
protools3076 4 days ago
i just can't watch all the video, it is so sad to know this would be my hero's last concert
Brandon18valensi 5 days ago
I didn't get to see him but I was just heading to bed when my local radio station out of Appleton WI came on with breaking news that his helicopter had crashed and SRV had died. I cried for our loss and I sit in awe whenever I listen to him play. Rest in peace my brother, you are missed.
daperrote6168 2 weeks ago
Greatest of all time PERIOD!!!
Monsterdrumma 3 weeks ago
SRV one in a billion
TheBreen36 1 month ago 6
Even Eric Clapton stood in his dressing room back stage shaking in awe of this force from heaven and felt ashamed that he had to come out after him, knowing in his heart that he could never reach the same level.
TheBreen36 1 month ago 4
I met him the day he died while we were playing the Alpine Valley golf course before going to the show. I sliced to the right of the fairway right by the back stage picnic area. He came down by the fence when we were yelling his name. Super nice guy, very humble. He signed my ticket for the show and I still have it today. It is my greatest possession.
ddw333 1 month ago 6
srv was god just a shame the helicopter pilot was a wanker didnt check he had enough fuel for the flight and killed a blues legend
shredmaster100 1 month ago 3
what was the last song that night? sweet home chicago
2001imsofly 2 months ago
Txs for the hood music Cockel Hill/Oak Cliff !!!!! G Dallas tx
shaggychili 2 months ago
It's a damn shame I can never see this pure guitarist live,
if only I was born a decade earlier. (I was born in '89).
Then maybe I could've had the pleasure.
Ah well, being a optimist here; In this generation we have Justin Beiber and
Black Eyed Peas etc. I'm glad I can still see their concerts!
**Face Slap like I never did before**
HKmatmadness 2 months ago
@HKmatmadness It was a Spiritual Experience getting to see them play up close in old school blues clubs back in Dallas. In '81 I saw him set the stage right tweeter on Fire! playing Voodoo Child Slight Return at Mother Blues . My date & I got to go them out the stage door & chat them up while the club got another tweeter & aired out the smoke with fans.You should try an' Astral Project during sleep to The Otherside & see him play a concert & bring that memory back with you to your waking world.
bigdubbatoo 2 months ago 8
srv rocks . com
with out the spaces
albertrat1 3 months ago 3
Jimi and Stevie were gifted ..they funneled energy from a higher source ....listen to the accounts of the peple that played with them...they were rock and roles greatest ....
check out this link to SRV'S page
albertrat1 3 months ago 3
I just hope one day people could would just stop judging Stevie and Jimi. They were and still are great and deserve to be respected for who they are not just someone to compare to someone. Live on Jimi and Stevie.
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StratMatt777 3 months ago
may he rest in peace
tmn1231 4 months ago
You know youtube now allows videos to be uploaded way past 15 minutes...yoy should upload the entire thing if you still have it.
lifeonmars45 4 months ago
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wow all you SRV fans dont realy like hendrix can we settle at the face there both legends ?
hendrix7755 4 months ago
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To expect SRV fans to rave and drool about Hendrix on a SRV vid is arrogant. How many Hendrix fans sing hymns of praise about SRV on Hendrix vids?? I am sick to death to find zombified hendroids polluting every SRV vid with the boring "Jimi was better" cliché. Even the fact that this video marks his last hours on Earth wouldn't stop them (or rather you) from being disrespectful
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@5507156693 what did i do ? haha
hendrix7755 4 months ago
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Generally? I don't know. In the concrete case - misunderstood my enlightening reply
5507156693 4 months ago 2
@5507156693 Amen to that.
g29er 4 months ago 5
RIP SRV.
MrQuickfix79 4 months ago 18
HOW DARE ALL OF YOU! THIS IS STEVIES LAST CONCERT!!! SHOW SOME RESPECT!!!!!!!!! WHY ARE YALL FIGHTING!??? I pity you all that cant comprehend this.
barroomhero82 4 months ago 42
What's with all the fighting? You either like it or you don't, there's no point arguing over it.
TheBenman999 4 months ago
Where would we be without the caveman who first stretched an animal skin over cylinder of birchbark and began hammering on it like a demon possesed? No backbeat? No blues and rock....
dataghost196 5 months ago 3
jesus christ everyone shut up already. They are all great fricking guitarists and thats that. Nothing more needs to be said just shut up and listen to it!
heimburgchr22 5 months ago 3
I hate helicopters!
superiansuper 5 months ago
@superiansuper you should hate pilots more
150peacemaker 4 months ago
Is it just me, or was anyone else expecting to see SRV's "final concert"? Geesh. At least title it correctly: "Stoned person's camerawork set to SRV music"
valleygirlknits 5 months ago
He is playing like a man who {subconsciously ?} innately knows he is going "home" -it is said that he was very happy that day ...coupled with his intense playing - maybe he supernaturally senses his new beginning .
TheMichaelseymour 5 months ago 2
Damned fling wing aircraft and bad flying decisions, anyway!
1jetdrvr 5 months ago
It's interesting to hear this after so many years. Alpine Valley was a terrible place to see a concert, but I'm glad I was there to see Stevie Ray play for the last time. The main billing was Eric Clapton, but I went to see Stevie Ray. I was so sad to hear about the crash on Monday morning, I could hardly work.
woosanlau 5 months ago
It's not important who people consider to be better or worse at anything.. just listen to the music.. people like that weren't out to be considered "the best" they just had a great love for their music. @The19763 way to go at criticizing people for doing something and doing the thing you're criticizing people about in the same comment.. fag
dudemanbroskie 5 months ago
@dudemanbroskie the purpose of the video was to pay respect to the great Stevie Ray vaughn. There is no need to criticize this video. chill out.
kelehawk1 5 months ago
everybody stop the Hendrix v Vaughan vs fuck knows who bullshit, only faggots compare legends! the facts are stevie ray was without any doubt the greatest blues guitarist of all time and Hendrix, well.................Hendrix was just Jimi. ~LongLiveTheKing~
The19763 5 months ago
Twenty one years later and it's still scarily the best. Was Hendrix calling him that night? The Voodoo Child was holding out his hand.
annea1b 5 months ago 2
SRV was incredible. Trower wasn't even close to the passion of this man or Jimi. And this version here is the best Voodoo Child that was ever played by man. Hendrix was the most creative guitarist, a true genius. So was SRV. For anyone to suggest that Trower is superior, you have to be pretty dumb. Sorry, but seriously. Pretty dumb. You can't beat Jimi Hendrix at his own game. But SRV did it with his own versions of Voodoo Child in 1989/1990.
sanQ 5 months ago 2
the videos poor man u must av had withdrawal symptoms when u made this 10 out of 10 for the music side tho mind blowing
miffybhoy 6 months ago
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Jimi Hendrix - Robin Trower - Stevie Ray - Jimmy Page
All Equal talents and simply the 4 greatest guitariss of all time
sandiegoled13 6 months ago
@sandiegoled13 Do you know who rollingstone mag ranks as the number two guitarist right behind jimi? dwain allman I would not have thought of him but if you listen to him he had some licks, just another one who went befor his time
MrVaporized420 5 months ago
I KNEW STEVIE WHEN HIS FINGERS BLEED NOW MY HEART BLEEDS
Thakortnie 6 months ago 5
Ok all you freaks out there.. yea Robin Trower, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray cut across all others chords and made them their own ....why the hello do you have to fight about it. Face it... they all belong to same club now. If you act right you might get in too!!!!!
mspatiopool 6 months ago
k the graphic r'nt SUBLIME in this vid? .... butt heh! twang it! that guitar!
PlanetEarthSupport 6 months ago
Greatest musician ever as far as I'm concerned, I get choked up till this day when I listen to him, miss ya Stevie!!!
Monsterdrumma 6 months ago 2
To each their own....STEVIE Love!!!!!
pisces78mb 6 months ago
Thanks for Posting! Cool, nice tribute :)
sarniarocks 7 months ago
All I have to say, with all the great talent lost in the past 20-30 years, is Heaven has one heck of a band!
Linfordson 7 months ago 2
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All of this "greatest guitar play ever' discussion is foolish without mentioning Terry Kath of Chicago. Even Jimi stated that TK was the best that he had ever heard! All were fantastic in their own right, but NO ONE is the best. Different tastes for millions of us.
1cooljazzfan 7 months ago
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I love SRV but Hendrix was a genius, period. Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner" alone puts him in a class with the timeless greats like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Mahler...
paracelsusify 7 months ago
@paracelsusify
With the mentioning of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Mahler...your comment sounds like a mean disrespectful joke on hendrix
Stay in touch with reality bud
5507156693 7 months ago
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@5507156693 Hey BUD. The only disrespect happening around here seems to be coming from you (towards me). Comparing Jimi to Beethoven et al is no more ridiculous than comparing him to SRV (possibly less so, in fact). If you can open your mind long enough to learn something you might consider listening to Matt Haimovitz playing Hendrix
paracelsusify 7 months ago
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For some reason some SRV fans feel the need to put down Hendrix and EC. And it's pretty annoying. They are all great in their own way!
bb1111116 7 months ago
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Well, do you expect SRV fans on the comment section of a video from his last day of life to embark on some mighty praising of Clapton and Hendrix? There are other vids for doing so. Damn, have some respect
5507156693 7 months ago
@5507156693 Misunderstanding I guess. I have lots of respect for SRV. Great guitarist.
bb1111116 7 months ago
I knew people who were at this show. I have heard from band members that it was one of the best shows they ever did.
336kgf 7 months ago
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Excellent comments. I might add that Jimi's style personified to me a wild "abandon" that I've rarely heard matched by anyone, his trademark feature if you will. Yes, he wasn't nearly as precise in some respects as a few of the aforementioned guitarists, but no one before or since and match the wild extemperaneous style that he had, almost willing or bending the guitar to reproduce a sound that was in his head, and not on the frets.
bmwbmwus 7 months ago
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But remember that Stevie Ray loved Jimi's playing....there's room for two great guitarists to coexist. Well, maybe not...maybe that's why they're both gone.
tahunajcw 7 months ago
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Stevie's truly great, one of my favs. However, whenever these "they were the greatest" lists are compiled it always breaks my heart that Rory Gallagher isn't listed, who imho was the best live blues/rock player ever, would give a 120% whether he was playin' for 30 or 30,000, and they don't mention Peter Green of the original/REAL Fleetwood Mac, who did the original "Black Magic Woman" among other wonderful blues/rock, solo or jammin'.
vajra0150 7 months ago
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Hendrix was an innovator, let him rest. Without him we would not hav what we have now. SRV was a brilliant blues musician, one of the best of all time. Lets enjoy and be thankful they lived and played and gave us this gift.
vicvicbitter 7 months ago
@vicvicbitter
Without Hendrix we wouldn't have what we have now...And what do we have NOW to thank Hendrix for? BTW it just downed on me that without Les Paul, called father of the rock sound, we wouldn't have Hendrix... and for some reason he never gets credits. Maybe because he didn't have the luck to be part of that infamous 60s hippie hype
5507156693 7 months ago 10
@5507156693 and without Robert Johnson...well...we'd have nothing...
mehl3 5 months ago
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@5507156693 It should be dawned on you, not downed. Get another blunt raging.
NOTARES 4 months ago
@NOTARES
Fussing about a typo? ROFL! Well, I am a huge Mark Twain fan and he once said "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way"
5507156693 4 months ago
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@5507156693
That is not even what Mark Twain was talking about.
Nemphis21 4 months ago
@5507156693 yeah but then what sort of retard writes rofl?
funkbubble 4 months ago
@funkbubble
Ask a retard not me
5507156693 4 months ago
@5507156693 Stevie Ray, Hendrix and Les Paul have something in common indeed: They each had something nobody else on this planet did...and Les Paul is, besides the inventor of the Les Paul guitar, widely regarded as the father of multitrack recording and, thus, music as we know it today.
quad1000 4 months ago 2
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You have to admit though Hendrix was a musical genius and put on a great show, but Stevie Ray Vaughn will always be my favorite guitar god. My soul cries for him still. <3
arielmerritt 7 months ago
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arielmerritt 7 months ago
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How 'On Earth' can you compare S.R.Vaughan to J.M.Hendrix?????!!!!!!!!One was a (black)'Voodoo Chile'...the other was -possibly - one of the greatest 'feelin' tuned' guitarists to even get close to some of Jimi's better moments........ Fuck your 'points of view & opinions' :just ge2t off on it ,for what it is ! Creashonrebel
Mangosunsplash 8 months ago
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@Mangosunsplash
SRV was the only gut that got close to the same feel and emotion, that's why they are compared.
Gonzoidz 7 months ago
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SRV put an absolutely different feel and emotion into this piece. I can't imagine any of Hendrix’s psychedelic renditions on the soundtrack of Black Hawk Down; Stevie's version fitted in perfectly
5507156693 7 months ago 7
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yeah, of course SRV had his own unique feel and style. Hendrix was a bit wilder, more use of feedback and volume, but could create any mood.
Gonzoidz 7 months ago
@Mangosunsplash
You mean f*** everybody’s point of view to make room for your own (and pretty questionable) one? Most hilarious:):)
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Why would SRV copy hendrix ; just like a child wanting to be like his father; steve tried but not as much . who cares todays a new day
strings191 8 months ago
@booj1969 Damn.. that's tragic. I wish I was around to see him play.
thomasmartin12345 8 months ago
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there would be no SRV without the man himself [jimi]
strings191 8 months ago
@strings191 No statement could be farther from the truth. You either wish or you're ignorant
Jesrama1 8 months ago 23
I was there I got my ticket free at the Minnesota state fair... What a show man talk about the best of the best, but SRV showed them what it means to do it right. We were all in awe
jt55106 8 months ago 4
The world lost the best guitarist and bluesman EVER when SRV passed on to a higher plane.
tetraviolet 8 months ago 52
@tetraviolet - Not 'passing to a higher plane', rather resting in death. See Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, Genesis 3:19, 1Corinthians 15:6. But do not fear - it's not the end.
jazzgirl232 5 months ago
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Billy Cox sat in my living room in Nashville as we played a video of Jimmy from Berkley college bootlegged..an interview with Dick Cavett... then Austin City Limits featuring up and coming guitarist "Stevie Ray Vaughn" and said, and I quote: "He's got that Hendrix sh*t down" ! Both musicians were awesome performers artists and people. All musicians steal from other artist of the time and from the past..Greatness is and always will be..and for me anyway thats more than enough.
SPSPELLMAN 8 months ago
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hendrix clapton beck page vaughn in that order unless you want mcglaughlin corryell demeola in the conversation not to mention dejango reinhardt
daviboyrooster 8 months ago
another great musician gone way too soon
ScreamingTree3000 8 months ago
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bottom line: trower is better, if you dont agree YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT! take that as you will....it still makes you dumb. im sure your gonna say "ive been a guitar player all my life and i have a degree" but your a fucking liar ( just wanted to get that outta the way now) take it from someone who has a well versed musical ear....trower is better
samuraisixstring 8 months ago
@samuraisixstring No you're a fucking idiot for thinking that he is better than SRV. They may be on the same level with different playing styles, but he is in no way better. Oh yeah and did any of RTs songs get nominated for grammys? No. And besides can you even imagine the music SRV would be putting out if he was still alive? It would blow everyone out of the water. Everyone.
Wigz18 8 months ago 31
@Wigz18 no need to use the F word
321qaw 6 months ago 2
@samuraisixstring
On the evidence of your statements your degree must be in excelling on the moron scale…
Bottom line: when those guys reach a certain level there is no "better". That's an empty word that shouldn’t even be in the dictionary.
And you may keep fooling yourself that your favorite is better than everybody else's favorites
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@5507156693 post a video response if you think u r better than srv
paulgriswold 5 months ago
@paulgriswold
Lol, I'm not better than SRV. I don't think anybody is; I just don't think comparing great musicians is a fair and good thing to do
5507156693 5 months ago
@samuraisixstring I guess I'm an idiot because I had never even heard of trower before your ignorant statement received such negative feedback. Hard to argue someone is the best when the most views any of their video's has isn't even a fraction of other guitarists...
AGWStudios 5 months ago
Audio sucka
thetarstarkas 8 months ago
These videos always degenerate into a pissing contest. SAD!
bbnatedogg 8 months ago 3
i always find it amazing how folks argue over who was best or better, or greater, when these guitarists are all part of a greater whole...without diversity and different directions what would we have left?
possibly the crap that record companies today dish up
sw3210 8 months ago 6
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and robin trower puts both hendrix and vaughan to shame! if you think im crazy do yourself a favor and listen to the robin trower live album from the 70's......you'll see!
samuraisixstring 8 months ago
@samuraisixstring
Uhu. I've listened to most of Trower albums, live and studio.
I think you're crazy
5507156693 8 months ago 8
@5507156693 I love everything Trower has ever done. I think he's better than Hendrix but not Stevie. Robin and Stevie both had amazing technique . Their music showcased their knowledge of melody and musical structure.Hendrix relied on gimmick . Burning guitars, triping his brains out on stage, and using feedback and distorted,overdriven tubes to define your "music" is the sign of a master showman and entertainer, NOT a master guitarist..
TheGonzo63 6 months ago
@TheGonzo63
That's a little harsh on Hendrix, don't you think? He's won a special place in the history of rock and I wouldn’t challenge the fact though I've never been an outspoken fan of his. Anyway, I don't even want to discuss Hendrix while listening to one of SRV's last performances on Earth. It feels like disrespecting the man
5507156693 6 months ago
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@TheGonzo63
are you crazy ?
everythings you heard now and for the next century came from the Hendrix mind ...
TheUshiodemon 6 months ago
@TheUshiodemon You are overachieving on the moron scale for sure
5507156693 6 months ago
@samuraisixstring IMHO you are smoking crack if you think that. But opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and other peoples' stink worse than your own.
bbnatedogg 8 months ago 6
opps i was wrong they both went down in helicopters within weeks of each other , but not the same one, and of course it's california we've always had the best drugs!
Valkariesteel 9 months ago
This was Not his Last Concert ! He played at the concord pavilion and jumped on a helicopter with Bill graham after the show , they hit some high power wires right by there, and that was His last night on Earth
Valkariesteel 9 months ago
@Valkariesteel What the hell are you talking about. SRV died leaving Alpine Valley in East Troy Wisconsin. You must be on some good drugs.
one99rt 9 months ago
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Albert King was like a father to Mr. Vaughn, and his biggest influence. However, jimi wasn't far behind as a great influence to stevie ray. Jimi made some of the best music ever to exist and nobody can deny that. Why argue about who's better.... just enjoy! I do believe that both hendrix and srv may have sold their soul for their talent, thus accounting for their unfortunate early departure. However if you notice Clapton has had longevity and success but is not as great as either jimi or srv!
thyamelate 9 months ago
@thyamelate spooky and probably the most persuasive argument for the existence of the devil I have ever heard!! Nice one!!,,,,,,oh and therefore God!! Though funny how they were both very humble nice geezers!!
steve1969pierce 8 months ago 2
stop that stupid competition,you learnt nothing from the masters,they both are angry with us because we are not enjoying their music,instead we are fighting each other like kids.come on people shut up and listen.
endrizo 9 months ago
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The comparisons are pointless. Doesn't everyone realize Stevie worshiped Jimi, along with Albert King, Lonnie Mack. He wouldn't want any of his heros dissed.
Tiki1 9 months ago
@Tiki1
Actually as Chris Layton stated SRV never had "idols"; only lots of musicians he loved and admired very much. Worshiping is the patent-eligible Hendrix fans specialty
5507156693 9 months ago 3
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if both stevie and hendrix were alive, they'd probably ask all of you to stop bickering on who's truly the best. it's all about CONTEXT ppl.. if u ask who was more creative, ppl would say hendrix hands down.. he practically invented a whole generation of rockers, including stevie himself (only malmsteen would be so arrogant to say hendrix had no influence in his music)! but if u ask who was the better showman/performer, without a doubt it goes to stevie.. BUT STILL BOTH ARE GENIUSES! SO CHILL..
vpdinesh81 9 months ago
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To call SRV a 'Hendrix invention" is beyond laughable. Hendrix was not even his biggest influence if I can take his own words for it. BTW, Malmsteen is by far not the only one omitting Hendrix's name from the list of their influences. As for creativity, being radically unconventional is not the only way to be creative
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@Jessrama The Style that Jimi Hendrix invented is his own! I'm not trying to take anything away from SRV, he is a great player, one of the greatest guitarmen of all times in fact! Not as inventive as Hendrix though, wich he is heavily influented by. Although SRV wrote alot of his own songs he constantly returns to play Hendrix, both live and on studio recordings. Songs such as Little Wing, Voodoo Child, Third Stone From The Sun.
jonnebanan 9 months ago
@Jessrama
I agree, Hendrix was great but his tone was usually weak (except on Band Of Gipsies) he was also pretty hit and miss regarding how good his playing was. Even when Stevie could barely stand from all the whiskey and Cocaine he never missed a beat.
chooseyourblues 9 months ago 44
@chooseyourblues YEAH EVERYONE RIPPING ON HENDRIX IN HERE IS A FUCKING LOSER LIKE ANY OF YOU CAN PLAY BETTER, JUST TALK A LOT OF SHIT AND DREAM OF HAVING 1/10000TH OF HIS ABILITY/CREATIVITY/TALENT/SUCCESS ETC. ETC. DREAM ON.....HENDRIX'S TONE WAS WEAK...GET A LIFE.
lmrdjm275 7 months ago
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@chooseyourblues However, with all due respect to SRV, Hendrix was more than a guitar player, he was an innovator. A real artistic type that opened up the electric guitars to all kinds of possibilities that others ran with and refined.
opticage 7 months ago
@opticage
Innovator? Even Jimi Hendix said that Drake Levin (yes of Paul Revere and the Raiders) did things he never saw before. Even HE recognized those who came before him. Where did Jimi get that "playing the guitar behind his head" thing? From Drake Levin. There were people before Jimi who could play and, like you said, there were those after him who improved upon his stuff. Hendrix was who he was because of them. Right place at the right time with the right stuff.
WallyPost 7 months ago
@WallyPost You are right. Hendrix had the great luck to be in the right place at the right time. And he had incorporated lots of things done before him in his style. That's how the world evolves; nothing comes out of nothing. If only the hendrix purists could found the brains to get it
Jesrama1 7 months ago
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@WallyPost Playing guitar behind your head is a gimmick. I'm talking about opening the potential of electric guitars to new directions. Hendrix's biggest influences were blues players. You'll notice that SRV is playing Hendrix's music. I saw SRV live six times back in the late 80's and 90's; at his shows he played "Manic Depression", "Third Stone from the Sun", "Little Wing", "Voodoo Child" and more.
opticage 6 months ago
@opticage
Yeah, that's true SRV did play Hendrix's tunes. If you think that Hendrix opened the "potential of electric guitars in new directions" he picked up from those before him. Jeff Beck was the innovator before Hendrix. Hendrix was a lot of show, flash, and new sound in 1967. He was doing what Beck had done 2 - 3 years before. Yeah, playing behind his head was a gimmick, but, he USED it. He didn't invent it. And, what guitar players weren't blues influenced back then?
WallyPost 6 months ago
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@WallyPost Name one Jeff Beck song before 1967 that was as far out as "third stone from the sun". I might also add that more people cover Hendrix songs than any guitarist from that era: RHCP, John Mayer, Garry Moore, John Lee Hooker (covered Red House on an album), Eric Johnson, SRV, Sting (Little wing), Bela Fleck and the Fleck Tones, and many others. Not to mention that Miles Davis lists him as one of the chief influences for the Fusion Jazz movement.
opticage 6 months ago
@WallyPost Oh yeah, I forgot about Beck's Bolero. There is room for more than one innovator though, son. Hendrix was one of them. Just consider how many other musicians have given the nod to Hendrix and that is all the evidence you need. It's ok not to like Hendrix, but to deny the inspiration he's had for countless musicians, some of them pioneering in their own right, is ridiculous. SRV would certainly list him as chief among his influences (and Albert King)
opticage 6 months ago
@opticage
Okay ... okay ... you win. Hendrix is THE BEST EVER. And, you know more than anyone about guitar playing, Hendrix, and the countless musicians he inspired to the level just beneath his vaunted status.
BTW ... I'm not your son.
WallyPost 6 months ago
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@WallyPost Didn't say he was the best ever. There are a lot of great guitarists and musicians. Just trying to say that he was one of the chief innovators and pioneers of guitar in the era which he lived. A lot of his contemporaries would agree with that statement.
opticage 6 months ago
@opticage SRV said as a teen he learned to play all Hendrix songs ‘cause they were "fun to play". But what does this show? Hendrix played tons of covers too. The man was damn inspirational because he played with a reckless abandon spitting on every rule of "good" guitar playing that ever existed and liberating other musicians to experiment. But his stage gimmicks and sound tricks were by far not his invention. BTW he was never SRV's chief influence. I'd suggest taking Stevie's word for that
Jesrama1 6 months ago
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@Jesrama1 Well since I'm anonymous here...I went to the same AA club in Austin as SRV. He had a special affection for Hendrix. Look at the live at El Mocambo footage...he is wearing a copy of the same kimono that hendrix wore later in his life.
opticage 6 months ago
@opticage Mate, that kimono was not invented by Hendrix. E.g. I've seen Buddy Guy wear the same type long before Hendrix. And to learn and play somebody's songs is a sign of affection for sure, which is still a bit different than major influence
Jesrama1 6 months ago
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Put Hendix in his historical context and find one person at that time that was playing anything asdifferent and radical as "Third Stone from the Sun". Furthermore, look at the anecdotal evidence: John Lee Hooker, when asked what his favorite blues song is, he said "When I hear Red House it makes me want to get up and choke my mother". Miles Davis, when asked about Hendrix, he said "It's that motherfucking machine gun"
opticage 6 months ago
never missed a note, i miss him..
daily dose is necessary. i love you stevie!
HerrPudding 9 months ago 22
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@Jessrama i'm not putting him down; i love SRV as i said. i've listened to both of them a lot. and it's just that some of the stuff jimi played was from another planet. his tone, the sounds he created, i haven't heard anyone fully replicate him. as SRV said himself, there is only one jimi hendrix.
leadbelly123 10 months ago
SRV was more interested in hitting the right notes...Jimi was into putting on a show. Jimi was into getting high and getting laid...SRV was into playing guitar. SRV was a guitar players guitar player.
bigtorquehemi 10 months ago 72
@bigtorquehemi Absolute RUBBISH!! No offense to SRV either. Did you ever see Hendrix live? Sure he had some tricks, but Please!!
squeezeflo 8 months ago
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@bigtorquehemi ABSOLUTE rubbish!! Did you ever see Hendrix live? I did from the first row. Sure he had some tricks, but to say he wasn't serious about the guitar is pure silliness. By the way, have you tried any of those tricks?
squeezeflo 8 months ago
@bigtorquehemi Not true. Hendrix was always talking to everyone about guitar, in his short career he had jammed with a ton of musicians. Also he took it almost every where, he made everything he did with his drive. he got drugs and girls because he didn't exactly have a happy til he made it. Hendrix was always trying to make the most of life.
MrMemis 7 months ago
@MrMemis
Judging from Eric Burdon’s words Hendrix was headed for the downslide toward the end of his life; the way he died kinda proves it. Stevie was on his way to full recovery when he died. Anyway, I'm sure both men died way before giving all they could
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@5507156693 Both great loses, true Hendrix was reportedly tired of playing shows with the same songs night after night he wanted a break.His death remains very iffy though.
MrMemis 7 months ago
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@bigtorquehemi Jimi invented playing guitar, he's a god and that's it.... you think SRV was gay? he didn't get laid? ofc he did
BroadcastedByMe 7 months ago
@BroadcastedByMe Hey,SRV is not gay.And Hendrix didn't invented playing guitar,before him there were great guitarist as well,like Django Reinhardt (he had only three fingers on left arm),Robert Johnson etc.Hendrix was influence to electric guitar,not ,,inventor of playing guitar''(it sound pathetic) Both of this guitarists were getting there soul into song.And they are equal for me.I hope we are going to have chance to watch this kind of guitarists again..
djaism 7 months ago 2
@BroadcastedByMe
Jimi not only didn't invent guitar playin; he didn't even invent all those tricks he got so famous for. And he was just a human; imperfect like all of us
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@5507156693 the only ones who actually "invented" any thing were the artists of the sixties and seventies.
tlynch1218 7 months ago
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Oh, yes. We all know Chuck Berry invented Rock'nRoll toward the end of the 70s and Les Paul invented the modern electric guitar after he saw Hendrix playing it at Woodstock. But your statement is best proven by Eric Clapton who invented the Blues in 1964.
Always nice to hear smart people talking if only virtually
5507156693 7 months ago 6
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LOL ... If you ask black bluesmen, they say Muddy Waters invented electricity! LOL
WallyPost 6 months ago
@5507156693 No one man invented the blues, my friend. As great as Clapton is, and he is great, if anyone invented the Blues it would be Robert Johnson or Son House. And they had influences as well.
PerseusDCW 4 months ago
@PerseusDCW
My friend, ever heard the word SARCASM?
5507156693 4 months ago
@BroadcastedByMe -look up Guitar Shorty-without him ,no Jimi
tommythunderfoot 7 months ago
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@bigtorquehemi, you dont make a good point with that, clearly stevie likes those same things as hendrix.
joeyjoef 7 months ago
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@bigtorquehemi there is no need to compare the two. stevie had his own issues with getting high which is why he and my brother used to go to meeting together. back in the day, he died five years sober. what do you think he was doing previous to those five years? getting high and getting laid. like we all were.
tlynch1218 7 months ago
@tlynch1218
For the sake of actual accuracy, less then 4 years. And his main issue was alcohol. Not that the matter is of any relevance but if it has to be discussed lets stick with the facts
5507156693 7 months ago 4
@tlynch1218 If you read my initial post on this video it says nothing about Hendrix. Hendrix was a great musician, and an innovator. He took the guitar to a different state. But, IMO, SRV was a better musician.
bigtorquehemi 7 months ago
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@bigtorquehemi a cleaner guitarist yes probably, he played guitar longer than hendrix was alive. Although he was no where near as experimental as jimi was. technically better guitarist yes, not a better muscian.
insaneme92 7 months ago
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"he played guitar longer than hendrix was alive"
This explains nothing. Stevie was a great musician the way he felt music and conveyed it. Technicality comes in second. As Zakk Wylde used to say, "You don't hear a great guitar player; you feel them"
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@5507156693 how does it not? it means he is more experienced and more technically proficient than hendrix, jimi was getting even better later into his career and died before he reached his peak, he was trying new things where as stevie didnt branch off.
insaneme92 7 months ago 2
@insaneme92
More experienced doesn't necessarily mean more technically proficient and getting better. Today Clapton is neither better nor more technically proficient than in 1966. From what I've heard and read on Hendrix, toward the end of his life he was not exactly getting better. As for the "branching off", actually SRV "branched off" a few times but what does it matter? If he loved the Blues enough to stick with it and not follow some profitable fashion I can only respect him more
5507156693 7 months ago
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@5507156693 But he was technically, clapton isn't as good as he was during 60s because he is in his 60's now! he also said he isn't as good as he once was, well well past his prime.Hendrix's improvisations was getting longer, cleaner and he was becoming a funkier guitarist
MrMemis 7 months ago 2
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@5507156693@5507156693 SRV was a bluesrock player. Hendrix croosed over genres and did anything that was possible to do at the time, technically SRV wasn't as sloppy as hendrix, but jimi was improving, compare jimi's earlier voodoo child to his 70's versions
insaneme92 7 months ago
@insaneme92
I'd join Buddy Guy in his statement that Stevie was a 120% Blues player . Maybe just for fun he "branched off" on several occasions what you've obviously missed. Hendrix's always been referenced as a 60s classic rock guitar player mostly of the psychedelic type. What other genre did he play? Maybe you mistake his "I'll-do-what-I-wanna-do-on-my-guitar" craziness for another music genre?
5507156693 7 months ago 2
@5507156693 He didn't follow any fashion, he was himself, what was in at the time followed him, hence the legions of new guitar players that tried to emulate him afterwards, he dabbled in blues, rock and funk
insaneme92 7 months ago
@insaneme92
Every age has a prevailing music genre. It is kind of fashion since with time it's always replaced by something new. OK, Hendrix joined in the classic psychedelic rock and had he's personal style for sure. Maybe the others followed him but he certainly learned a lot from them, too. That he was one of those who inspired future generations is not surprising; his "free" style was so liberating. And BTW, he explicitly stated his unwillingness to be viewed as a Blues player
5507156693 7 months ago
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@bigtorquehemi Whatever Hendrix sounds awesome it's not a competition....yeah and Hendrix hit all the right notes too.
lmrdjm275 7 months ago
@lmrdjm275
Not really. But, as he said himself, he hit the notes until he’d finally gotten the right one
5507156693 7 months ago 2
You're really talking about Nickelback and Chris Daughtry on a Stevie Ray Vaughan video? You deserve a severe beating with a blunt object.
TheEraser2386 10 months ago 7
wow 46 people who must be talent deff
2012marinetobe 10 months ago 4
Who cares about Nickleback and Daughtry! This is Stevie. No one else compares.
orion9709davis 10 months ago 6
Hendrix and Stevie do belong in the same class. They were both innovaters and ass kickers. If Hendrix had the chance to play with Stevie im sure he would of learned something but realize Stevie got the chance to learn from Jimmie indirectly and I believe subconsciously Jimi wrote Little Wing for Stevie to play.
orion9709davis 10 months ago 2
My name is Jimmy Marshall Vaughan
(jimmy for jimmy page, marshall for james marshall hendrix *jimmi hendrix*, and vaughan for stevie ray vaughan!) i like to say i got a little legend in me!! :)
jukeboxhero844 10 months ago 5
I did get goose bumps , it's weird , I got goose bumps last few times I played that live , maybe it's just the thought of all the greats that have played it , and the greats yet to come , who will look back on Hendrix, and SRV , and go WOW , wish I was that influential , talented , and fucking amazing !
13Musicmachine 10 months ago 7