October 7, 20205 yr Steamboat was a weird sound a lot of times. Stage on a long wall with little distance from the stage to the back wall. Sound would immediately bounce back towards the stage.
October 9, 20205 yr On 10/7/2020 at 4:08 PM, Deej said: Steamboat was a weird sound a lot of times. Stage on a long wall with little distance from the stage to the back wall. Sound would immediately bounce back towards the stage. it's not an audience recording or anything, it came from the KLBJ truck which I always assumed meant it was a soundboard recording (it sounds like one) I always thought the recording was really solid, though that might be because it was a really great performance featuring stuff that dropped out of SRV's repertoire in his later career
November 1, 20205 yr I’d never seen this:https://www.facebook.com/stevierayvaughan/videos/2782651418616378/?vh=e
September 14, 20214 yr I’d never seen this:https://www.facebook.com/stevierayvaughan/videos/2782651418616378/?vh=eThis was all over mtv back in the day.
September 14, 20214 yr Surprised this hasn't been posted, but the opener from El Mocambo, "Testify," always has struck me as such an great out of the gates, ripper of a performance. He wastes zero time in getting to business.
September 14, 20214 yr Got damn. What a power trio. I don't think Whipper & Tommy got NEAR enough credit. Layton had a far deeper groove and flexibility than most people realize, and Shannon's tone, fluidity and timing were top notch. If you consider 3-man instrumental lineups, they could hold their own with almost any of the greats: Cream, Led Zep, Queen, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Rush, the Hendrix Experience. Just a smokin' hot live band. Thanks for that link.
September 14, 20214 yr El Mocambo has my favorite version of Texas Flood....9 plus minutes, the song that forever raised the bar for me.
September 14, 20214 yr I saw Stevie Ray a bunch. Never knew him, never met him, but I feel like I know his music incredibly well. And yet, every time I watch one of these videos I am absolutely gobsmacked. He played perfectly. His tone, his phrasing, his choices, the tension and release, NOTHING was ever not on point. It's just extraordinary. I can watch a live clip of almost any guitar god and find something to criticize within 8 bars. I could watch 8 hours of Stevie Ray and never find one damn thing to question. Hell, even his singing was stellar.
September 16, 20214 yr Just look at his left hand in this little clip. THAT is a man who was completely dedicated. Edited September 16, 20214 yr by hullabelew
September 17, 20214 yr On 9/14/2021 at 4:07 PM, tbone_ said: That’s my favorite live concert recording. I was sitting with one college roommate watching it when another walked in, watched for a minute, and said “What’s this?” Roommate 1 turned to me and said, “Oh. He doesn’t know.” Roommate 2 plunked down and watched the whole rest of the show with us.
November 29, 20214 yr Wow, never seen this. At about 30 seconds, Stevie plays 1929 Gibson acoustic. Absolutely amazing. Sounds a bit like pride and joy, but different.
December 1, 20214 yr SRV was quite impressive playing acoustic. His MTV Unplugged performance of Rude Mood on a 12 string is one of my favorite.
December 1, 20214 yr SRV was quite impressive playing acoustic. His MTV Unplugged performance of Rude Mood on a 12 string is one of my favorite.That’s as good as it gets right there.
December 1, 20214 yr Goodness, that interview and the close camera work on his hands . . . now I see how he might have actually cracked some guitar necks. Massive power in that left hand.
March 22, 20232 yr Chills at the end when Jimmy starting telling about SRV heading to the helicopter.
March 22, 20232 yr On 9/14/2021 at 3:07 PM, tbone_ said: That’s my favorite live concert recording. That song changed everything I thought I knew and liked about music and guitar playing...my high school buddies back in small town TX thought I'd surely gone over the edge.
March 22, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Jerry Callo said: Chills at the end when Jimmy starting telling about SRV heading to the helicopter. Yeah, chills.
March 22, 20232 yr On 9/14/2021 at 11:20 AM, jimmyjazz said: Got damn. What a power trio. I don't think Whipper & Tommy got NEAR enough credit. Layton had a far deeper groove and flexibility than most people realize, and Shannon's tone, fluidity and timing were top notch. If you consider 3-man instrumental lineups, they could hold their own with almost any of the greats: Cream, Led Zep, Queen, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Rush, the Hendrix Experience. Just a smokin' hot live band. Thanks for that link. THAT is why I honestly thought that when they reemerged post Stevie with the addition a Doyle Bramhall Jr. and Charlie Sexton were added to the mix as The Arc Angels, I honestly believed I was watching the wellspring of a super group. I saw their first show at Continental for like $5, then it was like $10 the next week, and climbed from there. But two GREAT guitar players with Stevie's rhythm section had a band that was steeped in the blues, and deep in talent. You think that Charlie and Doyle have been hired guns for the likes of Clapton and Dylan over the course of multiple tours is a separate testament to their talents. Saw Stevie maybe 25+ times. A girl Holly turned me on to them I forget where, but Saw him most at Steamboat. It was fun to see him open up for George Thurgood and basically make Thurgood say when he took the stage, "We can't do that but we are gonna rock this place" at the Austin Opry House. Made me happy for the hometown hero. Saw him at Club Foot for sure and at a place across from the DPS office Third Coast. The thing that was great about Steamboat was the guys on the other side of my Parker lane duplex were two of the bartenders at Steamboat, so it was easy on the budget. I still remember praying "Let it be Robert Cray..." before his identity was announced. I would have liked to have seen him as he aged. There is a documentary Tomorrow at the Paramount Theater about the Brothers and Jimmie is answering some questions after the show. Think the wife and I are gonna pull the trigger. Good article on the movie in the Statesman, "Brother's in Blues." Bothers in Blues Statesman Article Edited March 22, 20232 yr by horn4life
March 22, 20232 yr 18 minutes ago, horn4life said: There is a documentary Tomorrow at the Paramount Theater about the Brothers and Jimmie is answering some questions after the show. Think the wife and I are gonna pull the trigger. Good article on the movie in the Statesman, "Brother's in Blues." Bothers in Blues Statesman Article you're gonna be disappointed if you show up tomorrow, it's definitely tonight. https://tickets.austintheatre.org/9222/9223
March 22, 20232 yr 33 minutes ago, stc said: you're gonna be disappointed if you show up tomorrow, it's definitely tonight. https://tickets.austintheatre.org/9222/9223 Yeah when you start a reply last night and don't post it... oops. But yes tonight.
March 22, 20232 yr One my biggest regrets in life was being in Austin 86-90 and never seeing Stevie live. I don’t know how that happened but it did. FML.I got turned on to Stevie by my dad. It was 82/83 ish and I was around 14. I was way into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Rush, etc etc. My dad was always a source of music influence for me. Burned Willie and Kris and others into my brain for a decade in the backseat of the car. Well one day we get in the car and he pulls out this cassette, pops it in, and says listen to this shit! Out comes Love Struck Baby. Then Pride and Joy. Then Texas Flood. That was one of the 3 or 4 moments that changed my music trajectory forever.RIP dad and Stevie.
March 23, 20232 yr 20 hours ago, tbone_ said: One my biggest regrets in life was being in Austin 86-90 and never seeing Stevie live. I don’t know how that happened but it did. FML. You and me both. I saw a lot of live music during that period in Austin and never saw SRV.
March 23, 20232 yr 21 hours ago, tbone_ said: Well one day we get in the car and he pulls out this cassette, pops it in, and says listen to this shit! Out comes Love Struck Baby. Then Pride and Joy. Then Texas Flood. That was one of the 3 or 4 moments that changed my music trajectory forever. I did a short stint at UT my sophomore year and subsequently returned for grad school. I came down to Austin to scope out apartments, etc. and went to the lake with one of my undergrad buddies. I was in the back seat of some dude's beater Monte Carlo or some shit and he said "hey guys listen to this". Popped in a cassette of "Texas Flood" -- instant mind blown. I returned home to Missouri, went to my local record store, ordered SRV's first two albums ("Couldn't Stand The Weather" had just come out), and turned those record store guys onto the best guitarist on the planet, as they hadn't heard of him yet.
March 23, 20232 yr Speaking of Jimmie Vaughan, here's a short piece from the local CBS station that just popped up: Jimmie Vaughan Apropos of little, do any of you recall him being called "Jimmie Lee Vaughan" or am I making that up? Lee is his dad's middle name, not his. (His is "Lawrence".)
July 20Jul 20 On 7/20/2018 at 4:45 PM, smuggs said: Seeing Gary Clark Jr play last night at the Mo Amer show at the Moody Theater got me to thinking about guitarists, which of course always leads to me thinking about the greatest ever to pick up a guitar - our own SRV. Just watched this clip again and played it for my kid, without showing him the screen during the behind the back bit at the end. Then I turned the screen around in the middle of that part and he lost his mind. (eta: quoted the wrong post, shoulda been the Texas Flood El Mocambo video above, but y'all knew what I meant) SRV could do what other guitarists only dreamed of - behind his back, while singing. Fucking unbelievable. The way he played was supernatural. I can only assume he had a deal with the devil a la Tommy Johnson in O Brother Where Art Thou (Robert Johnson irl). And to think we used to be able to see him play for free, or for like 5 bucks, on like a Tuesday night under an assumed name on 6th Street. Edited July 20Jul 20 by wood
July 20Jul 20 On 7/20/2018 at 12:49 PM, BoomMF said: That's about exactly how I think of him - a conduit. Exactly how I saw him, and how I see him watching these videos. The music just flows through him.
July 21Jul 21 @wood Man it’s wild to see a reply from something I posted exactly 7 years ago to the day. On one hand it only drives home the fact that time is fucking flying… Jesus H. On the other, it makes me feel good that there have always been some musical constants in my life that will never change. I’m gonna go put Texas Flood on in the garage now.
July 21Jul 21 14 hours ago, smuggs said: I’m gonna go put Texas Flood on in the garage now. I'm going to pull out my Live at the El Mocambo DVD to watch later.
July 21Jul 21 I'm going to pull out my Live at the El Mocambo DVD to watch later.The GOAT Performance.
July 21Jul 21 5 hours ago, Jerry Callo said: I'm going to pull out my Live at the El Mocambo DVD to watch later. Found it. I listen to SRV all the time. In fact, my ringtone and alarm is Pride and Joy. Watching him play takes all of the songs to another level. He was so bad ass.
August 27Aug 27 Popular Post Thirty-five years ago today we lost one of, if not the, best guitar players of all time. Continue to rest in peace, Stevie.
August 28Aug 28 I have played the guitar for 40 years. I can fake my way through almost anything if I give it enough practice time. I have never, ever, ever played any SRV song and make it sound anything remotely close to his originals. Even if I play the song or solo note for note, it just doesn't sound right. The guy was touched with something most of us don't possess and can't access.
August 29Aug 29 On 8/27/2025 at 11:49 PM, honolulu horn said: I have played the guitar for 40 years. I can fake my way through almost anything if I give it enough practice time. I have never, ever, ever played any SRV song and make it sound anything remotely close to his originals. Even if I play the song or solo note for note, it just doesn't sound right. The guy was touched with something most of us don't possess and can't access. If I was half as good at anything as Stevie was at playing his guitar, I'd probably be a bazillionaire. He's just one of those people for whom it seems that it was very clear from an early age what they were put here to do. Man, I envy that so much.
September 1Sep 1 She loves Willie & Waylon. Edited September 1Sep 1 by Armybrat She’s mostly Welsh with a dash of Scot thrown in.
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