for mobile users 1.Collin's Shuffle 00:00 2.In The Open 5:16 3.Come On (Part III) 10:55 4.Look At Little Sister 16:30 5.Thunderbird 20:20 6.The Sky Is Crying 25:20 7.I'm Cryin' 31:55 8.Crosscut Saw 36:40 9.Shake For Me 40:50 10.Wham! 45:13 11.Hideaway 49:16 12.So Excited 54:14 13.Pride & Joy 57:16 14.Tin Pan Alley 1:02:10 15.Love Struck Baby 1:13:15 16.May I Have Talk With You 1:16:33 17.Letter To My Girlfriend 1:21:25 (audio gets better throughout song) 18.Little Wing 1:25:30 19.Manic Depression 1:31:35 20.Boilermaker 1:36:45 21.Close To You 1:42:25 22.You'll Be Mine 1:46:45 23.You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 1:50:44 24.Empty Arms 2:01:04 25.Slide Thing 2:04:48 26.I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime) 2:08:16 27.Texas Flood 2:19:03 28.Rude Mood 2:25:15 29.Don't Lose Your Cool 2:29:35
Could you just imagine sitting in a damp, smoky, place like this....sweaty glass of a cold beer in hand, and THIS blasting in your ears??!! Lord have mercy!!
I was working in Houston in 82 and went to see Johnny Copeland at Fitzgerald’s. I see SRV picture with Indian headress on the wall and ask the bartender ,who is that? He says the Jimmie Vaughan’s little brother and he blows Jimmie away. I was like WTF, Jimmie was my absolute favorite guitar player, I get back to NYC and Texas Flood comes out.
I love this! I was into the 80's guitar shredders when a good friend demanded I pick up Texas Flood and Axis Bold As Love. My brain got completely rewired and my guitar playing completely changed. It is painful how much I miss this man I never met.
In the late 70s I remember Texas Toms music store on old Hwy 3 (LEAGUE CITY TX.) had a battle of the bands and the winner got to back up SRV. At the Astrodome music hall. I just remember after he finished playing playing I found myself standing in front of him with no one around..just me and him! There just wasn’t many people at this event or he wasn’t known yet? I know I didn’t know who he was. So he’s kneeling down unplugging his foot petals and I told him I play guitar but not the blues. (I told him I was Rush,Van Helen type) Yet then I say to Stevie how he really busted his ass with his playing style. He said to me..thank you! Of course I learned later who he really was and now I always play Stevie ray music wherever I play. (Crying..) No one has to believe my story but I’ll stick to it to my grave.
Fitzgerald's in 1981 is where I say Stevie Ray for the first time. Up to that point, the greatest guitarists I had the chance to see were Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton, Roy Gallagher and David Gilmour. It was great to see an American show how it is done! Stevie is still the greatest white blues player I have ever seen.
For me that would be Buck Dharma, Ted Nugent (apologies, but he was still good in '78), Frank Marino, Muddy Waters opening for Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen opening for Tony Iommi, and Carlos Santana (probably forgetting a few). Then I saw Stevie for $2 at Steamboat Springs in Austin. I was blown away, my jaw dropped and my life changed. We talked a bit, he thanked me for being there and shook my hand. Humble and friendly, he lived for that guitar. Thanks, Stevie.
I am EXTREMELY jealous! My favorite period (late ‘79-early ‘83) from my absolute favorite guitar player. I saw Derek Trucks at 11, 13, and 14 years old and the progression from what was a preternaturally talented slide player to the heir apparent to Duane Allman was astonishing, to say the least. Living in Macon, where the ABB spent their heyday as Southern rock royalty in the new capital of Southern rock. Capricorn Records was the site of so many legendary recordings, and I’ve been fortunate enough to live close enough to both that building AND Rose Hill Cemetery, where Duane, Berry, and now Greg, are now at rest. We used to go to Duane’s grave in the early 90s (before it was fenced off) and smoke one for Skydog or just listen to the music and vibe on the fact that we were maybe resonating with SOME KIND of residual energy of his. If not (and I realize that’s probably the case), we sure had a blast sitting out back of Capricorn getting blistered while listening to old Otis Redding, Skynyrd, or Allman Bros songs and knowing that those sounds once vibrates in the same place where we sat. Pretty trippy for a young man on shrooms. 😁
Living in Austin back in the day, I had a chance to see Johnny Winter and SRV when each of them were drawing fewer than 100 folks a night at local clubs. It was obvious that they were about to splash (Johnny around 1968 and Stevie 1980) and sure enough they did.
9:24-9:35 Stevie’s innate sense of rhythm and timing is freakishly plugged in. Syncopated passages, timing changes, rhythm intertwined with lead licks… he could do it ALL, and without a rhythm section could keep time perfectly enough that the drummer could have been isolated from the guitar and STILL have been able to fall back in on the beat. This dude was SPECIAL.
He was on top of his game even earlier than this. There is commercial release albun of him playing in 1980 called " in the beginning " and it may be the best live recording of him anywhere. There are also some recordings from 77 and 78 on his box set and hes on fire even then. Some people are just naturals
@@donniebeadles7842 Keep in mind that even though he is incredibly good, he is playing Blues and solely Blues. It's much easier to focus on blues as an art form and work around 1-4-5's than it is with songs like "Couldn't Stand the Weather".
What did you expect? A specialty player from a player who played as well behind his back as he played playing right before your eyes playing forwards not backwards
40 years ago....WOW!, I can just see him playing....his music still touches every nerve in my soul every time I hear it.....Nobody does tension and release like Stevie Ray Vaughan....
I was at this one. I used to go see Stevie whenever he came to Houston. Fitzgerald's was an old wooden building that had a high ceiling where they'd put a lot of carpet and insulation. It made great acoustics, much better than the concrete boxes that most clubs are. Stevie was phenomenal. What doesn't come across on the videos is that his hands were physically huge and he would manhandle that guitar. He could physically do things that no one else could do.
He had already played bass with Johnny Winter and who knows who else. He was the elder statesman in the group. Double Trouble was a match made in heaven.
Oh without a doubt. When Stevie performed, you not only heard it but it was the kinda jams your I felt deep in your soul. 💜💚💙I’ll never stop loving him and I really believe we’ll meet again someday. I have to believe that and I really do. I think there is more to life and living than just being here on this earth for a very short time. I mean a person could live to be 90 or a 100 but honestly look how fast that goes by.🌍🌙🌎🌈🌪❄️
Yea Jimmy me to. I miss him so much I get sick at my stomach. I try not to think to mi h about the crash but it’s hard. So young so talented and such a sweet man. I really miss him a lot I mean like bunches. Why do the fret ones have to leave us and in such horrifying ways to.!it really does bother me bad.I’m so thankful for the awesome tunes we have. I want him back tho, can’t touch him. I can only listen to his music but I’ll take what I can get.❤
He didn't play Hendrix... he duplicated Hendrix. After bearing witness to this recording I'm convinced his guitar skills exceeded Jimi, but both players careers were short lived. Stevie's mind wasn't cloud dusted with dope this by far so far is my best listen sampling Stevie better than his live show watched in 1984 in Orlando I watched him break a bass string I mean a motivated machine. I wonder what Eric Clapton's words would be about this particular show, that is, could he an owner master strummer of strings could he have matched, or kept up with this Texas guitar wizard? I'd like to double thank whomever brought him alive in sound to hear this magnificent recording double thanking for Double Trouble thank you thank you thank you... Oooops I thanked 3 times
OMG Texas Flood - So cool to hear him sing "poor me insane" instead of the signature "Poor stevie ray insane" on the later recordings. In '81 he was still just Stevie Vaughan; he had not picked up the Ray yet.
At his best! 1981!! Raw young talent! I saw the show with Double Trouble at the Kalamazoo County Michigan Fair!!8-24-90... Right before they went to Alpine Valley.. On the dirt! Classic! 🙏 🎸
Love Stevie's style the way he plays that Blues mixed with some Rock n Roll. Doing it Texas Style like only he could. Never been to Texas I want to see where Stevie grew up and the clubs he would play in .They Need to open a Museum to honor the work and memories of this Man.
An SRV museum? WOW that wud be awesome, but they couldn't build one big enough to accommodate all who loved him. Not even a fraction of us at a time! SRV 4ever. We love you Stevie Ray😢
Stevie Ray Vaughan started somewhere and led through the journey him to be the legend he became..what a legacy and traveling around the world to give everybody some of the great talent and entertainment thru time and exhaustion..great band ..Stevie was the best ue's and rock n roller that ever lived..
Brings back some good memory's, did shows there many times with different bands and opened for Stevie in the mid 80's on one occasion with The Dusters....Sad that Fitzgerald's is no longer there, Sara and Jimmie were good people!
Which club? There were some great ones back in the 80s, namely Club Hey Hey, but that was later in the 80s. It later became the Bon Ton Room. RIP to SRV and those clubs. They all left good memories.
This is equivalent to pure gold..it's like washing my soul within me...thank you and I'm forever grateful to Stevie for making the world a brighter place because he lived...
As a teenage guitar player working in a record store, when Texas Flood was released and playing for the customers, i remember thinking that it was Eric Clapton. So, that was it for me, immediate fan. I was lucky to chat with him for an hour before a show in 1987, i think. After seeing and hearing all this stuff on the internet nowadays, i was thinking was there anything left in the tank when he died so tragically? So many songs done by an artist before they are stars, come out on albums throughout their career. I found this with other bands too.
Glad to see some of my favorite performances are back. A couple channels with all of these pre-Texas Flood (album) performances, which are gold by the way, were taken down and it was awful.
You should hear the KLBJ-FM tape of "Tin Pan Alley" live on the radio. They had to pull it out of rotation when the album came out; much better version than what is on the record. 🍻
I may have been there. I met Stevie at Fitzgerald's prior to his first album release. A friend of mine whose brother was ZZ Top's road manager, introduced him to me. Just a short hello, he was tired I think so I didn't want to disturb him. Anyway, in those days The Fabulous Thunderbirds would play at Rockefellers, and SRV would play at Fitzgerald's maybe 4 times a year. It was good times. BTW, I never saw Stevie play a Firebird ever. The picture isn't from Fitzgeralds
I was trying to jog my memory as to exactly then this was because I was blessed to be in the audience at a table in one of the front rows so I did a search. Imagine finding this!!! WOW.
My all-time favourite guitarist! Stevie oozes every passion, soul, blues in his playing! I could never get tired of listening to him play and his voice gets to me all the time! Thank you Stevie for being awesome! And thank you for uploading this too.
About the time of this recording a couple of guys at work were telling me to get over to Fitzgerald's to see this guy. I never got around to it and have been kicking myself ever since.
This is outstanding, ive been looking for rare stuff with great quality like this. Sounds amazing. Recordings like this are what make me pick up my guitar and just start playing with pure passion.
Thank you soooo much for posting this. Amazing. I have listened to You Done Lost a Good Thang Now a million times but this is the first time in the context of the whole gig. It's all so good.
I’m glad to have seen him many times at Fitzgerald’s, Rockefeller’s (new year’s eve) with John Lee Hooker, The Juneteenth Blues Festival at Herman park. And amazing front row 8n The Astrodome Opening for The Who. I’m glad I’m old.
On "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now", he's not playing his strat, is he? Sounds to me like he's playing some kind of humbucker-equipped Gibson, like a 335 or something. Fantastic cover of a great BB King tune.
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1.Collin's Shuffle 00:00
2.In The Open 5:16
3.Come On (Part III) 10:55
4.Look At Little Sister 16:30
5.Thunderbird 20:20
6.The Sky Is Crying 25:20
7.I'm Cryin' 31:55
8.Crosscut Saw 36:40
9.Shake For Me 40:50
10.Wham! 45:13
11.Hideaway 49:16
12.So Excited 54:14
13.Pride & Joy 57:16
14.Tin Pan Alley 1:02:10
15.Love Struck Baby 1:13:15
16.May I Have Talk With You 1:16:33
17.Letter To My Girlfriend 1:21:25 (audio gets better throughout song)
18.Little Wing 1:25:30
19.Manic Depression 1:31:35
20.Boilermaker 1:36:45
21.Close To You 1:42:25
22.You'll Be Mine 1:46:45
23.You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 1:50:44
24.Empty Arms 2:01:04
25.Slide Thing 2:04:48
26.I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime) 2:08:16
27.Texas Flood 2:19:03
28.Rude Mood 2:25:15
29.Don't Lose Your Cool 2:29:35
😅😅.
Makes life so much easier thanks dude
I was there that night I’ll never forget
Wasn’t too many people there either
Youre so Lucky dude@@MickeyDunaway
Could you just imagine sitting in a damp, smoky, place like this....sweaty glass of a cold beer in hand, and THIS blasting in your ears??!! Lord have mercy!!
I’ve tried to many times
Saw him over 100 times in the bars of Austin or on the lake. Can't imagine if I had missed out.
@@camilo1455 lucky you sweetheart all the best from boston.b well all Stevie Ray fans out there b safe and happy.
And just happened to walk in !! And then hear this ...Master at work !!!
Well said julio!!
This should be mandatory education for everyone learning blues. So many damn licks!!!!!!!
Endless licks!! Like the biggest faucet known to man.
I listen to it every. single. damn. day. - An 18 Y/O
Thank God he put SRV on this planet for us all to enjoy!! Lucky earthling's we are!
That’s a fact
I was working in Houston in 82 and went to see Johnny Copeland at Fitzgerald’s. I see SRV picture with Indian headress on the wall and ask the bartender ,who is that? He says the Jimmie Vaughan’s little brother and he blows Jimmie away. I was like WTF, Jimmie was my absolute favorite guitar player, I get back to NYC and Texas Flood comes out.
Nice thanks for sharing that history ...I'm a New Yorker myself, Stevie shreds !
I love him RIP !!!
I love this! I was into the 80's guitar shredders when a good friend demanded I pick up Texas Flood and Axis Bold As Love. My brain got completely rewired and my guitar playing completely changed. It is painful how much I miss this man I never met.
Shark guitar 🎸!!
That’s an awesome story, it’s such a travesty that Fitzgeralds is a F’n parking lot now.
In the late 70s I remember Texas Toms music store on old Hwy 3 (LEAGUE CITY TX.) had a battle of the bands and the winner got to back up SRV. At the Astrodome music hall. I just remember after he finished playing playing I found myself standing in front of him with no one around..just me and him! There just wasn’t many people at this event or he wasn’t known yet? I know I didn’t know who he was. So he’s kneeling down unplugging his foot petals and I told him I play guitar but not the blues. (I told him I was Rush,Van Helen type) Yet then I say to Stevie how he really busted his ass with his playing style. He said to me..thank you! Of course I learned later who he really was and now I always play Stevie ray music wherever I play. (Crying..) No one has to believe my story but I’ll stick to it to my grave.
Not a day goes by that I don't think of him.
Night and day . What a beautiful soul besides being the best gun slinger from Texas
Hear, Hear on that!
Think of him and listen again and again, learn something each time! Inspiration exudes from the music!
Amen. The fact that SRV was on this earth and had that much talent makes this shithole worth livin in
Same
if ya don't understand what is fucking badass, listen to this
I WAS AT THIS SHOW, !!! I LOST MY SRV VIRGINITY AT THIS SHOW, THANKS BONEY, AND R.I.P. TONY
Fitzgerald's in 1981 is where I say Stevie Ray for the first time. Up to that point, the greatest guitarists I had the chance to see were Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton, Roy Gallagher and David Gilmour. It was great to see an American show how it is done! Stevie is still the greatest white blues player I have ever seen.
For me that would be Buck Dharma, Ted Nugent (apologies, but he was still good in '78), Frank Marino, Muddy Waters opening for Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen opening for Tony Iommi, and Carlos Santana (probably forgetting a few). Then I saw Stevie for $2 at Steamboat Springs in Austin. I was blown away, my jaw dropped and my life changed. We talked a bit, he thanked me for being there and shook my hand. Humble and friendly, he lived for that guitar. Thanks, Stevie.
I am EXTREMELY jealous! My favorite period (late ‘79-early ‘83) from my absolute favorite guitar player. I saw Derek Trucks at 11, 13, and 14 years old and the progression from what was a preternaturally talented slide player to the heir apparent to Duane Allman was astonishing, to say the least.
Living in Macon, where the ABB spent their heyday as Southern rock royalty in the new capital of Southern rock. Capricorn Records was the site of so many legendary recordings, and I’ve been fortunate enough to live close enough to both that building AND Rose Hill Cemetery, where Duane, Berry, and now Greg, are now at rest. We used to go to Duane’s grave in the early 90s (before it was fenced off) and smoke one for Skydog or just listen to the music and vibe on the fact that we were maybe resonating with SOME KIND of residual energy of his.
If not (and I realize that’s probably the case), we sure had a blast sitting out back of Capricorn getting blistered while listening to old Otis Redding, Skynyrd, or Allman Bros songs and knowing that those sounds once vibrates in the same place where we sat. Pretty trippy for a young man on shrooms. 😁
30:09 the most magical feedback squall I’ve EVER HEARD. NO CONTEST. 🤯
Living in Austin back in the day, I had a chance to see Johnny Winter and SRV when each of them were drawing fewer than 100 folks a night at local clubs. It was obvious that they were about to splash (Johnny around 1968 and Stevie 1980) and sure enough they did.
I don't really think you can put a color in it, he was simply a badass mf.
Best ever..
Without a doubt
You know it's Stevie right of tha bat with tha incredible tone and Crazy Gutiar chops.
The man is incredible
This is blowing my mind
I love finding these bar gigs! True gems, aren't they? SRV4EVER
YEAH - I was blessed to be in the audience at a table less than 2 rows away! I'll never forget it -
@@waywardmuse
That's fantastic.. Must have been incredible..
9:24-9:35 Stevie’s innate sense of rhythm and timing is freakishly plugged in. Syncopated passages, timing changes, rhythm intertwined with lead licks… he could do it ALL, and without a rhythm section could keep time perfectly enough that the drummer could have been isolated from the guitar and STILL have been able to fall back in on the beat.
This dude was SPECIAL.
С приветом из России, мы любим Стиви!!!
Did not expect Stevie to be be already on top of the game in 1981 - insane playing and unsurpassed even now in 2021
You know I always say never compare the best but holy shit I think Stevie was the King!
He was on top of his game even earlier than this. There is commercial release albun of him playing in 1980 called " in the beginning " and it may be the best live recording of him anywhere. There are also some recordings from 77 and 78 on his box set and hes on fire even then. Some people are just naturals
@@donniebeadles7842 Keep in mind that even though he is incredibly good, he is playing Blues and solely Blues. It's much easier to focus on blues as an art form and work around 1-4-5's than it is with songs like "Couldn't Stand the Weather".
@@OM10PYE the fact that he did what he did with the blues only makes him more amazing to me.
What did you expect? A specialty player from a player who played as well behind his back as he played playing right before your eyes playing forwards not backwards
40 years ago....WOW!, I can just see him playing....his music still touches every nerve in my soul every time I hear it.....Nobody does tension and release like Stevie Ray Vaughan....
No one had the hand and finger strength that SRV had either. Or the conduit to pure musical energy
I was at this one. I used to go see Stevie whenever he came to Houston. Fitzgerald's was an old wooden building that had a high ceiling where they'd put a lot of carpet and insulation. It made great acoustics, much better than the concrete boxes that most clubs are. Stevie was phenomenal. What doesn't come across on the videos is that his hands were physically huge and he would manhandle that guitar. He could physically do things that no one else could do.
His hands were gigantic for a man his size. Most people don’t acknowledge it.
Even all the way back in '81 Tommy Shannon still played the bass like a damn studio musician!
Tommy was badass even back in 1969 at Woodstock.
I can’t believe that he got to be in a band with Johnny Winter and then later on with Stevie Ray Vaughan. What a lucky guy.
He had already played bass with Johnny Winter and who knows who else. He was the elder statesman in the group. Double Trouble was a match made in heaven.
@@ontariobuds Yes, I have thought a lot of that too... La creme de la creme! ❤❤❤
Man he was cranked up. Each song is played faster than usual.
This version of "the sky is crying" is pure gold
25:27 Holy crow, one of the best versions I've ever heard, and I've been listening since literally before I was born.
@@andrewryan2814 Your parents played it while you were in your mom's womb I guess? Only way to figure it out lol
@@fadeskywards1245 I was at an SRV concert in the womb
30:09 the most magical feedback squall I’ve EVER HEARD. NO CONTEST. 🤯
You can absolutely FEEL the fact that the audience felt that shit, too!!!
Oh without a doubt. When Stevie performed, you not only heard it but it was the kinda jams your I felt deep in your soul. 💜💚💙I’ll never stop loving him and I really believe we’ll meet again someday. I have to believe that and I really do. I think there is more to life and living than just being here on this earth for a very short time. I mean a person could live to be 90 or a 100 but honestly look how fast that goes by.🌍🌙🌎🌈🌪❄️
That bass is swingin’ hard in this recording man.
Tommy Shannon. Nuff said.
@@camilo1455 oh yes... I’m fully aware.
I may have been there....Stevie was a gentleman and one of the best bluesmen that ever lived....
You got that right. Humble kind sweet soft spoken . Just a no .1 guy, very sad day when we lost that special gem 💎
Greatest guitarist and human being. Love and miss you.
Yea Jimmy me to. I miss him so much I get sick at my stomach. I try not to think to mi h about the crash but it’s hard. So young so talented and such a sweet man. I really miss him a lot I mean like bunches. Why do the fret ones have to leave us and in such horrifying ways to.!it really does bother me bad.I’m so thankful for the awesome tunes we have. I want him back tho, can’t touch him. I can only listen to his music but I’ll take what I can get.❤
He didn't play Hendrix...
he duplicated Hendrix.
After bearing witness to this recording I'm convinced his guitar skills exceeded Jimi,
but both players careers were short lived.
Stevie's mind wasn't cloud dusted with dope this by far so far is my best listen sampling Stevie better than his live show watched in 1984 in Orlando I watched him break a bass string I mean a motivated machine.
I wonder what
Eric Clapton's words would be about this particular show, that is, could he an owner master strummer of strings could he have matched, or kept up with this Texas guitar wizard?
I'd like to double thank whomever brought him alive in sound to hear this magnificent recording double thanking for Double Trouble thank you thank you thank you... Oooops I thanked 3 times
We love and miss this master 🎶
Absolutely we do,gotta lotta love for Stevie❤❤❤❤
OMG Texas Flood - So cool to hear him sing "poor me insane" instead of the signature "Poor stevie ray insane" on the later recordings. In '81 he was still just Stevie Vaughan; he had not picked up the Ray yet.
Often introduced as Little Stevie Vaughan oftentimes in these days
"my name is Stevie Vaughan, we're known as Double Trouble..." I've never got used to the "Ray" or the new guy on keyboard.
At his best! 1981!! Raw young talent!
I saw the show with Double Trouble at the Kalamazoo County Michigan Fair!!8-24-90... Right before they went to Alpine Valley..
On the dirt! Classic! 🙏 🎸
CKLW 60s
Love Stevie's style the way he plays that Blues mixed with some Rock n Roll. Doing it Texas Style like only he could. Never been to Texas I want to see where Stevie grew up and the clubs he would play in .They Need to open a Museum to honor the work and memories of this Man.
An SRV museum? WOW that wud be awesome, but they couldn't build one big enough to accommodate all who loved him. Not even a fraction of us at a time! SRV 4ever. We love you Stevie Ray😢
Srv's house he grew up in is on Google earth. Can imagine him riding a bike on those streets as a kid. ❤
Good lord..what a talent. Red rocks back in the day ..
God lord his music is so good
2 and a half hour set! thats crazy!
Right? And playing at this intensity!! He was one of a kind. Wow
Stevie Ray Vaughan started somewhere and led through the journey him to be the legend he became..what a legacy and traveling around the world to give everybody some of the great talent and entertainment thru time and exhaustion..great band ..Stevie was the best ue's and rock n roller that ever lived..
He certainly lived & played longer than Jimi Hendrix
Brings back some good memory's, did shows there many times with different bands and opened for Stevie in the mid 80's on one occasion with The Dusters....Sad that Fitzgerald's is no longer there, Sara and Jimmie were good people!
I went to school with Sara. Heights Rats!
I saw him that year in a small blues club on Washington Ave, in Houston. I saw him again in 83' at the Dallas Amphitheater. He was incredible!
Which club? There were some great ones back in the 80s, namely Club Hey Hey, but that was later in the 80s. It later became the Bon Ton Room. RIP to SRV and those clubs. They all left good memories.
Rockefeller's perhaps?
Too good to be true; SRV could not have been human.
This is equivalent to pure gold..it's like washing my soul within me...thank you and I'm forever grateful to Stevie for making the world a brighter place because he lived...
Thats really amazing, I sure. Ouldnt imagine life without him lot his most incredible jams. He has made my life better
As a teenage guitar player working in a record store, when Texas Flood was released and playing for the customers, i remember thinking that it was Eric Clapton. So, that was it for me, immediate fan. I was lucky to chat with him for an hour before a show in 1987, i think. After seeing and hearing all this stuff on the internet nowadays, i was thinking was there anything left in the tank when he died so tragically? So many songs done by an artist before they are stars, come out on albums throughout their career. I found this with other bands too.
He sounds nothing like Clapton.
His style was fully formed!
When JLV is your big bro… you gotta get it in early!!!
This dude blows me away every damn time, absolute god level. Thank you so much for posting this.
Glad to see some of my favorite performances are back. A couple channels with all of these pre-Texas Flood (album) performances, which are gold by the way, were taken down and it was awful.
Do you have any idea why they were taken down? @Shawncy
@@wannaberabbi9302 My guess is copyright issues
I noticed that too. Half my liked video collection was deleted!
Srv bootlegs was the site, pretty sure he still has a website with some on there
This is in my top 3 Stevie's performance
You should hear the KLBJ-FM tape of "Tin Pan Alley" live on the radio. They had to pull it out of rotation when the album came out; much better version than what is on the record. 🍻
I may have been there. I met Stevie at Fitzgerald's prior to his first album release. A friend of mine whose brother was ZZ Top's road manager, introduced him to me. Just a short hello, he was tired I think so I didn't want to disturb him. Anyway, in those days The Fabulous Thunderbirds would play at Rockefellers, and SRV would play at Fitzgerald's maybe 4 times a year. It was good times. BTW, I never saw Stevie play a Firebird ever. The picture isn't from Fitzgeralds
I. Was there! Senior in high school. Bad ass!
Steves stuff from 1981 is so money.
Mind blowing riffs.
Some of his best playing!
I was trying to jog my memory as to exactly then this was because I was blessed to be in the audience at a table in one of the front rows so I did a search. Imagine finding this!!! WOW.
My all-time favourite guitarist! Stevie oozes every passion, soul, blues in his playing! I could never get tired of listening to him play and his voice gets to me all the time! Thank you Stevie for being awesome! And thank you for uploading this too.
AGREE!!! He doesn’t get NEAR the respect he deserves for his singing. A true blues voice with a helluva lotta soul!!!
@@jjstratford Yes!!.
Another Yes!
What a concert! I wish I was there
About the time of this recording a couple of guys at work were telling me to get over to Fitzgerald's to see this guy. I never got around to it and have been kicking myself ever since.
Unbelievable! Greatest blues guitarist ever!
Fitzgerald's was literally one block from my home and I never saw SRV there! 1978-1980.
This is outstanding, ive been looking for rare stuff with great quality like this. Sounds amazing. Recordings like this are what make me pick up my guitar and just start playing with pure passion.
I get you.
Talk about a young guitarist on fire! Clapton said SRV was exactly what he wanted to be as a little tyke. Suppose that covers millions of us!
Loving it! SRV's playing always makes me smile....PEACE
Enjoy
This is the best performance I’ve heard from him yet... hideaways badass
BB King's DONE LOST YOUR GOOD THING NOW puts me in a trance, exquisitely done... He was, is, my favorite musician ever. SRV 💜.
how can you still have enough energy for texas flood and rude mood after 2hrs of playing
Two things: passion, and cocaine 🔥
My God, I know!!!! SRV was one of a kind. The most passionate player I have ever heard.
Just so incredible....always...
Outstanding audio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best there was. 1:50:44 - Lord have mercy....!
I cry every time I listen to it. It's like I finally get to hug stevie
Texas swing,Blues all in there!!
Best Guitarist ever born saw him in Austin in the early days❤
Tnx for posting this. I really enjoyed it. Unbelievable good playing. Full throttle. Love him❤️
Thank you soooo much for posting this. Amazing. I have listened to You Done Lost a Good Thang Now a million times but this is the first time in the context of the whole gig. It's all so good.
That's my absolute favorite song of his.. Amazing. SRV 💜.
This is such a such a great concert. So glad it's still out there for people to here. Thanks for posting!!!
when srv does howling wolf,freddie king,hound dog taylor,jimi hendriks and so on he literally
embodies their soul...
Good lord those sounds on a guitar 🎸
Massive thanks for this Mike, going through a big SRV stage and this is like gold dust!! Songs I’ve never heard before.
God I love this!!! Thank you1
So freakin good.
Manic Depression....WOW!!! Very cool.
2 thumbs down .. Must have made a mistake... Don’t mess with SRV A-Holes 😀💪🏼
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Wuhahahaha 😎😎🎸🎸
This is a really good recording!
STEVIE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !!!!!!! MISS YOU BEEN JAMMIN ALL DEY...
I really love the tone he's getting of this Firebird! So much tone comes from the hands. Wonder why he didn't play the Firebird more?
That note he holds around 30:15 (can’t rewind; too in the zone) is RIDICULOUS!!! 🤯
Finally it’s back again.
Dave and Yvonne from Cook county sends their best
Thanks for uploading this performance. I need not comment on the music. 😉😎
WOW! Live gigs are the best!
Thanks for sharing this recording. Some great listening. This recording of 'You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now' is one of my favorites
I’m glad to have seen him many times at Fitzgerald’s, Rockefeller’s (new year’s eve) with John Lee Hooker, The Juneteenth Blues Festival at Herman park. And amazing front row 8n The Astrodome Opening for The Who. I’m glad I’m old.
Goat 🐐 ¡
wow man thanks!! my favorite and rare in the open version!! good job!!! thank's a lot
No Problem Sir i’m still trying to find more early years of stevies playing as we speak
@@mike-mj6bf Thank you from me as well. Just amazing.
💗 💖 💘 💝 💟 ☮️!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Subscribed!!
The Best 🎸🔊..
On "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now", he's not playing his strat, is he? Sounds to me like he's playing some kind of humbucker-equipped Gibson, like a 335 or something. Fantastic cover of a great BB King tune.
Sounds like it man. I’m sure u might be right
The picture of Stevie playing the firebird is from this concert if I did my research right so maybe it could be that??
@@mike-mj6bf negative. That is not Fitzgerald’s. In the picture that is.
@mike 2002, thank you soooo much for sharing this, incredible footage!
I wanted to play with Stevie !! Houston Texas baby!!
thanks for uploading this and the timestamps 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Peter North, the two guys that ruled the 80s
😂😂😂
Never heard of Peter North. Who is he?
Thank you!!!!!!
I always wondered if SRV would of enjoyed playing a Firebird.... And there it is! Thank you.
PPL know how rare this is? 1) SRV plays humbuckers vs Start SC pickups - treat 2) Song list length wtf 3) Decent Audio for a club in 81
Someone has the video of this performance? I will pay but i want it
How much
@@steveb387 do you have it? 25 euro? Pls let me know, thx!
@@steveb387 you have any Fitzgerald’s shows on video?
If anyone else has video of this night I'll pay.. please let me know.. thx
It was not recorded on video. Remember this was 1981.
Thanks you so much..if you could find the santa cruz concert 1984 or 1986...his throat was sore as he cleared he cant do alot of singing.
Wish there were video's of this concert or this line-up GOAT
This is a new favorite