@AceofBadeReacts going back to show the things you talked about was great. This is my favorite SRV performance, but "Texas Flood" live at El Mocambo is an insane performance. If you've not seen it, your l8fe is lacking.
Charley Wirz was a friend of Stevie’s who had a custom guitar shop in Dallas and made the white guitar for Stevie. He died in ‘85, and Stevie wrote the song for him. He liked to use his “Charley” guitar to sing this Charley song, which is why he switched guitars. Stevie had a message he’d usually give many shows after about 1984-5, always different, always positive, as far as I remember.
It was a combination of two things. You can see him messing with the tuning and shake his head, then give his tech a nod to switch, and they take the opportunity to switch to the Charley guitar as mentioned. Normally, he wouldn't have switched mid song, but the red guitar couldn't be properly adjusted on the fly.
SRV the best in my opinion. Switched guitars, tuned guitar while playing. Broke a tooth while playing with his teeth. Did not miss a beat.He used 13 gauge strings to start and stayed 2 to 3 gauges bigger on the strings than the normal size strings. The GOAT. Thanks for the reaction
He usually played the white guitar, “Charlie” made for him by his friend Charlie., for this song. This song was written for Charlie who passed away unexpectedly. You can hear the guitar weeping. Also, you should know that Stevie was as humble as he was talented ❤
This was my 3 time seeing him, my best friend and i were 2 row center stage it was my 16th birthday.. He broke a string att the beginning of the song . Like another mentioned he wrote this for his good friend Charley and the guitar he switched to was given to him and named after that good friend... When he passed Stevie had " Thank You For All The Love You Passed Our Way " put on his headstone.. He lost a tooth playing this song. It was the last of the main, they came out and played 4 more for the encore. One of my greatest memories
behind the back: if u look closely, hes got the guitar strap thing all figured out, its very strategically done, but, also if u look closely, hes keeping it from touching his clothes & body by planting his pinky & ring finger , rigid & strong (those two fingers deserve a lot of credit) , on the body of the guitar to keep the guitar propped up & away from him...the dude also had ape-strength in his hands for real...as evidenced in the first behind the back part where he brings the guitar , upside down, out in front of him & is holding it by the neck, & fretting the note, & bending the note, & accurately hitting the note with his other hand all at the same time...that as well, is low key goat madness...he was just a beast....lots of cocaine & whiskey in these days, but his sober playing in his last 4 years was also amazing, obviously, when u have this much beast-mode skill.
👏🙌‼️Great reaction guys! You both need to experience his Tin Pan Alley along with Johnny Copeland performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Sweden 1985. Reese Wynans on piano joined the group in 1985 and was with them to the end.
Nice thorough covering of all essential parts of the performance. It was a long pause, but at least it was only once. Good job😊. The beautiful necklace Stevie wore was called a 'Squash Blossom', jade I believe. Stevie was wearing it at the time the helicopter crashed. I read somewhere that it was found on the ground by his brother, Jimmy Lee. RIP, King SRV. We love you and we're still listening. ☮️
I wonder if his brother kept the necklace and if he still has it. Yeah I typically do 1 pause and the time can vary. This time there was just so much to talk about
@@claireburling8547 he loved that Squash Blossom necklace (and earrings and bracelet). The necklace he was wearing on the helicopter was his silver Coptic Cross necklace and yes, Jimmie found it at the site and still has it of course. How hard that must have hit him to finds😔
@ I guess I got wrong info. Yes I know that amazing cross. It still brings me to tears for Jimmie’s traumatic discovery. A sad remembrance always. RIP, King SRV, we’ll love and remember you forever. 🩵💜❤️. ☮️to all
Look at his upbringing. His older brother Jimmie Vaughn is a huge blue presence. He was in the right place to learn from all the great Austin blues heros
Keyboardist Reese Wynans joined the group in 1985-it is on Wikipedia. Congrats on catching the guitar switch-most UA-cam reactors fail to notice. Also he lost a tooth playing with his teeth here-if you can read lips he Is telling someone offstage right after it happened that the tooth is gone.
From an interview of Chris and Tommy of Double Trouble they say that Stevie never really rehearsed for playing behind his back and didn't do it at a specific point in every show. They really didn't even have a set list for concerts. Stevie was very humble. One night the were playing at Red Rocks and when the arrived B.B. King was onstage. Stevie asked why and was told that B.B was opening. Stevie said No way B.B. King should be opening a show for him. Can't imagine what he'd be doing today. Great reaction. Check out the interview (1999 at El Macombo) with Chris and Tommy. Well worth it.
There was a racist issue against a few of the bands black friends a week before this show, and that is why he made this speech during this song. Rip SRV!!!
@@AceofBadeReactsOnly because they couldn't differentiate between "another part of the country, down south". Which is what he actually said. Instead they claim he said "Mother Country" and referred that to being South Africa during apartheid.
That's a very young Reese Wynans on the keys who now makes a living with Joe Bonamassa. There is a very good book written about SRV entitled "TEXAS FLOOD THE INSIDE STORY OF STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN" by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort (c. 2019). I did not become a fan until after his death and regret, very much, not ever having seen him perform live. I am very thankful for the videos that survived him, bc nobody would ever believe this unless they saw it with thier own eyes. Great reaction, TY.
He is the Greatest Guitar. There not jade its green Turkquise. The key boads are played by Reese Wayans. Stevie mastered the guitar behind his back at 10 years old gone down the road on his bike. Stevie was the guitar. He's my brother stevie akso had 2 sisters. So thats where he fot the song look at little sister. ❤❤❤❤ There are tons of storys I can tell ya'll.
The picture on the back of the guitar was a topless hula dancer and the white guitar was named Charlie after his friend and guitar tech . Stevie wrote this song in honor of Charlie
Stevie played using very thick strings. That’s why his guitar has such a unique sound. That being said, his use of extreme vibrato would often cause strings to break. But he wouldn’t quit. He would just change out his guitar in the middle of the song and then move right on.
Oh, BTW, he broke a tooth when he did the teeth bit. That's why he said "Thank you Charlie" , that was his guitar guy who had died a few years earlier.
@@rebalee1599 SRV is often said to have lost a tooth when he plays with his mouth and then looks down. Michael Palmisano in his reaction video explains instead that he is out of tune which makes more sense with the following scene where he bends his strings with one hand
He tried to tune it up but it didn"t work. So, he indicated to his guitar tech to change up to the Charlie guitar which was given to him by the person the song in written about. The sticker is a dancing girl. if you want to see the best guitar change ever check out Look at Little Sister, Austin City Limits ua-cam.com/video/3woPVQExDsQ/v-deo.htmlsi=6_FPZuXbeIcLH5HJ The biggest difference is that Life Without you at Capital Theater was filmed by people attached to SRV, the Austin City Limits filming was a TV show and the producer had control of the recording so we got to see the change due to a broken E string.
I had the chance to see him live with The Fabulous Thunderbirds at The Double Door Inn now closed for good in Charlotte NC. LOL I had no idea who he was. His brother was in the band too.
He didn't just play with his teeth, he broke his tooth. which if you watch closely he looks down and sees his tooth, then says "broke my tooth" to his guitar tech, then he says "its allright" they goes to the mic and says "thank you charlie"
Maybe the red guitar wasn't tuned so He switched to the white guitar had to tune it ,played with his eyes closed,played horizontal, vertical, played one handed, sang great,gave a awesome speech, played with his teeth, broke a TOOTH,looked for it and said "broke a tooth it's gone" and Smiled and said "Thank you Charlie" a great guitar friend of his !!! Stevie doesn't play the songs same way just about every time!!🐐🎸🔥❤️😍😢 RIP STEVIE!!
the "thumb thing" is a jimi hendrix technique...instead of doing a common bar chord, barring it with ur index finger & fretting the rest of the chord with the other 4 fingers (minus the thumb), hendrix wrapped his thumb around to fret the top string...this freed up his other fingers to play scales around the chord his other four fingers were fretting on the beat, but then they were free to do solo/lead stuff in between the beat....hendrix was one of the first, in rock anyway (the country & jazz guys were also nuts) to play chords (rythm guitar) & lead guitar at the same time....SRV was a blues genius, as has prob been said, show her "texas flood" live at el mocambo, 1983...i love SRV so much, one of a kind texas kook....0% talent, 1,000,000% genius, the guitar played him, he was just "an open channel" as eric clapton once said
1000% brilliant musician for sure. I did react to Texas Flood recently on here, so it'll probably be a while before I circle back to that video, but I can definitely do that down the line
As many may have already told you, the white guitar was named "Charlie" as it was given to him at a time he didn't have any money. Charlie owned a guitar store in Dallas and "Life Without You" is almost always played on this guitar as an honor to Charlie Wirz. This sticker on the back is of a Hula girl. The adjustments to the amps were to intensify the feedback although SRV was usually so loud you couldn't hear anything but him. As it should be when you are that fantastic.
Steveie usually switches guitars because he broke a stri ng on his guitar. And that's because Stevie strings were a bit thicker than what other guitarists use. And he also broke a tooth, lol.
That's how I've always liked doing them. 1, maybe 2 pauses, depending on how long the performance is. Instrumental songs are really hard to figure out where to pause too
You completely missed him breaking a cord on his SRV guitar you can see him signalling his guitar tech and they swapped to the white guitar without missing a beat
I was blessed to see Stevie perform 8 times. Always a musical spiritual experience! Stevie is addressing a violent crackdown on Apartheid protesters that had just happened in South Africa. After his sobriety he would talk about his sobriety during Life Without You. I especially enjoyed his performances after sobriety and his In Step CD. Checkout Crossfire and Tightrope live performances. RIP SRV.... still missed.
@jimralston7562 No, he wasn't. Nothing in that speech had absolutely anything to do with South Africa, the Motherland, or apartheid. He was referencing racism in the South.
I don't know about all these tall tales in the comments. He went out of tune, tried to adjust the string, and broke it. The guitars clearly were not set up the same, forcing him to adjust the amp head and pedals. I think the red guitar was already a back up from his usual Burst Strat with SRV on the pickguard. I think the white one is the third string. (pun intended)
That speech was in the ,moment: he was referring to apartheid in South Africa where Black South Africans were being imprisoned and killed by the white government.
@AceofBadeReacts That's incorrect. Listen to the speech again. He was talking about what had happened to a few friends in another part of the country, down south. Referring to racism at the time. The whole Motherland/South Africa/Apartheid mumbo jumbo was made up by someone on UA-cam that couldn't hear/understand what he was saying, and unfortunately, other people took off and ran with it. 🙄
Ya he broke a string so they brought out his white Strat because it's way faster to swap out a guitar than restringing it & tuning everything & he broke a tooth playing with his teeth, didn't miss a beat , legend !
He did not break a string. The guitar was out of tune from the beginning, which you would know if you had ever played any kind of instrument. Just look at his eyes. He knew it the whole time. He tried fixing it and when that didn't work, he pointed to his tech to get him another guitar.
Playing the guitar behind your back is the same as playing it in front the guitar faces the same direction the hands are in the same position the only difference is it's behind you
True, but in my head it's all about comfort and the way I look at it, your arms are stretched in a different direction from the norm, so it's definitely way different
Ok.....Then why aren't we watching videos of you doing it???? Armchair guitar players always talking about SRV played his guitar, yet not being able to do what they're talking about. 🙄
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I tried some different editing techniques for this one. Thoughts?
@AceofBadeReacts going back to show the things you talked about was great. This is my favorite SRV performance, but "Texas Flood" live at El Mocambo is an insane performance. If you've not seen it, your l8fe is lacking.
@@AceofBadeReacts seemed really good to me brother.
Charley Wirz was a friend of Stevie’s who had a custom guitar shop in Dallas and made the white guitar for Stevie. He died in ‘85, and Stevie wrote the song for him. He liked to use his “Charley” guitar to sing this Charley song, which is why he switched guitars. Stevie had a message he’d usually give many shows after about 1984-5, always different, always positive, as far as I remember.
I see. I understand now
Charley's Guitar shop ....and SVR Legendary!
It was a combination of two things. You can see him messing with the tuning and shake his head, then give his tech a nod to switch, and they take the opportunity to switch to the Charley guitar as mentioned. Normally, he wouldn't have switched mid song, but the red guitar couldn't be properly adjusted on the fly.
SRV the best in my opinion. Switched guitars, tuned guitar while playing. Broke a tooth while playing with his teeth. Did not miss a beat.He used 13 gauge strings to start and stayed 2 to 3 gauges bigger on the strings than the normal size strings. The GOAT. Thanks for the reaction
He usually played the white guitar, “Charlie” made for him by his friend Charlie., for this song. This song was written for Charlie who passed away unexpectedly. You can hear the guitar weeping. Also, you should know that Stevie was as humble as he was talented ❤
@@Donnagilbert6497 - Donna has the story perfectly.
@ Why thank you!
A wonderful tribute to Charlie
@@AceofBadeReacts yes a very emotional tribute to his great friend Charley (correct spelling of his name)
This was my 3 time seeing him, my best friend and i were 2 row center stage it was my 16th birthday.. He broke a string att the beginning of the song . Like another mentioned he wrote this for his good friend Charley and the guitar he switched to was given to him and named after that good friend... When he passed Stevie had " Thank You For All The Love You Passed Our Way " put on his headstone.. He lost a tooth playing this song. It was the last of the main, they came out and played 4 more for the encore. One of my greatest memories
behind the back: if u look closely, hes got the guitar strap thing all figured out, its very strategically done, but, also if u look closely, hes keeping it from touching his clothes & body by planting his pinky & ring finger , rigid & strong (those two fingers deserve a lot of credit) , on the body of the guitar to keep the guitar propped up & away from him...the dude also had ape-strength in his hands for real...as evidenced in the first behind the back part where he brings the guitar , upside down, out in front of him & is holding it by the neck, & fretting the note, & bending the note, & accurately hitting the note with his other hand all at the same time...that as well, is low key goat madness...he was just a beast....lots of cocaine & whiskey in these days, but his sober playing in his last 4 years was also amazing, obviously, when u have this much beast-mode skill.
It's just unreal
👏🙌‼️Great reaction guys! You both need to experience his Tin Pan Alley along with Johnny Copeland performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Sweden 1985. Reese Wynans on piano joined the group in 1985 and was with them to the end.
It is on the list to check out. I'll save it for Salsa
My son, Reggie. He passed 8 months after Kathy. They were meant to be together ❤ thank you for the respect you've shown this performance
De loin mon guitariste préféré ❤️
Such a phenomenal guitarist
He also played 13 gauge strings. Really thick strings
Nice thorough covering of all essential parts of the performance. It was a long pause, but at least it was only once. Good job😊. The beautiful necklace Stevie wore was called a 'Squash Blossom', jade I believe. Stevie was wearing it at the time the helicopter crashed. I read somewhere that it was found on the ground by his brother, Jimmy Lee. RIP, King SRV. We love you and we're still listening. ☮️
I wonder if his brother kept the necklace and if he still has it. Yeah I typically do 1 pause and the time can vary. This time there was just so much to talk about
@@claireburling8547 he loved that Squash Blossom necklace (and earrings and bracelet). The necklace he was wearing on the helicopter was his silver Coptic Cross necklace and yes, Jimmie found it at the site and still has it of course. How hard that must have hit him to finds😔
@ I guess I got wrong info. Yes I know that amazing cross. It still brings me to tears for Jimmie’s traumatic discovery. A sad remembrance always. RIP, King SRV, we’ll love and remember you forever. 🩵💜❤️. ☮️to all
@@claireburling8547 his memory cannot be extinguished🙏💫🌟✨🙏
He is my daily inspiration👌🌺
Look at his upbringing. His older brother Jimmie Vaughn is a huge blue presence. He was in the right place to learn from all the great Austin blues heros
Keyboardist Reese Wynans joined the group in 1985-it is on Wikipedia. Congrats on catching the guitar switch-most UA-cam reactors fail to notice. Also he lost a tooth playing with his teeth here-if you can read lips he Is telling someone offstage right after it happened that the tooth is gone.
For whatever reason I just could not find any information about Reese. Adding that to the document
From an interview of Chris and Tommy of Double Trouble they say that Stevie never really rehearsed for playing behind his back and didn't do it at a specific point in every show. They really didn't even have a set list for concerts. Stevie was very humble. One night the were playing at Red Rocks and when the arrived B.B. King was onstage. Stevie asked why and was told that B.B was opening. Stevie said No way B.B. King should be opening a show for him. Can't imagine what he'd be doing today. Great reaction. Check out the interview (1999 at El Macombo) with Chris and Tommy. Well worth it.
Wow that is really humble. Did he ever play with BB King?
@ I think he did but I'm not certain. Been a while since I watched the interview.
Yes. He played with every one of his heroes.
My Reggie had this song played at his wife Kathy's memorial service...Oct 2021.
The sticker issa Hola girl he got in Hawaii. ❤
There was a racist issue against a few of the bands black friends a week before this show, and that is why he made this speech during this song. Rip SRV!!!
Some commenters have mentioned what was happening in South Africa at that time is the reason for the speech
FINALLY!!! Someone says what's factual!! Enough with the Motherland/South Africa/Apartheid nonsense!! 👏
@@AceofBadeReactsOnly because they couldn't differentiate between "another part of the country, down south". Which is what he actually said. Instead they claim he said "Mother Country" and referred that to being South Africa during apartheid.
That's a very young Reese Wynans on the keys who now makes a living with Joe Bonamassa. There is a very good book written about SRV entitled "TEXAS FLOOD THE INSIDE STORY OF STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN" by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort (c. 2019). I did not become a fan until after his death and regret, very much, not ever having seen him perform live. I am very thankful for the videos that survived him, bc nobody would ever believe this unless they saw it with thier own eyes. Great reaction, TY.
Reese Wynans is the keyboardist. He currently plays with Joe Bonamasa.
Reese is awesome and he has been blessed to play with two of the greats. What a fantastic career he has had.
Awesomeness
No one puts more feeling and soul into performing and playing the guitar. Someone may match him, but never surpass. Smooth guitar switch, by the way.
I think that is the perfect way to phrase it
You two are very sharp! You saw details often overlooked! I'm impressed, hula girl on the back I think.
It helped to scroll through the video while we were talking
Truly a tooth popping performance! lol
SRV ~ 🎸🐐 The goatiest goat in all of goatness
The sticker is a topless hula girl
He is the Greatest Guitar. There not jade its green Turkquise. The key boads are played by Reese Wayans. Stevie mastered the guitar behind his back at 10 years old gone down the road on his bike. Stevie was the guitar. He's my brother stevie akso had 2 sisters. So thats where he fot the song look at little sister. ❤❤❤❤ There are tons of storys I can tell ya'll.
Thank you for the information
The picture on the back of the guitar was a topless hula dancer and the white guitar was named Charlie after his friend and guitar tech . Stevie wrote this song in honor of Charlie
The image on the back is a topless hula dancer and his necklace is called a Squashblossom made of silver and Turquoise. I loved Sala’s reactions!
He switched guitar, dropped a pick, messed with the sound played with his teeth lost a tooth and gave a beautiful speech
The GOAT
Greatest guitar player ever
Stevie played using very thick strings. That’s why his guitar has such a unique sound. That being said, his use of extreme vibrato would often cause strings to break. But he wouldn’t quit. He would just change out his guitar in the middle of the song and then move right on.
Not only do I think this guy's the best guitarist,
Oh, BTW, he broke a tooth when he did the teeth bit. That's why he said "Thank you Charlie" , that was his guitar guy who had died a few years earlier.
@@rebalee1599 SRV is often said to have lost a tooth when he plays with his mouth and then looks down. Michael Palmisano in his reaction video explains instead that he is out of tune which makes more sense with the following scene where he bends his strings with one hand
Absolutely insane
I do feel like he would be in a bit of pain if he did break his tooth, but I mean I have no clue
the keyboardist is Reece Rawlins. He joined later on.
He tried to tune it up but it didn"t work. So, he indicated to his guitar tech to change up to the Charlie guitar which was given to him by the person the song in written about. The sticker is a dancing girl. if you want to see the best guitar change ever check out Look at Little Sister, Austin City Limits ua-cam.com/video/3woPVQExDsQ/v-deo.htmlsi=6_FPZuXbeIcLH5HJ
The biggest difference is that Life Without you at Capital Theater was filmed by people attached to SRV, the Austin City Limits filming was a TV show and the producer had control of the recording so we got to see the change due to a broken E string.
I had the chance to see him live with The Fabulous Thunderbirds at The Double Door Inn now closed for good in Charlotte NC. LOL I had no idea who he was. His brother was in the band too.
He didn't just play with his teeth, he broke his tooth. which if you watch closely he looks down and sees his tooth, then says "broke my tooth" to his guitar tech, then he says "its allright" they goes to the mic and says "thank you charlie"
Stevie learned the tricks from Buddy Guy and Jimi. Jimi also learned from Buddy. Jewelry is turquoise and silver
Checkout SRV and Albert King - Don't lie to me . Among other blues guitarists .
I'll add it to the list
This performance is great but him playing Texas Flood at the El Mocambo is one of the greatest guitar performances ever in my opinion
The audience is silent because they want to hear it
Maybe the red guitar wasn't tuned so He switched to the white guitar had to tune it ,played with his eyes closed,played horizontal, vertical, played one handed, sang great,gave a awesome speech, played with his teeth, broke a TOOTH,looked for it and said "broke a tooth it's gone" and Smiled and said "Thank you Charlie" a great guitar friend of his !!! Stevie doesn't play the songs same way just about every time!!🐐🎸🔥❤️😍😢 RIP STEVIE!!
It's definitely possible it was out of tune
If it was out of tune Stevie is able to tune it on the fly. He’s done it many times. No problem
Song was about his guitar tech that passed away
Stevie didn't read music he played by ear, so if it didn't sound right to his ears he adjusted
Reese Wyman...keyboard genius
Not too many people noticed that he just switched guitars at the beginning of this song.
It did help to scroll through the video while we were talking
Any Stevie Ray performance!
the "thumb thing" is a jimi hendrix technique...instead of doing a common bar chord, barring it with ur index finger & fretting the rest of the chord with the other 4 fingers (minus the thumb), hendrix wrapped his thumb around to fret the top string...this freed up his other fingers to play scales around the chord his other four fingers were fretting on the beat, but then they were free to do solo/lead stuff in between the beat....hendrix was one of the first, in rock anyway (the country & jazz guys were also nuts) to play chords (rythm guitar) & lead guitar at the same time....SRV was a blues genius, as has prob been said, show her "texas flood" live at el mocambo, 1983...i love SRV so much, one of a kind texas kook....0% talent, 1,000,000% genius, the guitar played him, he was just "an open channel" as eric clapton once said
1000% brilliant musician for sure. I did react to Texas Flood recently on here, so it'll probably be a while before I circle back to that video, but I can definitely do that down the line
Reece Wynans on the keyboards - plays for Joe Bonomassa (sp?) today. Legendary artist!
Oh saw Joe live to and love him
The band also had Reese Wynans on keyboards sometimes.
Reese the keyboard is now plays with Joe bonamassa
As many may have already told you, the white guitar was named "Charlie" as it was given to him at a time he didn't have any money. Charlie owned a guitar store in Dallas and "Life Without You" is almost always played on this guitar as an honor to Charlie Wirz. This sticker on the back is of a Hula girl. The adjustments to the amps were to intensify the feedback although SRV was usually so loud you couldn't hear anything but him. As it should be when you are that fantastic.
Thank you for the information
More SRV please 😊
If you play close attention he’s telling Charlie he lost his tooth, it’s gone
Texas flood,.... live at the el macambo is a must watch
Keyboards Reese Wynan joined for the Soul To Soul album and stayed to the end
Steveie usually switches guitars because he broke a stri ng on his guitar. And that's because Stevie strings were a bit thicker than what other guitarists use. And he also broke a tooth, lol.
He was also making adjustments to the amps so he was hearing something off.
Hadn't seen that one before!
It's definitely a good one
Play the video !!!!!
Sticker is a hula dancer
that was a great reaction...i prefer one big pause/interuption over a 150 small, annoying, & constant ones...thank u🙏
That's how I've always liked doing them. 1, maybe 2 pauses, depending on how long the performance is. Instrumental songs are really hard to figure out where to pause too
One of the strings broke and he needed to change the guitar.
The image on the back is an upside down bare breasted hula dancer
That's HoTT
Have you ever danced at a club. I have. A lot. And I get sweaty after a few songs. My point is that of course he's sweating.
srv is no1
You completely missed him breaking a cord on his SRV guitar you can see him signalling his guitar tech and they swapped to the white guitar without missing a beat
I was blessed to see Stevie perform 8 times. Always a musical spiritual experience! Stevie is addressing a violent crackdown on Apartheid protesters that had just happened in South Africa. After his sobriety he would talk about his sobriety during Life Without You.
I especially enjoyed his performances after sobriety and his In Step CD. Checkout Crossfire and Tightrope live performances. RIP SRV.... still missed.
@jimralston7562 No, he wasn't. Nothing in that speech had absolutely anything to do with South Africa, the Motherland, or apartheid. He was referencing racism in the South.
I don't know about all these tall tales in the comments. He went out of tune, tried to adjust the string, and broke it. The guitars clearly were not set up the same, forcing him to adjust the amp head and pedals. I think the red guitar was already a back up from his usual Burst Strat with SRV on the pickguard. I think the white one is the third string. (pun intended)
I think it is the road runner.
A few people have commented it's a hula girl
He tooned the e string it broke.
Broken string?
He lost his tooth. Reese was on keys, just dif hair
That speech was in the ,moment: he was referring to apartheid in South Africa where Black South Africans were being imprisoned and killed by the white government.
Oh wow
@AceofBadeReacts That's incorrect. Listen to the speech again. He was talking about what had happened to a few friends in another part of the country, down south. Referring to racism at the time. The whole Motherland/South Africa/Apartheid mumbo jumbo was made up by someone on UA-cam that couldn't hear/understand what he was saying, and unfortunately, other people took off and ran with it. 🙄
Why do need to mention drug use? Just enjoy the master at work,.high or not high!
It's important because pre sober and post sober Stevie Ray Vaughan both have fantastic performances that everyone talks about in detail
Broke a string!!
What happened to your wife?
Who?
Lost a tooth
He was Sober when this concert happened
@@Tattooed-nr4kg it's posible he was sober during this performance. I have heard many different things, but he didn't go clean until late 1986
He might not have been stoned out of his mind during this concert, but he was not sober.
they performance was after he sobered up.
No this performance was in 1985 and he didn't sober up until the following year. His first performance sober was in November of 1986
No....he didn't go to and complete rehab until late in '86. The was in September '85.
Ya he broke a string so they brought out his white Strat because it's way faster to swap out a guitar than restringing it & tuning everything & he broke a tooth playing with his teeth, didn't miss a beat , legend !
Oh we definitely didn't notice a broken string
He did not break a string. The guitar was out of tune from the beginning, which you would know if you had ever played any kind of instrument. Just look at his eyes. He knew it the whole time. He tried fixing it and when that didn't work, he pointed to his tech to get him another guitar.
Playing the guitar behind your back is the same as playing it in front the guitar faces the same direction the hands are in the same position the only difference is it's behind you
True, but in my head it's all about comfort and the way I look at it, your arms are stretched in a different direction from the norm, so it's definitely way different
Ok.....Then why aren't we watching videos of you doing it???? Armchair guitar players always talking about SRV played his guitar, yet not being able to do what they're talking about. 🙄
He broke a string
No he didn't. The guitar was out of tune and he couldn't fix it.