No, he's the top Blues guitarist ever. He could make love to and f*ck his guitar in the same song. There are others in different genres that are as good. Even considering the Blues, Gary Moore was quite close to Stevie. RIP to both. Tommy Emmanuel is the GOAT acoustic guitar player.
Stevie is arguably one of the greatest ever. He used to play until the callus's on his fingers would fall off. Then he'd super glue them back on and keep playin! True Legend. ☝🏼🙏🏼👊🏼
Saw him at Anotones in Austin, split a finger wide open on a nasty slide. Finished the song and on the side of the stage, he SUPER GLUES his cut. Ran an emery board over it and started playing agin. Like it aint no thing.
I cannot get enough of reactors seeing SRV play behind his back for the first time in their lives. I get to relive it through them over and over again.
Yes, the greatest guitar performance ever captured on film. It had all the elements: fantastic technical precision, incredible tone, tremendous feeling, spectacular showmanship, and unparalleled physicality. One has to understand that he did this on a guitar with extremely heavy-gauged strings and high action! What I love most about Stevie, however, is that he was a sweet and humble man. Thank God for the wonderful legacy that he left---as a musician AND as a person!
Behind the back, behind his head, with his teeth, on the floor riding the guitar like a surfboard & playing it at the same time. You name it, he did it! There certainly are a lot of great players but only one SRV! Can you imagine what he would have done if he had more than 7 yrs of a mainstream career?? God must have needed guitar lessons.
There wasn't no half steppin' at a Stevie Ray Vaughn show, he gave it all to you every time out. Shout out to the rest of the band, they were no slouches either.
Best comment I ever saw, was "Listening to SRV, is basically like drinking the Blues from a fire hydrant". Stevie has a permanent seat at the guitar gods table. Along with B.B. King, Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Roy Clark, Frank Zappa and Brian May.
You just witnessedthe best in Texas blues. SRV was definitely the greatest of all time. I was fortunate enough to have met him several times. He was one of the nicest and most humble people you could ever meet. I absolutely loved your reaction! ❤❤
I can't remember which one, but there is another popular live video of him where he's playing the song and he breaks a string, and the stage tech brings out a replacement and the transition between the two guitars is just flawless while he maintains his guitar flow. It's pretty mind-blowing.
How about where he's playing Voodoo Child, a guy comes up to the stage with his hand out, Stevie shakes his hand for a good 10-15 seconds, while still playing...
I spent the better part of this evening choked up and in tears watching Toby Keith reactions, including yours, and then this came up on my feed. Stevie was so loved also, and his death so tragic. He died August 27, 1990, only about a 30 minute drive from where I live here in Wisconsin from a helicopter crash, taking off when it was way too foggy. Heartbreaking. The band in Heaven just keeps getting bigger and bigger. RIP Stevie 💔 RIP Toby
I was lucky enough to see him on his last tour in 1990. It was mindblowing. My buddy and I had great seats and sat there speechless after the show for a few minutes, marveling at what we'd just witnessed.
Greatest guitar player ever in my opinion. BB King said that SRV was his favorite player. That's the highest compliment a blues guitarist could ever get.
Ok we ALL know he’s the greatest!!!! Now let’s talk about SRV’s style. He dressed like that ALL the time. If you caught him at the grocery store on a Sunday morning he’d be wearing the same type clothes. He owned his style!!!!
Saw him live in a little club called The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY, in July 1983! AMAZING!! If you've never seen ERUPTION by Eddie Van Halen ... you've left a deprived life! 😉
Bwahahahaha!😂 he busted a lot of strings, there’s quite a few videos here on UA-cam where he changes out his guitar without missing a beat. Check out “life without you” at the capital Theatre for your next SRV adventure!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸🎩🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 . Yeppp .. and .. yepppppppp !!! I am so glad you finally got to this one AB. I don't even know why people debate.. he IS the greatest. I saw him live in 1985 .. and he is the greatest. I wish he had played this song for an hour. If you want to see something a little softer, but still out of this world. Try "Lenny" .. he wrote it for his beautiful girlfriend. He is so inspiring and beyond talented.. Thank you AB .. fire !! 🔥🔥🔥🎩🔥🔥🔥🎩🔥🔥🔥
Stevie played with 13 gauge guitar strings. He used to super glue his fingertips back together because he said it made them harder. He was a different breed.
Truly, an incredible talent lost way too soon. I think about what he could have achieved, given more time on this planet. God Bless Stevie Ray Vaughn!!! Thank you for what you were able to share with us!!!
GOTTA watch video of him playing 'Look At Little Sister' in Austin, Tx live - his guitar string breaks & his assistant does an incredible swap without missing a beat -too crazy cool & great song!!
He's definitely one of, if not THE, best blues/rock guitarist. Jimis style was like a beautiful stone that no one had seen before. Steve took that stone and brought it to a high polish.
I love seeing people hearing Stevie for the first time. This was THE SRV song when it first came out in early 80s - think I was in 9th/10th grade and I was blown away with the studio version. Then the internet happened !!!
This was the appropriate reaction to seeing this performance..like disbelief and can't even put it into words because you need a few to process what you just saw
I remember where I was when he died. I was listening to him at work and I knew the world had lost the best guitarist of my lifetime. I love him and hope to see him in heaven.❤❤❤
Yes, yes he IS playing behind his back. Which means he's basically got to hold the guitar AWAY from his back, in order to give him room to play it. On my Mount Rushmore, for sure. SRV, Clapton, Hendrix, and Eddie van Halen. I feel like he plays HARDER than most guitarists. He's really working on that thang. Also, all-time great stank face.
What's amazing to me is that he played really heavy gauge strings which at once speaks to his finger strength, but even then, he broke lots of strings.
Man, you GOTTA check out "Life Without You", live at Capitol theater. Pay close attention to his guitar right at the start, you'll see why quickly. He wrote the song for a friend who passed unexpectedly.
“When I play, I play sort of like talking, you know, syllables, you say a sentence here, a sentence there and then, I’ve to stop and think for something else to keep my conversation going. But his didn’t seem to be that at all. It was fluent, he flowed when he played. He could get something going and it was like a song and it would just go on and on. Ideas continuously flowed, I don’t have that. There is not a lot of people that I hear that have that but Stevie had it.” - BB King
I’ve played for thirty years. SRV is NTBFW. You can’t argue against him on any level. He’s carved in stone within the lexicon. If you’ve picked the instrument up, you must bend the knee to him.
Every time Stevie played, the guitar needed a cigarette when he was done. He made guitars do things guitars didn't know they could do. He knew his instruments inside and out, understood exactly how they worked, and played around figuring out how to manipulate them.
Absolutely the greatest guitarist but also was such a great showman....a natural super talent! Very few people are born with his type of greatness inside of them....John Wayne as an actor...Muhammad Ali as a fighter are a couple that I can think of....bigger than life.
@abthekreator something that makes this evenmore amazing is that probably 60% of this song he was making up on the spot. go listen to the studio release of this song and most of what you hear in this concert release isnt there is the studio version. the man was absolutely insane at guitar.
You really need to see Taj Farrant. A 15 year old blues prodigy who will absolutely blow your mind. He's touring the USA at the moment with a band of older blues musicians. Do yourself a favour and check him out.
Yes the greatest guitarist period
Absolutely agreed
Right R8
Right all three y’all
No if and or buts about it! He’s the GOAT!
No, he's the top Blues guitarist ever. He could make love to and f*ck his guitar in the same song. There are others in different genres that are as good. Even considering the Blues, Gary Moore was quite close to Stevie. RIP to both. Tommy Emmanuel is the GOAT acoustic guitar player.
RIP Stevie. GOAT. Nobody but Stevie plays with that much soul.
Stevie is arguably one of the greatest ever. He used to play until the callus's on his fingers would fall off. Then he'd super glue them back on and keep playin! True Legend. ☝🏼🙏🏼👊🏼
Saw him at Anotones in Austin, split a finger wide open on a nasty slide. Finished the song and on the side of the stage, he SUPER GLUES his cut. Ran an emery board over it and started playing agin. Like it aint no thing.
@@mkelly1347the coke also helped.
I cannot get enough of reactors seeing SRV play behind his back for the first time in their lives. I get to relive it through them over and over again.
He was the GOAT. You should check out “Life Without You”, Live at the Capitol Theater. Also, Tin Pan Alley. ✌🏻❤️
Yes, the greatest guitar performance ever captured on film. It had all the elements: fantastic technical precision, incredible tone, tremendous feeling, spectacular showmanship, and unparalleled physicality. One has to understand that he did this on a guitar with extremely heavy-gauged strings and high action! What I love most about Stevie, however, is that he was a sweet and humble man. Thank God for the wonderful legacy that he left---as a musician AND as a person!
He's in a class all by his self . Unbelievable talent
Yes! Greatest ever! The one and only Stevie Ray Vaughan! ❤
nobody had a better stank face than SRV!! man, i miss him.
I think it was Jeff beck that said that SRV could bend a sewer pipe half an octave.
And Jeff Beck is possibly the only guitarist that I even put in Stevie's class.
Its always hard to quantify one person as the GOAT but Stevie gets a seat at the table FOR SURE
My husband and I don’t agree on a ton of music, but THIS MAN we agree completely on.
Behind the back, behind his head, with his teeth, on the floor riding the guitar like a surfboard & playing it at the same time. You name it, he did it! There certainly are a lot of great players but only one SRV! Can you imagine what he would have done if he had more than 7 yrs of a mainstream career?? God must have needed guitar lessons.
Yes, Stevie Ray Vaughan was the Greatest! Check out Tim Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland
The look on your face when he played the guitar behind his back. PRICELESS. Welcome to SRV.
Srv = 🐐.....speed, accuracy, soul, channeling pure raw talent...unmatched
There wasn't no half steppin' at a Stevie Ray Vaughn show, he gave it all to you every time out. Shout out to the rest of the band, they were no slouches either.
They couldn't be, they had to keep up with Stevie Ray! 😊
Chris Layton, the drummer, is still playing with Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Saw them a few months back and he's still got it for real.
I think Reese plays for Bonamassa
Best comment I ever saw, was "Listening to SRV, is basically like drinking the Blues from a fire hydrant".
Stevie has a permanent seat at the guitar gods table.
Along with B.B. King, Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Roy Clark, Frank Zappa and Brian May.
I'd add Gary Moore and Jeff Healey to the list of guitar gods.
This entire concert is GOATED. Right up there with Hendrix at the Fillmore East
You're not a real reactor till you've seen this performance of the "Greatest" !!! Excellent reaction AB , Thank You .
LOL. walk it off,walk it off
You made my morning,thanks for posting
You just witnessedthe best in Texas blues. SRV was definitely the greatest of all time. I was fortunate enough to have met him several times. He was one of the nicest and most humble people you could ever meet. I absolutely loved your reaction! ❤❤
Stevie Ray even tore up and spit out a nursery rhyme and did it with his typical style! Mary Had a Little Lamb will never be the same!!
Brotha, you better lay a tarp down!!! Stevie Ray Vaughan is a waterfall of ORANGE JUICE 🍊🍊🍊
"Look at Little Sister" with Stevie and Jeff Healey.
I can't remember which one, but there is another popular live video of him where he's playing the song and he breaks a string, and the stage tech brings out a replacement and the transition between the two guitars is just flawless while he maintains his guitar flow. It's pretty mind-blowing.
That would be "Look at Little Sister" from Austin City Limits (1989).
How about where he's playing Voodoo Child, a guy comes up to the stage with his hand out, Stevie shakes his hand for a good 10-15 seconds, while still playing...
Life without you from capital theater. Tin Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland. Born under a bad sign Albert king and Stevie
Thanks AB - this is widely known as one of his most iconic performances.. SRV-GOAT... not much else to say... appreciate your reaction!
I spent the better part of this evening choked up and in tears watching Toby Keith reactions, including yours, and then this came up on my feed. Stevie was so loved also, and his death so tragic. He died August 27, 1990, only about a 30 minute drive from where I live here in Wisconsin from a helicopter crash, taking off when it was way too foggy. Heartbreaking. The band in Heaven just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
RIP Stevie 💔 RIP Toby
Absolutely Priceless Reaction! Thank You for THIS! Much peace and love to you and your family❤
I was lucky enough to see him on his last tour in 1990. It was mindblowing. My buddy and I had great seats and sat there speechless after the show for a few minutes, marveling at what we'd just witnessed.
Greatest guitar player ever in my opinion. BB King said that SRV was his favorite player. That's the highest compliment a blues guitarist could ever get.
Ok we ALL know he’s the greatest!!!! Now let’s talk about SRV’s style. He dressed like that ALL the time. If you caught him at the grocery store on a Sunday morning he’d be wearing the same type clothes. He owned his style!!!!
A quote from BB King " Ive always said that playing the blues was like being black twice. Stevie missed on both coints, but I never noticed".
I could listen to him all day. National treasure gone too soon .
Saw Stevie perform shortly before his death... Unforgettable, all these years later.
RIP SRV 🎸🕊️
Saw him live in a little club called The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY, in July 1983! AMAZING!! If you've never seen ERUPTION by Eddie Van Halen ... you've left a deprived life! 😉
LOVE LOVE LOVE STEVIE RAY🎸💜 🎸
Bwahahahaha!😂 he busted a lot of strings, there’s quite a few videos here on UA-cam where he changes out his guitar without missing a beat.
Check out “life without you” at the capital Theatre for your next SRV adventure!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸🎩🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 .
Yeppp .. and .. yepppppppp !!! I am so glad you finally got to this one AB. I don't even know why people debate.. he IS the greatest. I saw him live in 1985 .. and he is the greatest. I wish he had played this song for an hour. If you want to see something a little softer, but still out of this world. Try "Lenny" .. he wrote it for his beautiful girlfriend. He is so inspiring and beyond talented.. Thank you AB .. fire !! 🔥🔥🔥🎩🔥🔥🔥🎩🔥🔥🔥
Lenny is absolutely beautiful when it comes to talent SRV has no boundaries greatest of all time
Actually, he wrote it for his wife at the time, Lenny.
@@debbiegrubb6235 correct !!!! Thanks for the correction. Rock on 🎼🎼🎼
You are so funny got me laughing weeee!
SRV is the pinnacle of blues guitar.
Love him😍 Saw him 3 times live!! Miss him everyday 😢
This man was amazing. Lost too soon. Check out little sister. Or the fastest guitar change DURING A SHOW LOL
Stevie was One of a kind he had a magic about him ❤
Greatest reaction to this song I've ever scene.
I think you have the best reaction to this by far . Your awesome
Greatest for sure, he really was in touch with the heart and soul of music.😊. So fun to watch.
No question!🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
Stevie played with 13 gauge guitar strings. He used to super glue his fingertips back together because he said it made them harder. He was a different breed.
Truly, an incredible talent lost way too soon. I think about what he could have achieved, given more time on this planet. God Bless Stevie Ray Vaughn!!! Thank you for what you were able to share with us!!!
Ole boy is getting excited about the INTRO!
Your eyes and your mind have been blessed to see and hear this. Jeff Healy- See the Light is a must!!!
Yes he is!!!! The greatest ever
If you want to hear his guitar really cry, check out his performance Life Without You at the Capitol Theater, so beautiful.
He could play rhythm and lead at the same time. Genius
The greatest period. Ain't nobody can play like this, then, now or ever.
He was a peak level musician
SRV ~ 🎸🐐 The goatiest goat in all of goatness
I was lucky enough (and old enough) to see SRV live a couple of years before he passed. Incredible live, just incredible!
Saw him Live back in 84. Without a doubt, One of the best shows I have ever seen. If you think that is wild to see on video, imagine Live!!
GOTTA watch video of him playing 'Look At Little Sister' in Austin, Tx live - his guitar string breaks & his assistant does an incredible swap without missing a beat -too crazy cool & great song!!
He's definitely one of, if not THE, best blues/rock guitarist. Jimis style was like a beautiful stone that no one had seen before. Steve took that stone and brought it to a high polish.
I love seeing people hearing Stevie for the first time. This was THE SRV song when it first came out in early 80s - think I was in 9th/10th grade and I was blown away with the studio version. Then the internet happened !!!
Stevie is the man…. Always
This was the appropriate reaction to seeing this performance..like disbelief and can't even put it into words because you need a few to process what you just saw
I remember where I was when he died. I was listening to him at work and I knew the world had lost the best guitarist of my lifetime. I love him and hope to see him in heaven.❤❤❤
Man, AB…. What you are listening to there is Texas mutha-fukin blues at its mutha-fukin peak.
Yes, yes he IS playing behind his back. Which means he's basically got to hold the guitar AWAY from his back, in order to give him room to play it. On my Mount Rushmore, for sure. SRV, Clapton, Hendrix, and Eddie van Halen. I feel like he plays HARDER than most guitarists. He's really working on that thang. Also, all-time great stank face.
Dude was so strong
What's amazing to me is that he played really heavy gauge strings which at once speaks to his finger strength, but even then, he broke lots of strings.
And a guitar neck or two.
Lol. I heard some reviewer say he strung his guitar with barded wire. Lol
So happy to find this in your playlist. Joining because your playlist is so well done. Thanks for sharing!
"Tightrope" Live,1989
Saw it live, in person. So good.
Man, you GOTTA check out "Life Without You", live at Capitol theater. Pay close attention to his guitar right at the start, you'll see why quickly.
He wrote the song for a friend who passed unexpectedly.
“When I play, I play sort of like talking, you know, syllables, you say a sentence here, a sentence there and then, I’ve to stop and think for something else to keep my conversation going. But his didn’t seem to be that at all. It was fluent, he flowed when he played. He could get something going and it was like a song and it would just go on and on. Ideas continuously flowed, I don’t have that. There is not a lot of people that I hear that have that but Stevie had it.” - BB King
True that !!!
He was Blessed by God sent to deliver a message. R.I.P. .Y BROTHER..
Absolutely the GOAT
Hearing SRV play is mind blowing.
WATCHING SRV play is transcendent.
I’ve played for thirty years. SRV is NTBFW. You can’t argue against him on any level. He’s carved in stone within the lexicon. If you’ve picked the instrument up, you must bend the knee to him.
Every time Stevie played, the guitar needed a cigarette when he was done. He made guitars do things guitars didn't know they could do. He knew his instruments inside and out, understood exactly how they worked, and played around figuring out how to manipulate them.
As long as I have Stevie Ray, baby my sun shines every day.☀☀☀
Absolutely the greatest guitarist but also was such a great showman....a natural super talent! Very few people are born with his type of greatness inside of them....John Wayne as an actor...Muhammad Ali as a fighter are a couple that I can think of....bigger than life.
Underrated little known Gary Richraft flying turkey trot live REO Speed wagon guitar solo best ever try it early 70s mind blowing
The greatest of all time. No doubt
@abthekreator something that makes this evenmore amazing is that probably 60% of this song he was making up on the spot. go listen to the studio release of this song and most of what you hear in this concert release isnt there is the studio version. the man was absolutely insane at guitar.
The absolute best
SRV classics you gotta check out "Little Wing" and "Voodoo Child"
If you haven't seen the live performance of "Look at Little Sister" when he's joined on stage by the blind Jeff Healey, you must.
Greatest guitarist period
RIP SRV miss you every day!
If you think this is good, may I suggest his concert live at the Capitol theatre. The song is called Life Without You
Check out Stevie Rays "Third rock from the sun"
The greatest ever.
I’ve seen him in concert many times, there’s nobody better.
You really need to see Taj Farrant. A 15 year old blues prodigy who will absolutely blow your mind. He's touring the USA at the moment with a band of older blues musicians. Do yourself a favour and check him out.
SRV had a vow to use his modern equipment to deliver the best Jimi Hendrix music possible. It was his mission to represent Jimi so perfectly.
Yep. The G.O.A.T!!!!
Tin Pan Alley with him and Johny Copeland amazing performance
Gotta react to SRV doing Third Stone From the Sun(a Hendrix cover) from this same performance. Man, he abuses that guitar but makes it sound pretty.
10:41 the moment you truly figured out that SRV is truly the GOAT
The GOAT .