What's your favorite Stevie Ray Vaughan song?

@Gratefulman1965

2 жыл бұрын

Personal Favorite SRV song, Tin Pan Alley ( AKA Roughest place in town) Does Stevie have a weak song? Thanks Otis!

@sicilianeye

2 жыл бұрын

Scuttle Buttin'. I'm stupefied every time I hear it. How the HELL did he do that?!

@steveo7116

2 жыл бұрын

Texas Flood Live at the El Mocambo. In my opinion he set the standard in which all blues guitarists are to be compared. Stevie was and is the G.O.A.T

@chrisbrowning6102

2 жыл бұрын

Life By The Drop

@ronaldschuurman3967

2 жыл бұрын

Pride and Joy

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan twice and in my humble opinion, he was one of the best guitar players I ever saw! Rest In Peace Stevie you are missed!

@jmad627

2 жыл бұрын

Saw him only once and I concur with you opinion. One of the best, if not the best, guitar player I ever saw…and heard.

@crct2004

2 жыл бұрын

I was fortunate to have a much older friend take me to see most of the guitar greats alive at the time from a young age and Stevie was not one of the best, he was the best. no one compares. I was feeling kinda sorry for myself just now until your comment made me realize how truly fortunate I actually have been.

@jfromstate8581

2 жыл бұрын

My pops went to go see Stevie for his first time with his sisters who mind you got them all kicked out of the concert before he even finished his 2nd song lol my dad was mad but he just shrugged it off and told him himself he’d see him again when he came back to town , 3 months later Stevie passed away … pops never got to see him

@neillbaxter9613

2 жыл бұрын

On of the best you ever saw?! Who have you seen haha

@crct2004

2 жыл бұрын

@@neillbaxter9613 Not sure who you are talking to but I am gonna indulge myself in a trip down memory lane, I am sure I will leave some (a lot, I blame tequila) out, ok off the top of my head in no particular order, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck, Albert King, Albert Collins,, David Gilmor, Carlos Santanna, Brian Setzer, Neal Schon, Elizabeth Cotton, Steve Cropper, Dicky Betts, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Tony Iommi, Dave Edmunds, Andy Summers, Link Wray, Mike McCready, Warren Haynes (not a nice guy met him at Ronnie Earl show - Ronnie super nice guy great player), and on and on but I was young, about 16 when my 37 year old friend started taking me to see pretty much everybody alive at the time but I didn't know who most of them were and had a taste for tequila so I even had to resort to looking back to concerts like Guitar Greats at the Capitol Theatre 1984 and such, now it's hurting my brain cuz I know he took me to many more that my female brain did not memorize like dudes are so good at. Anyhew it was a blast and I feel like one of the luckiest people on the planet to have had a friend like that. First time I saw Stevie Ray at the Beacon Theater 1983 blew my mind, was up there with giving birth to my children as one of the best experiences of my life. Some day you might even hear of me, lol. My friend also bought me my first guitar and my second, the 1965 Gibson I still have.

There is a ocean of blues guitarists. To be able to have you're guitar sound and personal licks be recognized within 4 seconds of listening. Stevie Ray Vaughan is that man

@robertdowneypeenis6139

Жыл бұрын

"Boy there's a lotttt of guitar players out here, they just play fast and don't got no soul, you get em both" Albert King to Stevie Ray

Saw Stevie and Double Trouble in Gardner Massachusetts. When they played "Couldn't Stand The Weather" dark clouds rolled in and it started to rain. At the end of the song the rain stopped, the clouds gave way, and the sun came back out. From time to time I will meet people who were at that concert, and its the first thing that comes up in the conversation. Good times.

True SRV fans cannot pick a FAV song...Stevie was GREATNESS...Pristine talent...his WHOLE CATALOG is DIVINE.

Little sister. When he breaks the guitar string and changes guitar never stops singing not missing a beat or nearly a note. What a treat to see. What a awesome talent. Cant get enough

Dude had the greatest guit tone of anyone in .. possibly ever. I'm struggling to think of another player with such a great sound. There are lots of players with unique and beautiful guitar tone but none like Vaughan. I remember the day he died. I was gutted. Guy was a master.

@gunboom

2 жыл бұрын

Billy Gibbons has some good tone.

@PoeticInsanity

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry Garcia, David Gilmour,

@Mjr._Kong

2 жыл бұрын

Marty Stuart

@karenstanley964

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100%❤

@karenstanley964

Жыл бұрын

Not a single “git-picker” could ever master the beautiful blues and guitar 🎸 ever

Mick passes on a musician who caused him to piss his pants. Incomprehensible

Read "Texas Flood". Saw Stevie Ray and Jimmy many times here in Austin. Hard to describe how good he was. Thanks Otis! Keep up the good work.

How do you not love Stevie? I feel so lucky to have seen a year before he passed away. I still miss him . He was by far the best I ever saw.

Saw Stevie 6 or 7 times , turned all my friends on to him in the eighties, some of it is getting a little bit blurry. But some of the finest concerts I’ll ever see…. “ Life Without You” is right up there. Keep on Chooglin’ Otis.

People know greatness when they see it, doesn’t matter what kind of music it is

his live versions of voodoo child were awesome, glad i got to see him a few times

Losing Stevie was about the end of the innocence for Me. Growing up a gearhead I had seen my favorite race driver die in an accident and then SRV goes down in a helicopter. I was sad for months.... it still hurts. I recently bought and read the two volumes on Stevie by Craig Hopkins and they helped ALOT. SRV single handily revived the Blues scene in America. The old masters catalogs all took an uptick. I would have to say "Lenny", "Stangs Swang" and "Rude Mood" would cover a few favorites.

@darrelmorgan6266

2 жыл бұрын

Well said I could not agree with you more!

@BobbyGeneric145

2 жыл бұрын

Who was your favorite driver? Mine was Senna.

@kevinhuber8723

2 жыл бұрын

Swede Savage

@jackhammer7824

2 жыл бұрын

JEFF GORDON, DON GARLETS , STEVE McQueen

@kevinspringborn495

2 жыл бұрын

Texas flood my fav

My favorite SRV song always seems to be to one that's playing at the time. He was so great. Amazing how immense talent can be with immense talent and not recognize the full potential.In the end maybe it was all for the best. The path Stevie took made him a legend.

Around 1982 my friend who worked at Atlantic records asked me to come along to the Cat club NYC to see a new talent. They had tables on the floor and we had the one in front of the stage. A woman named Eve Moon opened up for Stevie Ray Vaughan. She was spectacular. But when Stevie came out... He blew us all away. It was a very incredible night.

You’re not human if you can watch Stevie play and feel nothing but love and exceptionalism

I still tear up thinking of the loss of Stevie..going RH un out to buy this book today..thank you Ottis..I saw Stevie 10 times in my life..I was truly blessed..

I just loved his voice so much..I mean the guitar playing of course but Stevie sang from his whole heart.

I still love Tin Pan Alley for that deep, dark, raw, masterful guitar playing amd vibe..and i also love Tight Rope..and also the songs on Family Style..i love everything he did..i saw him 4 times..i wish i had seen him more..

@sistersuetube

2 жыл бұрын

Its the best...

All Stevie Ray Vaughan songs are my favourite!! 😀

Much ❤ love right back atcha!! I have favorite performances (like Montreux 1985), after the booing, because it’s an awesome comeback at the place where he had been booed by an extremely small but persistent crowd in the audience (who were people who dripped with privilege, and were still too miserable within themselves to LEAVE, and enjoy the experience of being at a festival in Switzerland)-I know that it shook Stevie up and pissed him off, and two years and a Grammy later, he brought Johnny Copeland onstage and you just FELT his happiness. I also enjoy his later performances where you can see the sobriety by the clarity of his eyes, and knowing that he had said, ‘I never felt so good in my life’, because I love Stevie so much, I just feel like I especially enjoy seeing him perform as a happy human, who was able to enjoy what he gave us all…and, ohmigod I’m crying, not bawling but it’s just such a-wrenching loss. He deserved children and grandchildren, and for EVERYONE to know what a beautiful person he was.

I will definitely read that book. I saw SRV at Ritz in Stockholm in the spring of 1984. A memorable concert. My favorite SRV song would have to be Couldn't Stand the Weather.

I really liked the live performance of Tin Pan Alley with Johnny Copeland, Blues At Sunrise on the Albert King album In Session, and live performance of Lenny performed at Austin City Limits.

Well who didn’t love Stevie Ray Vaughn? Mick Jagger knows talent when he hears it.

@jaytay8637

2 жыл бұрын

But he won't pay for it.

@babkeebabkus8177

2 жыл бұрын

so did david bowie who got stevie ray to play on the 'let's dance' album

I am one of the luckiest people to have gotten to see him, FIVE times! A favorite song is tough but his version of Little Wing is my favorite piece of music, I can't even say piece since any version of him doing it is a direct link to the divine for me. God bless brother, I really enjoyed this insight into a night in the life of my musical hero.

I saw Stevie at a small venue in Phoenix called Celebrity Theater in 1985. He played for 2 hours and it seemed like 10 minutes......time just stopped

Riviera Paradise is a song that I can't get enough of. Haunting vibes and beautiful jazz, very soulful Miss him dearly 🥺 Thank you for enlightening us all!!

@benwright9238

Жыл бұрын

You know the story of the recording right? They ran out of tape just in time

Thanks Otis, one of the only bright spots during the panademic was finding your station

A lot of the live versions of little wing are incredible and the last time he played Rivera paradise before the crash is incredible.the second time he played Austin city limits is a much watch, along with El Mocambo

🎸If anyone, ever, has earned and deserves his place as a true music Legend, it is Stevie Ray Vaughan. 🌠

Love Stevie Ray, and was lucky enough to see him several times including playing with Buddy Guy. His raw fearless style of guitar and blues has a way of grabbing you by the groin and making you feel tension and energy in every song.

Thank you for helping make this channel possible. www.patreon.com/otisgibbs

@songwriterfortruth4601

2 жыл бұрын

You're Welcome & Thank You For This Video

Long live S.R.V. , Lord I still miss him . My favorite song is Riviera Paradise . He always dedicated it " to all those still suffering ". God Love Him .

Thanks Otis. Riviera Paradise.

It's vacillates for me all the time, but "So Excited" - the live version from Live at Ripley's. Of course its impossible to pick a favorite, but that for me captures his everything. My eldest brother saw him front row 4x, and he had an extra ticket for the last show he saw which was touring with Joe Cocker in Portland, OR. It was a legendary performance and he wouldn't take me. I was bitter for years because I am so into guitar. I had an SRV signature straight straight out of the NAMM show when they were first introduced with a Brazilian Rosewood fretboard. I loved that guitar; to my eternal shame I sold it to a terrible person thinking I needed the money. Now I'm just glad my brother got see and hear him so many times. Many years later I got to see Jimmie 4x and shake his hand at the end of the show. Grip like steel and the nicest man. Thanks Otis, you have a great voice and channel. I found the more recent book, Texas Flood by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort even better so if you haven't read it there is some more joy in your future.

The greatest musician compliment ever... BB King said "I don't have it, Stevie had it."

"Couldn't Stand the Weather" I'm a big fan and love most everything he did, but that one just has some special appeal for me. I saw him many times, but the first time was at a festival in Memphis on a little outdoor stage in the early 80's right before he broke big in the public eye. It was one of the most magical musical experiences I've ever had involving some mind-blowing weed, a raging thunderstorm that hit right as he finished his encore "Voodoo Child," and a mad dash through torrential rains and wind so fierce that it blew funnel cakes and cotton candy down the street as I ran for shelter. That is a great book. Nice job as always, Otis.

@SimpleManGuitars1973

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't Stand the Weather is the greatest blues guitar album ever for me.

@karenstanley964

Жыл бұрын

I’m loving this song 🎶 I’ve seen him several times in Memphis because I’m a native of Memphis Tennessee. If he or 😎 bro Jimmy were there, so was L… pure heart 💜 and soul… I’m envious of the talent he had. I will always love 💕 my man Stevie Ray Vaughan. Salute to the best guitarist ever. Rock on, buddy 💙🎸🎸💙

@sandipage9525

Жыл бұрын

I was at that show ..I will never ever forget it. .my first time ever too..

All of them, Otis. Stevie was transcendent.

When i got sober his music and trying to play it,helped me

Like Clapton said, Stevie’s inspiration just never dried up.

@alexbowman7582

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t Clapton meant to fly on that helicopter and he didn’t?

Tin pan alley. I love sitting in my blue room. It's my man cave with some friends or by myself and putting g on srv. And get in the mood and my face recover head phones and listing his guitar talk toe I git to see him in Evansville iIm thinking 2 shows before his trdgic desth.....at mesker Ampitheater. Which is Silll there but no longer open but a memory of Stevie when only 1200 people showed up on his In Step crossfire tour. .... 2 legends gone but not forgotten. REST IN PEACE STENEN RAY VAUGHN. AND. RUST IN PEACE MESKER AMPHITHEATER. YOU BOTH ARE MISSED

Here I am, listening to you at work, busting out laughing, and getting strange looks. I wouldn't have it any other way Otis.

I know Stevie didn't write it, but Texas Flood has got everything within the composition, especially the live version. Passion, flare, fire, aggression, and downright honesty!

I think my favorite song of SRV's is Tin Pan Alley live with Johnny Copeland. Not just the magical guitar and his voice that was perfect that night, but his respect and affection for Johnny. He was a humble man who always gave credit where credit is due.

i clearly remember the moment i heard of SRV passing. Me in a local mountaineering store buying gear for a wilderness trip, the local radio playing on the sound system. Music stopped & the dj delivered the news. Stunned. Unreal. Couldn't process. He played his heart out & worked his azz off sometimes playing 2 shows in one night. The heli ride was maybe essential to get to the next gig. 😔

Great post Otis ...thanks! :)

@otisgibbs

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Neil!

You tell a great story, great work.

Got to see Stevie Ray at La Semana Alegre in San Antonio in April 1990. 16 years old and with a beer in my hand.

Hello, I’ve seen SRV in Bonn Germany ! And during my trip in California, he died ! Love Stevie… Pat from ⬛️🟨🟥 🎸

fav song.... you better leave my girl alone. Just the way his eyes roll back in his head when he sings the first line just floors me.

@celebrityimpressionstogo

2 жыл бұрын

@Michael Soucy You’re not kidding!! I agree!

Gotta be "Pride and Joy," although there are so many great ones. I first saw SRV play in Salina, Kansas, in 1984 or 1985, and bought every record he made on the day it came out. Genius guitar player and all around great dude. RIP, Stevie.

I can't pick a favorite, but I can't help but adore "I heard a voice last night". The story behind it is just as good as the rest of the man was to us.

I knew little about SRV when I saw a film of him playing with Albert King on PBS and I would always watch it when replayed every few years.. What a treat that was! I've seen it on KZread so it's circulating out there. Great close-ups of two blues greats jamming and playing off each other. Makes me want to look it up and watch it again.

@harrylazard805

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcus_starr My thanks to the Canadian who came up with the idea for that show....

@SimpleManGuitars1973

2 жыл бұрын

They released that as an album when I was a teen in the late 90's and I spent hours and hours and hours and hours playing along with it. I'm "self taught" but the truth is Stevie was my "teacher" the same way Albert and Jimi were Stevie's "teacher". Every guitar player can learn something from Stevie. He's definitely not the most "technical" player ever but there has literally never been another human being that played with his intensity and there never will be.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

2 жыл бұрын

In Session 1983

Lenny is the greatest emotive blues instrumental of all time…. Much love, thanks Otis!

Spring of 1984 I'm driving east on 58 going from Greensboro NC to Hampton Roads Va. somewhere east of South Boston to see the Grateful Dead that evening...Voodoo Child comes on WROV in Roanoke and I'm perplexed I had every recording of Jimmy Hendrix and I had never heard this cut...then it sinks in Guitar is awesome but something about the vocals aren't right...I listened mesmerized till the announcer said "That's a cover of Jimmy Hendrix's from the new Stevie Ray Vaughan album Can't Stand the Weather". Remember it to this day the very FIRST time I ever heard Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I had the privilege to see him live twice back in Michigan. He is why I own and Play a Strat today...The man had THE BEST TONE of anyone I have ever heard...I was really glad to hear that he was sober and good with God...I look forward to hearing again one day...

@tonym994

2 жыл бұрын

see 'Rise of a Texas blues man' on KZread. and 'live at El Mocambo'.

Stevie Ray and Double Trouble opened for the Stones at the Astrodome in Houston in 81 with ZZ Top playing next. Great show.

1980, Austin, UT Campus Union, Double Trouble. Glory days they were. Hoping you get Joe Nick in for one of your episodes. He’s the real deal. Thanks Otis!

Thanks for sharing. I am from Chicago, so when Stevie was first getting national airplay on rock radio I was a little skeptical when everyone was heralding the new guitar god. Back in the early 80's, you could see Buddy Guy, Otis Rush or Luther Allison any weekend. Stevie was an original alright. Lenny was the song that souled me. The quality of the writing you read was as impressive as the story.

Who would guess that blues lovers like the Stones would pass on the greatest blues player of the day, one of the all time greats. As to selling enough albums, no wonder Rolling Stones Records no longer exists with those kind of evaluations….. He was good enough for Albert King. I guess the management was more interested in parties than transcendent talent! Ridiculous! The music business…..

@csi2448

2 жыл бұрын

Stevie dealt with it until he was finally able to get someone to sign him. Before he got signed by the legendary John Hammond, he was constantly told by damn near everyone that he should switch genres, cause the blues just doesn't sell. I have a bootleg from a show in 1988, when Stevie was touring in Canada (opening for Robert Plant) and he told the crowd after a song, "Texas Flood just went Gold in Canada. So thank you for proving everyone wrong that told me that the blues doesn't sell!"

@karenjones1848

2 жыл бұрын

Stevie was meant to solo

My Dad got to see him @ Blossom’s in Ft. Worth somewhere around ’81. He said he was wearing a sombrero with dingle balls around the brim. Must have been golden.

Love you Otis! Thanks for your videos & posts.

Man, I love your channel. Thanks for doing this.

Longtime listener. Love your vibe, your guests and stories. Thank you

My Brother Joel Denson and I were at Manor Downs in 1980 . He was GREAT ! I was in Alaska at the bowling alley and I Bowie singing "Let's Dance" or "China Girl" . Then the Killer "Albert King" bends , I thought ...that sounds like Jimmie Vaughn's Brother! Oooo yes ! Blues Bull's Eye !

Thank, Otis! 🙏 Appreciate the story and history! Be good to you!

Lived in Texas for 21 years really like Stevie Ray

Thanks, Otis; more same outstanding work, my brother! Enjoy em' all.

Just bought the book, can't wait! Thanks so much for the chuckles, Otis.

Otis, thanks so much! cold shot------saw Stevie and Jimmy live in Philly a few times. It don't get better.

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is my fave among so many great songs. Thank you for this! I still miss SRV!

A great story, a great story teller and a smooth, bourbon voice there to do it all justice. Thank you Otis.

Love this! Thx!!!

I met Stevie Ray for the first time in the 80's. He opened up for Cyndi Lauper at the University of Buffalo campus spring break fest...I went back stage after the show and the whole band signed my spring break hat...Stevie Ray wrote.."Thanks for making it be the day Stevie Ray!" I met him again at a concert in Oneonta on the Hartwick campus I believe... I took pictures with him and I recommended to his bandmate that they should add a keyboard player...which later they did...I wonder if they will mention that if asked because they said that they didn't need a keyboard player being a blues band. You mentioned Johnny Winter...well Stevie Rays bassist Shannon used to play with Johnny Winter. His manager went by the name Dop... in the early days they were easy to meet and hang out with ..Later they really took off and I caught them at the Pier show in New York.

Love it . Great history that i hadn't read or heard of or crawled to this location . Once again Otis your the first to break a hot story like this . Mannnn , if ya ain't crying from laughing you're peeing ya pants .

I remember combing thru a pawnshop and found a SRV CD. Not thinking much of it, I just grabbed it thinking meh I'll give it a try. Man was I shocked. Thank you SRV, thankyou

What a great story! I love SRV and I don't have a favorite song. It is so fresh to listen all gis music.

SRV - the greatest guitarist ever....no doubt. This man is the Pantheon of Bluesguitar. Listen to him playing the classic Hendrix Blues standard "Voodoo Child" and you have no further questions....

Damn so cool thanks brother

Brought me to tears you did. Thanks bro

Hello from central Texas, Luv your story's brother.

I'm gunna buy that book...Thanks Otis! Awesome stuff from long ago but SRV's contributions to bluesmen throughout the world will go on forever, Mick and the Stones know that too....

Love your stories Otis, appreciate you brother.

Man it has been over 20 years since I read that but I loved it. The story in there that sticks out the most to me was when Jimmy comes in drunk and hears Stevie messing around on stage when nobody was in there and Jimmy tells Stevie that he "sounds like Robin Trower" and Stevie literally sat his Strat down and walked right up to him and punched him right in the face! Then he cried like a baby for hitting his big brother who was also his hero. The book makes Stevie a total human being and that's probably the best thing about it.

I saw Stevie Ray open for The Moody Blues at the Civic Auditorium in Omaha, NE- November 1983. He wore the classic brimmed hat and the black guitar strap with the white notes on it. I was just a kid who had no idea who he was. But he blew me away! Been a HUGE fan ever since. Rest in peace Stevie Ray.

Joe Nick Patoski is a Texas treasure.

@otisgibbs

2 жыл бұрын

Damn straight! : )

@sunshine3914

2 жыл бұрын

Joe Scott, also.

@rnorman1015

2 жыл бұрын

@@sunshine3914 and John Nova Lomax

Too many to choose between them! Love all of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s songs 😎🎸🎶🎶🔥

Thanks Otis, great story🎸

I soooo enjoyed this

That’s an awesome story. I wonder how long after that did Bowie discover him and have play on Let’s Dance. After that Bowie wanted Stevie to join his band and tour. Which would’ve meant lots of money for Stevie. But he turned it down because he want to start his own band. Which was a risk because Blues music was not popular outside the dive bars and small clubs. But he had his own vision. And when Texas Flood came out. The vision was realized. Not only was Blues revitalized, it was loud, it was hard and it had balls. And it could fill stadiums in the US and Europe. He was so special and taken from us way too soon. Greatest guitarist that ever lived in my book.

Texas Flood and The Sky is Crying are essential deserted island songs I couldn't do without!!!

Can never get enough of his version of Little Wing. Had the opportunity to see Stevie Ray and Double Trouble with the Fabulous Thunderbirds opening at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois in 1986. Very fortunate.

@joshmartin1938

Жыл бұрын

Saw same tour at Kiel Opera House St Louis. Was totally-totally--- blown away.

When he’s playing Texas Flood ****BEHIND HIS BACK **** while he’s singing you almost can’t believe what you’re looking at! YOU HAVE TO WATCH HIM PLAYING LIVE TO APPRECIATE HOW AMAZINGLY TALENTED HE IS. Look him up on video, expand your mind as to what guitar playing could be… this is merely a piece of wood with metal strings ……..and he touches your soul.

love this, awesome story

More appreciation for rock and roll history. Thanks, Otis! P.S.: CJAM (the college radio station across from Detroit in Windsor) was playing "Caroline" a few days ago. It sounded great in my car driving down I-94.

The fact that the stones passed on giving SRV a record deal shows that they are motivated by money, not true emotion. I first heard SRV here in England by chance on the radio. It was a complete live recording and I only heard it by chance. At the time, I had just split up from a woman that I truly loved and I had just found out that she had been cheating on me. I was depressed and lonely and living in a tiny rented apartment. But during the time SRV was playing, all my sadness blew away. His music was so magic. It took me away from my blues. Wonderful band. I was feeling suicidal, but listening to the band, I forgot all my problems. Great artist.

I remember the first time I heard of SRV. He was mentioned in a guitar magazine. Lonnie Mack and Mick Jagger were very effusive in their praise for him. He hit a year or two later.

L O V E the readin´ , LOVE the storys....

Great, thank you.