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Stevie Ray Vaughan — Texas Flood
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 15:56
 
 blackjackshellac wrote:
I try, I really try, but I can't take white guys doin' blues rock.  Oh sure, spoken like a right white guy.  RIP Stevie.
 
Close your eyes, "see" a black guy playing, and let us know if it makes a difference.  If it doesn't, work on that bigotry a little bit, OK?

ambrebalte
(Beijing most of the time - Wolxheim in France now)
Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 06:43
 
It's a 9 ; read 27
Just so that I can choose 10 next time, and make it 100
SO GOOD  {#Good-vibes}

hbs47
(SE England)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 07:51
 
Tears of joy whilst listening to this , awesome.

nikki54
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 07:49
 
Doesn't get much better than this! imho

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 21:47
 
mem_313
(lerkin)
Posted: Jan 13, 2011 - 15:18 < Reply >
When I was in college in E. Texas before Stevie hit it big, he would come into the bar I worked at. Watching him play this live was an AMAZING thing. {#Bananajam}


Awesome, just fricking — AWESOME!  Back in '86 and '87, Big Head Todd used to play this and other SRV gems every week at the Friday Afternoon Club at the CU Memorial Center...can't believe it now but we actually kind of got tired of him doing it! (We'd seen Stevie jam at Red Rocks in June of '85 and CU Events Center in Oct. of the same year...). Then that legend was taken too soon...and now surprisingly many years have gone by and it is good to remember...but not many around who can jam it like SRV or BHT!
Well, Todd and The Monsters are playing for us Boulder Homies THIS SATURDAY Dec. 15, at The Fox On The Hill, and we're hoping they'll do us the biggest and PLAY THIS AGAIN! 
The Blues is this marvelous therapeutic ritual thing people can participate in through the years across all times, races, and places, dig it!

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 22:51
 
Nice SRV for start the day here in white Germany!

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Nov 11, 2012 - 12:57
 
 blackjackshellac wrote:
I try, I really try, but I can't take white guys doin' blues rock.  Oh sure, spoken like a right white guy.  RIP Stevie.
 

I was recently watching a programme on the BBC (UK) hosted by Jools Holland called 'Sounds Of London'' and evidently (if I remember correctly) during the 17 century  on every street corner there were people singing .. songs they had written themselves ... these songs were taken to the Americas long before the slave trade began but when the black man did arrive in America he took up these songs and sang them in his peculiar style... Does that help with your SRV problem ??????

blackjackshellac
(Montreal)
Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 04:08
 
I try, I really try, but I can't take white guys doin' blues rock.  Oh sure, spoken like a right white guy.  RIP Stevie.

AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 22:27
 
I'm three beers down and have the head phones on...  And all I can say is God Daaaaaaamn!  That man can play.
Have always loved Stevie and tonight it's just great. 

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 15:05
 
 johnjconn wrote:
ziggytrix wrote:
this song is so yesterday!
  
I know what you mean, most songs get old just from being old.
Just look at most of the songs from the 60's for an example.

But this guitar is special. Old or new, this is one hot guitar. 
Stevie is to guitars, what Elvis was to hips

 
No no no, i meant that literally!  The day before i posted that, we had flash floods here in Texas.  All apologies for my strange sense of humor!  {#Foot-in-mouth}

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 15:03
 
Great Googly-Moogly, that man could play!

stunix
(Narrowboat nr Caen Locks)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 12:53
 
for me, its not an exact science, its just a blues song, but you can tell it isn't his first time on guitar.

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 12:52
 
Just read in Joe Bonamassa's newsletter that this Monday, Aug. 27, will be the 22nd anniversary of SRV's death, at age 35, in a post-concert helicopter crash. Wow. Still smokin' and so current, but long gone. 

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 12:51
 
 ziggytrix wrote:
this song is so yesterday!
 
I know what you mean, most songs get old just from being old.
Just look at most of the songs from the 60's for an example.

But this guitar is special. Old or new, this is one hot guitar.
Stevie is to guitars, what Elvis was to hips


JIan
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 12:48
 
 Darbuka88 wrote:
Great tune, but why are 'Tin Pan Alley' and 'Lenny' not in the RP mix?!?!?!  I give this a nine, but the other two are 10s.
 
Or Riviera Paradise?    {#Jump}

Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88')
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 02:54
 
{#Bananajam}

buddy
Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 17:03
 
Good ol' homeboy for us Texans....

lkovathana
(Chicago, Illinois)
Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 08:32
 
 kingart wrote:
I still can't fully embrace the blues. All that whining and moaning and self-pity. Legitimate emotions, guys and gals, but get over it.
All the same, Hendrix and Santana and Clapton and just about ALL the others came up by and with those there blues, so it's the real deal. But even when the blues are an off-putting the-guitarist-gotta-shoot-himself 6, this kind of play rockets it to the top. Jeez, Stevie could finesse those strings.
 
You only wish you could do that.  Try it tomorrow ... for everything that goes so wrong.  

hiorgos
(Matrix)
Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 23:23
 
Your rating for this song: 1

Darbuka88
(Northern Paradise)
Posted: Jun 01, 2012 - 20:55
 
Great tune, but why are 'Tin Pan Alley' and 'Lenny' not in the RP mix?!?!?!  I give this a nine, but the other two are 10s.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 12:54
 
 shellbella wrote:

wow.... just wow....
 
guess ya had to be there...

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 12:39
 
 ziggytrix wrote:
this song is so yesterday!
 
wow.... just wow....

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 12:38
 
this song is so yesterday!

GirlFriday
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 12:37
 
Is this a tribute to the tornadoes in DFW yesterday?

ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 10:07
 
sheeeee itttttttttttttttttt

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 10:28
 
I still can't fully embrace the blues. All that whining and moaning and self-pity. Legitimate emotions, guys and gals, but get over it.
All the same, Hendrix and Santana and Clapton and just about ALL the others came up by and with those there blues, so it's the real deal. But even when the blues are an off-putting the-guitarist-gotta-shoot-himself 6, this kind of play rockets it to the top. Jeez, Stevie could finesse those strings.

bev
(Reno, NV)
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 10:11
 
 michaelc wrote:
Need my sunglasses to listen to this, even in the middle of the night in the rain
 
 

That's about as perfect an assessment of this song as I've seen posted here.

zigzag
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 20:30
 
Great player. Great sound. However this is some pretty uninspired playing from Stevie in my opinion. It's as though his finger is permanently drawn to the tonic...and he can't get off. Dullsville.

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 20:17
 
 neuticle wrote:
DAMN...
 
it is a shame he is no longer 

jen3005545
(Fort Worth, TX)
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 16:16
 
Big Fat 10!!!  {#Cheesygrin}

medvejka
Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 11:09
 
I have nothing to do dick do not understand, I am Russian

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 11:00
 
 Cynaera wrote:
rdo - Blues are not for everyone. It took me years to actually appreciate the slower tempo, the slide, the slither, the sorrow - but I finally got it. Maybe you never will, and that's okay. You know your comfort-zone, and at least you're not throwing vitriolic comments about the music.

I'm betting that whatever your wavelength is, it would fit here, and I'd probably like it. {#Smile}  Thank you for being candid. You rock. Um, or, whatever you do in your wavelength... {#Wink}
 
{#Cowboy}  I call em like I hear em, I can do no more nor less.



That_SOB
(In at least 2 places at once)
Posted: Dec 31, 2011 - 09:29
 
Where ever you are, I hope your still blowing them right up against the back wall.
You filled the air with the sound of perfection the likes of which we may never see again.  


Alexandra
(PNW)
Posted: Dec 31, 2011 - 09:25
 
{#Bounce}

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 15:35
 
DAMN...

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Nov 13, 2011 - 11:41
 
Surely one of his best truely amazing. Thanks for giving it a spin RP (need a comb for the hairs on my neck right now)

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 07:04
 
 agnes wrote:
This shit makes me wanna go out and get pregnant.  

Dear lord yes.  :)
 
{#Roflol}


vaiodon
(Halfway to Paradise)
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 01:08
 
Derek Trucks segued to Susan Tedeschi to SRV, sublime.

walk
(SF)
Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 22:12
 
 agnes wrote:
This shit makes me wanna go out and get pregnant.  

Dear lord yes.  :)
 

agreed, this is good makin' baby music {#Kiss}

agnes
(within stumbling distance of a brewery and the ocean)
Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 22:07
 
This shit makes me wanna go out and get pregnant.  

Dear lord yes.  :)

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Sep 30, 2011 - 13:36
 
The best. THE BEST.

Quite an amazing sound he creates

DanO-1
(Sandia Park, New Mexico)
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 08:16
 
Texas needs a flood.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 08:13
 
 tamang3 wrote:
it hurts. that's how good it is.
 
 
Yeah. 

tamang3
Posted: Sep 22, 2011 - 07:53
 
it hurts. that's how good it is.
 

Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jul 29, 2011 - 18:29
 
Yeah.

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 14:10
 
 slartibart_O wrote:
We need a good Texas Flood down here. 
 
Amen brother. We need a small hurricane in the Gulf.



slartibart_O
(N29°57'-W97°34')
Posted: Jun 28, 2011 - 08:41
 
We need a good Texas Flood down here. 

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: May 27, 2011 - 17:33
 
 rdo wrote:
 fredriley wrote:
The Blues will never, ever die, at least as long as people get the blues, which will likely be forever. I can just imagine Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and others being played in 50 or 100 years time, and being as appreciated as they are now. More importantly, artists will continue playing the blues far into the future. 9 from the 'back to Blues basics' Nottingham jury.

I'd say you are correct.  I really don't like it.  I remember going to Blues bars and festivals in Chicago and the great House of Blues there.  I was born in St Louis too, where the Hockey team is named "The Blues".  I never got it, not even a little.  I have one of those Gregor Samsa moments being around people enjoying the Blues.  I am on a different wavelength I guess.
  rdo - Blues are not for everyone. It took me years to actually appreciate the slower tempo, the slide, the slither, the sorrow - but I finally got it. Maybe you never will, and that's okay. You know your comfort-zone, and at least you're not throwing vitriolic comments about the music.

I'm betting that whatever your wavelength is, it would fit here, and I'd probably like it. {#Smile}  Thank you for being candid. You rock. Um, or, whatever you do in your wavelength... {#Wink}



rdo
(DC)
Posted: May 24, 2011 - 10:55
 
 fredriley wrote:
The Blues will never, ever die, at least as long as people get the blues, which will likely be forever. I can just imagine Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and others being played in 50 or 100 years time, and being as appreciated as they are now. More importantly, artists will continue playing the blues far into the future. 9 from the 'back to Blues basics' Nottingham jury.

I'd say you are correct.  I really don't like it.  I remember going to Blues bars and festivals in Chicago and the great House of Blues there.  I was born in St Louis too, where the Hockey team is named "The Blues".  I never got it, not even a little.  I have one of those Gregor Samsa moments being around people enjoying the Blues.  I am on a different wavelength I guess.

oufason
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 07:04
 
The song just ended, I guess I have to get back to work now.