https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-p_sQX2ey0
Picture this… let’s say we’re hanging at a bar on a Friday night after a long day’s work. It’s still a little early and that night’s cover band is busy setting up their equipment for the evening entertainment, so you throw a dollar my way and say “fill up the jukebox!”. So I grab the dollar, saunter over to the machine, and immediately look for something a bit funky… a bit uptempo… and with a bit of a groove. Something very much like… Stevie Ray Vaughan’s, “Couldn’t Stand The Weather”.
Truer words have never been spoken although I’m one of the dudes in the band slipping coinage in the jukebox while I waited for the rest of the guys to set up 🙂 And yes, something like “Couldn’t Stand The Weather” was a prime choice to “get up and go” due to the intense groove and downright choppy funkiness on display; a bit like a quick shot of Jolt cola for the senses. Sure, you got a little mood setting early that throws you off guard but when that Stevie Ray guitar riff comes in you are ELEVATED in a good way, kicking you in the seat of your pants and lifting those spirits ever higher.
So you gotta buddy out there that says the blues is boring? Same chords, same tempos, same lyrical content, same repetitive patterns? Uh huh… yeah riiiiight… throw this on for him and ask “is THIS boring?” No son… THIS is fire, THIS is intensity, and THIS is a master class in playing. I mean, what else is there to say?
Well… other than to say we still miss you Stevie Ray!
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I always tell people the same thing: “Greatest guitar player I ever saw? Hands down, SRV was the man.”
Obviously, we’ve seen several other guys who had more technical prowess, but for pure heart and soul, mixed with that kind of talent, well, for me? I’ve never seen anything like him. It seems that’s the same thing people who saw Hendrix say.
I don’t know, styles vary obviously, but if I could have a band with prime Plant, SRV, Entwistle, and Moon, I just wonder what that cacophony of sound would be like, haha!
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Yeah… he was always so good in the beginning but when he sobered up there was some kind of incredibly confident fire in his playing. Not that it wasn’t there before but man… he was heading places. In Step and the Vaughan Brothers CDs kind of commercialized his sound in a way but I have a feeling that if he lived he would have explored quite a bit more territory. “Riviera Paradise”? Sheeeeit… just beautiful. I love watching his MTV Unplugged performance of “Scuttle Buttin'” on 12 STRING GUITAR no less- how in THE HELL do you do that on an acoustic???
EVH was good but SRV was otherworldly- just a command performance and seemingly no note out of place. Just incredible.
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I also think it’s really odd that I was getting into extreme metal while simultaneously becoming super fascinated with the blues. I mean, thinking back, who’s listening to Slayer then Robert Johnson the next minute? Oh yeah….could it have been…hmmm…..Satan!! HAHA! Must’ve been SNL.😄
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