“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” (Jimi Hendrix) Give it up for Tommy and Chris known as Double Trouble who keep the Blue’s Boat afloat and let their Boss do the talking with the 6 string! PURE BRILLIANCE!! A true showman in every word but had the talent to back it up. When the solo’s finished the guitar flips back over and Stevie grabs his hat and Bam back on his head and plays the tune out! Love Struck Baby is the tune I posted and in 2 Minutes 51 Seconds Stevie lays down the law with his fantastic guitar playing I mean during the solo SRV oozes cool as he casually takes off his hat places it over the mic and lifts the guitar over his head and takes the over in solo-ville and just lift’s off. For myself think this was the biggest shock a roo and the World lost an amazing talent!īut SRV’s Music lives on and what better way than to talk about it with this Live show recorded in Toronto at the infamous El Mocambo Bar as MuchMusic filmed this and straight to my VHS it went that day when MuchMusic previewed it and I remember me and my younger brother Todd watching it and basically it was Stevie Showing everyone how it was to be done on the 6 string! This is an amazing recording ….Just watch the clip below. I the young Ding A Ling Metal Head became a Lifer of SRV! I bought all his stuff and of course like I mentioned earlier when that Helicopter went down in August of 1990 and SRV and some of Eric Clapton’s Entourage Perished it was a Great loss to Music in general. SRV Blue’s Bug bit me big time and after that day. Tommy Shannon on Bass and Drummer Chris ‘Whipper” Layton just laid down a whole new vibe that I had never heard as SRV was an artist you would not read in Circus/Hit Parader or Rock Scene.(My current reading at the time) So I had to buy a couple of Guitar Magazines to read about the Buzz SRV was creating …. This guy Stevie Ray was playing some real fused up Blues in power trio format and Texas Flood sounds like it was recorded in one take. Stevie Ray on the other was a different story! When I slapped those Orange Foamed Walkman Headphones on my head I could nor believe what I was hearing. One was Anvils “Metal On Metal” the second was Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “ Texas Flood”.Īnvil I knew about as they were getting some press and they were the heaviest band that I had heard coming from Canada. The guy was a complete master of this instrument and for me being a Metal Boy at the time I could total appreciate his playing and singing….įirst time I ever heard about Stevie Ray was when our pal named Farmer showed up to John Youngs place(another friend who is M.I.A) with two cassette tapes.(Circa early to mid 1983 ) Stevie Ray what can you say about this guy?! When he died in that helicopter crash outside Alpine Valley Wisconsin in August 1990 it was a devastating blow to the word GUITAR.