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No kidding....where would one go to acquire these videos....hypothetically speaking.
There was a whole set played at the 83 show, per Craig Hopkin's excellent site www.stevieray.com :
Testify (take 1), Instrumental (take 1 aborted), Instrumental (take 2), Voodoo Chile, Pride and Joy (take 1), Texas Flood, Love Struck Baby, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Tin Pan Alley, Rude Mood, Lenny (take 1 aborted), Lenny (take 2), Pride and Joy (take 2), Testify (take 2 aborted), Testify (take 3), (last 2 songs with Jimmie Vaughan, Kim Wilson and Angela Strehli) Blues Before Sunrise, Lost Cause
Here's the 89 set. The rest of it besides Superstition can be acquired through SRV box set's fourth disc:
House is Rockin', Tightrope, May I Have a Talk With You, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Leave My Girl Alone, Crossfire, Look at Little Sister, Superstition, Cold Shot, Couldn't Stand the Weather, Voodoo Chile, Riviera Paradise
Which now with ACL releasing old concerts, I would really hope that they would rerelease these concerts in their complete form. I talked to Craig a few years ago through email about this (he tends to know where the record company's gonna go with such things) and he said between the Austin, Texas dvd and the dvd on the box set, he thought they'd be done with the ACL shows. But then again, if ACL owns the rights, who knows?
No kidding....where would one go to acquire these videos....hypothetically speaking.
i actually got them at a little shop on 6th street in Austin a few years back...can't remember the name of the place (might not even be there anymore).
i'll look through my box of tapes to see if I can find them (i hope i can!)...if so i may be able to make you a copy of each.
No kidding....where would one go to acquire these videos....hypothetically speaking.
Whatever you do, please don't do it by buying on ebay. That's just wrong, in my opinion. But that's me being all moral and stuff. lol
There was a whole set played at the 83 show, per Craig Hopkin's excellent site www.stevieray.com :
Testify (take 1), Instrumental (take 1 aborted), Instrumental (take 2), Voodoo Chile, Pride and Joy (take 1), Texas Flood, Love Struck Baby, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Tin Pan Alley, Rude Mood, Lenny (take 1 aborted), Lenny (take 2), Pride and Joy (take 2), Testify (take 2 aborted), Testify (take 3), (last 2 songs with Jimmie Vaughan, Kim Wilson and Angela Strehli) Blues Before Sunrise, Lost CauseHere's the 89 set. The rest of it besides Superstition can be acquired through SRV box set's fourth disc:
House is Rockin', Tightrope, May I Have a Talk With You, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Leave My Girl Alone, Crossfire, Look at Little Sister, Superstition, Cold Shot, Couldn't Stand the Weather, Voodoo Chile, Riviera Paradise
there you go...thats it.
wow...this is making me even more stoked to have those tapes!!! glad i paid the $30 each for them!
i'm sure you could find those video clips for free on youtube...might not be the best quality though...
I dont in any way mean to disrespect the talent SRV had on music. He was an amazing guitar player/singer/songwriter. My only point is that he is NOT the sole standard every guitar slinger should be compared to.
He was SRV. No one will ever be him. No one whats another him. So lets start looking at artists in terms other than he sounds like SRV because he plays a strat. Lets start looking at guitar players based on their music and how it makes us feel. Lets look at songwriting.
After all sound is all relative. I am not going to NOT play a Les Paul because I am afraid of sounding like Joe Bonamassa. I am not going to avoid playing a strat to keep people from saying I sound like SRV.
The comparisons are getting old. I am tired of hearing who sounds like who. Usually they sound nothing like the person being compared to.
-Peace
Bingo. You hit the nail on the head. Like Stevie would say when people would call him the next Jimi Hendrix: "Well, he's him and I'm me."
I hate to kind of add to this seemly infinitely repeated discussion, BUT:
When people like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie die early, it creates a vacuum. People are left with this gap that they instantly want to fill with "the next best" or what "so and so reincarnated" etc. It almost goes back to abstract art where the viewer has to associate the abstraction with something they know otherwise they'll struggle. As soon as they can compare it to something, they are psychologically fulfilled and put at ease. In art and music, people have a hard time understanding the concept of originality and its latitude from influence.
my $0.02
I've read through 10 pages of this thread, correct me if I'm wrong but no one in this thread mentioned Rory Gallagher. What a great guitar (Strat) player he was! I would love for someone to compare me to Rory, or SRV, or JB......
Spider
I steal from everybody I admit that but those guys take it to a extreme..
The way that you "steal" sounds to me like you are paying homage to those that you respect. I love your taste in music and I wouldn't worry about what other people say too much. It is a bummer to hear about fender. Nobody cares what I play so I'll keep playing my strat =P
Of course, the opposite end of the spectrum is that although I own 335/Les Pauls & custom/signature shop Strats; Plexi Marshalls/Dumble clone amps & custom made cabs etc... etc... try as I might to sound like Eric Johnson, Joe Bonamassa etc...etc... - I don't - I sound like me for better or worse- the tools don't matter in the end- it's all in your fingers!
Just me two 'penneth!
saw photo of joe on this site
I also saw a pic of Cole Davis? 12 yr old guitar player...
This thread sure is interesting. I read an article on Rory Gallagher many years ago where the interviewer was complaining that he read a review on one of Rory's shows, and the critic thought Rory was trying to mimic SRV. I wondered if it was because Stevie's Strat was almost
as old and beat up as Rory's? Rory was touring for at least 15 years before Texas Flood came out and still suffered a lame comparison. Although there are a lot of players out there who mimic SRV, I don't recall anyone coming near Rory...He really was an original.
Lets take a day and play our own licks...if possible.
This thread sure is interesting. I read an article on Rory Gallagher many years ago where the interviewer was complaining that he read a review on one of Rory's shows, and the critic thought Rory was trying to mimic SRV. I wondered if it was because Stevie's Strat was almost
as old and beat up as Rory's? Rory was touring for at least 15 years before Texas Flood came out and still suffered a lame comparison. Although there are a lot of players out there who mimic SRV, I don't recall anyone coming near Rory...He really was an original.
Lets take a day and play our own licks...if possible.
Somewhere along the line Stevie became such a topic of conversation, posers just always wanted to glom onto speaking about him just because of their desire to appear cool or something akin to coolness...Rory was pretty much spared that! Many never got to hear him, kinda buried in the morass as Joe seems to be now...Probably neither one care (cared in Rory's case) 
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
"fast442 wrote:This thread sure is interesting. I read an article on Rory Gallagher many years ago where the interviewer was complaining that he read a review on one of Rory's shows, and the critic thought Rory was trying to mimic SRV. I wondered if it was because Stevie's Strat was almost
as old and beat up as Rory's? Rory was touring for at least 15 years before Texas Flood came out and still suffered a lame comparison. Although there are a lot of players out there who mimic SRV, I don't recall anyone coming near Rory...He really was an original.
Lets take a day and play our own licks...if possible.Somewhere along the line Stevie became such a topic of conversation, posers just always wanted to glom onto speaking about him just because of their desire to appear cool or something akin to coolness...Rory was pretty much spared that! Many never got to hear him, kinda buried in the morass as Joe seems to be now...Probably neither one care (cared in Rory's case)
Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
LOL
Or in the 80's when it was cool for metal shredders to say they were influenced by Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach.... lol
(watch Spinal Tap if you have no idea what I'm talking about)
LOL
Or in the 80's when it was cool for metal shredders to say they were influenced by Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach.... lol
(watch Spinal Tap if you have no idea what I'm talking about)
80's? Yngwie Malmsteen STILL says that...haha!
Come on now, give 'ol Moby Malmsteen some credit, his style of music IS classified as neoclassical shred. I don't LIKE his stuff, but it's impossible not to be get slapped by the neoclassical hand of shred while listening to that stuff.
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