(The Greatest) Stevie Ray Vaughan -Sound Check REACTION

[@shannastafford1816]

DRAMA I COOKED DINNER FOR HIM ON 84 HE DID A CONCERT HERE IN TULSA AND A COUPLE I BABYSAT FOR ASKED ME TO MAKE A FRIED CHICKEN DINNER FOR THERE COUSIN WHO WAS COMING BACK WITH THEM FROM THE CONCERT AND SRV WALKED IN I SERVED EVERYONE AND WHEM N I WAS IN THE KITCHEN I DID THESE HAPPY DANCES I WENT TO LEAVE I TOLD THE MOM TO LEAVE THE DISHES ID DO THEM THE NEXT DAY HE STOOD UP AND TOOK OUT GIS WALLET AND HANDED ME A 100 DOLLAR BILL AND GAVE ME A HUG AND SAID HE HADNT HAD SUCH GOOD HOME COOKING SINCE HIS MOM MAY HE RIP

[@charlottebailey1024]

That's an amazing memory you get to have! Absolutely love these little stories within the tribe when we find out about the unseen side of any artist!. Thanks for sharing! 🧡

[@johnstevens9264]

Thank you for sharing it's always nice to personal stories!! What an amazing memory for you too!

[@3SeveredHeads]

How wonderful to have such a great memory...a beautiful soul that gave so much...id say on a par with Elvis but unfortunately didnt get the coverage he deserved & taken way too soon...both were from very humble backgrounds, had a certain 'something' despite looking very different - they each were very much their own person & felt blessed...not the untalented divas that swan around telling anyone who'd listen how 'great' they are!! The music they performed was in their blood...transcending to another realm wen performing...SRV deserves as much respect as Elvis...the GOAT Re guitarist/performer/singer combined...😍🥰💞 Love keeps both alive xxx

[@shirleybuffington6420]

His sound check is better than most peoples concerts . And a fun fact he had just woke up just a couple minutes before coming on stage. That goes to show how good he was also October 3rd was his 66th birthday .

[@sandrasmith7501]

He strapped on his guitar, yawned, picked his nose and proceeded to burn the stage down...at a freakin sound check!! Gave his all always, cause it was as natural to him as breathing! The GOAT...IMO.

[@leslielemon7257]

2 bars heard & even blindfolded ya know it's SRV.....all due respect and love to so many great pickers....but he was truly special. Finally had tickets to see him live....and then the crash. RIP!

[@lancecornell9978]

When the dude warms up and its still spectacular. Thank goodness someone was there to record it.

[@j.t.3798]

99% of guitarist can't even play the sound check, including myself. Simply GOAT! Rolled out of bed and showed us all who the man is. Amazing talent. Great reaction, brother.

[@plk5520]

He woke up that morning, went right to the soundcheck and didn't even change out of his pajamas.

[@professionalvampire1]

And that was just the warm up! He rolled out of bed and set the place on fire!

[@aj71169]

My exact thought every time I watch it!

[@Peter-oh3hc]

I think about him walking around in his life and knowing he could do this at any given moment. Too much to wrap my head around

[@debbeborders5762]

I have watched this sound check 3 or 4 times. I enjoy seeing Stevie relaxed and joking around.

[@LucidDreamer68]

Walk in, shred stuff up, walk out. RIP SRV! He is most definitely missed. I sure wish he was still around to see what else he brought to the table. You would think he couldn't get any better but man, I bet he would have. Mind blowing better.

[@zackmano]

I'd say he's playing at about 70% power on the guitar, and about 40-50% on vox. He probably focused more on keeping his voice fresh for the show, like most performers do, but as far as guitar I don't think he was ever worried about running out of steam. I play his riffs and I'm done after about 30 min to an hour and my hands are too sore. And I've been playing 30 years. But he could go forever. His hands were steel. Theres a video of him on Unplugged shredding on a 12-string acoustic, which is about the hardest guitar you can possibly play for that style, and he just tears that thing apart. Gift from God. Period. 🙌💙🤘🤘🤘

[@williamwooten9437]

When a long haired dude walks up wearing a Cowboy hat a Leppard duster, and snake skin boots shit is about to go down.

[@DebVit]

A magician on that guitar. Such a tragic loss.

[@thomasroutte8942]

Stevie began his career when I was in my 20s, there has been no better guitar player since .period!!!

[@realbser1956]

Jesus, that was unbelievable. I can only imagine what it would’ve been like to see him live. A privilege to see this and your reaction. Thanks to whoever suggested this! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍

[@SueProv]

This man is my all time favorite. Love the man even more than his unparalleled guitar playing. Thank you for the continued play.

[@minigirl6379]

Stevie Ray moseys out on stage in a leopard coat, cowboy hat, snake skin cowboy boots and IT'S ON!

[@careym3901]

Badasssss, all time daddy, of a riff. What's that 8-10 touches in 1 second. OMG!

[@karencradic3727]

Just can't get enough when he plays the blues. He spoke thru his guitar

[@willhodges7270]

OMG, he comes dressed to rock even at the SOUNDCHECK! THAT'S livin' it...

[@FEJK82]

I've been playing Blues guitar for over a decade... how he can move his hand that fast, on the hardest part of the neck, is a strength that is not human.

[@wadebarton4111]

Being in Austin, I was lucky enough to see him live a few times. Awesome.

[@kathys6402]

You hit the nail on the head, Drama! His sound check is better than most guitarists can ever hope to play. HIs soul comes through his music to where you can feel it... hear it. Stay safe & stay strong 💜💜

[@alanwhetstone3922]

Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Prince cut from the same cloth there is just something about these three it's something about the feel they give me

[@stevenkmenge1674]

If y'all don't know Stevie he's playing the prelude to "soul to soul" because he and Johnny Copland are about to duo 🎸

[@jayjohnston4365]

First thing in the morning, no less!!! I'd be still trying to find my socks.

[@MegaEaglelover]

Keep in mind...... this is just a “Sound Check” 🎸🤘🏼🎸🤘🏼🤠🎸🤘🏼🤠😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@JM-hg5ss]

And they woke him up to do this.

[@rabdog43]

SRV was uncannily accurate. His runs and riffs were so pure. So fundamentally powerful. He did not just ad lib. Incredibly disciplined and talented. RIP SRV. The GOAT in my heart and soul!

[@georgestevens1502]

SRV just oozed tonal variations, soulful bends and flurries of notes and phrases as easily as he drew breaths. Truly a spiritual presence of gigantice proportions. Music of the spheres flowing like a river.

[@stevenkmenge1674]

Among his peers, Stevie ray is next to none

[@donnabost4445]

If you want to SLAY like Stevie you got to have the hat and boots to go with the Coat!!

[@odellgrimes1375]

love the sound of that crisp clean Power Note nothing else just straight 59 Strat!! and Stevie could bring it out like no one ever

[@rudigerk]

The Energy was just flowing out of him like it is nothing .. mindblowing musicianship!

[@dadouttolunch6486]

Maybe the greatest preserved evidence of true greatness, Cheers friend!🤙🤘

[@janetwhite3373]

💙😀🎶🎸SRV & DT just kicked my ASS!!!!

[@careym3901]

That coat is as iconic as Morrison's calf leather pants!

[@JimboKM]

When he's playing slow and basic I was more aware of things like switching octaves in the middle of a melodic phrase and those chromatic bend lines where it "seems" he's searching for the note. Of course he knows where he is and how to get to where he's going. Thanks for this.

[@robertnolte1590]

He did hello his way

[@My2ndnephew]

Yeah...I saw him at an open air concert in 1989. That's the best concert that I've ever seen in person except a 1969 Led Zeppelin concert.

[@jjowen2012]

Another sound check please!!!! Oh my... :)

[@NCRaiderOG12]

Dude. I love you. Stevie is one of the greatest. He is on the Mount Rushmore of guitarists in my opinion. I love Stevie. I love both channels. Keep it up sir.

[@rabdog43]

Only SRV could roll out of bed, put on that leopard jacket, and torch an empty venue just lumbering up. My gosh, what kind of bigger legend would he have been with a longer career? Mind blowing

[@ElwoodPDowd-nz2si]

I love how the band is ready in a heartbeat to follow him.

[@andrewstolpman6743]

Amen brother for honoring the sanctity of Stevie Ray Vaughan when he is doing what he do! Bravo!

[@bonniefaulconer2080]

I love Stevie's pimp/pirate/gypsy style. 👍❤ great reaction 😁👍

[@conniehorton1981]

Thank you for bringing SRV back out to play!!! He is amazing❤️

[@johnstevens9264]

Happy Birthday SRV...RIP

[@robertweilmuenster1178]

He could just turn it on and off, like a switch, just incredible talent ...better than most and it's just a sound check.....

[@jeannewalker2863]

SRV became his guitar the two just merged as ONE. DRAMA love the respect that you show to such tremendous talent. Thank you Sir

[@shirleybuffington6420]

The three songs he played was scuttle buttin’ , ain’t gonna give up on love and say what and you should check out Ain’t gonna give up on love live at the Capital Theater it is really good and you know he doesn’t do a song the same way twice.

[@ElDuderino716]

I appreciate you, friend. I just wanna let you know that I look forward to your insights into music. I’m an old timer, a guitar player, my original influence was Jimi, but SRV brought the blues BACK into the mainstream of the rock and roll world. Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, EVH & SRV all changed the way people “used” guitars. Their influences can be heard in new music today. And yeah, I want that badass coat too.

[@marissashelley2362]

SRV couldn't read a note of music so he played from the zone aka his HEART!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

[@rogercaruso9337]

The couple shows that I've worked with them that's just what they do I love soundchecks

[@deborahzoppa5060]

I appreciate you letting the vibe roll, I don't watch those who interrupt every 20 secs. Also, agree totally with loving music but not understanding the language. Opera, etc. SRV #1

[@alanadair7169]

I would have happily give good money to sit in on this thanks my friend 👍

[@rogercaruso9337]

His soundtracks are just like another concert

[@thomasdaniel6495]

I love watching this every time I see it.The man woke up,walked in and kit it up,how many people can do that.He was a master with the wah pedal,as we all know,but you need to check out his song,The Telephone Song,he actually carries on an audible conversation between him and the operator,it's incredible,I've never heard anybody else do it.Keep up the great work man.

[@craiglee8574]

SRV knocked. The stank off this...

[@stevenkmenge1674]

They were practicing for "LIVE" in montreauu

[@quiltie1774]

Stevie loved that coat!

[@mrmiscast]

I was so lucky to have grown up in Texas and by chance saw SRV in Austin on two occasions. I'd try to describe what it was like but I think most people get it, even from a video. Everything just flowed from him, soul, passion, expressions of every type, and sweat, all by the bucket. I ran across this video a few years back and I just wanted to thank the person who happened to bring a camera to a soundcheck. It's just amazing in every possible way. Love everyone's reaction to this video.

[@rickyhubbard9261]

The Capital Theater 1985. Life Without You. Stevie Ray Vaughan will blow you away must listen too. God Bless "SEMPER FI"

[@judywalker8020]

Hard to believe.Like running a 100 yard dash without stretching first.I am in awe of him,too.Glad someone thought to have taped this.

[@3SeveredHeads]

SO blessed even this was filmed!! SRV u will always b the GOAT!!!! RIP...Ur amazing music lives on...love this thankyou for uploading 👍💞

[@heyskipj]

Fly coat? You're looking at the one, the only, bonafide Guitar Mack Daddy Pimp. AMIRITE?

[@joemcbride5260]

He plays like it’s so easy I love it

[@zackmano]

You should look those lyrics though. That track is about recovery, hope, and love. Really some amazing words 🙌💙

[@chrissiler6075]

Clapton describes SRV as a Faucet and it gets turned on and there's no end

[@crazydale1000]

I saw him 4 times. We had 10th row seats and Stevie came out and tripped on a mike chord.I thought oh shit he's fucked up. He cut loose and ripped my face off. Him and Gary Moore were ridiculous live.

[@lorin6673]

And his band though.

[@SueProv]

Yes yes. Tommy Shannon on base. Chris Layton on drums and Reese Wynans on key boards.

[@SombraPiloto]

The way they just jumped in when he started tearing it up was almost telepathic.

[@FEJK82]

Yes!... SRV is something altogether different. There will never e another.

[@jamesrapp9778]

🎸G.O.A.T. ... 😎👌 R.I.P. LEGEND 🎸

[@cathydionizio886]

WTF. Excuse me while I go pick my jaw up off the floor. 😯

[@superd9072]

0 to 190... BAMMMM!

[@evelynsorbel515]

He still had his pajamas on.

[@bobsacamano217]

SRV had so many great performances. Life without you (Capital Theatre) is one of my favorites.

[@baird5776mullet]

An Honest Man!

[@philipmeredith7996]

Walked into the building probably from a sleep.....then flips the switch....and off to the races.

[@delphi-moochymaker62]

The legend BB King played with him for a set then proclaimed: "Ain't never seen a white boy that can play guitar like that!"

[@BuffaloC305]

That opening number was his 'morning coffee' for his guitar-fingers. And he often opened shows with it because, if the audience wasn't wowed at that point, he knew he had to really kick it up several more levels. Or that this was a dead audience and he should save his efforts. But I've never seen an audience not go crazy. By the way - that slower second-number where he's working on the intense timing and tone-levels for everyone else - and even you get into the groove. Second number - during a mere sound-check. Yep... absolutely great.

[@MarkPuckett]

Hypothetical conversation before the soundcheck by SRV: "Oh man, morning. YAWN. Soundcheck. What'll I wear? Whatever's within reach. Cowboy hat ('cause it's too early to comb my hair), black t-shirt (sniffs) -- it's OK, jeans, boots, leopard-spotted duster, and ...yeah, that's enough. It's just a soundcheck." Yawn (scratch), pick up #1, walk around, pick nose, play opening notes of the Star-Spangled Banner, walk back to center stage, floor it. Impulse warmup.

[@marcduclos9789]

The biggest unknown thing about SRV 's Guitars was that the strings he used. He use the most hardest strings any one used in his hay day. Eric Clapton Grand funk Ted Nugent Jeff Beck or ZZ Top didn't use more than a #4. STV used #10 so he could b end the string to make his sound. Check this out

[@Lhifeeq]

5th tier of God level on guitar hero is where you finally get to do the first of his songs.

[@rogercaruso9337]

Stevie Ray is music and that's all I got to say about that what else can you say

[@davidosborn9469]

Think about it. He didn't need to do all that just for a sound check the man lived and loved playing guitar didn't care whether there was an audience or not!

[@terrylucaspoetrycoach4489]

I love you--you made me just go and put on my 1966 Lee Rider Blanket-Lined Denim Jacket to try--only try--to keep up!

[@richardrejmer8721]

Stevie Ray Vaughn gets up in the morning, puts on his snakeskin boots, his 10-gallon hat, and his leopard skin coat, gets in the limo and goes to the gig for sound check. Gets to the sound check, scratches his balls, farts. . Puts on guitar, yawns, picks his nose and then proceeds to DEMOLISH THE STADIUM! Plays better for a sound check than most "musicians" could ever hope to approach in their LIFETIME!!!

[@anotherjoshua]

how does that guitar not burst into flames?

[@kellykonoske91]

Hendrix always gave mad props to Stevie Ray.

[@charlottebailey1024]

You could hear the thickness of his strings before he lit into that first bit. Do you think he had a preference between just playing and singing while playing?

[@donwilson1625]

A Guitar God Like No Other among the Mt Olympus Guitar Gods

[@lesaburnette6944]

This is my fave. He just got up. And played the. Dookie out of everything. Plus. He had a sore throat that's why he didn't sing as loud. I seen srv live. OMG

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Sometimes his hands move so fast it’s a blur. Very Hendrix-sounding at the end. We sure miss him (and Jimi).

[@BoilerBloodline]

Much like Jimmy...the insane guitar playing overshadowed their incredible & timeless voices.

[@shellybay817]

this is one of my fav video's of SRV!

[@MadisonD941]

I enjoyed the vocals even though I didn't get the words. Sometimes his vocal importance to the song is overlooked.

[@craiglee8574]

One of the best....yall. hear

[@judyjohnson9603]

I really enjoy your reactions. You make me laugh

[@Nene5H]

Just warming up