Josh Smith on Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Scuttle Buttin'" - Hooked

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[@tswrench]

Givin' credit where credit is due. Josh is a good dude.

[@MattBrodeurMusic]

Played so hot he smoked his beard right off. hahaha

[@DMSProduktions]

\m/ THAT'S rock n roll!

[@mattiv1]

hahaha

[@johnbohlinger]

That songs still blows my mind every time.

[@foxtrotbravo6517]

The SRV “explosion” for us guitar players is definitely rooted in our soul. It’s hard to explain. He was a phenomenon that still touches many. Great job sir!!!! Thank you

[@Quipstiley]

All my friends were listening to Metallica's ...And Justice album 24/7 for a year through high school after it's release while I was starting from my parents' Joe Cocker, The Meters, The Allman Brothers, etc. albums before I found Stevie. They ribbed me a little about my tastes in the blues until I put in Live at the El Mocombo. They all understood and respected SRV after that even if they didn't get into the blues. "Blues is just about losing your dog and your wife leaving, it's depressing", they said. *puts in Texas Flood Live*, "Whoa" They watched the whole thing while we got high af. Lol @ my once-lost, 30 year old memory. I was an SRV nerd, too. I was only 15 and had that lightning moment after hearing In the Mood and then, when I was 18 Stevie died. What a punch in the gut. I followed all the interviews (pre-internet) through all the great, long-gone guitar mag publications. I lost my dog and GF broke up with me within a week of his death, true story, ironically. I felt like Stevie was a friend and then BAM! "Life ain't fair, kid. Remember that".

[@MoneyBooBoo]

Guys like Josh Smith are a unique class breed all on their own. I love his guitar flow.

[@fredvanderlinden8908]

Many years ago I had a bar in Antwerp well known by people who were into blues music. Every morning when I started cleaning the place I put on a SRV LP. I still remember as it was yesterday. August 28 1990, for once I decided to put on the radio and listen to the news first. The first thing I heard was that Stevie died in a helicopter crash. It was like everything went black, I sat down, pledged a tear took a cup of coffee and put on the live version of Tin Pan alley. I didnt know that a musician, I saw three times live in concert listening to all his records over many years, could have such an impact on somebody's life. RIP Stevie you are our Pride and Joy.

[@tdalb8985]

Well said. SRV is my favorite.

[@paulsimmons5726]

Great video! This guy's spot on when it comes to a lightning strike and the awakening of finding your own bag of tricks, no matter which iconic player you've been following. This is one of the most truthful discussions about music to ever get posted on KZbin! Enjoyed it!!!

[@kamiyaghmaie4310]

Stevie also changed my life in a second and his death destroyed me for good!in 1988 Italian tv broadcast Pistoia blues festival live late at night, i was very tired ane i went to sleep early but i programmed my video recorder to record it. Early in the morning, i woke up to see who was playing, oh my God... My ears didnt want to believe... I never knew anyone who played guitar like that!the show started with Scuttle buttin and it was the first time that i knew Stevie Ray and changed my life! love your playing Josh and thank you for posting this video on Stevie!

[@CrazyHenkie777]

For life...!!!

[@davidturnage3467]

Damn Josh, I had the exact same experience as you when I first heard it!!! Mid eighties, I'm like 13 hair bands everywhere, Eddie Van Halen is everything a guitarist supposed to be, and out of nowhere Stevie steamrolled my world! I already liked blues but never heard done like that before. Stevie made it okay to admit that I liked blues to all my metal friends! LOL Stevie made blues cool at a time when it kinda was on the wane. I feel so lucky to have experienced all of that!

[@Tatted-ne7tu]

Holy crap, that’s the best I’ve seen of someone else playing that lick. Well done. I’ll be looking for Josh Smith

[@extremepietbh]

I just don't have words to describe how amazing what I just saw was. You are an absolute BEAST.

[@robertrichter7702]

One of today’s Greatest giving honor to one of the all time greatest ! Stevie is my favorite! but Josh is definitely in my top 5 got to see Josh live in Mckinney Tx he was mind blowing!

[@davepilgrim5798]

3:15 I've been there; my result was an Italian guy (me) with boots, long hair, cowboy hat and an SRV signature strat that couldn't sound like SRV 🤣

[@shable1436]

Thats ok nobody did, but taught so many how to play.

[@MsMusicman56]

Ah I love Josh's playing and this SRV lick is the best

[@Vaughn6886]

I’ve always been able to hear “The Bounce-Lonnie Mack” in Scuttle Buttin and vice versa. I hear “Funny Bone-Freddie King” and “Two Bugs and a Roach-Earl Hooker” more on Stevie’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

[@edpomponio1663]

Amen brother, every song SRV did was life changing for me. He influenced me changing from playing sax for 35 years to guitar. I never heard of Stevie till I got Covid. I struggle with this and just about every song he did!

[@nickgreen5369]

I bought that first album on vinyl and saw SRV at the Agora Ballroom in Hartford Connecticut in 1984. Jason and the Scorchers opened . I had front row and never left my spot the whole time

[@felixramirez6898]

You absorbed His essence , now You can channel Him through at will . Awesome !

[@colaboytje]

I love this man. His playing is great, and his attitude is great.

[@btsdancestudio5691]

My favorite guitar based song of all time!

[@jdm5282]

Thanks Josh for the video on SRV!! A lot of people don't realize for almost %95 of his career he played that Strat with cable tv lines for strings and the unique tone with out all this Pro tools ect was awesome!! I got hooked the first time i heard him and search for any live videos and got lucky when i found live at the El Mocambo awesome Texas flood and the playing behind his back and the strength of his fingers to play that string gauge and make them bends was sick!!! Really enjoyed Thanks and GBY my friend!

[@Charliesofake]

He switched to 11s in 1985 because 13s where killing his fingers

[@brownsfan7753]

Josh is incredible!!

[@johnsmith-sm6mh]

Love it , great story , kudos to you Josh . Great playing mate 🎸🎸

[@travisk4215]

Mine was Tin Pan Alley on the In The Beginning album.

[@GuyNarnarian]

For whatever reason, my first guitar teacher gave me Scuttle Buttin' as one of the first licks I should learn. I was maybe 15 at the time. That guy was obsessed with Led Zeppelin too so he gave me the lick for whole lotta love' etc. I played it, albeit much slower than the original, because I never really heard the original. And my teacher didn't rip through it either, because I wouldn't be able to follow. Anyway, I eventually heard it and became hooked like Josh, and that guitar teacher moved to Nashville to become a session guy I think, and never told any of his students. His first name was Frank, can't remember the last but he was a good soft-spoken guy. Opened my world to SRV.

[@rubberbrush]

Dude, that was awesome. Thanks

[@jipes]

And yes you found your own voice and tone I can witness that hearing you on stage in Ensisheim France ! Great story and so cool to hear the way musicians influencing others of your caliber !

[@RuneBaggetun]

Thank you for playing the lick somewhat similar to what SRV did (gave me goosebumps!) Most people and tutorials suck big time at playing this. Big thank you again!

[@CountryGravyMusic]

Love it! That’s me with Hendrix. Changed my life for sure. Rock on everybody!

[@seank997]

Josh!!!!!!!!!! Phenomenal guitarist

[@peteytwofinger]

really like this guys attitude and wow he can play that thing

[@MarkRhodesSongs]

Hey, Josh, I saw you live in West Palm Beach, FL during your SRV period. Bought your Josh Smith & the Rhino Cats CD after and you signed it. Think your mom and dad were there---I don't think you were old enough to drive yet! You tore it up, man. I'm happy to see how you have evolved into who you are now----love a lot of the soul, funk, and jazzy stuff you incorporate into your style. But Stevie was awesome and still gets to me.

[@pgrill24]

Josh Smith!!!! Wanna hear my life changing moment?!? SRV's first appearance on Austin City Limits (1984 I think, Blue shirt). There were so many songs to choose from (I think it's his best version of Voodoo Chile) BUT!!! it was Rude Mood. That night, that stage, was SRV's best Rude Mood live I have ever heard and it changed my life forever. I have a challenge for you....find that video. I went to archive of ACL, I went on different browsers, and I can not find that version of Rude Mood. It was SOOO clean and hard dude, I can't even put into words what that sounded like. Better than the album, better than Montreux, the best....and it seems to be lost. Bummer!

[@mosin9105]

I can dig it! My SRV moment was, getting off the freeway one day Pride and Joy came on the radio. This was when it first came out. The tone of his guitar, his pick attack, the heavy strings all came through. I was floored! I think it gave me chills!

[@JoelWetzel]

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" did it for me. "Guitar Player" magazine published the tab and those chords are still fresh to me, and that mag still on my shelf. It tooks years for me to listen to music again after he died but I finally found a singer whose music gave me goose bumps; her name was Amy Winehouse.

[@MrMattyRyan1]

Love the nod to say Say What! there at the end. Live at the El Mocambo changed my life too. I play music professionally singlehandedly because of that DVD.

[@vintagesounds5150]

Josh is Awesome 🎶🎶🎶🎸

[@tszegvary]

Paul Davids just had a video on Scuttle Buttin' and he made the case that on the album Stevie bent the strings rather than slide in. However, it seems when live he would slide, like most people do it now.

[@mickscharf]

pretty sure, that he at least bended the g-string in the studio.

[@jasonlee8497]

SRV & DT at the El Macombo....a friend and I watched it all day when it was released....with our jaws on the floor

[@gearViewmirror]

Love your style! From one Josh to another, thanks🤘🎸👍

[@mikekavalerchik5226]

I hear so many guitar players with similar stories about Steve. I started playing in 1980. I was 15and it was Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi and Eddie that was that moment for me. Steve really came into my life about 10years ago and I'm just amazed at how it's almost backwards for me It took me over 30 years of playing to just get completely blown away by Stevie and still today he's one of the only guitarists I listen to this instantly inspires me to go and grab my guitar

[@marklandrum233]

Josh, I get it. It’s awesome hearing someone like yourself so excited after all these years about how you were influenced by SRV. Thank you for all that you do!

[@KleyDeJong]

This is awesome stuff, thanks!

[@scottregb]

SRV4Life! Great video honoring him!

[@stevehowland8493]

Thanks Josh😄🎸

[@shable1436]

This is so many ppls stories, and changed the way a whole generation of players would sound. Im lucky i was playing SRV when he was still alive, but was not privy to the live vids yet. I learned how by ear and played it wrong bending everytime until i saw him do it, then i was like thats how he does it so fast 😂 i made everything more difficult, but working out all those parts, like yourself made me more versatile and know the fretboard backwards. Also developing your ear and then when learning other music you pick it up instantly. Some of us were called SRV clones, and we took it as compliments 😂 and some changed their style just to have their own sound. Some are virtuosos, and some have worked on just blues for their entire musical life. Either way SRV, opened doors for all of us, and we love him so much we name our children after him. You know who you are😉

[@stephenvaughan537]

Awesome story and briljant playing.

[@jeffrywhite6008]

You have gotten there josh ! You sure have gotten there !

[@upsbear]

excellent

[@dennisjacobs9841]

SRV, had a huge influence on why I love the Blues, You are officially #2 love your sound and originality brother.

[@jeremiahlewis700]

Great story!!!

[@johnjonesToffeeman]

I was totally the same I herd a japanese guy play scuttle buttin in a bar in Bangkok.I never ever was blown away by the first hearing of a tune. I asked him who it was after that life has never been the same

[@thekidfromanotherplanet]

Loved your story Josh! Stevie was such a legend and a big influence to me as well

[@forestgreenman]

Dig it! SRV & DT !!!!!

[@KuriosPC]

"The Baked Potato"!!!!! I used to go there when I was 19 in the valley.

[@williamrustrum8465]

The Baked Potato!!! My favorite venue....and clearly you love it too Josh. :)

[@tmitz73]

Cool Video and great story Josh!! Stay well, and stay Groovy!!

[@diegoa.morera3000]

This is the lick I (try to) do every time I play the guitar since a while ago, good pulse check, and you only see improvement over time, awesome video!

[@bstancic743]

that strat is niceeee!!!

[@zer0dave]

That El Mocambo tape hooked me, too! I wore out the Blockbuster copy and when a friend of mine said his stepdad gave him a copy, I begged him to let me buy it. He didn't want to sell it to me because he knew I'd just be inside watching it all day and not hanging out with him haha. Eventually, he sold it to me and then I bought it on DVD later on. Great story, thanks for sharing!

[@mgreene300]

El Macambo was life changing for many of us. I had been playing for a while too and still to this day I can't see how his fingers weren't bloody nubs after the set.

[@mickscharf]

Hey Josh, great story. Same as mine ;) But please check again your rhythm-part (horn-alike) of Scuttle buttin' between two of that single note licks. Stevie is always swopping the higher notes with the low E-Site which makes it much more groovy and floating.

[@josephfelice601]

Anybody come here for the opening riff? There's a recent buzz on YT for this right now.

[@PIPA1302]

jeezz you GOTTA LOVE JOSH¡¡¡¡ A MASTER OF THE INSTRUMENT, and he seems a very grounded likeable person, cheers from Spain folks, I'm really enjoying this channel, but the most Important, I'M LEARNING A LOT, from a guy I admire.

[@scottjerard1293]

My oldest brother was friends with SRV The first time i met him was a concert my brother brought me to when i was 14,,,,i was a little metal head until Stevie opened the show with that amazing lick And your right it was like getting punched in the face and changed my life

[@smithscarborough]

Love it!

[@mauromariante5593]

I used to go see you, backing the old days in a place called cheers, Ft. Lauderdale . Josh Smith and Rhino Cats . You were a kid, playing SRV and on fire. 😃👍🏼

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Double Trouble is such a legendary band

[@donaldkerrigan3357]

You make it look easy Josh - we all know it isn’t! You are a tremendous player in your own right and a great dude!

[@druwk]

I have heard you tell this story (on KZbin) before, but I love hearing it again! This lick blew me away too! Unfortunately, I was a bit older and already lacked the confidence and determination to “conquer” this one. Trajectory is a funny thing? Coincidence of time, place and circumstance can mean so much. You are an amazing player, and a generous soul. Thanks for sharing your a há moment...which was really your years long deep dive, life changing “moment”.

[@andrewthesea]

'Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble for life' - I'm also in this club.

[@sivadyert]

Thanks for sharing! I love your playing--you're the closest player to my style. When I first heard you I thought, wow, here's a guy playing blues who also has some background in jazz and country (except 10x better than me)! I had to learn Scuttle Buttin it as soon as I heard it! I think I was about 19 or so. I don't hybrid pick it, though. I didn't use hybrid picking then as I do constantly now. By the way, Texas Flood was the album that changed everything for me! Keep up the good work!

[@JJPsyc]

Josh is a savage and a great teacher!

[@Oilid]

Killer technique!!!!!

[@lukecotton6768]

Went into Say What just like the live version! Great stuff

[@shnoop123jimbo7]

i started guitar a year ago from seeing him play scuttle buttin, i thought it was damn near impossible to play that fast, but i practiced it so much since then i can now play it in my sleep lol

[@Sco3000]

soul to soul

[@ratherbehiking8653]

It was mine too. Scuttle Buttin' was my Cliffs of Dover. It's the piece I will never ever play as good as the master but will always practice to.

[@RobertFairweatherMusic]

SRV has had that effect on a million guitarists.

[@myideas8548]

I dig it..

[@Bk-pu6to]

Good stuff 🎸💪

[@sb8768]

This hooked me too cassette tape (wut?) and all! Never let up, wink, wink! Love the segue/link into Soul to Soul. Thank you Josh!

[@johnohill463]

@UC5J-hZ4wNf7OlkzIn49LHoQ Phil Emmanuel showed and taught me how to play it within 3 frets, using bends, as well as playing it that way back in 1989 after a gig we did with him. I was 18... Look him up. He and his brother Tommy will blow you away mate. You'll love these Australian legends. R.I.P. Phil... Miss ya mate ... Love your playing Josh Smith ....Kind Regards .... Johno ....

[@bjornchristiansson2827]

Josh ! I'm fully agree with you 🙏 I know him from 1984 to the tragic day. He show me lots of keys to change a song by soul. And Stevie even play my 55 stratocaster. And I try his NO:1 Charley and Red. He play whit heart and he was a special person 🙏 I have my style and that Stevie help me create! I like your style Josh and would be fun jam whit you ! Hope you doing well! Best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪 Bjorn

[@Arriscraft]

i felt the same way when i heard johnny winter, careful with a fool in the 70;s

[@Moonshot568]

S.R.V for life ....

[@Thestevenramirez]

This is literally the only time I have heard someone play that riff CORRECTLY! Fuckin A bud!

[@Thurston86]

Thats F’ing Nice!

[@AdamGotheridge]

Dig it! You make it look effortless. I've been trying to play that lick for like 30 years and still can't get it. One thing neat about copying people, or learning something and trying to make it sound like them, is sometimes you are really surprised at the amount of sheer muscle you have to put into the instrument to get it to sound like that player. It gives you a completely different perspective. A lot of his stuff is like that. I get that same feeling trying to play the first solo in Jeff Beck's Led Boots... holy crap is there a lot of muscle in that one.

[@rearviewmirror03]

Great vid Josh! could you talk a little about your right hand playing this riff and your thoughts about SRV probably using hybrid picking while playing it? Thanks!

[@travismixson1754]

Thanks for sharing that Josh, you make it look easy. That lick is just sick. Even after learning the “lick” and the different ways Stevie would play it( with bends, w/ slides, w/ bends&slides) and practice, practice, practice ..... it never sounds the way Stevie plays it. Like you said , from the very first note he floors all the way till the end. Plus he plays totally clean!!! He was not human. Thanks for showing us that even great guitar players like you still think Stevie was the shit.👍🤝🎸👌

[@jarodreddig63]

JOSH played that so damn good part of his beard came off!!!

[@allentroxel9719]

I know exactly how you feel Josh.

[@NolanDerosia]

playing the riff up high like that was pretty clever. I'll have to give that a try.

[@DorothyOzmaLover]

Very lively tempo with great skill at keeping time during the rests for this performance. As a guitarist for book trailers who's been influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan so much so that I use very thick strings and a similar guitar setup like SRV did for my own electric, who also looks for inspiration, the playing here is nice since it skillfully makes rhythm changes that sounds so appealing for melody and chords. Cheers!

[@volkySt]

One night on the radio they announced a special about the amazing white bluesman and I didn't catch his name. I was so tired I felt asleep while the radio kept playing and next morning I new I had to figured out who was that guy because even though I didn't remember anything I new it was something huge. I took a while trying to discover that bluesman and next week I asked my guitar teacher if he knew who this guy was. He told me you are probably after SRV. No internet at that time and I finally got a cassette. First song, SB.......