Stevie Ray, half asleep, doing sound check with his group, filmed in 1986. Yeah, the boy could play.
Link, please… I said “please”.
Or, cite? If you prefer…
I bet it’s this one.
And yeah, he could definitely play. I saw him in concert 11 times and he blew me away every single time.
Fucker. 
Sorry, I discovered SRV months before he died, and it is my great regret that I was never able to see him live.
That’s a great video - just messing around, blowing the shit out of that guitar! He was taken from us far, far too soon.
Ha! What’s more, I saw his last show as a headliner (at the Kalamazoo County Fair) two days before the helicopter crash at Alpine Valley.
Hey, I’m jealous of people who saw the Beatles, Hendrix or the original lineups of the Who & Led Zeppelin so I know how you feel.
And SRV really was dazzlingly, jaw-droppingly good. Goose-bump inducing, even.
Shit, sorry I forgot the link. Thanks, Bumbershoot.
He played in Sacramento about 9 months before he died. A friend and I were thinking of going, but I decided I didn’t feel like it at the time; we could go and see him next time around…
…my friend was just a wee bit pissed at me…
Ah, jeeze, you’ve just reminded me of the time that Prince played an un-announced show a couple of blocks away from where my husband and I were sitting on the couch, doing absolutely nothing at all one Saturday night. :mad::mad::mad:
I saw him once, less than a year before he passed. Wow. You’ve seen the vids - they don’t lie. Rained buckets that night, liked I’d seldom seen before or since. It was an outdoor concert, and the first 20 rows were flooded. Getting there, experiencing it, was like a Homeric epic. Didn’t know it at the time, but eminently appropriate for the one and only time I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan.
I saw him 5 times, and he only didn’t blow me away once… the next to last time I saw him. He just seemed ‘off’, and not really into it. Like he’d lost something. I found out later that this was during the deepest depths of his addiction problems.
The last time I saw him, not terribly long before his death, he was clean and back to the top of his skills again. Holy crap, the man could play!
I saw him 7 times. Once during the worst part of his drug problems. That time there were a lot of very long jams but he was still incredible. That show made me appreciate Double Trouble. No matter where he went musically they were able to anchor the song every time. A lesser rhythm section would have fallen apart.
“Ain’t Gone And Givin’ Up On Love” is such a great, great song.