Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood (Long version!)
Dec 17, 2009 guitar solos
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Long version of Texas Flood by stevie ray vaughn ! Texas Flood is an electric blues album by blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, released in 1983.
Although “Texas Flood” has three verses of lyrics, the song is more of a prolonged guitar solo, allowing Vaughan to show off his characteristic electric blues style. During live shows, he would often play portions of this song behind his back, arousing an enthusiastic crowd response. Stylistically, “Texas Flood” is structured around the common three chord blues progression. Written and performed in the key of G (sounding F# because of Vaughan’s tuning), it is in 12/8 time, or compound time[1], which gives it a “slow burning” feel that is common in Texas blues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Flood_%28song%29
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December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
this is just Red …
this is just Red House SRV style…..i hope you guys know that
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
O melhor …
O melhor guitarrista que eu já ouvi. Incrível, simplesmente um gênio.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Jess, that was a …
Jess, that was a very intelligent and very 24kt gold truth you put out here. I like that kind of thinking.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Excuse me for …
Excuse me for leaving out the word ” to “.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Mhmm, nothing …
Mhmm, nothing better than the blues, it speaks to me.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
It’s like he was …
It’s like he was making love to the guitar on stage…. Imagine the kind of passion he had in the bedroom!
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Actually, he began …
Actually, he began to gain attention while playing with ” Joey Dee and the Starlighters ” at the Peppermint Club in New York. From there he explored R&B. He was never strictly a blues player even though he mastered them. His goal was revolutionize the approach to the way the guitar was played.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
que estupides esa …
que estupides esa no es texas flood
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Buddy Guy said “He …
Buddy Guy said “He played the blues the way i think they should be played.” Now give me one person that doesn’t agree with that!
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
great guitarist. …
great guitarist. Sad he had to go so early… He was in Finland in the 80s with double Trouble and our president watched their show… Stevie was a king of guitar!
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
got to see him live …
got to see him live just before he left us he was one of a kind
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
@grga888
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@grga888
different approach to the pentatonic That whole album was consistent with blues songs…. I dont know what the you’re talking about…
Stevie was heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, as would any Blues guitarist of his time or afterwards… but his roots are in texas blues, which have a different approach to the scale, as you may notice… their style differs in appraoch but when it comes to skill im not about to say one is better than the other.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
I would guess that …
I would guess that if SRV had gotten older, he probably would have used fewer notes and less flash. But he was a young dude, and his love for the blues was such that he would (in his own words) “tune low, string heavy , and floor it.” And that’s what he did, and I got to see it three times. I was never the same.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
few things …
truth is, if it came to a choice of being able to do something as well as someone else;
etc etc,
few things galvanise opinion on youtube as much as guitartists it seems.. (slash v buckethead anyone?) great to see recent comments here aren’t the usual uninformed pap…or insults aimed at parents..
eg play footy like beckham
paint like van gogh
drive like schumacher
sing like susan boyle
i think i’d go for play the blues like stevie ray… just my own opinion..
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Yep, pretty much …
Yep, pretty much what B.B King said also, and when people like them speak so high of somebody than you know that that person is special and one of a kind.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
I like what Eric …
I like what Eric Clapton said –”sometimes, I must admit, I wonder when I’m soloing, ‘what am I gonna do next?’ Not this guy! He was like a faucet that you opened and then it would just run forever.” I think that is a fair assessment of SRV, like him or not.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Hahaha… The new …
Hahaha… The new Jimi Hendrix? Bullshit. Stevie was often compared with Jimi Hendrix cause he was equally amazing and talented as Jimi, playing the guitar like a god, like that there ain’t no tommorow, cause he brought something new to the table, he affected the way the blues will be heard forever as B.B King himself said and many other things. Of course that Jimi is Jimi and I like him a lot too, but some people should seriously need to realize that there exist more guitar players beside him.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Jimi too played on …
Jimi too played on Strats, Jimi used mostly a Fuzz Face, Univibe, Octavia, Wah-wah, where Stevie used a Tubescreamer and a wah-wah, later on he experimented more with the pedals, only actuall thing Stevie did that was influenced by Hendrix was the way the whammy bar is placed on his First Wife and let’s say left handed parts, but that still takes nothing from Stevie being unique, bringing something new to the table, having a mindblowing and one of a kind style!
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Jesus Christ, …
Jesus Christ, Stevie was a blues/rock guitar player, what did you think he would play on, Ibanez guitar and having in front of him a Boss DS1 or something like that? BTW. How can you say he copied Hendrix? Hendrix played on 9’s and 10’s, Stevie on mainly 13’s, Stevie most of his career played on Fender amps, Jimi in the beggining Fender, but later on Marshall, Stevie used Fender Strats mostly, but that wasn’t cause of Jimi. He played it cause he wanted to and he liked the guitar.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
A couple of tunes …
A couple of tunes are influenced heavily by the blues, but seriously no blues song was made, those all songs that he did for the new record are a combination of blues, rock, soul, funk, even a bit of jazz, etc…
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Hmmm… Sorry, but …
Hmmm… Sorry, but Jimi started with the blues, than rock and roll, than a combination of the two, but than at the end blues? Hahaha… His last material was for the incoming album that at the end got released after Jimi’s death, unfortunately he never finished it, it’s called First Rays of the New Rising Sun , no blues song, I don’t know how you can say that he did at the end blues? Ever heard of Hey Baby, Astro Man, Angel, Izabella, Drifting, etc…? That sure ain’t blues.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
@grga888 Actually, …
@grga888 Actually, you’re wrong. Jimi Hendrix started of with Blues, then Blues Rock, then back to Blues. No disrespect intended
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
You’re misreading …
You’re misreading me: No sarcasm at all. I mean his style audibly in his playing from the tonal balance to the linearity of his vibrato. That is not in conflict with hearing the derivation of his influences . If you really think I’m putting you on perhaps I’ve given you too much credit perceptually or you just have a strong propensity toward sarcasm or just a really suspicious nature .
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Nice comeback, Geep …
Nice comeback, Geep! “Never did I believe that SRV had no style nor did I say it . Style is largely what made him what he was” WOW! That’s THE sarcasm…I hugely appreciate your skills at being humorous …
December 17th, 2009 at 2:20 am
I am telling what i …
I am telling what i listen, not what is written! I dont mind about SRV, i am a Hendrix-Warren Haynes fan!!!