GREAT COVERS | Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child (Episode 1)
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This is the first in a new series: Great Covers. Coming from the classical music world, I am quite familiar with the concept of “covers” since the vast majority of performances are … “covers”. Now I will listen to “Great Covers” within the Rock Music genre, eager to see the different perspectives and interpretations each artist brings.
Stevie Ray Vaughan playing Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” live, a special piece of music with many nuances and colors. Did he do it justice? Oh, he owned it!
Here’s the link to the original recording:
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He called that guitar either #1 or "the wife". Every battle scar on it was earned. It's in a museum today.
I wish so badly it was still in his hands 🥺🥺
I believe his brother has it.
that headstock was glued back on more than a few times lol.
Lady, you didn't just pick a cover song, you picked THE cover song!!!
Idk SRV’s other cover of Jimi’s song (little wing) was pretty damn good.
Yeahhh
I saw Stevie do this song in Dallas Nov 25 1989
I don't think you exaggerated to call it THE cover. Very few people interpret a song this complex and get it right. Here's one that KISS got right, kind of amazing czcams.com/video/PC9xjboGmsk/video.html
This is a unique thing. Best cover. But the master is still better. Yet the song, though famous to guitarists, is this poem to
Chris Layton (drums) & Tommy Shannon (Bass) were a perfect match for for SRV
Chris Layton was a nice guy. But was a lack luster Drummer. Got to see SRV six times and loved him. I always wished if he had lived. That he could have found a Better Drum that would have push him...
All is said so good in the previous comments that I only have one small thing to say - SRV really loved Jimi Hendrix and you can tell it from listening to this. It´s not just a cover, it´s a tribute to an icon.
Two famous covers are Jimi Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" and Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt". Both are definitive.
Johnny Cash's really is great
Stevie Ray Vaughan was a master of the Texas Blues. He could play his guitar behind his back without missing a note. From my home state of Texas! R.I P. Stevie.
we lived on Laureland Rd and stood in our front yard watching the funeral procession drive by.
I think he was a master of blues period. World class by any measure. You have a point though: SRV was essentially a blues musician as Hendrix was a musician that often happened to play blues. Both will remain legends.
SRV is experiencing a resurgence in popularity because of CZcams. It is one thing to hear his guitar but to have the ability to watch the mastery is a whole different aspect and through this his music is a controversy. Yes, SRV's performances are sultry, theatrical and dramatic (although off stage he is the same man), because of what he does and various musical tactics he keeps you on the edge of your seat...but listening closely, or in a more peaceful setting or going back from video to audio only, he and his guitar play are very musical, one has to experience enough to get past the "easy excitement" to enjoy him on a purely musical level.
What he is most credited for is that he and his instrument are not 2 different objects or beings, it becomes just one entity. It is hard for a CZcamsr, reactioner to do SRV and not interrupt the guitar solo with comments as his whole performance or whole 90 minute concert is just one grand solo.
What I like about this song is that SRV completely owns it, makes it his own but at the same time homages and gives respect to the original Hendrix piece.
Amy, while absolutely we can enjoy guitar performance by other musicians more than SRV for personal taste reasons, I have no doubt that you just watched the best blues guitarist that ever lived, BB King said that of all people whom he played together with he enjoyed playing with SRV the most because he got so up close to him and got to interact with him, Eric Clapton said that the first time he heard SRV it frightened him because he had not believed that what he heard could possibly be played on a guitar.
May SRV rest his soul in peace and may his guitar finally get the cigarette break that it needed.
Well said :)
Chuck Berry's original "Johnny B. Goode" , to Jimi Hendrix ' s cover version, a MUST SEE !!!
SRV was a force of nature, and is greatly missed.
I was a huge Hendrix fan growing up (and still am). This was my first introduction to SRV. This clip you watched today. I was totally blown away and was a huge fan from that point on. He’s the only one that could really pull off a Hendrix cover. He also did a mind blowing rendition of another Hendrix song, little wing. Both versions are amazing. On a side not you should check out some live versions of Jimi Hendrix playing voodoo child.
Correct: compare and contrast live to live, not studio to live!
Stevie's guitar is beautiful. Every buckle rash, dent, guitar pick scratches tell a story. ✌️
I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble perform in Santa Barbara in 1984. Forty years ago. Can you believe that? I have watched every possible live version of Stevie's rendition of this song. I have my favorites, and each version has enough differences to make each unique in some small way. It's what makes live music so fun. This version is not in my top three favorites. I enjoy it, but every music listener brings their own tastes to a performance and my three favorites are: El Macombo (1983), Austin City Limits (1983), and Tokyo (1985). I won't say one version is better than another. They're just the ones that tickle my ears.
My favorites of this are #1 Toyko 1985, Austin City Limits 1989, as well as El Macombo
I saw him at Universal Amphitheatre, same year. I spent quite a bit of time that next week just staring at my guitar. That show changed how I hear the instrument forever.
i Remember seeing you up on stage with Stevie showing him how he should play this song thanks for Helping him.
My top 3 exactly.
Stevie Ray never played the songs exactly the same live because he said it felt like he would be copying himself. I guess if you had to play the same material over and over being on the road 200 days a year it could get a little repetitive and start to become more like a job if you didn't change things up. I saw him play at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in 1990. He was one of the best. Cheers!
Great idea for a series: All Along The Watchtower would be a perfect 'before & after' reaction video ..
#rockOnAmy
Bob Dylan wrote it, Hendrix owns it, then there Dave Matthews Band doing the Lords work
Ha, compare to the version of XTC :)
There's a Jimi Hendrix 1969 Voodoo child live in black and white that's good.
Hendrix live was so different because you felt he had no idea where the performance was going to go, and he focused on getting to the point where the guitar took him over and used his body as a means to come alive.
In contemporary language we would say he went into flow state on stage.
Interviews show he was incredibly shy and humble, he lived through the guitar.
The black and & white show is Stockholm 1969. There's a better one in colour from Maui 1970 that is a hell of a trip. On vimeo, you can see Berkeley 1970, Royal Albert Hall 1969, and my favourite, Atlanta Pop 1970, all in colour. The Atlanta Pop Voodoo Child shows why Hendrix was so special and un-recreatable.
He played on 14 gauge strings ! The man's a Beast !!!
One of the most amazing things about this is that he did NOT break a string... lol.. (Look at Little Sister, with string broken, no pause, and perfect guitar switch!)
I can go 11.5 on an acoustic (D standard) but 14's? Unreal!
@@ceebee491more often he played 13’s tuned down to e flat. But he does so many whole step Albert king licks it’s insane.
He also destroyed his hands and started using lighter gauges near the end.
Big SRV fan here. This rendition of Voodoo Child might just be my favorite of his many spectacular performances. Technical brilliance combined with powerful guitar play and deeply soulful voicing. This rendition is higher-tempo than the original (and most other renditions) and most satisfyingly urgent. Overwhelmingly charismatic; like a got dam volcano erupting . Love it more each & every time I view/hear it.
A few thoughts...
First, that wear pattern on a guitar is typically caused by a combination of the pick scratching the paint, the perspiration from the player's arm, and the friction of their arm or shirt sleeves against the guitar body. It has become popular in recent years to purchase brand new instruments that have been built to look this way from the factory...this is called a "relic" guitar. However, in Stevie's case, he purchased this guitar used from a shop window. He said it was already worn, and he could tell that it must ply and sound incredible by the amount of wear it sustained from the previous owner. I believe it was made in 1958 or '59.
Second, Hendrix often played extended versions of his recorded songs live, just as Stevie did here. You are correct in commenting that Stevie was playing faster, but he was also taking more time between some of the lines of lyrics than Hendrix did.
Third, it cannot be overstated that one of the big differences in the two versions of this song is that each man's backing band played their parts very differently. Stevie's band, Double Trouble, was playing more of a groove and staying in the pocket rhythmically, while Jimi's band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was much more frenetic as a rule and less in the pocket.
Finally, the Hendrix version was a studio recording complete with extra added guitar tracks and panning from speaker to speaker...this was missing from Stevie's live version (and from Hendrix's live versions). Also, Hendrix faded out for the ending of his studio version, while Stevie had to actually "end" his live version.
Looking forward to your future comparisons.
God bless!!
Great comment. Agree on all points. You saved me the trouble of typing all that out myself.
Another good point
and stevie's version is closer to the electric blues style, while the original is more psychedelic rock
stevie's guitar is a 1962. the wear on the back of the body is much worse than the wear on the front. stevie carved his name on the back so it could be identified if it was ever stolen.
@@marzsit9833 ...thanks for the correction. I thought I remembered reading that he thought it was either a '58 or '59 due to a sticker on thg he back of one of the pickups he once found. Again, thanks for the correction.
SRV also covered Jimmy's "Little Wing" It's beautiful!
Boy, I think your reaction is absolutely spot on. This is definitely speedier. Full props to Stevie to pull this off live, cuz Hendrix had a full studio at his disposal to get his message across. But this is just, (“just,” hah!) an homage to Hendrix.
Hendrix is SO much more than Voodoo Child. But he is also nothing less. Try to imagine…just try…to imagine what it was like to buy Electric Ladyland in 1968. There you are, sitting in your living room with some friends, you’ve heard “Purple Haze,” you’ve heard “Little Wing,” but you haven’t heard “The Star Spangled Banner” yet. Or “Machine Gun….” Or Eddie Van Halen, or Joe Satriani, or “insert your favorite metal guitarist here.” And then THIS happens.
And then…about a year and a half later..he was gone.
I don’t think I can explain it. I think you had to be there.
Oh GHAD!!! How can you not SEE that the man LIVED AND BREATHED playing--and the wear and tear is from YEARS of the DRIVING POWER he put into his playing!! You STILL have SOOOOOOOO much to learn about the energy that many dedicated to their playing!! There was NOTHING PHONY about Stevie when he plays! YES...he OWNS his playing! You want to see him at his past?!? That same Austin City performance has his "Masterpiece": RIviera Paradise! Watch/listen to THAT, and you'll see and hear more emotion coming from a rock musicians playing then you'd yet discovered. You NEED too! It will astound you!!
Stevie & his guitar definitely become one. It’s like it’s an extension of his body.
He was channeling, and never, never, lost on the fret board!
As a guitarist, That last solo and the ending, was insanely good. My lord.
Excellent choice. SRV is arguably the only artist to cover a legend and maybe have done it better. This isn't a knock against Hendrix, but a supreme compliment to Vaughan. RIP to both.
Hendrix has that feel, bends and off timing that nobody can replicate. But great cover, original is better right off the bat from the feel
I remember seeing Stevie do this live at a club when I was maybe 18. Blew my mind.
SRV was a master, a savant and he was always completely one with the guitar and the soul or essence of the music. He also almost never played a song the same way twice, he is mostly improvising, embellishing. Yes that is actual wear from how hard he plays. He uses extremely heavy strings, partly how to get really powerful sustain, but it's also really hard to both pluck and hold down at the frets, or bend notes. He played so hard he would often rip off fingertips, and he'd just crazy glue them back on to keep playing. You really must watch him do Texas Flood Live at the El Macombo to truly see how he is totally involved in the soul of the music, and his technique will amaze you. He is channeling Jimi here, and he is actually using Jimi's "wah wah" pedal too.
Here is a suggestion for a cover: You've done Beatles songs and this one is from The Concert For George after his untimely death, featuring dozens of famous people in the band, sung by Eric Clapton (who played on the original), and George's son Dhani is playing too, a spitting image of a Young George:
czcams.com/video/CrTMc2i6Lzc/video.html ( While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Taken from Concert For George) )
Speaking of offspring being a spitting image, here is something Amy will thoroughly enjoy, though it's probably not worthy of a reaction. David Gilmour and his daughter Romany doing a rendition of his solo song called Yes I have Ghosts. she on harp and he on acoustic guitar, filmed during covid lockdowns as a sort of family gathering/home movie (David being of Pink Floyd fame)
czcams.com/video/dGdEe8yp2TI/video.html ( David Gilmour with Romany Gilmour - Yes, I Have Ghosts (Von Trapped Series) )
And this short photo album set to David's playing shows just how alike his daughter is to his younger self:
czcams.com/video/T_gQ_D5yhAE/video.html ( David Gilmour and Romany Gilmour - Kokineli )
How many songs did he write
The one thing both Hendrix and SRV have in common, and this in often overlooked by guitarists, is that they have a mastery of their instruments. By this I mean both guitarists know acutely how to get a wide range of sounds from their guitars, in this case the Fender Stratocaster. Both Hendrix and SRV spent a long time getting to know what their guitars could and couldn't do, what modifications could be made and how the guitar felt beneath their fingers. Watch their live performances and you'll see them making adjustments to their instruments as they play, be it switching pickups, turning knobs or adjusting tuners. Many guitarists will strap on a guitar and knock out a tune and it wouldn't really matter what guitar they played but with Hendrix and SRV I don't think that was the case, their guitars were very personal to them and they could push them to their limits.
There are several different SRV performances of this song on yt. This one is done at a faster tempo than any of the others I've seen. Also if you watch 7 different SRV performances of this you'll get 7 different guitar solos. He never played the same song the same way twice.
There are really great, great guitar players out there. SRV is above them all!
If someone is an accomplished guitarist; (of the Rock genre); then seeing S R.V. leaves them absolutely speechless! 😶 Realizing the technical expertise & the amount of work, ie:[practice scratches on his 🎸 body]: then this amoji comes to mind😱 I don't know if anyone will ever be as good as this. All the G.O.A.T.S. only dream of achieving this level of G.O.A.T.I.S.M.🐐
I love these reaction videos!🙏✨❤️ Yes, Stevie loved Hendrix...& also Albert King...who later became like a father to him.
Texas blues stylings are a special creature. There are a lot of influences that went into them, and SRV blended them to perfection.
SRV gave Hendrix a fantastic tribute with this high energy version! ✌️😎
you don't have to prefer one over the other. The thing about Jimi vs Stevie is that the vibe is completely different, and depending on your mood at the time, you'll prefer one over the other....yet still like both for what they are.
Wow….there are so many great covers! : off the top of my head, There’s Heart covering Stairway to Heaven at Kennedy Center Honors 2012. A fun one would be to listen to the folk version of Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You by Joan Baez (which is itself a cover) and then the Led Zeppelin version. The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel and then the version by Disturbed. No Quarter by Led Zeppelin and then the cover by Tool (if you don’t mind going into some metal).
Hendrix was a genius and was a real pioneer for the time. No diminishing his impact and his talent. SRV was just as one with his instrument as Hendrix and this is a great tribute to Jimi but also demonstrates SRV's incredible skills. Would have been interesting if they were both still alive and rocking.
Compare live to live, not studio to live performance.
i think stevie ray - life without you at capitol theatre is the best guitar performance i ever seen. Very powerful. Or texas flood in japan
As mentioned earlier in the comments, Jimi covered All Along the Watchtower, and even Bob Dylan regarded it as the definitive version. Another significant cover is Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
How could someone remember all of those notes? Astounding. If he can't memorize them, he his making them up. Even more astounding.😊
SRV incredibly was a humble guitarist and he held Jimi Hendrix in very high regard. Before recording the song Voodoo Child, SRV sought out permission from Jimi Hendrix's father for permission to do a 'cover' of the song. That is quite incredible, considering what an amazing player SRV was. SRV was truly an amazing talent and an amazing person as well.
Jimi’s match. Stevie’s so clean.
Hendrix version is live too, but in the studio, it is improvisation because film crew asked them to play something for film, and the result is Voodoo child ( slight return), on album Electric Ladyland is another, longer, different version called Voodoo Chile, which is kind of base for Voodoo Child, but actually different song.
But the masterpiece of guitar playing is Machine Gun from Band of gypsies album.
I feel like the thing you were trying to describe about the two version's different rhythmic feel is that Stevie's cover has a bit of a Texas Swing influence. I think that the genius of many artists lies in their ability to mold tons of various influences into something new. That's what Jimi did and that's what Stevie did as well. We all build on the shoulders of giants.
I feel like Stevie took key elements from Jimi's version and accentuated and made them his own...When I leave this Earth plane I want to go to a show where they play together...How amazing that would be..Thanks for your reaction..Peace to you
Since you can't see his feet, you can't see him working the WAH pedal which was esserntial to this perfomance... Love the Wah pedal.
My favorite version of Voodoo Child. SRV has such great energy.
The energy here is just off the chart!
Amy: "Again, it's not about acting for the sake of appearance. It's about becoming for the sake of the music." Wow, wow, wow. This is a quote that should live on through the decades. I have never in my life encountered anyone with such a facility for communication as Amy - on CZcams or really anywhere else in the last 20 years. (Amy, I don't know if you have merchandise. I haven't looked. But if you do, add to your shop a T-shirt with this quote. If you do, and if I learn that you do, I will absolutely buy it.)
Apparently a 'cover' version was called that because a second artist would perform a rendition of, usually, a lesser known artist's song (oftentimes a black artist back in the day), then release their record to literally 'cover' up the original version on the shelf. Thankfully it no longer has that specific meaning, and has become a generalized term.
SRV covering hendrix is as perfect a start as you could make! HE does other hendrix songs too
SRV --- A true Texas treasure.......
One of the few, if not the only, true practitioner of Hendrix.....
I love this series of videos!!! M’am, SRV on the date of this performance, probably has played this song hundreds of times, he grew up listening to Hendrix, his older brother was/is in The Fabulous Thunderbirds band. What a talent, tragically taken away too young and too soon, like Jimi
Stevie was on the very top of his game here in this Austin City Limits performance. I remember watching it age 17 when it was first broadcast
I love your reaction. This truly is a Great Cover. I am so glad you got to experience this great performance. Stevie Ray, like Hendrix, is often near the top of the greatest guitarists lists (Hendrix is almost always the top). They both are incredibly gifted and they both play with a lot of expressiveness and soul. You had some great observations in contrasting this with the Hendrix version. I'm glad you visually paid attention to his techniques, and noticed how attuned with his body and soul he is to his guitar. While Stevie's performances of this are beloved and amazing, I agree that the Hendrix version has more profundity and depth. You are really starting to get attuned to what separates the great guitarists from the rest with two great examples.
His mouth is open so he can feel the music there. and of course he puts a proper blues ending on it.
Its always been crazy to me how he played it with such a fat stings, what a powerhouse of a man.
Thank you Amy. In the Hendrix vs. Stevie preference question, I greatly admire Stevie's technique and passion. And yet Jimi's tone speaks to me as even deeper in how it touches me. If you hear and watch Jimi's Maui and especially Woodstock performances of Voodoo Child, you will be transported with him to a faraway galaxy. Stevie never met Hendrix, but always felt a kinship with him. Hendrix was known as a very gentle, friendly soul, and gave great credit to other musicians, and that giving reputation followed him in death.
Re. covers: great idea! I like the idea of "Famous but Bad" covers, where you react to a popular cover that is much worse than the original. First prize goes to, wait for it...
...Guns and Roses playing a _dance_ version of Dylan's immortal "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Their cover treats a tragic death (that is seen in the film, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," for which it was written) as a celebration: it is morally wrong, however fine the musicianship. Am I wrong? Sigh, I hope so. I probably mistake enthusiam for judgment. Anyway, hear the original, one of the greatest folksongs ever, and some great covers like The Grateful Dead would do, or the very best version of all by Mark Knopfler. Mark's version was a memorial to schoolchildren cut down at Dunblane School in Scotland, it will rip your heart out. He asked Bob to let him rewrite the song, and of course Dylan obliged. Some links below. Peace!
Original from the "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" soundtrack:
czcams.com/video/rm9coqlk8fY/video.htmlsi=kgSnX2aa-8EP8ok1
Dunblane (Mark Knopfler and Ted Christopher):
czcams.com/video/4KbEQjvgC0c/video.htmlsi=Fl25iFGFDHxzfF2J
From Dylan and the Dead album:
music.czcams.com/video/71xr3tV4tyc/video.html&si=tyx8za6FQUAOV00i
SRV's Strat he wasa playing here was his number 1 guitar and had the neck replaced many times. he played them till they were worn out. Yes as said below he was a Hendrix fan and used him as inspiration. Watch SRV "Texas Flood" Live at El Macombo you will be blown away. He is in my humble opinion the greatest Blues guitarist of all time and gone way to soon.
Superb musicians, fantastic song, and a wonderful job comparing the two. Very enjoyable and informative reaction. Thanks
This is from Stevie’s 1989 Austin City Limits performance. He had cleaned up, just released his album In Step and was at the absolute top of his game. He and his band were locked-in together and so tight. You can see the quick glance at the others just as the breakdown after the first solo starts.
About the guitar: All of those marks and wear are from playing it. That was his #1. Also, he usually used .11 gauge strings most of the time-ridiculously heavy strings. And look how easily he would bend them. Just incredible strength and ability.
All along the watchtower by Hendrix is one of his best. Bob Dylan song that Hendrix just owned.
If you want to see a worn guitar that’s so worn it makes SRV #1 look slightly used, check out Willie Nelson’s old acoustic, named Trigger.
Indeed - the original version is profound. SRV did a great tribute to it, his interpretation came from the heart.
It has a faster beat than the original, you are spot on❤
just 3 guys owning a crowd. its amazing.
Yea Stevie Ray Vaughan does a godly transcendent performance but the whole band played great. It’s amazing how loose and spontaneous of a performance it is that the band members can lock in on some spots the way they did. Like the runs the bass player does in step with Stevie is amazing as well
My opinion, Jimi was inspired by improvisation(starting with a blank sheet) and SRV was inspired by Jimi. Side by side, both were individuals in their results. Jimi was the first to employ the new technology of special effects of distortion controlled with pedals in his own inventive way, inspiring many who followed. Complicating the issue of a Jimi rendition was that he played a right-hand guitar upside-down left-handed.
SRV isn't human... in the list of covers I enjoy more than the original, this is up there.
Another great reaction. As much as I love this SRV cover, the Jimi Hendrix original is more expansive, more profound - Jimi had his own guitar planet all to himself 👍
So glad that you came across Stevie Ray in this way. I truly think you would be impressed with Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa's cover of the classic Etta James song "I'd rather go blind" live in Amsterdam. Truly a performance for the ages.
Keep up the great work Amy, i really appreciate your take on music.
The dude is just so good . I really started learning to play because of Stevie and Robert cray but Stevie was the goat
I was gonna request this when I saw you doing Hendrix!!! He’s got a great cover of Little Wing too :)
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this new series! And I love your intro about how in classical, almost every single song we hear is a "cover", an interpretation. I never thought of it that way before, but of course you are right? Oh, please, pretty please, do "Raining Blood". Original: Slayer. And for the cover, review the very haunting and different cover by Tori Amos. This might not be the epitome of rock covers, but it will show the versatility of rock. The original Slayer sock is a substitute for caffeine. The Tori Amos version will cause nightmares.
I always felt Stevie had a spiritual connection with Jimi. He did a beautiful cover of Little Wing too.
You NEED to listen to Lenny by Stevie. An absolute textbook example of emotion and feel while playing an instrument.
I went into a music shop and out back I could hear a guitar tinkling out "The Wind Cries Mary." I tranced out back and when the guitarist was finished I gave praise. The old man turned and said, "I only wish I could let the guitar breathe like Hendrix." Every Hendrix track I listened to thereafter I became aware of the inhale and exhale.
2 great players who died way too young.. sad .. nice reaction.
Stevie is pure energy, which is (to me) whats so impressive, that he could maintain it for a whole show. Hes a very driving and confident preformer.
Jimi liked a little air of mystery and I think thats across all of his music.
Not talking about all the alcohol and cocaine that was flowing in his bloodstream
This is Stevie Ray's speeded up version of the song. I recommend also checking out a second of his live versions. The others tend to be much slower with a lot more subtlety. Especially when you're comparing it directly to Hendricks, checking out one of these other videos is very important.
Check out Stevie Ray's other version here: czcams.com/video/JoB_YBXXEOU/video.html
I love your acknowledgment to the similarities between covers and classical interpretation
Some covers are better than the original , sometimes because the quality of the production has seriously increased , but also because the voice matches the song better. I have a theory that each song has the perfect voice for it. If you get that perfect the result is just music heaven. For example i would suggest to aficionado`s
Mr Sandman- Pomplamoose
You Belong to me - Kate Rusby
Saudade, Saudade - Maro (live in the church in Avinyo)
Dream a little Dream of me - Laura Fyge
Harvest Moon - Elle & Toni ( live in front of the lake)
I could go on and on, and on and on !!
It is also the case that the best singer in the world e.g .Ella Fitzgerald can sound awful when she sings the wrong song for her spectacular voice
But hey, that`s just like, my opinion man.
What if it's an instrumental?
then i would say some instruments ,like the different voices ,better match the tune e.g. Oblivion by Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi , on CZcams with his accordion , particularly if they happen to be one of the best musicians in the world, which he clearly is !!@@nellgwenn
I think you spotted how connected Stevie is with what he's playing. That was his signature as a performer, in addition to the amazing strength and dexterity of his hands. His peers often marveled at how, like Hendrix, the music just poured from him, seemingly without effort. Stevie also composed some beautiful pieces of his own: "Lenny" and "Riviera Paradise" come to mind. These, along with his recorded interpretation of Hendrix' "Little Wing" are testaments to his stunning virtuosity with the instrument. His work has inspired young guitarists ever since.
To listen to you compliment SRV with your background brings me great joy. Thanks!
Watch his live performance of "Third Stone from the Sun" and you'll see why his guitar looks like that. Plus it was built in the late 50's.
Joe Cocker's cover of the Beatles' "A Little Help From My Friends" is an obvious choice. What I'd really like to see is "Rock and Roll" by the Velvet Underground covered by Jane's Addiction.
What a guitarist! He matches Hendrix.
The great thing is we don't have to choose. We get to have both.
For me both Stevie and Jimi stand alone in the electric guitar pantheon. On hearing Jimi for the first time on the radio, back then, the description “cosmic soul” came to mind. It was as if his music, his playing came from the heavens. As in supernovas and neutron stars and colliding galaxies. And yet soulful. The Blues. I saw/heard Jimi play at the Berkeley Community Theatre. I thought there will never be another one like him again in my lifetime. But Stevie…damn! He played with the same spirit and the same unbounded joy and energy as Jimi. And the music, the chaotic beauty of frequencies and sounds and colors feeding back becoming a natural force, becoming a solar wind blowing through us. And we with our feet in the mud taking a primordial dive into the stuff of life through Jimi and Stevie.
He’s bending over to adjust one of his pedals that isn’t responding correctly. The guitar is a 1960 Fender Stratocaster and the wear you see is real, not enhanced “relic” of the instrument. And yes, “he owned it”. May I suggest you review T-Bone Walker’s “Call it Stormy Monday” and the Allman Brothers Band’s cover of that Blues classic. Btw, I love your channel!
+1 for Stormy Monday. Together, SRV and Albert King also did a compelling cover of Stormy Monday. Albert was Stevie's friend and mentor and it's amazing to watch them play together on the In Session video. Their discussions between songs are priceless.
@@donaldwhite9291 correct, Stevie called Albert his “godfather”. Anything SRV covered is great, but for me the Brothers version is THE version. I saw the Brothers more times than I can count, back around 98 or 98, in that timeframe I saw them do it at the Beacon in NYC with a player I had never heard of before. It was Jack Pearson who replaced Warren Haynes for a few years, his solo on Stormy Monday was the best version of ever heard, he blew the roof off the place. On the Brothers 40th anniversary I was in the house on 3/20/09 when Clapton sat in for the entire second set, Clapton and the boys did Stormy Monday but it was nowhere near as good as Pearson’s version. Btw, Clapton was the 3rd best guitar player on the stage that night…..
For me the difference is Stevie Ray Vaughn is more about speed and technical ability. He just cleans up what Hendrix created and makes it shiny, fast and new, where as Jimi Hendrix enjoys experimenting more and puts more of a mystic, out of this world feeling into his guitar playing and takes you on a trip somewhere. I highly, highly suggest you listen to (or watch, the video of the performance has recently been released on CZcams) of Jimi Hendrix - "Machine Gun". It will literally take you to _another_ plane of consciousness with what he does.
Saw SRV twice. Once at the pier in NYC in 1986, he was 15 feet away.
The Hendrix original came out when S.R.Vaughan was 14, and Vaughan tuned his guitar down like Hendrix so he could learn from the records - otherwise patterns that use open strings would be a problem. After learning them, he turned them into showcases for his guitar playing. I hope you know they were using a wah wah pedal for the intro and end themes. They didn't show what he was doing with his foot. When Stevie bent down, he was probably adjusting a setting on the Octavia pedal (a common Hendrix pedal), which he was using for the second solo. If you listen again, notice the addition of a tone an octave higher than the one he was fingering.
Thank you for this! I loved it! I was lucky enough to see him once, on the Pier in NYC. He did 2 encores. One was 3 Hendrix songs and the second one was just him playing 3 instrumentals, just him and his guitar without his band. When he played the instrumentals, the audience was silent while he played. When he finished the last one, he just put his guitar down on his stand and walked off the stage. By far the best concert I’ve ever seen.
Stevies version of this song out grooved jimi's by a longshot
The first time Stevie played Montreux Jazz in 1982 he had no album out yet. He was booed by the majority of the audience during his set. Upon returning three years later he was a blues star having released two albums. The Montreux audience were excited to see him.
this much depth reacting to something so far out or your own musical "wheelhouse" is truly extraordinary.
also, the idea the SRV would fake wear and tear on his guitar borders on sacrilege.
SRV... He did great everything, covers, original songs. He was the Midas of Texas blues, he turned whatever he touched in gold.
A really good comparison of interpretation of a cover, would be the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt” , which was covered by the late great Johnny Cash near the end of his life, as he reflects on his own hurt, remembering his life and then the loss of his wife June Carter. Trent Reznor, the songwriter from NIN himself said of Johnny’s interpretation, “It’s not my song anymore.”.
My observation is that the version I hear first always seems to be my favorite. It's like it imprints upon my mind, and while covers may be good, they rarely surpass the original, which my mind seems to automatically consider the "standard."
Watch Jimi Hendrix live version from Woodstock. Then re-evaluate the comparison.
BTW that is wear from playing. Guitar manufacturers now sell guitars which mimic the natural wear which they call relicing. Some guitarists also do this themselves.
Riviera paradise in Austin TX....it will amaze you