Stevie didn't "Play" Guitar, he possessed it.  He never played a song the same way twice, the music just flowed from his soul to his hands.

BB king said "I thought I knew everything about blues until this skinny kid from Texas started playin"  High praise from the Man himself.

When Eric Clapton first heard Stevie Ray Vaughan on a car radio, he had to pull over to the side of the road just to hear him play.

Stevie Ray =  The legend of guitar legends.The GOAT

Young people getting educated. I love it!!
Stevie!! Jimmy!! So great!!

“Texas Flood” from live at the El Mocambo is the finest, most raw, and mind blowing blues performance ever recorded live. There's are hundreds of reaction videos on it. If you don't do a video on it, at least watch it. Its superhuman.

Stevie sadly passed in a helicopter crash just 7 years into his mainstream career. He is usually always in the top 10 guitarist conversation.which is extremely impressive for such a short career. He was a once in a lifetime guitarist and overall, a kind soul. He used to play upwards of 16 hours a day, and superglue is fingers back together when they started bleeding! He also played some of the heaviest guitar strings available, which isn't that crazy to a non guitarist, but to a guitarist, it is absolutely incredible the way he bent them. And, the craziest of all from a guitarist standpoint is that he knew hardly any music theory... The solos you heard coming from the guitar were different every time  and entirely made up on the spot every time without any music theory to guide him. He is very impressive to a non guitarist, but to a guitarist, it almost makes no damn sense how he was so good. Guitarists have always tried to replicate Stevie's playing ever since he popped out of the Texas blues scene, and no one, and I mean NO ONE, has ever replicated his playing. There is something in his fingers that only a very few amount of humans have ever had, and whatever it is, it is not an aquired skill you're born with it. If Stevie had not sadly passed so early into his career... Everyone would know the name Stevie Ray Vaughan..... Next reaction has to be "Texas Flood" it is by far his most impressive performance.

Stevie was killed in a helicopter crash 10 months after this concert at the age of 35. He was also the first white person to be inducted to the blues Hall of Fame. He received a Grammy, he played at Carnegie Hall and he played for the 1989 Presidential Inauguration. If you want to get to know Stevie Ray Vaughan first check out his performance of Texas Flood at El mocambo. His best songs that he wrote our Life Without You 1985 Capitol Theater, Riviera Paradise and Lenny. He was sober 4 years before his death and he and his brother Jimmie Vaughan of The Fabulous Thunderbirds recorded an album together called Family Style. Jimmy released it 1 month after his death. We love him and miss him so much even after 33 years. RIP💔 SRV🎸

Double Trouble gets slept on.

That rhythm section is perfection.

G.O.A.T.  He's unbelievable.  I'm so glad you found him.
Yeah, SRV is covering Hendrix, and doing it even better.  One of his gifts was his ability to imitate other guitarists' styles.  Stevie and Jimi jamming in heaven, and God Himself rocking out.

Stevie was as humble as he was talented. He did several Hendrix songs due to his love for Jimi. Stevie was a Texas Bluesman at heart, and you have to check him out doing the Blues. Let me recommend a few for you. “Texas Flood” from El Mocambo, “Tin Pan Alley” with Johnny Copeland from Montreux 1985, and “Mary Had a Little Lamb” from this same concert, Austin, 1989. Put on your seatbelt!

Stevie Ray could make that guitar sing and he could make it cry.  Both in front, or behind his back. The GOAT

I'm 49, and I'll never forget the day we lost Stevie Ray Vaughn to that crash. I was only 16 and absolutely gutted because it was his solo on David Bowie's "Let's Dance" that introduced us to this talent, and he single handedly brought the Blues back to the mainstream. Every blues artist -- every single one -- saw a surge in record sales after Stevie blew up. His rising tide lifted everybody's boat and as much as people flocked to him, they also flocked to JJ Cale, BB King, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson. The dude was just pure fire, and we lost him a year before we lost Freddie Mercury of Queen. And most people don't know this but Stevie played with the heaviest guage strings all his life and suffered from it. His finger strength is sick and he bend those strings like nothing. He's unparalleled. ❤

It's fun watching people see  SRV  for the first time !

One of the best.guitarists.ever! When he died, we lost a valuable treasure.

Speaking as a guitarist, Stevie was indeed shredding.

Most all top guitarist of the world praised him as being one of the best. This coming from the guys he studied as a kid, Eric Clapton, BB King ,Jeff Beck. As a teen he would hang out at the kuke joints and watch and learn from the bleus greats...He just got on stage with Albert King once ,as a teen, and asked if could play with the band. They were blown away at his abilitiy as how young he was. He died in a copter crash after one of his concerts with some of Claptons crew members. He was hugely influenced by Hendrix whose song this is" Voodoo Child"...made it his own with elements of Jimi of course...one of his best live performances in my opinion...RIP

Die hard Stevie fan. He almost never plays with eyes open. Just flows through him.

August 27th  1990 rip SRV...THE TOP2 in any GOAT  conversation concerning guitar....

Listen to Riviera paradise you'll feel SRV soul