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Stevie Vaughan and Double Trouble always seemed at their best in small, intimate venues like Austin City Limits. Stevie is brilliant, as always, and the band's version here of "Voodoo Chile" is my favorite, even over their countless other live versions on CD. Double Trouble are often overlooked by fans, and unjustly so. Chris Layton plays with the kind of effortless "groove" that Jack Bruce once attributed to Ginger Baker; Tommy Shannon's bass on "Voodoo Chile" is just plain funky. The presence of Reese Wynans at the '89 show, while anathema to so-called purists, is a blessing for real music fans. Just listen to his work on "Riviera Paradise."
Back to Stevie: this DVD is a virtual instructional video for guitar students. The camera work is heavy on close-ups of Stevie's picking, strumming, and fingering. He really uses his instrument, and God bless Fender for loading their Stratocasters with so many tools. Going back to "Voodoo Chile" again, watch how much Stevie plays with the pickup selector, volume, and tone knobs to get the sounds he wants.
My favorite part of this DVD comes in a break between "Cold Shot" and "Crossfire": in the silence between songs, Stevie pokes fun at himself by shooting one of his trademark sneers at the audience. This elicits a laugh from the people, and Stevie in turn breaks out into a toothy grin. Then make sure your home theater system is cranked up, because right before the band starts "Crossfire" Stevie lets rip a little diddle on the low end that always raises the hair on the back of my neck. It's very quick and easy to miss, but in that one-second burst we get a sense of the massive reservoir of raw energy and talent from which Stevie drew for his relatively controlled performances. And the warmth and brightness from that old, beat-up, Marshall-driven '59 Strat are absolutely amazing. At least in Stevie Ray Vaughan's hands, anyway...
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Pay no attention to the 80's hairband moron who wrote the bad review. Stevie proves that you don't have to play a Paganini Caprice at lighning speed to play with heart and soul. If you love the blues or simply love to see an true artist express himself with complete abandon, buy this DVD.
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why are you praising this guy so much? he was just playing the blues! anyone can do that now-a-days! i thought the dvd was boring and was another blues artist. big freakin' deal!
you want some real guitar master, search for steve vai, joe satriani, yngwie malmsteen, john petrucci, tony mcalpine, etc... these are the true guitar gods!
lets be real here, the dvd was crap. don't waste your money on it.
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What a truely memorable performence done by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble live at the austin city limits (Austin Texas). I truely beleive this is one of the best Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD's out on the market as well as his two performences at the austin city limit both in 83, and 89. Of course Stevie Ray Vaughan was alot younger in 83 perhaps his twenties with a rawer sound, and when he came back in 89 he was a whole differnt person with a cleaner sound still playing his "Heart Out"!. From the start Pride And Joy, Texas Flood, and Voodoo Chile are the best three songs from the 1983 performence at austin city limits and the only three songs, the 1989 performence is even better including a great blues tunes like Leave My Girl Alone, and The House Is Rockin'.
The bonus material includes Interactive Menus, High Quality Dolby Digital Surround Sound, Dolby Stereo, English Subtitles/Lyrics, and Instant Acess To All Of The Songs. Cold Shot is one of my favorite songs on this movie, so is Crossfire. I think for any music fan this will be truely a memorable performence for anybody. Their is an added bonus video included titled Little Wing which is really cool with rare glimpses of blues greatest Hendrix, Leadbelly, and T-Bone Walker. They also take you a behind scences look in the manufaucter room, and greats such as Albert King holding Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature guitar models in the video: Little Wing. This is a must have......TRUELY!!Highly Recomened!
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to me this is one those dvds you just cant get enough of. when you listen to it' you just want to listen to it once again and again thats how it is for me. stevie really shows his stuff on this one. leave my girl alone theres no words to put on here how good that one is. you just listen and watch for your self and find out. the second part to the 1989 videos can be found on the srv box set 2000.i wish they would have put it all on there as well. theres been talk about other dvds to come out soon and well like every other srv fan im still waiting? and then theres the movie talk to caught in the crossfire. now we all know he should have had a movie about his life come out a long time ago. buy this dvd you'll be glad you did. a fan always
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