cocaine's a hell of a drug.

[smackaholic]

judging by the gallon of sweat he loses during this number, I'd say he had a fair bit of it flowing through him at the time, along with a few gallons of crown royal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEp2QLicd9Y

[smackaholic]

another from the master of the stratocaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpkSRtc ... re=related

[War Wagon]

Wtf, cockaholic? Just mention this fuckers name in the thread title, I come running.

SRV died clean and sober, and a bigger ripoff to music fans has never happened since John Lennon.

I got to see him live in concert, twice, at the Starlight theater here in KC. First time I think in 1987 and then again in 1989... the before and after versions, as it were. I consider myself very fortunate.

My favorite

[smackaholic]

You sir, are indeed a lucky man. As lucky as a scrawny fork lift driver from the arsehole of the universe has any right being, anyway. :)

The more I listen to SRV, the more I realize that his passing was prolly the worst loss to the music bidness evah. As for lennon, he shot his load in the 60s. He seemed more interested in being mrs yoko ono and other trivial bullshit, than he was in writing music. Stevie, otoh, was all about the music and was sure to treat us to many more years of really good stuff.

prolly my favorite here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U

as some you tuber said, this shit's so nasty, you need a shower after listening to it.

[BSmack]

I saw this show at the Rochester War Memorial on May 11th 1988.



The setlists.

SRV

• 1 Look At Little Sister
  2 You'll Be Mine
  3 Mary Had A Little Lamb
  4 Texas Flood
  5 Superstition
  6 Willie the Wimp
  7 Cold Shot
  8 Couldn't Stand the Weather
  9 Life Without You
  10 Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

Robert Plant

• Helen Of Troy
  Other Arms
  Heaven Knows
  In The Evening
  In The Mood
  Black Country Woman
  Ship Of Fools
  Little By Little
  Dimples
  Trampled Under Foot
  Billy's Revenge
  Misty Mountain Hop
  
  Encores
  
  Tall Cool One
  Big Log
  Break On Through

Not a bad little evening. SRV tore the place down that night, but Robert Plant playing Zeppelin songs for the first time in the USA as a solo act was about the only thing that could have possibly topped Stevie's performance that night. And it did, Just barely. I just wish Plant would have let Stevie play his full set.

[War Wagon]

As for lennon, he shot his load in the 60s. He seemed more interested in being mrs yoko ono and other trivial bullshit, than he was in writing music.

Wrong.

Lennon had just released Double Fantasy, a fabulous album, before he got murdered at the ripe old age of 40. He had much left to contribute.

Stevie, otoh, was all about the music and was sure to treat us to many more years of really good stuff.

Not to mention the example he could've set showing the joy of a life free from drug and alcohol addiction. Dude went thru hell before he sobered up.

[smackaholic]

I saw this show at the Rochester War Memorial on May 11th 1988.



The setlists.

SRV

• 1 Look At Little Sister
  2 You'll Be Mine
  3 Mary Had A Little Lamb
  4 Texas Flood
  5 Superstition
  6 Willie the Wimp
  7 Cold Shot
  8 Couldn't Stand the Weather
  9 Life Without You
  10 Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

Robert Plant

• Helen Of Troy
  Other Arms
  Heaven Knows
  In The Evening
  In The Mood
  Black Country Woman
  Ship Of Fools
  Little By Little
  Dimples
  Trampled Under Foot
  Billy's Revenge
  Misty Mountain Hop
  
  Encores
  
  Tall Cool One
  Big Log
  Break On Through

Not a bad little evening. SRV tore the place down that night, but Robert Plant playing Zeppelin songs for the first time in the USA as a solo act was about the only thing that could have possibly topped Stevie's performance that night. And it did, Just barely. I just wish Plant would have let Stevie play his full set.

Big zep fan and all, but, short of resurecting bonzo, I just don't see plant topping stevie. Must have been one hell of a show. Prolly the only time in the last 50 years that being in crapchester would have been a good thing.

How awesome was stevie's sound live. Listing to it on crappy pc speakers gives me goosebumps. Can't even imagine how sweet it must have been live.

[smackaholic]

As for lennon, he shot his load in the 60s. He seemed more interested in being mrs yoko ono and other trivial bullshit, than he was in writing music.

Wrong.

Lennon had just released Double Fantasy, a fabulous album, before he got murdered at the ripe old age of 40. He had much left to contribute.

Stevie, otoh, was all about the music and was sure to treat us to many more years of really good stuff.

Not to mention the example he could've set showing the joy of a life free from drug and alcohol addiction. Dude went thru hell before he sobered up.

yeah, he did come out of hibernation to put up a pretty good album. Maybe he would have made up for doing pretty much jack shit during the 70s. Would still rather have stevie back though.

And rack the comment about SRV living a clean sober life. I have heard from some that his already other worldly skills were still sharpening as a result of him being sober. What a fukking shame he climbed on that copter.

[BSmack]

Big zep fan and all, but, short of resurecting bonzo, I just don't see plant topping stevie. Must have been one hell of a show. Prolly the only time in the last 50 years that being in crapchester would have been a good thing.

How awesome was stevie's sound live. Listing to it on crappy pc speakers gives me goosebumps. Can't even imagine how sweet it must have been live.

The historical nature of Plant's show can't be understated. I and 10,000 of my fellow Rochesterians were the first Americans to ever see and hear "In the Evening" played live on American soil. EVER. I still remember to this day the into being played and the thunderous roar from the crowd as we all simultaneously realized what we were about to hear. And then Plant let out that primal wail "In the eeeeeeevening!" and it was like a 50,000 watt jolt to the spine as 10,000 Bic lighters sparked in unison. Yea sure, there had been things written in the music magazines of the time that Plant was ready to lift his self imposed moratorium on playing Zeppelin material. But here we were HEARING it, all of us, for the first time. Truly a magical moment. SRV was great, but THIS was like being at a rally in Nuremberg with Marshall stacks, Les Pauls and minus all the negative Nazi vibes .

But believe me, SRV was no warmup band. Only someone of Robert Plant's stature could have ever possibly followed him. His originals rocked, his takes on Superstition and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) were utterly fantastic, he did all the tricks like playing behind his head and with his teeth, and his sound was awesome. This was a festival seating show and I was all over the place that night. But no matter where I was, he and his band sounded dynamite.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

SRV? Technically great. Creatively...tepid.

[War Wagon]

***Sorry, Whitey. Seriously. I'm the dumbfuck right now*** :doh: :doh: :doh:

Two points, Illiterate Wagon:

Put it this way. There aren't too many folks whom I pay to go see twice.

We know. You're a blithering fucking idiot.

Big names should be more careful who they put on the undercard, lest they be upstaged.

No, they shouldn't. That leads to shit fucking bands opening and wasting your time and money. Yeah, it really sucked to see Wolf Parade open up for the Arcade Fire. Woudln't want to be upstaged. Dumbfuck.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

George Thoroughgood and the Delaware Destroyers...

You realise Dins is apoplectic at this point and as soon as he stops shaking in spasms he will reign his might down upon you, right?


WAR ~ the coming storm

[War Wagon]

SRV? Technically great. Creatively...tepid.

SRV's creativity was in that he took the black blues sound and made it mainstream. I think it was Albert King who said Stevie was a black man in a white mans body... and man could he play guitar.

[War Wagon]

George Thoroughgood and the Delaware Destroyers...

You realise Dins is apoplectic at this point and as soon as he stops shaking in spasms he will reign his might down upon you, right?


WAR ~ the coming storm

Did I mis-spell something?

Cool. I'm always up for a Dins rant, even when it's directed at me... especially when it's directed at me.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

SRV's creativity was in that he took the black blues sound and made it mainstream.

Wow. Never heard that one before...


the one millionth iteration of a rock/blues theme =

[War Wagon]

***Sorry, Whitey. Seriously. I'm the dumbfuck right now*** :doh: :doh: :doh:

Hit the edit instead of quote button, eh?

No worries. I've done that.

[War Wagon]

the one millionth iteration of a rock/blues theme =

And what's wrong with that, other than stating the obvious?

Sorry, Marty... I hope this doesn't bore you also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlSuMW3M ... re=related

outfuckingstanding. I guess we can see where both SRV and George Thorogood got some inspiration.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

the one millionth iteration of a rock/blues theme =

And what's wrong with that, other than stating the obvious?

It's fucking boring. Art shouldn't be boring.

"He everybody, let's go check out this dude with a feather in his sombrero whip through the scales like it's nobody's business!"

[War Wagon]

Like I said, sorry to bore you, but YES, let's. :D

I'm not too concerned if you approve or not.

I know what I like.

[smackaholic]

marty,

you call srv's creativity tepid?

moron.

do you say this because he did a lot of covers? he also did some pretty amazing original stuff. you gonna tell me something like 'lenny' does show artistry?

you really are a dumbfukk.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

marty,

you call srv's creativity tepid?

moron.

do you say this because he did a lot of covers? he also did some pretty amazing original stuff. you gonna tell me something like 'lenny' does show artistry?

you really are a dumbfukk.

You want guitar wankery? Go to your local guitar shop on a Saturday afternoon. Thousands of SRV's waiting "to be discovered".

Not a fan of Stevie Ray Yawn. Hackneyed, formulaic.

BUT THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!

Back in '86 or '87, my dad's Cutlass Ciera was stolen one night outside the house. Cops tracked it down 4 days later about 12 blocks away. Apparently, some junkie jacked it...they found him asleep on the back seat, ashtray full of syringes
and...you guessed it...a George Thoroughgood tape in the tape deck. No shit. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

[BSmack]

Big names should be more careful who they put on the undercard, lest they be upstaged.

No, they shouldn't. That leads to shit fucking bands opening and wasting your time and money. Yeah, it really sucked to see Wolf Parade open up for the Arcade Fire. Woudln't want to be upstaged. Dumbfuck.

Got to agree with Screwy on this one. Good opening acts are like getting free tickets to a concert IMO. If you think you have the chops to be a headliner, then you ought to be able to back it up against a good opening act. Kinda like when I saw Deep Purple and Blackfoot opened for them. Blackfoot was good. I mean they were REALLY good. But after 2 minutes of Deep Purple Mark II cranking out Highway Star, I had forgotten all about Blackfoot.

I give Plant a lot of credit for giving SRV a spot on his bill. It showed that Plant was secure enough in what he was doing that he didn't care who he followed. And it gave SRV a new audience of die hard Zep Heads who might otherwise have not paid him any mind.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

And it gave SRV a new audience of die hard Zep Heads who might otherwise have not paid him any mind.

You mean other than hearing them back-to-back on every classic rock station in the known universe?

Well, props to SRV. I'm sure he at least kicked some money over to the original artists he covered, unlike Theft Zeppelin.

It figures they would appeal to you.

[War Wagon]

BUT THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!

Back in '86 or '87, my dad's Cutlass Ciera was stolen one night outside the house. Cops tracked it down 4 days later about 12 blocks away. Apparently, some junkie jacked it...they found him asleep on the back seat, ashtray full of syringes
and...you guessed it...a George Thoroughgood tape in the tape deck. No shit. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

That's a Fargo reset.

You're lying.

[smackaholic]

You want guitar wankery? Go to your local guitar shop on a Saturday afternoon. Thousands of SRV's waiting "to be discovered".

...you guessed it...a George Thoroughgood tape in the tape deck. No shit. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

wankery? 'lenny' is a long way from wankery. didn't listen to it, did ya? wankery is yngwie or steve vai.

did you keep the thoroughgood tape?

[BSmack]

And it gave SRV a new audience of die hard Zep Heads who might otherwise have not paid him any mind.

You mean other than hearing them back-to-back on every classic rock station in the known universe?

[Iroc Vinnie]You didn't hear a lot of Stevie Ray on Rochester radio until after he died. I mean hey, they was OK, but they wasn't no Foreigner or Duke Jupiter.[/Iroc Vinnie]

You dig?

[Smackie Chan]

Good opening acts are like getting free tickets to a concert IMO. If you think you have the chops to be a headliner, then you ought to be able to back it up against a good opening act.

Saw Alvin Lee as an opening act for ... Kansas!! Sure, their music is considerably different from each other, and Kansas fans probably were stoked by the show. But Kansas can't hold a candle to someone like Alvin Lee, and this was a case where the opening act was far superior to the headliner.

Then again, Jimi Hendrix did open for The Monkees.

[Screw_Michigan]

Big names should be more careful who they put on the undercard, lest they be upstaged.

No, they shouldn't. That leads to shit fucking bands opening and wasting your time and money. Yeah, it really sucked to see Wolf Parade open up for the Arcade Fire. Woudln't want to be upstaged. Dumbfuck.

Got to agree with Screwy on this one. Good opening acts are like getting free tickets to a concert IMO. If you think you have the chops to be a headliner, then you ought to be able to back it up against a good opening act. Kinda like when I saw Deep Purple and Blackfoot opened for them. Blackfoot was good. I mean they were REALLY good. But after 2 minutes of Deep Purple Mark II cranking out Highway Star, I had forgotten all about Blackfoot.

I give Plant a lot of credit for giving SRV a spot on his bill. It showed that Plant was secure enough in what he was doing that he didn't care who he followed. And it gave SRV a new audience of die hard Zep Heads who might otherwise have not paid him any mind.

Back in my dumbfuck concert days, my friends and I were more concerned with getting as piss drunk as possible before showing up for the main act. Sometimes we timed this well and showed up in time to see the entire main act, but many times, we showed up really late for the show and missed a a lot of a band we were really looking forward to seeing. We also passed up many sweet openers because we were dumbfucks. For example, when I went on my mini Pearl Jam tour in 03, we missed seeing Sparta, Idlewild, Sleater-Kinney, and Steve Earl because we were too busy getting properly tanked. In addition to that, we/I didn't bother checking out the opening bands, which was a big mistake. Because of the latter, this is why I missed seeing then-unknown to me, Wolf Parade, open for the Arcade Fire in 05. Big mistake. BIG MISTAKE. I'm going to see Fujiya and Miyagi pretty soon, and School of Seven Bells are opening for them. I'm almost going to see S7B first and foremost.

Also, if you went by Whitey's logic, you'd never had the 92 tour of Faith No More-Metallica-Guns N Roses. Many people I've spoken to who went to shows on that tour said Metallica blew GNR away, which is no surprise. But that is a heavyweight lineup we'd never had the chance to see if Axl went by Whitey's logic. Also, wouldn't have seen Pearl Jam open for the Stones in 95.

[BSmack]

wankery? 'lenny' is a long way from wankery. didn't listen to it, did ya? wankery is yngwie or steve vai.

Now you've unleashed the fucking FURY!

[smackaholic]

if there is a hell, i suspect that yngwie will be piped over the loudspeaker nonstop.

who do suppose has more soul in that clip, yngwie or the drum machine? i'm going with the drum machine.

oh, and bri, it's the "motherfukking fyyyyuuuuuuuury", btw.

[BSmack]

if there is a hell, i suspect that yngwie will be piped over the loudspeaker nonstop.

I view Malmsteen as comendy gold. He is the classic example of an extremely talented player who is utterly incapable of writing anything more meaningful than a series of scale exercises. Add to that his utter pomposity and you have the perfect punch line. I never fail to laugh when I listen to him.

who do suppose has more soul in that clip, yngwie or the drum machine? i'm going with the drum machine.

It's a tie.

oh, and bri, it's the "motherfukking fyyyyuuuuuuuury", btw.

No, it's "The foocking fury".

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbe ... temID=8100

[Dinsdale]

Also, if you went by Whitey's logic, you'd never had the 92 tour of Faith No More-Metallica-Guns N Roses.

That tour was HOT!

Sin,
James Hetfield

[Goober McTuber]

if there is a hell, i suspect that yngwie will be piped over the loudspeaker nonstop.

I view Malmsteen as comendy gold. He is the classic example of an extremely talented player who is utterly incapable of writing anything more meaningful than a series of scale exercises. Add to that his utter pomposity and you have the perfect punch line. I never fail to laugh when I listen to him.

who do suppose has more soul in that clip, yngwie or the drum machine? i'm going with the drum machine.

It's a tie.

oh, and bri, it's the "motherfukking fyyyyuuuuuuuury", btw.

No, it's "The foocking fury".

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbe ... temID=8100

You noticed that Van was back. That's what this post is all about, right?

[smackaholic]

nah, he's not back till he actually posts here. he's just lurking till then, kinda like a ghost. Wish any number of posters here would switch off with him. Actually, birdy would suck even if he just lurked and never logged in. Also, his head would explode as he sat there screaming "you suck black cock" at his monitor.