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Summary: kickin
Review: This DVD amazes me every time I play it and I've played it alot(well, when the kids and wife are out of the house). SRV was just a magical blues guitarist that you could see he put his heart and soul into playing.It's much better than just a CD. You will see him in two of his early concerts on Austin City Limits (a good program in it's own right)and it shows the power and energy this guy possesed. He playes many of his best tunes on this one.You won't be dissapointed with this DVD at all. It should be in your collection TODAY!
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Summary: Must have it!!!
Review: No words, just SVR great performance, a really must have it!!!
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Amazing performances from the absolute king of blues,
no one could tear in to a song like stevie could i.m.h.oI just wish they could release more DVD's from his short and outstanding recording carreer.
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Summary: Good Quality, but no special features/lyrics.
Review: Well if u bought this you're a Stevie fan (I am). Terry Lickona on the back of the DVD describes Stevie in 1983 as "nervous paranoid and insecure with zero self confidence and big time sweating the whole night". He obviously doesn't know Stevie. Stevie expressed his emotion through his music equally at the start and at the end of his career. Nothing has changed in his musical life, despite learning about the importance of some spiritual values. He was NEVER nervous on stage (except for those club nights when he was 14 and just starting out). And concerning the sweating - its not about the self confidence, Its about giving it ALL U GOT in every song. Terry Lickona go take a hike.
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Summary: Great Performances, Disappointing Production
Review: There are some incredible performances on this DVD, but unfortunately, I saw the Austin City Limits programs they were taken from. How the producers decided to keep the songs they kept and cut the ones they cut is beyond me. Why not offer one or two DVDs with the entire Autin City Limits programs intact? All of the songs in both of the original performances were "keepers". Any "chaff", if there was any, had already been cut by the Austin City Limits folks. Any further editing could only diminish the final product. And it did. Another gripe is that the sound on this DVD has been compressed in a way that makes me constantly wish my ears would pop. Why the producers thought this was necessary is another mystery. The sound of the televised performances was, if not perfect, MUCH more realistic and listenable than the sound on the DVD. This is downright sad because the DVD medium is capable of so much MORE than TV sound and in this case you get less. My 3 star rating is not meant to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, who were one of my favorite bands and arguably one of the best of all time. It is rather a complaint against the tone-deaf, musically challeged folks in the record industry who feel they have to leave their substandard mark on an otherwise stellar piece of artistic material. If the music buying public is lucky, someday someone will re-release the SRV Austin City Limits pieces in their entirety with professionally engineered sound tracks. If you're a dyed-in-the-wool SRV fan, you will want to own this DVD anyway, but if you're not buying everything that Double Trouble ever released as a matter of principle and want something truly representative of how good the band could really be, I can recommend "Live At The El Macambo" without reservation. It's one of the best live performances, by anyone, ever captured on video.
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Summary: SRV does his thing
Review: I have to come clean. I am not a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan... never have been, never will be. I bought this dvd as a concession to my wife, who thinks SRV is the greatest guitar player ever. The very fact that I would give this four stars is testament to the fact that it is extremely well done and anyone who is even remotely an SRV fan would undoubtedly give it five stars. You will never catch me playing this in my wife's absence, but to all you SRV fans... Buy it and enjoy.
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Summary: Superbly great stuff but what about the outtakes?
Review: This video is wonderful...the first section from 1983 shows Stevie as being very nervous and unsure.... But the rest of the video from 1989 shows him extremely confident and blowing a fuse!... He was clean by 1989 and it shows.
Now to answer a very good question by one of the last reviewers..YES ...there was much more to this last 1989 concert.
They left out quite alot more thats why the video seems so brief.I just don't know WHY they didn't include ALL of the concert!
I recently saw on television the rest of this "Austin City Limits " concert and they left out some AMAZING footage!
For example, there should've been included the songs " Look at little sister" "Pride & joy" "Rude Mood", "May I have a talk with you" (which has the most PHENOMENAL guitar solo ever...full of unbelievable string glissando!)
He even breaks a string during it because of his vicious attack on his Strat, but carries on undeterred a(nd causing great applause from the crowd), in true Buddy Guy fashion!
Then he does "Couldn't stand the weather" and there's a blues jam instrumental with W.C Clark. -----To crown it all he ends with a BLINDING version of "Voodoo Chile" that blew me outta my chair(the best version I have ever seen of him doing it on film!) Also there are short interviews with Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton...both who are holding back their tears as they speak about their 10 years they spent with one of the 'humblest of people that ever lived". This part literally had me in tears also.
Maybe one day they will release onto DVD/Video the rest of these AWESOME film trax from Austin C.L, but until then I would still give this selection on this video 5 stars because, quite frankly, it's still SRV at his best.
It's such a damn shame he is not around because this guy was just warming up! There wouldn't be many today that could keep up with him if he was still around. You could tell he wasn't just influenced by other Blues/Rock players but he was deeply influenced by some 'heavy ' jazz guitarists (Grant Green , Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell)
"Riviera Paradise" on this video proves that point. One of the finest guitar solos ever done in the history of music.
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Summary: Wanting A Little Bit More
Review: Stevie Ray Vaughan was one awesome guitar player and underatted singer. The footage of the two concerts is a joy to watch. The second concert is a little better because it feature the talents of keyboardist, Reese Wynas who is a perfect foil for Stevie. However, this video should be so much longer. It clocks in at a mere 63 minutes and features three songs from one concert, six from another, the closing credits, and video clips of great guitarists with Little Wing playing in the background. All these scene changes are disruptive to the viewer. Also, more songs are needed. Nothing from the Soul to Soul record. Whereas Stevie Ray was a blue ribbon talent, I am sure there are more comprehensive concerts feature this late legend.
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Summary: "...YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME..."
Review: IT WAS LATE. I ROLLED INTO THE QUIET STUDIO DOWN AN ALLEY ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE CITY. (SAN FRANCISCO). I WAS TIRED, BUT I SPOTTED THE VIDEO MY FRIEND HAD PUT ASIDE FOR ME. IT WAS A LIVE TAPING OF STEVIE RAY VAUGHN & DT... ON IT, A HANDWRITTEN NOTE: "JACK~ WATCH THIS~ YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME..."
I SLID IT IN THE PLAYER, YAWNED AND WENT BACK TO THE KITCHEN AND POPPED SOME BUTTERY CORN. 5 MIN. LATER I RE-ENTERED THE STUDIO AND STOOD BEFORE THE LARGE TV...I DROPPED THE BAG OF POPCORN AND LET IT LIE, FOR I WAS HELD CAPTIVE TO THE MOST INCREDIBLE GUITAR PLAYING I HAD EVER SEEN! I WITNESSED A METEORIC EVENT! I FELT ALMOST GUILTY, BUT PRIVLEDGED TO SEE SOMETHING SO RARE...SO COMPLETELY ENGROSSING! I FELT, (AND STILL DO) INVIGORATED, WIDE ALIVE! IF I HAD ONE CHOICE ONLY, NO HESITATION, THIS SPELLBINDING TAPE & RECORDING WOULD BE IT! I FINALLY SWEPT UP THE COLD POPCORN AT 6:30 AM. I BUNDLED THE TAPE UP UNDER MY JACKET AND STEPPED UPBEAT AND STEADY INTO THE HAZY FOG OF JUST ANOTHER MORNING, BUT ENLIGHTENED...NO, "I NEVER WOULD BE THE SAME!"
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Summary: Great preformance but sound quality is poor
Review: This DVD deserves five stars for preformance but for technical quality I would give it one star. I don't know how Sony could stamp the Dolby Digital logo on this disk when it sounds as bad as it does. When I play it on my Onkyo DS-595 I get no center channel output and the bass is terrible. I have the SRV box set and it contains a DVD with songs from the same 1989 concert and it sounds like Dolby Digital should.
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