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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live At The El Macambo 1983

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excellent a pitty this guy is not anymore on this planet
I would love to see the chance to find products like this more frequently.
Also french movies that normally I do not find here.
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I have seen this show on TV, I was very impressed by this unknown guitar player at that time. I think, I see techniques in this show that I haven't seen SRV doing in another show. Very good.

This performance captures Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble playing a smokin' set of tunes at Toronto's El Mocambo in late 1983. In this very intimate setting, Stevie, Whipper, and Tommy play a fantastic set, a type of performance that Stevie always gave. He starts out with two instrumentals, "Testify" and "So Excited" (my personal fave). Then he goes into Jimi Hendrix's classic "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)". After burning through "Pride And Joy", he goes through Howlin' Wolf's "Tell Me" and Buddy Guy's "Mary Had A Little Lamb". Then, the show-stopper: "Texas Flood". Almost ten minutes of textbook blues-playing, culminating with him playing behind his back. Watching him play this song is like someone punching me in the gut. Then he plays behind his head for "Love Struck Baby" and does a great cover of John Lee Hooker's "Hug You, Squeeze You". Then he has his rock-star moment with Hendrix's "Third Stone From The Sun", beating his guitar, Number One, to death on the stage. It makes one realize why Number One looked the way it did. He encores with "Lenny", a performance so beautiful and so full of passion that it would melt the most hardened blues-purist's heart. SRV then concludes the performance with Lonnie Mack's "Wham!", then sets his guitar down, says "Thank you so very much, we got's to go", and he and Double Trouble leave the stage. This performance is so fiery and intense. There is no way to describe it. You'll just have to go out and buy it. GO AHEAD! BUY IT NOW! OR ELSE! LONG LIVE STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!

Better than the Austin City Limits compilation, SRV is absolutely smokin' on this. Perhaps the best blues concert recording ever. A must-have if you like SRV.

This is a must have for any Stevie Ray Vaughan fan. Stevie is incredibly amazing from start to finish, any blues lover must have this DVD!

This video captures Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble as well as anyone could ever hope to. Bands generally divide into two categories. The vast majority do their best work in the studio and try with varied success to capture some of what they did in the studio in their live performances. Then there are those rare bands whose natural element is live performance. These bands try in the studio to capture some of what they do live. Double Trouble was definitely the second type. The performances on this video are every bit as technically proficient as anything Double Trouble ever did in the studio, but they are fluid and alive in a way that is rarely if ever captured in the studio. Incredibly, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble were actually better live than they were in the studio, a rarity. I had the good fortune to see them live a few months before Stevie Ray Vaughn died.

I only wish there were some more SRV videos of this quality available, particularly some later ones with Reese Wynans, who I personally think made an incredibly good band even better.

If you buy only one SRV video, this is the one. Buy this one first in any case.

This is SRV at is best,the only négative point is that it's too short...What a fabulous guitarist!!!

I always knew how great Stevie was on guitar but this video made me see he was even better than I originally thought. Stevie is just insane on this concert DVD, and he just shreds it up along with the power and magic of Double Trouble behind him. It is so raw and powerful and a good example of how a 'real' band of talented musicians should sound. They just don't make em like this anymore.

You just can't go wrong with this one if you are a fan of Stevie at all !!!

Before this video was ever released, it was aired on tv up here in Canada. Stevie performed a beautiful version of Little Wing with some quiet wah wah work in the middle of the song...it was the best version I've heard.
I love this concert and it's my favorite of his video releases, but I wish Little Wing was included.