Customer Reviews

Incredible. Please buy this DVD - By: Macca, 11 Jan 2007
This is quite simply one of the finest live performances I have ever seen, if not the finest!

If you have never seen or heard SRV please buy this as it is quite
exceptional. It's so good I don't really know where to start. Stevie was a true guitar genius.

He never stops yet never repeats himself. It's sublime - the power, the speed, the control, the sensitivity & the voice. He had it all & music is the poorer for his passing.

Texas Flood may be the greatest single performance ever captured on film.
I should think the few hundred peoplein attendance that night have never stopped telling people they were there!!

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A stampede of sound - By: Sally-Anne, 20 Mar 2005
I came across this DVD a few days ago whilst nosing through one of my (virtual) neighbours reviews. It was a good review - very persuasive. I bought the DVD & I'm glad I did. Lots of energy & passion spentin wringing the blues out of a battered guitar. And I do mean *wringing*. At one point Stevie Ray has his guitar by the throat & seems to be throttling the music out of it. I've never seen a more abused looking instrument. That guitar has been intimate with Blues - no doubt about it - that guitar has suffered! The sounds produced are authentic, soul-wrenching blues. And rock that rocks. Stevie Ray Vaughan looks, at times, as though he's giving birth to the music - pushing it out, painfully, against strong resistance, through a narrow opening. The strain on his face, the sweat, the effort, the determination, the triumph: It's intense, a tremendous & moving performance.

I'll listen to this again & again.

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WHAM! - By: Mr. O. Buxton, 21 Feb 2005
Lest you should ever forget what rock 'n' roll was originally all about, & what it still IS meant to be all about, check out this eye-popping performance from a young & unknown Stevie Ray Vaughanin a small barin that well-known epicentre of Rock 'n' Roll fable, Toronto.

The guitar playing worldin 1983 was headingin two directions: electronic buffoonery of the worst order from the likes of those dolts Satriani & Vai, & the "energy & raw power" school of thought, populated by idiots who couldn't play their instruments & didn't understand any better what this wonderful medium is all about. Oh, it makes me so ANGRY to even think about it.

So exactly what Stevie Ray Vaughan & his merry men thought they were up to,in that sort of context, is anyone's guess. But, frankly, who cares? Let's just be grateful for these small shafts of brilliant light, whatever their provenance.

From the first second of the show, shimmyingin from stage-left, Stevie pulverises the stage, his instrument & his face & bedazzles the crowd with the most gut-wrenching sonic assault I have ever seen or heard. Outstanding though most of his studio albums may be, you have no idea - really, none - of the energy - the man's sheer brute strength - the power of Stevie Ray Vaughan's playing until you see it unfold before you, even on a slightly tinny DVD. And WHAT he plays is inconceivably brilliant. You will shake your headin wonder.

Hendrix, the great deconstructor himself, is pulled apart limb from limb & ghoulishly re-arranged like the victim of some crazed serial killer. Lonny Mack is gunned down the straight like an over-powered dragster. SRV's wife Lenny is eulogised, sweat cascading down face, as the man gets through a whole smokein one go without taking it out of his mouth. Even if you don't like his music the DVD is worth getting simply for the man's legendary facial expressions, & the marathon take on Texas Flood will do you till Tuesday week. You should just SEE the looks on the faces of those lucky Canadiansin the audience.

Truly, TRULY outstanding.

Olly Buxton

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PASSIONATE INTENSE TEXAS BLUES FROM A STRATOCASTER MASTER - By: Nixon McVicar, 17 Jun 2004
Anyone who knows the tragically late, lamented SRV's music will know that it was straight out of the Texas Blues tradition. Brimming with machismo & straight ahead tales of deception & cruelty, his songs & his voice left you under no illusion - he'd been to Tin Pan Alley, & it was the roughest place. What completely wells me up to this day is watching him play Lenny - With 100%, intense devotion to his music, sweat pouring down his face at the end of a dazzling 'energetic' set (to say the least), he pulls up a chair, sits down, & just plays the most beautiful melodic, mysterious piece of sublime guitar you'll hear this side of Hendrix. Even his good pal Eric Clapton would marvel at this guy's devotion & ability. It's also a must for anyone who likes the sound of a great blues band belting out Texas-style blues... the place just rocks. You may want to see his later performances, & compare this 1983, raw, un-confident, messed up on booze coke-and-junk outlaw, with the cleaned up, rehabbed & focussed blues 'star' he eventually became before his death - & to say that is no criticism of him at all - but this performance will probably haunt you the most... simply masterful.

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Unmissable - By: , 08 Apr 2004
Don't miss out on this unbelievable performance from the greatest blues guitarist that ever lived except for maybe bb king, Buddy Guy & Jimi Hendrix whoin my opinion were at the same standard. Stevie is at his best on this dvd & is not afraid to show off his skills such as when he plays the guitar behind his back above his head & even by dragging it along the floor. The set is made up as it goes along which gives the performance that extra natural feel. Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton also insight into the life & pastimes of Stevie which should not be missed. In my view you should buy it & cherish it.