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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live Alive Audio CD

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Band: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Title: Live Alive
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Say What! 2: Ain't Gone 'N' Give up on Love 3: Pride and Joy 4: Mary Had a Little Lamb 5: Superstition 6: I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) 7: Cold Shot 8: Willie the Wimp 9: Look at Little Sister 10: Texas Flood 11: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 12: Love Struck Baby 13: Change It

A decent group of recordings considering the bands health at the time


The remastered edition of this release has a very live feel to it and is sonically clearer that the 1990 US edition. I have 3 copies of "Live Alive" - The 1990 US release, the original 1986 Japanese, and the 2 CD remastered edition released in 2000. I have to agree that this isn't SRV's best set of recordings, however for the period, these are probably better performances.

"Say What", "Ain't Gone'n Give Up On Love", "Pride and Joy", "Mary Had A Little Lamb", "Texas Flood" are the better tracks. On the remastered edition "Cold Shot", "Love Struck", "Willie The Wimp", "Superstition" are exposed as thin sounding, it sounds like SRV is singing through a can or something - but the performances are good.

If I were going to recommend live SRV, it would be in this order:
1. "Austin City Limits" - DVD
2. "Austin City Limits" - Bonus DVD from SRV Box Set
3. "El Mocabo" - DVD
4. "Live at Carnegie Hall" - CD
5. "Montreaux Jazz Festival" - DVD 1
6. "In The Beginning" - CD.


Favorite Live SRV Album!
It has the best live version of Mary Had a Little Lamb. This is my absolute favorite live album! This is one of those you can listen all the way through and over and over again.


save your money
This is a hugely disappointing album. There's a reason you can buy a used copy on Amazon for less than 2 bucks.
I remember buying it when it came out and thinking "this IS NOT how SRV sounded when I saw him in concert. . . this sucks".
It's the only album by SRV & DT that I've not replaced on CD.
Ya want Stevie at his best LIVE? Get El Mocambo.
El Mocambo demonstrates to a T why Stevie became the legend he was and continues to be.
Long live the memory of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble!.


Going Down Down Down
Frankly, I still recommend this album because there are several tracks, such as Wilie the Wimp that flat out rock. Recorded several months before Stevie collapsed in a drug and alcohol induced stuper. Everything you have read about overdubs etc are true. Still, this recording is still historically important.


STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN CHANNELS GOD AND HENDRIX ON LIVE ALIVE !
There's a lot of music here and it's all great, but get this especially for the back-to-back versions of Texas Flood and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). Live Alive (1986) was originally released as a two-record set of live performances from 1985-86.

In the 6:30 minutes of Texas Flood, I have no doubt that Stevie felt the presence of God. I do just listening to it! Jimi Hendrix is channeled in the unbelievable 9:37 minutes of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). Great stuff!

Just these two songs are worth the price of the CD, but there is plenty more to love here. Fourteen songs that average around 5:00 minutes apiece including Pride And Joy, Cold Shot, Willie The Wimp, Look At Little Sister, Love Struck Baby, Superstition and more.

Some of this was recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1985. They booed Stevie there in 1982, but you won't hear any of that this time around. Only wildly enthusiastic positive cheering.

Is this essential Stevie Ray Vaughan material? Absolutely. If anything, just get this for Texas Flood and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). Stevie Ray Vaughan has never sounded better than he does on those two. Just ask God and Jimi.


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