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Thanks for straightening me out on the SRV/Bowie saga. I should have remembered that guitarists Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick were touring with Bowie on the Let's Dance Tour. That was a great show. The new Reality Tour DVD by Bowie is very good. The backing band is outstanding. My wife and I were watching it the other day and are wishing that we had gone to see the show last year!

Riviera Paradise, Lenny and the live recording of SRV and Jeff Beck doing Going Down are my favorites off the top of my head.
Anybody else have Jeff Beck's You Had it Coming disc? I listen to that one ALOT. Wife hates it, but WTF.

If I were only allowed to listen to music my wife like, I'd go insane.

Luckily, we have a large overlap in our musical tastes, so there's very few times where I feel I'm subjecting her to crap or vice versa.

"Up to 1983, Stevie was the only unsigned artist ever to be invited to play Montreux. In 1985, Stevie headlined the show and blew the house down, as he did everywhere"

I'm betting that big SRV fans already know this, but there is a great 2 disc CD set out there that has both of these shows on it. Pretty good stuff.
Lots of fun to hear both shows back to back.
As an aside, are any of the SRV DVDs that are out there worth buying? How is the audio on them? I think I've seen several, is one better than another?
Tom

I have the Live at the Mocambo DVD. Awesome performance, pretty good recording. I also like the Austin City Limits show that I've seen on PBS, but the Live at the Mocambo show seems to have a lot more sweat and energy somehow.

I'm sure wid can provide you with a more educated opinion.

The only commercially availabe SRV DVDs that are out right now are Live from Austin,Texas,Live at elMocambo,Live at Montreux 1982&1985 and a DVD that is in the box set One night in Texas.IMO they are all worth getting.The sound on all of them is pretty good.It's been a while since I have watched them so to give a review of them on an individual basis would be difficult at this time.

If you are a SRV fan, all of the DVDs that Rick mentioned are a 'must have' item. I don't have the boxed set yet, but I can rest assure you that it will be played on the new Axioms in a matter of no time.

'Third Stone From The Sun' and 'Lenny' on the el Mocambo DVD is worth the price of the DVD.

Rick, is 'Couldn't Stand The Weather' one of the songs recorded in Austin (City Limits) that is on the One Night in Texas DVD?

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Rick, is 'Couldn't Stand The Weather' one of the Live songs recorded in Austin (City Limits) that is on the One Night in Texas DVD?

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Hey Rick,

It is on the One Night in Texas DVD.It's is also on the 1985 Live at Montreux DVD.As you have said a must have if your a SRV fan.

Yes I've got the Montreux DVDs and the Live from Austin DVD, the reason I asked was it sounded as though SRV and DT were about to start into Couldn't Stand the Weather on the Live in Austin DVD but it broke into another song...which I can't remember right now.
I thought maybe Couldn't Stand the Weather was dropped from the Live in Austin DVD and was guessing it was one of the songs from that session on the boxed set DVD.
Thanks!

I forgot about that Third Stone from the Sun track on the Mocambo DVD - add that to my list of favorites.

I have a CD by a guy named Melvin Taylor (called Dirty Pool) that is very nice. He obviously is fond of SRV as well, the title track and a couple others are SRV covers. Really an excellent recording though - controlled bass, no unpleasant high frequency noises or room resonances, very clean-sounding disc. I would recommend that one pretty highly.