Let's Dance
David Bowie & Stevie Ray Vaughan Lyrics

@jiros00

Such a shame though.

@juandefelix

@@marcelokalef Well, actually he went on tour with them. I saw Joe playing with Deep Purple in Madrid, Spain in the 90's

@grahamritchie8118

SRV was one of the great guitarists of all time

@Raneyboy

Greatest*

@lewie909

*ever

@Raneyboy

@@lewie909 ❤

@brockgan8941

@@RaneyboyStevie himself would tell you its Hendrix, but no doubt its Hendrix, SRV, Clapton, Page and Beck sitting in the top 5.

@Raneyboy

@@brockgan8941
Well yea, how douchy would it be to say you were better than the dead guitar icon?
Hendrix had multiple interviews saying he wasnt even close to the greatest.
To me that means nothing other than it shows they were both humble.
Hendrix is great but sorry, Stevie punks him in almost every category. The one category I will definitely give to Hendrix is song writing. I think he was a better song writer.
But sheer guitar playing? To me its not close.

@AdrianAndersson

You can tell where Stevie got his aggressive attack from, Mr. Albert King

@marcelokalef

It's true! I agree!

@rzapol

Also cables for strings!

@jimmymapp972

No doubt, True That!

@AdrianAndersson

Although he plays what can seem as ”few notes”, what a lot of people dont realise is how much effort and strenght in your fingers it actually takes to be able to bend those notes like that. It’s really a muscular workout

@AdrianAndersson

Jimmy Mapp then think about going on like that for a whole concert. It’s tough

@GS-to9oe

One of his most underrated solos

If there’s a R&R heaven, they’re performing live every now and then

@marcelokalef

Agree!

@jimmysapien9961

Just like Eddie did for MJ

@aussie_philosopher8079

Man that vibrato is too die for, he's got the best vibrato.

@benjaminz2523

Agreed. I think it has a lot to do with his 13g strings. Basically as hard as you can wiggle them and it's gonna stay on that note because they're so thick so you can really wrestle incredible vibrato out of em. Weaker strings makes it too easy to have a super fast vibrato, to easy to bend it out of tune

@Leo-uc8zv

Gary Moore has entered the chat

@elizabethstops2362

For me SRV, Albert King and Gary Moore are tops 💥

@jackspry9736

RIP and long live David Bowie (January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016), aged 69
And
RIP and long live Stevie Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), aged 35
You both will always be remembered as legends.

@sca1871

Stevie owned and dominated the fretboard. It did what he wanted it to do. A master at his craft

@marcelokalef

I agree!

@68rodman

You can see the great deal of respect Stevie had for Bowie, and all that would be his influences! It’s clear to see how much he was holding back!

@kalaharisurfer9605

Until Bowie released the video and gave the impression he was the one playing lead guitar, that annoyed SRV big time.

@ohgeereadmore

What made SRV a great musician was not just his talent or skill, but knowing what each moment called for in a song

@jimmysapien9961

@@kalaharisurfer9605ext Bowie Was An ass Towards Stevie And Double Trouble & his Wife Lenny !!!

@davids.9924

He held back on the speed but went full-send on those big, Albert King-style bends. I think the bends served the song better.

@iMatagora

I love the syncopation with the horns and his bluesy feel. Overall not many artists would dare a musical concoction like this but damnit it sure worked out well!

@jonceramic

Nile Rogers is the man.

@furioussherman7265

That sums up David Bowie perfectly. No one else would dare try the crazy stuff he did, but Bowie made sure it worked out amazingly.

@davm97

Not horns, just a modified guitar with a pedal, though the same tho

@jcavazos4145

iMatagora. His phrasing is surreal on this track. It's sort if hanging methodically.

@bobcarroll1410

@@davm97 There are actually 3 sax parts and a trumpet.

@hiroishi3668

What a great solo...Great choking and vibrato all the way through.

@guitarmanrommel3865

Thanks for taking the time to represent Stevie's part that gave Bowie his best commercial hit.

@marcelokalef

Thanks, man!

@jimmysapien9961

Tru but Stevie up and Quit The Tour 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 because Of Bowie 👎👎👎

@ferrari6975

What a great solo by Albert King Jr, I meant SRV lol. One of the best ever!

@squidwardshouse5431

Funny you say because this was 1983 the same year SRV did an In Session jam with Albert King

@ferrari6975

@@squidwardshouse5431 Blues at Sunrise was epic especially by Albert. Some really powerful bends.

@sahukysahukon4460

SRV whitout Albert cant exit !

@bobbym140

SRV 'S pre gig warm up blew away most other guitarist's encores

@The22on

I performed this in a club last week on guitar. I grew up listening to the song... but I never learned it! Fortunately, another guitarist knew it. So I came here to listen and learn all the parts. Maybe next time, I won't flounder around trying to find the chords on stage! (I turn way down - almost no volume if I don't know a song).
I didn't know SRV played on this! Shows what I know. When I found out he played on this, I was like... no way! I couldn't be more surprised if it said Scotty Moore played on it. lol
I learned more about SRV's style from this than from his own albums. He takes pieces of his licks and plays them here. It's not as polished as his own albums and it's like he's just jamming. It should be titled SRV Plays 20 Incredible Licks. Thanks for posting this.
I wish there was Youtube when I was a kid. I would have saved hours wearing out records trying to figure out what the guitarist was doing - what position on the guitar (that's the hardest to know by just listening) and what inversion of the chord. If I didn't have to do things in the real world, I might spend my awake time learning all the parts I should have known when I was younger and playing to make money for college.
By the way, how did you isolate the guitar, if it's not giving away trade secrets?

@tewaewae

must be a trade secret.

@robertcallahan7061

"Wearing out those records" is what it was all about back in the day... I thank God for them.

@Swimfinz

... word has it that when SRV and Double Trouble played at Montreax---the place rocked. A fellow American musician in the crowd gave him his sound studio for SRV to produce his own album.
Jackson Browne.

@jackpierre1839

yup thats pretty much how stevie took off. amazing live performance, although some of the crowd were confused by his guitar playing because it was something no ones ever heard. And a few of them actually booed him. pretty fascinating stuff

@AngeloJRossi

Pure Albert!! Gritty and good!!

@geoffjones6444

Two absolute fucking icons of music... so cool.

@JM-lw3nx

I always loved that song, and the solo really made it special. I had no idea it was SRV. Wow what a loss to music.

@TheCarguymiami

OMG! Finding this made my month great!, F Covid19..

@leedakkar

Mindblowing solo OMG!♥️

@jimmymapp972

I knew it sounded like SRV BUT DANG, WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT!!

@georgiahughes6404

Two one-of-a-kinds ♨️

@rolfjacobsen4477

So edgy and clean Mr. Vaughan RIP. Perfection.

@miriamgreen3973

2022 & I just found out it was SRV RIP who played the smok'in blues on this song!

@marcelokalef

I'm glad I helped you with this information.

@53patsfan

Sucks both are gone.

@MarkMiremont777

🙏 Thank you. Most people don’t know that SRV was even on the best selling album by the late, great #DavidBowie 😢😭

@marcelokalef

It's true!!

@DanFernandesBenficaSaint

Late?! 😂 Go watch Bowie give his own obituary on Sky News. “Dies” at 69 from cancer?! Give me a break. ♋️

@Max-fb5bm

The way Mr. Vaughan plays the solo here reminds me of a spaceship propelling onto deep dark space.

@miriamgreen3973

It seems to me that SRV should have been the main attraction with everything else toned waaay down. I could listen to this over and over!!

@marcelokalef

I totally agree!

@rocket699

Srv ❤❤❤❤❤ un génie ❤❤❤❤

@scott7521

SRV was amazing

@standswithfist806

Great post....I'd love to hear those Niles Rogers rythmn gtr tracks..that was a great time to listen to Stevie....No tellin' what kind of cadillac amp they were using in Lucern...but Stevie really always sounded monsterous fun and great.That was 87;88 or about?? He had some gawwd awful Fender 75 with a 15 as kindof a sub woofer...tone" low end grissle producer".just thicken up the back line...This is great because it sounds pretty much like Stevie sounded. Smart, and very very hard working guy....btw...those were pre-tap tempo days...very cool delay on Niles guitar chomps....thanks again..pleasure to crank up...best wishes....

@bobcarroll1410

Recorded in 82. Released in 83.

@theoincontridetoledo4565

It's so hard to notice that is SRV playing when you're listening to the album, but like this you can hear SRV tone, you know is him

@marcelokalef

Yeah, agree!

@theoincontridetoledo4565

@@marcelokalef Opa, acho que eu gastei meu inglês a toa pra comentar aqui, brasileiro?

@marcelokalef

@@theoincontridetoledo4565 Sim, brazuca com certeza! kkkkk

@ADanielle18

I always fast forward to Stevies solo when I wanna hear this song. Lol. Man was so bad he smoked him on his own hit 🚬🎸

@marcelokalef

Me too, Alicia!

@vicentependola8330

This solo is just amazing man

@marcelokalef

Agree!

@TheBMStoner

I just learned this was SRV playing from John Mayer’s XM channel. I don’t know how I didn’t hear that before.

@marcelokalef

Many people don't know this.

@SelectCircle

Kept it real simple - so not to steal the whole record.

@spwb2k

and stole it anyway.

@SelectCircle

@@spwb2k Ha! You might be right. : D

@WHEREtheFUNK

very cool thanks for posting

@charleshix2002

I had always thought that was Stevie playing, that's TX blues ya know 😎

@selliantuttimusi6735

So nasty, so perfect!

@stanleymwene5896

Powerful music

@timwolfe450

I was today years old…🤯🤯

@NothingMaster

SRV has been sadly missed.

@user-co6fw6ql7h

SRV had this connection that I don't believe had been seen since Jimmy Page played for Led Zeppelin. There are many great guitarists but there were only a few that reinvented the instrument and SRV was one of them.

@djizzah

why, nice tone and technicality but nothing new or original at all, tone is hendrix, style is albert king buddy guy, those guys had unique originality

@damamae950

For one thing, the famous MTV video had Bowie mock-playing the solo in the Australian outback. Also, I just think SRV was just breaking out at that point - I had just bought my first SRV album and never but the two things together. Another fun part of the history is that Nile Rodgers produced and played on this album, so he added his funked up rhythm guitar style to the while mix!

@jaydogdogbite8081

What!?! That's freaking badass!!

@yongkim777

I knew this wasn't Earl Slick or Mick Ronson! It had too much of a blues feel for either of them! Cool that Stevie did it!

@ShakyBeanz

So distinctive with his Style, 🐐 🙏

@aldogramiscitattooaldogram7972

WOOOOOOOW😮

@marksasahara1115

Powerfull.

@RockStarOscarStern634

RIP SRV

Good video

@davidbrucemusicvideo

That was fucking awesome! I’ve never heard this stuff before, isolated! Great post!

@regandunn4850

Now I never clicked that srv but it has him all over it not sure how I didn't know

@snapfinger1

SRV. Master Technician.

@jeansanti1010

Oh yessss

@djizzah

yer, although it was filmed in australia, the guitar part is by the texan and launched stevies career

@elizabethreed2090

ANYTHING SRV...💙

@benjaminrobledo7010

la primera vez que escuché esta canción me recordó mucho al sonido de SRV el solo. Pero nunca pensé que era él

@darrena4163

Thank you

@marcelokalef

You're welcome!

@honeybozo

Bowie mimicking this solo in the video is a sick move if ever there was one….

@marcelokalef

I don't like that part of the video either.

@hihats

unreal

@gustavoadolfopena6635

espectacularrrr. yo sabía que era un connotado el del solo de guitarra.Slds

@steveriederer9491

His solos were all first takes according to the book by the Guitar World writer.

@marcelokalef

Yes, it´s true.

@lukalickah8794

srv eu te amo!!!!!1

@LeoRota7

🖤🖤🖤

@ske13ok

Whoever disliked this mamas got no kneecaps!!

@marcelokalef

Agree!

@deetgeluid

"Attitude" is the only word that can describe this solo.

@sixstringsdown1

Stevie's God Father, Albert King!

@whowho8470

Does anybody know what other session work if any that SRV did?

@pedrorobertomoraes2904

Stevie also played in Cat People ( Putting out fire with gasoline)... I bet you didn't know it that 😁

@tigerback62

Stevie was guest gutiarist on Teena Maire Your So Heavy.

@chrismeadows4216

@@pedrorobertomoraes2904 He's on the entire Let's Dance album including that song, China Girl, and Modern Love. It's not much of a secret. His best solo is actually on Criminal World.

@playerdisconnected

😍😍😍

@timothytaylor9835

That entire solo wasa mixture of Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King a d Jimi Hendrix guitar licks.

@iigger

SRV THATS HOW ITS DONE

@noahbearfoot2248

Ray Benson: the front man of Asleep at the Wheel. Ask Stevie what he played on that Bowie thing, and Stevie said "I just sprayed Albert King all over that fucker"

@adamkramer3213

Cool
Sounds a lot like Albert King isolated like that.

@marcelokalef

Agree!

@brandonmccandless4731

Do whaaaat. !!!!!

@onyx2626

Mm mm good.

@ebersilv6496

Nile Rodgers played the base guitar.

@marcelokalef

Yes! He produced the album.

@pcpc9131

Lets dance wanted. for yor inside. BERAY

@mjrlormans

Smoking Hot Guitar 🎸

@rubenssiqueira4236

melhor gutarrista blues de todos os tempos

@user-zo8bi1mo4e

srv😎

@RUlisesGonzalezC

Texas special pick ups easily can be identified

@marcelokalef

That's true, man!

@jontafferofficial

some of this sounds like texas flood

@WilliamYoder72

Texas Floods was a SRV portfolio.

@skelley164

Albert KingJr - “only black man in the history of the Blues to have a white child, look it up, it’s true. May they both RIP. The Greatest duo to play together - imo. 🎸🎸🔊🎶🎷

@robertcallahan7061

He could play that guitar.

@ntsms69

Difficult to believe that this is actually SRV! I'm not convinced.

@marcelokalef

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-bowie-lets-dance-video-stevie-ray-vaughan/

@billville111

Albert King Blues Power. But he made it fit.

@joelliotjake1

... that train wreck bend... 😂😂🤣🤣

@krandy1181

"I just sprayed Albert King all over the fucker"
-SRV

@sandro6262

...shuffle?

@latintadelbote

In the last seconds of the videoclip, while it's playing this guitar solo, the picture shows David Bowie playing guitar... with white gloves! WTF?

@mikemcglone3184

I felt at the time they must have fallen out.

@HamiltonSeen

They had a huge falling out because of that shot, actually. SRV felt that Bowie was taking credit for his work.

@flamedmahoganytable9749

@@HamiltonSeen did they eventually patch things up?

@HamiltonSeen

@@flamedmahoganytable9749 I don't think so. It's a whole complex mess. Previous to the video release Stevie was set to play on Bowie's tour, but a bunch of things went askew and SRV just bounced at the last minute. Tbh, it looks bad from both sides, but shit happens. The release of Let's Dance gave 'Texas Flood' a big boost when it came out. It all turned out swell.

@paulnowayhosay1883

Duane Allman had these riffs back in the 60's. And someone may have had them earlier.

@cmc6112

With lower gauge strings and without the sick distortion that make SRV and Hendrix legendary...

@EdnaMillion.

By SRV's standards, it sounds like he phoned this in.

@telephonic

Haha.

@davidwatson8080

Don't blame him. Said dude paid him less than 1000 dollars a show

@jedishaw6771

@@davidwatson8080 I heard he was going to pay stevie $300 per show.

@rileycole2588

He did not!

@MeTube550

It is like when Eddie played Michael Jackson 's beat it.Only Eddie was all ready a star and S.R.V. was just starting out.

@djcuriosity6670

Gorilla grip Stevie solo &
chic rhythm guitars le freak ..
If you don't Kno now you know !

@DoJo-HyGe

If only Stevie would have put a little less vibrato on his bends and maybe used a 7th chord when he did his (YouTubers looks at me)... I'm only kidding 😏

@marcelokalef

Maybe a Drop C and a Mesa scooped tone? lol

@BenjaminOommen

LMAO 😅😂

@eligalvan8515

Clapton brought me here.

@muchozorable

why?

@eligalvan8515

@@muchozorable I heard that Eric Clapton got into his limo and heard Stevie ray Vaughan and David bowie. And wanted to know who the guitar player was. Aka Stevie ray Vaughan.

@catzdollz9810

Doesn't really sound like Stevie Ray's heart and OR soul was into this song.

@ntsms69

Yeah. Difficult to believe that this is actually SRV! I'm not convinced.

@miriamgreen3973

I love My Guitar Gently Weeps but Clapton's contribution doesnt sound nearly as "Stand alone " as this does man