Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hide Away
2. Rude Mood
3. Pride And Joy
4. Texas Flood
5. Love Struck Baby
6. Dirty Pool
7. Give Me Back My Wig
8. Collins Shuffle

Disc 2:

1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Say What!
3. Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love
4. Pride And Joy
5. Mary Had A Little Lamb Live
6. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)
7. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
8. Texas Flood
9. Life Without You
10. Gone Home Live
11. Couldn't Stand The Weather

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48577 in Music
• Released on: 2002-02-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
SRV's 1982 Montreux appearance turned out to be the most important single show he ever played. David Bowie and Jackson Browne were in the audience that night, and both recognised Stevie's raw talent and limitless passion. Jackson Browne offered Stevie the opportunity to record (free of charge) at his own studio and the resultant tapes became Texas Flood, Stevie's first studio album for Epic Records. David Bowie asked Stevie to play on his hugely successful Let's Dance album and tour.

Customer Reviews

Ranking up there with incredible sex...
This has to be one of the most amazing blues albums ever released. We are lucky that it was actually recorded - particularly the first disc wherein SRV is boo'ed by the yahoos of Montreux... (Well - what can you say for a continent that thinks that Johnny Halliday rocks..?) (They are great on jazz but know squat about the blues!)While I adore that Chris Layton is introduced before one of the greatest guitarists of the 20th century, scant attention is paid to the fact that this is one of the raunchiest, rawest, most real of SRV's recordings. It makes you want to DO things! The difference between the '82 recording (SUBLIME) and the '85 (disc 2)has naught to do with talent but merely with polish and experience. Disc 1 will blow even the most devoted Mitch Miller devotees out of their socks. Disc 2 (1985) is delicious and shows how much a talent can evolve in just a few years. The entire compilation is inspired and a great tribute to the development of the blues. A must for any collector - serious or not. Heaven to listen to and a thrill to own. BUY IT!

The best available live material by SRV
Well, first of all, the 1985 Montreux show is very good. The fact that several of the '85 cuts were released back in '86 on the "Live Alive" album is a bit of a drawback, but the performance itself is flawless. Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band perform superbly throughout the set, resulting in magnificent renditions of "Tin Pan Alley", "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love" and several more.

But the 1982 show is the real revelation here. I have heard all the official live albums by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and this magnificent performance outdoes them all.
It is somewhat unpleasant to hear the crowd's reaction (unlike the 1985 show, Vaughan was met with indifference and even hostility when he first performed in Montreux), but the music is white-hot.

Opening with two instrumentals, Freddie King's "Hide Away" and his own "Rude Mood", Stevie Ray Vaughan plays some of the very best and bluesist guitar you'll ever hear, particularly on a smouldering ten-minute version of "Texas Flood".
He was sometimes accused of playing ten notes when three would have done the job, but that accusation certainly doesn't hold up on these fabulous recordings.
Also, his vocal performance is superb. He rocks on "Give Me Back My Wig" and growls menacingly on "Dirty Pool", and the production is excellent. Sometimes a live album will suffer from the vocals being too low in the mix, but here the mixing is perfect. And Vaughan's playing on "Pride And Joy" and "Love Struck Baby" makes it hard to believe there was only one guitar player present.

This is by far one of the very best live blues and blues-rock albums I have ever heard, and if you like the genre you can't go wrong with "Live in Montreux".Well, first of all, the 1985 Montreux show is very good. The fact that several of the '85 cuts were released back in '86 on the "Live Alive" album is a bit of a drawback, but the music is excellent. Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band perform superbly throughout the set, resulting in magnificent renditions of "Texas Flood", "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love" and several more.

Shemekia's dad, guitarist Johnny Copeland, lends a hand on the awesome 12-minute "Tin Pan Alley", and there is some amazing guitar playing on this 76-minute set. Copeland actually appeared on two more songs, including a great rendition of "Cold Shot", but those have been cut in order to keep the 1985 concert on one disc. You can hear it, and "Look At Little Sister", on the 2004 DVD issue of these two shows.

The 1985 show is great, but the 1982 show is the real revelation here. I have heard all the official live albums by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and this magnificent performance outdoes them all.
It is somewhat unpleasant to hear the crowd's reaction (unlike the 1985 show, Vaughan - or possibly the sound system - was met with indifference and even hostility when he and Double Trouble first performed in Montreux), but the music is white-hot.

Opening with two instrumentals, Freddie King's "Hide Away" and his own "Rude Mood", Stevie Ray Vaughan plays some of the very best and bluesist guitar you'll ever hear, particularly on a smouldering ten-minute version of "Texas Flood".
He was sometimes accused of playing ten notes when three would have done the job, but that accusation certainly doesn't hold up on these fabulous recordings.
Also, his vocal performance is superb. He rocks on "Give Me Back My Wig" and growls menacingly on "Dirty Pool", and the production is excellent. Sometimes a live album will suffer from the vocals being too low in the mix, but here the mixing is perfect. And Vaughan's playing on "Pride And Joy" and "Love Struck Baby" makes it hard to believe there was only one guitar player present.

This is one of the very best live blues and blues-rock albums I have ever heard, and if you like the genre you can't go wrong with "Live in Montreux".

FINGERS HAVE BLED FOR LESS
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Be witness to the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan at his very best, in his natural habitat.....LIVE!
Be witness to probably the greatest concert recordings of his, or any, career.

First the seminal 1982 concert, famous as the one where the Swiss gnomes inexplicably booed him (they must have been expecting an evening of traditional zither music), while he burned the place down with a raw, rockin' set that was later seen as heralding the emergence of a guitar legend. If you like SRV before the edges got knocked off, this is the real deal (also check out "In the Beginning")

This is twinned with his triumphal Montreux return concert in 1985, a searing set displaying the fully developed range of SRV's talents. From the slow hound-dog howl of "Tin Pan Alley" to the finger-pickin' frenzy of "Scuttle Buttin'", from the gut-renching of "Voodoo Chile" to the sophistication of "Life Without You", he had it all.

This double-CD gives testimony to the fact that SRV could play the guitar like no other.
It screams, it kicks, it burns, it howls, it rasps. Fingers have bled for less.