 "EXCELLENT SRV COLLECTOR MEMORABILLIA!!" | 2008-08-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3C9OKNH0PJ8XA |
| AN EXCELLENT CD & DVD BOX SET FOR ANY SRV COLLECTOR....!!! WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ITEM! |
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| "Stevie Ray Vaughan CD" | 2008-07-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2O68BGKY9DTV4 |
| This is a great CD from Stevie Ray Vaughan. I would recommend it to all Vaughan lovers. |
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| "Beauty Box" | 2008-04-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A17Z4LV9D5XHYC |
I'd attend every Stevie Ray concert ever held if granted a wish to change something about my life. This box set is about as close as I can get to that wish. It covers his career pretty well and includes his excellent cover of Jimi's "Third Stone from the Sun." The only disappointment is the brevity of the video disc: an Austin City Limits performance that left me crying for more!
Love Stevie Ray? Buy this box!!! |
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| "Excellent service" | 2008-01-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A19L63CLUW2SYO |
| The CD set arrived in excellent condition and well within the stated delivery time. I was very pleased with my order. |
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| "SRV... always a great listen." | 2008-01-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2408ONLPLZF87 |
| I got pulled into the music of SRV by my brother. I gave him this collection for christmas and was a big hit. |
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| "Awesome Box Set" | 2007-11-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1R27A0EH5ZUNW |
| This is the best box set that I own! It's all SRV but each CD has its own flavor. You won't get bored listening to these. It's a must have if you're a true SRV fan. The booklet and DVD are also a very nice touch. |
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| "THE SRV BOX SET: PERFECT !/AWESOME !/SUPREME !/COULDN'T BE BETTER ! (not one single complaint from me)" | 2007-08-30 |
| - Reviewed By howlinblindmojo |
Who is this 3-CD/1 DVD box set for? Hardcore fans, new fans, blues fans, anybody who loves SRV and his music, that's who! With about 75% of the songs being previously unreleased live material, plus the DVD and book, old fans will get something new to add to their SRV collections. And because most of Stevie's hits and fan favorites are included (in live versions and some in studio versions), the new fan will get everything he really needs, too.
Disc 1 covers 1977-83, and starts out with SRV's earliest recordings, including some from Paul Ray And The Cobras, which was before Stevie really reached his full potential, but could still play a pretty mean guitar. This disc also includes very good live versions of Texas Flood and Jimi Hendrix's Manic Depression, and the studio version of Pride And Joy from the album, Texas Flood. This disc will be of special interest to fans who want to know more about Stevie's early days. I would describe the music on this disc as: first half, really good/second half, really great!
Disc 2 covers 1984-87, and begins with studio versions of Scuttle Buttin' and Couldn't Stand The Weather from the album Couldn't Stand The Weather. A great live Hendrix medley of Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun is here, as are two unreleased songs from the Live At Carnegie Hall show, The Sky Is Crying and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). WOW! The music on this disc is just about what you would expect from this period in SRV's career. GREAT!
Disc 3 covers 1987-1990, and exceeds all of my expectations. THIS STUFF IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! Included on this disc are great live versions of Look At Little Sister, Willie The Wimp, and Crossfire. And unbelievably good solo unplugged versions of Dirty Pool (from an 1989 Rock Lives' radio program), Rude Mood, Testify, and Pride And Joy (from MTV's Unplugged in 1990). Also from 1990 are smokin' live versions of Tightrope, Cold Shot, The Things (That) I Used To Do, and Leave My Girl Alone. Jeff Beck joins Stevie on Goin' Down, from an Albuquerque, New Mexico show in 1989. The music on this disc is the best of the best. I can't get enough of it!
Disc 4 is the DVD. It's an Austin City Limits broadcast from 1989 with about 5 songs. If you've never seen Stevie in action, this is the real thing, right here. He really cuts loose, and gets wide open on this, and the picture quality is excellant. Having the visual SRV experience included in the box is a huge bonus.
The glossy long box digi-book packaging is beautiful, and the 72-page book that's included is packed with great photos, history, recording details, and essays with comments from Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, and others. The last page of the book is an especially nice touch. A picture shows Stevie and his brother, Jimmie Vaughan, jamming away on their guitars, looking each other right in the eye, and smiling huge grins at each other. Next to the picture is a quote from Jimmie Vaughan: "The world misses his music, but I miss my brother". And I don't have any complaints at all about this SRV box set. |
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| "THE SRV BOXED SET: PERFECT !/AWESOME !/SUPREME !/COULDN'T BE BETTER ! (not one single complaint from me)" | 2007-08-30 |
| - Reviewed By howlinblindmojo |
Who is this 3-CD/1 DVD boxed set for? Hardcore fans, new fans, blues fans, anybody who loves SRV and his music, that's who! With about 75% of the songs being previously unreleased live material, plus the DVD and book, old fans will get something new to add to their SRV collections. And because most of Stevie's hits and fan favorites are included (in live versions and some in studio versions), the new fan will get everything he really needs, too.
Disc 1 covers 1977-83, and starts out with SRV's earliest recordings, including one from Paul Ray And The Cobras, which was before Stevie really reached his full potential, but could still play a pretty mean guitar. This disc also includes very good live versions of Texas Flood and Jimi Hendrix's Manic Depression, and the studio version of Pride And Joy from the album, Texas Flood. This disc will be of special interest to fans who want to know more about Stevie's early days. I would describe the music on this disc as: first half, really good/second half, really great!
Disc 2 covers 1984-87, and begins with studio versions of Scuttle Buttin' and Couldn't Stand The Weather from the album Couldn't Stand The Weather. A great live Hendrix medley of Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun is here, as are two unreleased songs from the Live At Carnegie Hall show, The Sky Is Crying and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). WOW! The music on this disc is just about what you would expect from this period in SRV's career. GREAT!
Disc 3 covers 1987-1990, and exceeds all of my expectations. THIS STUFF IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! Included on this disc are great live versions of Look At Little Sister, Willie The Wimp, and Crossfire. And unbelievably good solo unplugged versions of Dirty Pool (from a 1989 Rock Lives' radio program), Rude Mood, Testify, and Pride And Joy (from MTV's Unplugged in 1990). Also from 1990 are smokin' live versions of Tightrope, Cold Shot, The Things (That) I Used To Do, and Leave My Girl Alone. Jeff Beck joins Stevie on Goin' Down, from an Albuquerque, New Mexico show in 1989. The music on this disc is the best of the best. I can't get enough of it!
Disc 4 is the DVD. It's an Austin City Limits broadcast from 1989 with about 5 songs. If you've never seen Stevie in action, this is the real thing, right here. He really cuts loose, and gets wide open on this, and the picture quality is excellant. Having the visual SRV experience included in the box is a huge bonus.
The glossy long box digi-book packaging is compact and beautiful, and the 72-page book that's included is packed with great photos, history, recording details, and essays with comments from Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, and others. The last page of the book is an especially nice touch. A picture shows Stevie and his brother, Jimmie Vaughan, jamming away on their guitars, looking each other right in the eye, and smiling huge grins at each other. Next to the picture is a quote from Jimmie Vaughan: "The world misses his music, but I miss my brother". And I don't have any complaints at all about this SRV boxed set. |
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| "SRV" | 2007-08-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1LVIXMAADHZ5W |
| Had wanted to purchase this item for some time. Hated now that I waited!!! This 3 CD set is Awesome!! I listened to all 3 CD's all the way through as soon as I got my Box Set in! The DVD, while only has like six songs on it, is also the NUTS!! I've already watched it a dozen times. Must have for a SRV fan. Good Stuff! |
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| "Chronological history of Stevie Ray's fantastic blues" | 2007-06-23 |
| - Reviewed By maxlaw |
| I bought this, my second copy, so that my wife (a piano and percussion major in college, plus her Master's) could enjoy the 3 CDs of Stevie Ray in her car. She has grown to appreciate SRV to the point that she thinks he is amazing. "Couldn't Stand The Weather" has an unusual insertion of 2/4 time in the midst of the song. It made it onto his commercially available CDs, unlike most of the previously unreleased cuts. The inclusion of early recordings (the earliest being 1977) in this set makes it even better, as you hear the young guitar slinger of the blues mature in his playing (and in his life when he gave up his alcohol and cocaine on October 13, 1986, although its effects never showed to me in the commercial CDs) until his death in August 1990 in a helicopter accident in Wisconsin. This set is far and above any other SRV "collection," even better than "Stevie Ray Vaughan, Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues (Series)." It can be listened to over and over, due to there being 3 CDs and such powerful playing. Out of all of the cuts, "Thunderbird" (1977) is my least favorite although you can hear some of SRV's Texas shuffle playing in its earliest form. The first CD is Stevie Ray Vaughn prior to his signing a recording contract in 1983 as a result of his appearance in Montreaux in 1982, with the second and third CD providing some marvelous cuts like "Crossfire" and "The House is Rockin'". So many favorites here that I can recommend this to anyone who loves the blues and/or Stevie Ray who is a guitar master of the blues. The inclusion of a DVD and the booklet of photos and history is pure icing on the cake! Buy this one! |
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