Live Alive | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 496373
Format: Live
Media: Audio Cassette
UPC: 074644051148
EAN: 0074644051148
ASIN: B00000268P
Release Date: October 17, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Say What! - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Vaughan, Stevie Ray | | • | Ain't Gone 'N' Give up on Love - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Vaughan, Stevie Ray | | • | Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Vaughan, Stevie Ray | | • | Mary Had a Little Lamb - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guy, Buddy | | • | Superstition - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wonder, Stevie | | • | I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Burnett, C. | | • | Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clark, W.C. | | • | Willie the Wimp - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carter, B. | | • | Look at Little Sister - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ballard, Hank | | • | Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Davis, Larry | | • | Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Jimi | | • | Love Struck Baby - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Vaughan, Stevie Ray | | • | Change It - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bramhall, Doyle |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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Most live blues recordings have a feeling of intimacy, as if the concerts took place in some out-of-the-way venue for an audience who not only know all the lyrics, but know the performers personally as well. Live Alive, in contrast, feels like a large-scale rock concert, an epic production full of grand gestures. But really, nothing suited Stevie Ray Vaughan's style better; everything, from the overall sound to the solos, feels big. The roar of the audience, especially for favorites like "Pride and Joy," "Cold Shot," and "Texas Flood," is huge but distant, an arena sound. Overall, Live Alive leaves the impression of a series of stellar moments caught on tape, with an intensity rarely captured in the recording studio. --Genevieve Williams
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| Customer Reviews:
 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN CHANNELS GOD AND HENDRIX ON LIVE ALIVE ! December 18, 2007
ol' nuff n' den sum (the Virginia coast, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Live Alive (1986) was originally released as a two-record set of live performances from 1985-86. 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). 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). 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.
Live Alive Minus One November 14, 2006
Dean Dibling (Appling, GA United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an excellant SRV album. I had to buy several copies in cassette version because I played it so much I kept stretching it out! The only problem I have with the CD version is that the "powers that be" eliminated the "Life Without You" version that appears on the cassette. This is inexcusable, in my opinion, and I can only assume it happened because of pressure to be "politically correct"....Stevie makes very direct references to South Africa and Apartheid. Stevie "preaches" in the middle of the song and gives one of the all-time classic lines...."I may be White, but I ain't stupid!" I would really, really, REALLY like the studio to reconsider and re-release this album on CD in its original form. In any event, this is a "must have" CD for any serious SRV fan.
really good. good as any live album. November 12, 2005
Soultaker
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is a really good live album. some of the songs he sings are first timers for him like Superstition or I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime). but all and all, a really great album.
Not His Best July 12, 2005
D. MILLS (Manassas, VA United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Stevie's contract mandated that he produce another album. He was so strung out on drugs at the time that he was unable to produce new material. A live album was all he was able to come up with. The available material (mostly the Montreaux performances) evidently didn't meet the highest standards of quality so a lot of overdubbing was done. Stevie's drug induced monologue at the end of Life Without You was an embarrassment to many of his friends and colleagues.
BUT IT'S STILL STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND THEREFORE FANTASTIC!!!!! The CD still rocks. It still has some great guitar work. As far as I'm concerned it's still a good piece of work. This was the first SRV tape I got, and I was not disappointed. SRV was a great guitarist. Period. This CD is also great.
But his other stuff is much better.
****1/2. Much underrated June 10, 2005
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The late Stevie Ray Vaughan rocked on stage. His rendition of Howlin' Wolf's "Commit A Crime" may lack the raw punch of Wolf's original, but that's a minor complaint...most of this album is simply excellent, filled with gems from Vaughan's first three albums.
Stevie Ray's muscular and versatile guitar playing is sublime, with more grit than most of his studio orginals. His vocals are good, too, and the song list is magnificent, featuring the rare, non-LP track "Willie the Wimp" about the bizarre 1984 funeral of a Chicago "wiseguy".
Other highlights include Vaughan's best song, the superbly groovy "Pride And Joy", as well as "Look At Little Sister", "Cold Shot", "Love Struck Baby" and the slow blues "Texas Flood" and "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love", but there are really no weak songs, and this album should appeal to fans of both blues and rock music.
The sound is good, although not always crystal clear, and the band is excellent. Several songs actually sound better in this live setting than on the original studio albums, partly because of the blistering blues-rock arrangements which include keyboards (piano and organ).
Apparently some people feel that Vaughan's playing wasn't up to his usual standards when this album was recorded, that he must have been having a bad night or something. I've heard a lot of live SRV, and I can't make any sense of that claim, especially since "Live Alive" wasn't recorded during just one show, but actually incorporates cuts from different concerts in both 1985 and 1986. He must have been having some bad years, then, and this myopic claim sounds particularly absurd when it is brought forward by people who then go on to praise Stevie's "Live At Montreux" album. Several of these performances are from, yes, you guessed it, the very same 1985 Montreux performance.
Contrary to what some people have apparently heard and chosen to believe, this is a very enjoyable, soulful live album, and it is highly recommendable to anyone with an interest in Stevie Ray Vaughan, or contemporary blues and blues-rock in general.
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