Stevie Ray Vaughan/CA, USA 1985

“SOUL TO SOUL TOUR” produced the famous album “LIVE ALIVE”. A live album that allows you to experience the scene with exquisite sound is now available. This work was recorded at “Berkeley performance on October 11, 1985”. This is the best audience recording. The biggest point of this work is the wonderful sound quality and realistic experience, but first of all, the show position. Let’s check the tour schedule at that time. ●1985, June 7th-30th: North America #1 (12 performances) July 5th-15th: Europe #1 (9 performances) ← *LIVE ALIVE, July 23rd-September 29th: North America #2a (29 performances)《“SOUL TO SOUL” released on September 30th》 ・September 30th – December 31st: North America #2b (47 performances)←★Here★●January 23rd, 1986- March 2: North America #3 (24 performances), March 6-29: Oceania (17 performances), April 13-May 3: North America #4 (12 performances), June 20- August 29th: North America #5 (34 performances) ← *LIVE ALIVE September 12th – October 2nd: Europe #2 (16 performances) [“LIVE ALIVE” released on November 15th] This is “SOUL TO SOUL” Overall picture of “TOUR”. The tour started about four months before the album’s release, and took the world by storm with a gigantic scale of about 200 performances. This is comparable to the next “LIVE ALIVE TOUR”, and you can clearly see that it was at its peak. Under such circumstances, the Berkeley performance of this work was held at the largest leg “North America #2”. This was the 8th concert since the release of “SOUL TO SOUL”. This work recorded at such a show is truly the best audience recording. Compared to a sound board, the tone has an audience-like quality, but this is only at the tone level and not the sense of distance. The guitar is especially amazing. It flows into your ears with a sense of close contact with zero sense of distance, and the sharp riffs and glossy long tones are extremely thick, so the details are super clear down to the smallest details. Compared to the extremely thick guitar, the vocals and rhythm section are a little lower, but in terms of seats, it’s about a two-row difference. Musically speaking, I feel like the guitar is too far forward, but if the main character is SRV, it’s a different story. It is a live album where you can fully enjoy the live guitar work at its peak. What is depicted with such a sound is a show that is similar to “LIVE ALIVE” but different. Now, let’s organize the set while comparing it with the traditional official edition. ●TEXAS FLOOD (3 songs)・Mary Had A Little Lamb・Songs that cannot be heard on LIVE ALIVE: Testify/Lenny●COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER (5 songs)・Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)/Cold Shot・Listen on LIVE ALIVE Songs missing: Scuttle Buttin’/Tin Pan Alley/Couldn’t Stand the Weather ●SOUL TO SOUL (7 songs)・Say What!/Ain’t Gone ‘n’ Give Up on Love/Look at Little Sister/Change It/ Songs that can’t be heard on Life Without You/LIVE ALIVE: Lookin’ Out the Window/Gone Home…and this is how it goes. Although the style of concentrating the first three albums is common to “LIVE ALIVE,” this work has an even larger volume. From the opening, it is “Scuttle Buttin’” that cannot be heard on “LIVE ALIVE”, and after that there is plenty of repertoire such as “Lookin’ Out the Window”, “Tin Pan Alley” and “Couldn’t Stand the Weather”. Especially towards the end, the three songs “Testify”, “Lenny” and “Gone Home” really heat things up. Just being able to enjoy such a group of famous songs with a full and powerful performance is sure to make it a masterpiece, but the audience is even more passionate. The guitar is so thick that it doesn’t get in the way, but it’s not just the loud applause between songs, but the interplay that gets heated up and the cheers are loud and passionate. This is fed back to the stage, further heating up the performance. There are many sound boards left in the heyday of SRV, but the reality of this interaction is only for audience recording. You can enjoy it at the highest level of quality. It is a masterpiece that has a great performance comparable to the traditional official live version, but is penetrated with an all-in-one experience that cannot be experienced in the edited version of “LIVE ALIVE”. The scene of “SOUL TO SOUL TOUR”, which was a miracle in rock history. Experience the best sound book with this work. Live at Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA 11th October 1985 TRULY PERFECT SOUND Disc 1(57:56) 1. Scuttle Buttin’ 2. Say What! 3. Ain’t Gone ‘n’ Give Up on Love 4. Lookin’ Out the Window 5. Look at Little Sister 6. Mary Had a Little Lamb 7. Tin Pan Alley 8. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) 9. Change It Disc 2(45:38) 1. Cold Shot 2. Couldn’t Stand the Weather 3. Life Without You 4. Testify 5. Band Introductions 6. Lenny 7. Gone Home Stevie Ray Vaughan – guitar, vocals Chris Layton – drums Tommy Shannon – bass Reese Wynans – keyboards