A pair of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble appearances at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival previously released on CD will have their visual component issued this summer on DVD. Fans will be able to see footage of Vaughan playing the annual event for the first time in 1982, a legendary performance that led to the late blues guitar legend's mainstream breakthrough, and his triumphant return to headline at the festival three years later.
The two-disc DVD "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985," due Aug. 10 from Epic/Legacy, boasts additional songs not included on the 2001 single-disc audio release of the same title. The DVD will also boast a new documentary about the festival performances, with on-camera interviews with Jackson Browne, John Mayer and Double Trouble' Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton.
Still struggling for recognition outside their native Texas, Vaughan and his band relished the opportunity to play Montreux in 1982. Rhe crowd's reaction to the group's mix of covers and future classics such as "Pride And Joy" and "Love Struck Baby" was disinterested and even disingenuous, leaving the artist more than a little disappointed.
"Sometimes what appear as failures are really successes in disguise," Shannon says of the performance that night, which won over two fans and opportunities that would change the course of Vaughan's career.
So impressed was Browne, he offered Vaughan free recording time at his studio, where the band would lay down the tracks for their 1983 Epic debut, "Texas Flood." Also blown away by Vaughan's abilities was David Bowie, who drafted the guitarist to play on his hugely successful 1983 album "Let's Dance" (Virgin) and subsequent tour.
At his 1985 return to Montreux, the now internationally popular act headlined the event's blues night. Just five years before his untimely death, the performance finds Vaughan in a far more comfortable position than his first appearance in Switzerland. Filled with his trademark firey licks, his attack is much more relaxed than the '82 set, but equally proficient.
Represented on the first disc of the DVD, the track list for the 1982 show is exactly the same as it appeared on the audio release. Previously unreleased recordings of "Cold Shot" and "Little Sister" bolster the second disc's 1985 show. Like the version of "Tin Pan Alley" on the audio release, the new additions feature fellow modern blues master Johnny Copeland.
Here is the "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985" track list:
Disc one-July 17, 1982:
"Hide Away"
"Rude Mood"
"Pride and Joy"
"Texas Flood"
"Love Struck Baby"
"Dirty Pool"
"Give Me Back My Wig"
"Collins' Shuffle"
Disc two-July 15, 1985:
"Scuttle Buttin'"
"Say What!"
"Ain't Gone N' Give Up On Love"
"Pride and Joy"
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
"Cold Shot" (w/ Johnny Copeland)
"Tin Pan Alley" (aka "Roughest Place In Town"; w/Johnny Copeland)
"Little Sister" (w/Johnny Copeland)
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"Texas Flood"
"Life Without You"
"Gone Home"
"Couldn't Stand the Weather"
The two-disc DVD "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985," due Aug. 10 from Epic/Legacy, boasts additional songs not included on the 2001 single-disc audio release of the same title. The DVD will also boast a new documentary about the festival performances, with on-camera interviews with Jackson Browne, John Mayer and Double Trouble' Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton.
Still struggling for recognition outside their native Texas, Vaughan and his band relished the opportunity to play Montreux in 1982. Rhe crowd's reaction to the group's mix of covers and future classics such as "Pride And Joy" and "Love Struck Baby" was disinterested and even disingenuous, leaving the artist more than a little disappointed.
"Sometimes what appear as failures are really successes in disguise," Shannon says of the performance that night, which won over two fans and opportunities that would change the course of Vaughan's career.
So impressed was Browne, he offered Vaughan free recording time at his studio, where the band would lay down the tracks for their 1983 Epic debut, "Texas Flood." Also blown away by Vaughan's abilities was David Bowie, who drafted the guitarist to play on his hugely successful 1983 album "Let's Dance" (Virgin) and subsequent tour.
At his 1985 return to Montreux, the now internationally popular act headlined the event's blues night. Just five years before his untimely death, the performance finds Vaughan in a far more comfortable position than his first appearance in Switzerland. Filled with his trademark firey licks, his attack is much more relaxed than the '82 set, but equally proficient.
Represented on the first disc of the DVD, the track list for the 1982 show is exactly the same as it appeared on the audio release. Previously unreleased recordings of "Cold Shot" and "Little Sister" bolster the second disc's 1985 show. Like the version of "Tin Pan Alley" on the audio release, the new additions feature fellow modern blues master Johnny Copeland.
Here is the "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985" track list:
Disc one-July 17, 1982:
"Hide Away"
"Rude Mood"
"Pride and Joy"
"Texas Flood"
"Love Struck Baby"
"Dirty Pool"
"Give Me Back My Wig"
"Collins' Shuffle"
Disc two-July 15, 1985:
"Scuttle Buttin'"
"Say What!"
"Ain't Gone N' Give Up On Love"
"Pride and Joy"
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
"Cold Shot" (w/ Johnny Copeland)
"Tin Pan Alley" (aka "Roughest Place In Town"; w/Johnny Copeland)
"Little Sister" (w/Johnny Copeland)
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"Texas Flood"
"Life Without You"
"Gone Home"
"Couldn't Stand the Weather"
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