wow... 20 years since since Stevie left us..

[Texasgal]

RIP Stevie Ray Vaughn, you were fucking awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZPMScX9-k&feature=related

[Skittles]

1. it was strange

I lived in Austin at the time, but was within ten miles of him when he was killed

[Bennyboy]

2. Still feel the loss...

The blues has suffered a huge downfall in the years since. Nobody got people back into the blues like Stevie did.

I once saw him booed off the stage in Sacramento. Round 82 I think??? he opened a show with Sammy Hagar and the crowd just let him have it, yelling "Sammy, Sammy Sammy" so loud that Stevie had to stop. (Dumbass metal heads) Sammy came out and let the crowd have it. he said he brought Stevie there as a treat and the crowd treated him like shit and that we should all be ashamed of ourselves. (not me, I was there FOR SRV). Sammy hasn't played Sac since.


SRV played many times here, At the long gone Sacramento Blues festival and with Jeff Beck (the last time I saw him)....

[Ryano42]

3. Saw him with Jeff Beck 3 months before....

GOD I MISS SRV.

[abq e streeter]

4. Memories flooding back...I attended music camp in East Troy in the summer of '67

I don't know for sure, but I always assumed they built Alpine Valley on the site of the old camp. It was horrible enough that Stevie Ray and the others died that way, but it was and is eerie to me to think of all my happy memories of East Troy Wisconsin now being forever associated with the place where such a profoundly sad day in the history of American music happened. I remember the aerial views of the crash on the news and there was a little lake in the background; again, almost positive that was the lake where I had such carefree days swimming and canoeing as a teenager.
I saw Stevie Ray once, in about '87...he and his band were amazing. And I had gone there as something of a blues snob.Like, OK, so this is the great Stevie Ray Vaughan , huh? Just another white guy playing blues until he proves otherwise. OK sucker, show me something. What a fucking ignoramus I was. Well he showed me all right. The real deal, and there were moments where it felt like he and Double Trouble made time stand still. I had the pleasure of meeting and briefly hanging out with Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton several years later when they were with Storyville, and they seemed like real nice guys (not to mention one seriously badass rhythm section). I think of them tonight too, and mourn their friend who was from all accounts a good, kind , and decent man, Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[hippywife]

5. One of a kind. No one will be able to overtake

his talent and legacy. No one. Still remember where I was when I heard. :cry:

One of my favorites: Stevie and Jimmie Vaughan play Pipeline together on the same double neck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onqzua4bRHY

http://www26.brinkster.com/jakapa/srv/death.htm

Last summer Vaughan had come to Chicago on another mission, to help Buddy Guy, whom he had known for a decade, open his new South Side nightclub. Hours before the crash the pair teamed up again for the last song Vaughan would ever perform. "Stevie is the best friend I've ever had, the best guitarist I ever heard and the best person anyone will ever want to know," a choked-up Guy said the day after his friend's death. "He will be missed a lot."

[hobbit709]

6. Damn, it's been that long.

I remember seeing him at the old Rome Inn and the One Knite here in Austin way back.
Not to mention several other old dives.

[abq e streeter]

7. Kick for weekend loungers to post remembrances of Stevie Ray

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

8. RIP, SRV. Remember it well, I just bought my 1st SRV CD a few days before his death.

The sky is still crying...

[Bennyboy]

9. The Best Photo of Stevie ever IMO

taken by my Friend Larry Hulst, in Concord CA at the Pavilion on one of those tours with Buddy Guy...(When I used to rep Larry, we called this THE SHOT" no further explanation needed)...






You can buy this one and many other great photos here: http://www.hulstphotography.com/music/1/photo01.htm

[FarLeftRage]

10. I saw him open for Blackfoot in July, 1984

SRV was totally the dude! Blackfoot really sucked... they should have opened for SRV.

[Swede]

11. RIP Stevie.

Time sure flies.

[Bennyboy]

12. TIGHTROPE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_JG3gogUw