20 Years Ago Today
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Holy Shit! I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at.
I had just graduated High School and had the summer off.
I was working on my '79 Triumph Spitfire (which I had to do more than often) on my parents driveway listening to the radio station on a boom box (this was way before ipods and before portable CD players where readily available).
The DJ read the news that he had died in a Helicopter crash and I was quite taken back. Not only was I upset that we had lost an incredible (if not one of the greatest) guitarist ever. The thing that really got me was that he nearly killed himself with drugs (rumored to spike his coffee with a few grams coke every morning) and alcohol and he had finally got sober before his death.
A few minutes later my friend paul pulled up in his truck and asked if I had heard the news. We spent the rest of the afternoon working on my car and listening to SRV tributes on the radio.