20 Years Ago Today
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- bdizzle
We lost one of the Greats....
- georgesIII0
seriously, who?
- Stevie Ray VaughanStian
- *facepalm
educate thyselfmarychain - Sorry for my deep ignorance.
;pgeorgesIII
- mnmlst0
yawn
- Continuity0
20 years already? Jesus, I'm getting old ...
- ApeRobot0
true legend. great inspiration.
- desmo0
This guy is amazing. Simply amazing. Cant believe it.
- fooler20
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.
- vaxorcist0
20 years ago today... going in and out of style....
I did see Stevie Ray Vaugn in the 80's.... in Madison WI... in a nice place... he wore a big hat and spent lots of time hiding his face, staring at his shoes, playing with the guitar behind his back, near his neck, and he was good.... also saw BB King and Eric Clapton in the same few years... SRV did do some Hendrix covers when I saw him... but the best Hendrix cover I ever saw was from Janis Ian believe it or not...
- Janis Ian doing Hendrix? Does not compute! :)monkeyshine
- she did a few minutes of Purple Haze very well, very casually, in between sets at Ravinia a few years ago....vaxorcist
- mg330
My mom and stepdad won tickets to see him at Texas Stadium in Dallas, in the 80s. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, his younger brother's band, was the opener.
They actually left soon after SRV started because it was TOO LOUD. There's not much I resent about my mom and stepdad, but I take every opportunity possible to remind them what fools they were that day.
- dbloc0
RIP SRV
- ghandolf0
@mg33 - Mine was Roy Roy Orbinson. I was in L.A., he was playing in San Diego that Saturday night.... tickets available... I drove almost half way there, and thought it was a nutty idea because I had an early stage call in the morning. I turned around and went back to L.A..
He died that Tuesday...
- CyBrain0
I'm kind of old, but this is my pathetic story.
Stevie Ray Vaughan came to my school - SUNY Buffalo in 1983, playing outdoors for free. My friends wanted to stay to see Cyndi Lauper but wanted to get beer and drink in the dorms before Stevie started. I couldn't convince them to stay and left with them. I never got to see him after that.
