RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990

[Crabby Appleton]

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

[democracyindanger]

1. I know exactly where I was and what I was doing

when I heard the news on my car radio. I was just starting to get into him, too. Sucks.

[Left Is Write]

11. I remember also.

My brother and I had passed up a chance to see him in Minnesota the previous month, finances being tight. "We'll see him next time," we said. Except there was no next time.

I was at work very early that morning, packing boxes to move offices to another building. I was the only one there, and I was listening to the radio when the first early reports came out that it was Eric Clapton who had been in the crash. The reports were later corrected. My brother called, and we alternated between angry and sad.

[Bennyboy]

2. I was just about to post this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fFN46H1i8&feature=related With Jff beck.

I saw SRV many times. loved him.

I saw Stevie get booed off the stage in Sacramento (81 maybe). He opened for Sammy Hagar and people did not like it... at all. Everyone kept yelling "Sammy Sammy Sammy" over Stevie's music. The blues were nowhere then and it was just not what people wanted to listen to. I think he played four songs before coming off. Sammy came on stage and let the crowd have it, BIG TIME. "Fuck you people, you wouldn't know good music if it bit you in the ass, I invited Stevie here specifically to play for you and you all are assholes to him, fuck you"' or words to that effect.

Sammy then came out and played about 40 minutes or so and was nothing at all. He fucking hated it.

What is funny when I talk to people from Sacramento that are way into SRV now, The first thing I do is ask them if they went to that show. Most of theme say yeah they did and they get the news that it was their hero they booed off the stage.

[gmoney]

3. A friend of mine was at the last show...

crazy...

[Swede]

4. Eighteen years ago!?!

Where does the time fly? RIP Mr. Vaughn.

[RetroLounge]

5. Best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAG-kX_IlUw&feature=related

RIP

RL

[pokerfan]

6. SRV guitar lesson

http://www.youtube.com/v/SZoX6Q0UK8A

[MAGICBULLET]

7. that man was amazing

with the blues...

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uiX4ryF5C8>

his song Lenny. So much soul.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. The Master of the Stratocaster...

I shed a tear that day... I turned a lot of people on to SRV, way before he became well known/famous... listening to songs like Cold Shot & Tin Pan Alley, and a host of others...



Tribute by Jimmie Vaughn

Six Strings Down

Alpine valley
In the middle of the night
Six strings down
On the heaven-bound flight
Got a pick, a strap, guitar on his back
Ain’t gonna cut the angels no slack
Heaven done called
Another blues-stringer back home
See the voodoo chile
Holding out his hand
I’ve been waitin’ on you brother
Welcome to the band
Good blues-stringin’
Heaven-fine singin’
Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Been lis’nin’ to your playin’
Heaven done called
Another blues-stringer back home
Lord they called
Another blues-stringer back home
Albert Collins up there
Muddy an’ Lightnin’ too
Albert King and Freddy
Playin’ the blues
T-Bone Walker, Guitar Slim
Little Son Jackson and
Frankie Lee Sims
Heaven done called
Another blues-stringer back home
Lord they called
Another blues-stringer back home
Lord they called
Another blues-stringer back home
Heaven done called
Another blues-stringer back home
Lord they called
Another blues-stringer back home
Heaven done called
Another blues-stringer back home
They called
Another blues-stringer back home
Back home

[davsand]

13. I had not seen this.

Wow.

------

I was at that last concert and saw him play the night he died. Literally, I had pissed off my boss to the point of almost firing me because I left work early to get to Alpine Valley for that show.

We sat on the lawn close enough that we were able to use glasses and see him picking. I was absolutely blown away at how heavy the gage was on his strings. That man had to have had fingertips of steel to not get cut to hell with those things.

He was simply amazing, and we talked in the car about trying to find him in a club venue someplace, some time. Never got the chance, however. He was dead a few hours later.

Over the years I have talked to a few people who say they were there that night, and to tell you the truth I have starting thinking it is kinda like Woodstock. In many ways, however, it really does speak volumes about how much his music STILL means to so many people.

I still listen to him and I still feel his loss. I think I've got Texas Flood and Soul to Soul in my car right now, in fact...



Laura

[ldr65]

9. One of the truly Great Ones! n/t

[bluesbassman]

10. RIP Stevie.

The first time I heard Texas Flood was in a music store down in Arroyo Grande (kinda fitting). Anyway, I walked in and they had it on the house speakers. I just stood there for five minutes awestruck. Been hooked ever since. His passing was great loss to the blues and to music in general.

The master at work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U

[bullwinkle428]

12. Got the chance to see him twice in person-

what an amazing performer!

[hobbit709]

14. I first saw Stevie when he played with Paul Ray & The Cobras

at the old Rome Inn in Austin. That was about 74 or so. Saw him play at every club and dive in town.

[Kat45]

15. I saw SRV play 3 times, the last being his tour with Jeff Beck.

Great shows, great player. RIP, Stevie.

[Iggo]

16. That one hurt my heart.

I was just getting into him serious. I'd heard him before, but it went right over my head. Wasn't until I saw him on Unplugged, when I saw what he was doing, that I really started to get on board. Then I saw him on Austin City Limits and I was totally sold. I decided "I WILL see this guy in concert." Then like that, he was gone. Tragic.

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. the crash occurred outside of Alpine Valley

an outdoor theater that many of us Chicagoans patronized.

I remember the day well.

RIP Stevie.

[sasquatch]

18. *puts on flame retardent suit* OVERRATED!!

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