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I remember when the crash happened. Clapton was on one of the four helo's that departed together on their way to Chicago.


It was a devastating loss.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:

I remember when the crash happened. Clapton was on one of the four helo's that departed together on their way to Chicago.

It was a devastating loss.

There's certain times in ones life where they remember the exact specifics about incidents.
Like what you were doing and where you were at when Sep 11th happened, the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, attempted assassination of President Reagan, assassinations of Brothers Kennedy, or King...

For whatever reason, Stevie Ray Vaughn was one of those times. I was passed out in the bunk in the barracks, Camp Schawab, Okinawa. Just got our asses kicked out in the Northern Training Area. The Duty NCO woke me and the guy across the hall from me up and broke us the news. All 3 of us were big Blues & Rock-n-Roll fans.

Sad day and a huge loss to the Music World.

Breaks a string, keeps playing and singing, swaps guitars and doesn't miss a thing.

I have seen his brother Jimmy several times. He is talented but he is not Stevie Ray. Stevie liked to tell the story of Howling Wolf when he made the big time. Howlin Wolf took a pic of himself sitting in a boat in the driveway of his home. SRV decided that he would take a pic of his childhood home with a window A/C unit. He had just kicked booze prior to the crash in 1990.

I was 17, just before my senior year in high school, working in a machine shop when I heard the news. The radio station (102.7 WNEW in NYC) was making this huge deal out his death. I had heard a few of his songs on the radio, but didn't really understand what the big deal was.

A few years later I figured out why it was such a big deal. Such an amazing guitar player.

IMO Stevie Ray Vaughan was the finest guitarist who ever walked on Planet Earth. His loss was a real tragedy.

SRV and Jeff Healey:

They're are many ultra talented guitar players that can do amazing things with the instrument, many are technically more capable and proficient than SRV was, but there was something special about him, an eagerness, intensity and energy that very few musicians and performers have.
He could play the same 12 bar blues that gazillions of people have played before and after but the passion he put into it was one in a million.

I was lucky to see him at MSG with Jeff Beck in 1989.I’ll admit I only knew his songs that were on the radio (102.7) also,he has to be the best guitarist I’ve ever seen live and what was even better was I had awesome seats.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:

I remember when the crash happened. Clapton was on one of the four helo's that departed together on their way to Chicago.

It was a devastating loss.

There's certain times in ones life where they remember the exact specifics about incidents.
Like what you were doing and where you were at when Sep 11th happened, the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, attempted assassination of President Reagan, assassinations of Brothers Kennedy, or King...

For whatever reason, Stevie Ray Vaughn was one of those times. I was passed out in the bunk in the barracks, Camp Schawab, Okinawa. Just got our asses kicked out in the Northern Training Area. The Duty NCO woke me and the guy across the hall from me up and broke us the news. All 3 of us were big Blues & Rock-n-Roll fans.

Sad day and a huge loss to the Music World.

I was deployed on board the USS Princeton. Back then we got our news by reading what the Radiomen taped to the bulkhead outside their shop. It was nighttime so I read it by redlight and couldn't belive it. I'd just seen him in concert not long before we'd left

He played the controls near as much as the strings. I was at work in VA Beach when I heard the news on the radio, around lunch time I believe.

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Originally posted by MoreCowbell:
I was lucky to see him at MSG with Jeff Beck in 1989.I’ll admit I only knew his songs that were on the radio (102.7) also,he has to be the best guitarist I’ve ever seen live and what was even better was I had awesome seats.

Saw that tour in Pittsburgh.

My wife and I saw SRV as a backup band to Marshal Tucker. The wife is a guitar player and we’d known about his playing for sometime. So when we heard he was going to be in a city near by we jumped on getting tickets.

As he started playing some very drunk chick sitting behind us started screaming “you suck, get off the stage. Bring out Marshal Tucker”. I’d had after about 10 minutes of this. I stood up turned around looked her boyfriend straight in the eye (he was sober) and told he that if he didn’t get that drunk bitch out of there I was going to knock both of them out! This was when I was in the heyday of my weight training. They left and everyone around us cleared! We didn’t see them for the rest of the show.

It was awesome! SRV and Double Trouble as a backup band! We were devastated after the accident. What a loss.

He had THE best touch and soul on a guitar. Some may be faster or more proficient but his guitar was like an extension of himself when he played.
As a guitarist I can really appreciate his genius and talent. Even though that genre isn't my favorite I still consider him the greatest guitarist I've ever heard.

 
SRV was roundly booed at the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where the audience was more accustomed to acoustic blues and jazz. On his return in 1986, he was wildly welcomed.
 
One of my favorite albums is his collaboration with Albert King. King, who is left handed, learned on a right hand guitar turned around. Now that he can afford any kind of guitar he wants, he still plays left handed upside down.
 
Just one cut from Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session:
 

I saw SRV live with the Fabulous Thunderbirds opening 2/11/86 at Memorial Auditorium Ohio University. What a show!

I don’t even want to talk about it

Was able to see Stevie a few times and Madison, WI was the most memorable since it was a small venue. Alpine valley is only 20 miles down the road from me. Every time I pass I think of the great loss to the music world.