SRV...

20 years ago yesterday we lost a damn good axe player named Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Lenny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIHvK5WN7I&feature=related

Crossfire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsHXd4rQnW0&feature=related

That is all.

92dxman wrote: 20 years ago yesterday we lost a damn good axe player named Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Lenny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIHvK5WN7I&feature=related Crossfire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsHXd4rQnW0&feature=related That is all.

I still remember coming home from school and my mom crying, and finding out what happened. My mom also loves the music of eric clapton, so it was doubly hard for her.

Joey

PS, my wife and I had our first dance to little wing....

Joey

I just realized it was yesterday, the 27th...

Joey

Testify, on an acoustic 12 string. Amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jNPJ9Ztg6E

Yeah, I remember hearing the news on the radio myself. I can't believe it has been 20 years. He had just gotten clean, too, and was playing up a storm. Still a tragedy for music... and still probably my all time favorite guitarist.

If theres a rock and roll heaven,well you know they got a hell of a band. I believe this applies here.

...and we lost Albert King a couple years later. Buddy Guy is on tour right now, and I just realized that mother berkeleyer is in his SEVENTIES. Go see your heroes while they're still around, kiddos.

As far as Stevie goes, this one still tears my berkeleying heart out every time I hear it (May I Have a Talk w/you:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ-rSyL07-8

Speaking of Albert King, there is a fantastic live album called in session that him and Stevie are both on. It was recorded in 83 and has more King material and Stevie is in more of a rhythm guitarist role but definitely still recommended.

has more King material and Stevie is in more of a rhythm guitarist role but definitely still recommended.

...as it should be. Not that Stevie wasn't berkeleying phenomenal, but he definitely got a lot of his sound from Albert...and Albert from Freddie...and so on and so forth.

Is there anyone who isn't a Stevie fan?

I was driving to Toronto when I heard on the radio that Jeff Healey had died. I was listening to "Can you see the Light" with tears streaming down my face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHI7_PMFNc

i have a vhs that i recorded WBITD of MTV Unplugged, featuring Joe Satriani and SRV. Stevie just flat ass-raped ol' Satch.

sexy 12-string Pride And Joy

Rude Mood

and an outtake of Life Without You that never aired

oh yeah, my dad died the next day (8/28/1990), so that was a tough couple of days in my world.

poopshovel wrote: Buddy Guy is on tour right now, and I just realized that mother berkeleyer is in his SEVENTIES. Go see your heroes while they're still around, kiddos.

They're all old. I always think of Steve Cropper as in the Blues Brothers, but that was 30 years ago. He's almost seventy.
I've seen BB King--Thats one I'm happy I did go to see, he's gotta be 85. The big one I wanted to see before he dies is/was Willie Nelson. Again, very happy I did go to see him. I've seen most of my heroes that are still alive.
Unfortunately, I never will get the chance to see Jim Croce, Steve Goodman, Jethro Burns, Stevie Ray, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison... Its kind of amazing, and heartbreaking, how many have died before their time--not to say that Waylon and Johnny were too young (although they were close), but it was before my concert-going time. And thats just my list, the ones I would have wanted to see live in a relatively limited genre.

Riviera Paradise gives me multiple sets of goosebumps when I listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpkSRtcrR0

Same with Life by the Drop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZPMScX9-k