Posted on 08/27/2015 11:47:59 AM PDT by Mariner
The legacy of Stevie Ray Vaughan is not in his guitar playing. It’s in his heart.
The blues was not born with the Texan guitarist, but it was given a second life. Twenty-five years after his death at age 35 in a freak helicopter crash, many still find the blues synonymous with Vaughan’s name. Many also mistakenly think it died with him in that helicopter on Aug. 27, 1990.
Somehow during the quarter-century since Vaughan’s tragic passing, “blues” has become a bit of a dirty word. Make no mistake, there are still blues players among us: Jack White, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, and Gary Clark Jr. are all modern-day bluesmen. The difference is… they won’t call themselves that. They bury their blues underneath a lo-fi wink and nod.
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SRV was one of a kind. The Lord musta really wanted him playing personally.
We used to go to the Bar in Austin back in the good ‘Ol days and sit at a table 10’ from the stage before SRV went BIG Time, $1 beers no big hassles like going to a Concert.
Back when life was simple...
SRV ~ I went to see him several times at a hole-in-the wall night club on Greenville Avenue in Dallas. He was incredible. He was set up in the corner to the left of a long bar. The club was narrow and had seating at the bar and along the wall. He would get on the bar, play and walk down the bar as he played, it was electrifying. I went to see him again almost 1-month to the day of the crash in Cincinnati at Riverbend Music Center. I’ve always loved his music and was so saddened by his death. I didn’t know him but we grew up in the same neighborhood in Dallas (Oak Cliff) and went to the same Jr. High School, Stockard Jr. High. He was a couple years older than me. I went to High School in Lancaster Texas and didn’t know this until after he died but he actually played at the high school prom (in 1972, I think). Could you imagine having SRV play at your prom? Just amazing! SRV ~ RIP and may your music live on forever.
Thanks for the link. Awesome stuff. I love SRV and now for my taste, Joe Bonamassa comes in a very close second to SRV.
Yup, we’ve got that performance on DVD, fabulous. That and “Live at the El Mocambo” are my favorites.(My tinnitus is so bad my wife can hear it)
I will see your 3 and raise you six. First time was at Will Rogers Auditorium in Ft. Worth on my 15th birthday. Brother Jimmie and the Birds opened. Later it was bro-fest. They did the double neck guitar thang.
Witnessed him doing ‘Third Stone’, he literally stood on “Lennie” and I thought she was going to break.
Fran did some percussion on ‘Couldn’t Stand the Weather’.
Saw SRV at the Gorge in in Eastern Wa just a few week from his death. He played Voodoo Chile behind his back for the whole thing song and I think he ended the night with Riviera Paridise as his last with the sunset over the gorge. I think it was the night he got back his # 1 Strat that had been stolen and recovered. He seemed reallly happy to have it back.
One of the few artists who was even better playing live. He opened for Joe Cocker.
He did do Hendrix better. Hendrix was usually too wasted to play good live. SRV had a great voice too.
As a guitarist myself, his loss was hard for me, honestly, I have never been more upset over the loss of an artist more than when he died. He had so much more left to give.
Stevie had his hand in Blues, but he had a thang for jazz as well.
You can say that again. Back when Austin was still Austin. Now it’s some LA/NYC fusion... you can swing your arms downtown on weekends all night and not hit a native.
Lotsa folks don’t know that’s Stevie on Bowie’s Let’s Dance. He was going to do a second album with him but David, not knowing who he was, would only pay him union scale ($18/hr back then). I heard it was a messy split.
I really always thought SR, Chet Atkins and Randy Rhoads were the best guitarist to ever live. Then I saw Joe Satriani live. Guess you can’t really compare the styles side by side, but Satriani is simply amazing. I met him at a guitar workshop several years back and the guy is a natural, an anomaly. He is the most technically perfect guitarist I’ve ever witnessed. He can quite literally carry on a conversation with you while ripping out the most complex stuff imaginable, he did it right in front of me while explaining his amp model settings at the same time. He doesn’t even think about it. I was in awe.
berkley on the Colorado.
And then the Dell crowd shows up so now everybody gets up in the morning faces North to RR and drops to their knees to praise the "great one"
Next they all hop in the car and clog the roads for the next 3.5 hours going to work, check in and clock out 35 minutes later to head back to the roads for lunch reclogging them until mid afternoon only to bail out early for Happy Hour re-reclogging the roads to cap off the day!
Things were WAY better in the mid '70's early '80's when UT would let out and the Population would drop by 50% until the next Semester.
That would have been one heck of a Prom!
Stevie was not technical, he was hands on. He made guitar teachers wince because of his hand placement.....Angus Young ring a bell? Technical and ‘proper’ is queer. I seriously doubt Beethoven was schooled in proper finger placement.
Stevies and Angus’ high E strings are .13. Tell Satriani and them to put that in their pipe and smoke it.
Seen Satriani (Alien Surfer, 25+ yrs ago, GREAT).. I think he was in Austin recently or about to be, saw his name somewhere... but has all the soul of a school of neon tetra..
Had Christmas Eve dinner with him in Dallas, his wife, and Midge Marsten (Bluesman of New Zealand.) It was his last Christmas Eve on Earth. I did not know who he was but found out a lot about him and his music afterwards. He was kind of shy. I went skiing at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin in the February after that night. That is where he died in August in the crash. It was really weird. But in that short period of time his music really got into me. And then the tragedy. If he played first in a a concert for a larger named act, from what I found out, a lot of people left because they came to hear Stevie. Just a shame.
maybe you missed this part of my post: “ Guess you can’t really compare the styles side by side”
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