It was ten years ago today, at approximately 7 AM, that Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash following a concert in Alpine Valley. It's been a long day. Couldn't get my bandmates to cover any Stevie material when we jammed. Couldn't get away from people blasting Rage Against the Machine or Brittney Spears from their cheap car stereos. Couldn't stand the weather-- about 100 degrees for the 100th straight day, or so it seems. That's OK. I had "Life Without You" and Stevie's cover of "Little Wing" and "Ten Years Gone" by Led Zeppelin on my stereo when I got home. I had a lot of beer too, of course. And I had the constant, the one thing that's always true: that the people we lose along the way will always be with us if we choose to remember them, if we choose to take just a few minutes out of our lives to remember the things that they gave us and the emotions they stirred, if we choose to keep them a part of ourselves. I did exactly that today. I know I'm not alone, either. Rest in peace, Stevie Ray Vaughan. We all love and miss you.
Amen to that BK. ------------------ In order to be a success in life, you need 2 things: 1. Don't tell everything you know.
Man, it's hard to believe it has been ten years already. The truly sad part is that he had gotten himself clean and sober and was really coming into his own as a musician and as a commercial success. Such a tragedy. He was (and is still) one of the great Texas legends. ------------------ Save our children from the TAAS test: TAAS test report card TAAS test fact sheet Dog lover here....cats beware.
Stevie epitomizes my favorite music: Southern, Blues, Rock.... Don't know much about him other than I like his music, been to his memorial in Austin, listened to a guy do (awesome) Stevie covers all night in a bar in Memphis on Beale street. Besides a "greatest hits album" what would be the one album you guys would buy first to start your Stevie Ray Vaughn collection?
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Ten years ago, I was bartending at a little restaurant bar in downtown Nacogdoches. Being bartender also made me in charge of the music, and I always had my SRV CD's with me. I was at work when I heard the news, and I went into the liquor room that was adjacent to the bar for a little while afterwards. I didn't think anyone would understand why I was crying. ------------------ stop posting my damn signature
I remember the day it happened. I spent a week in bed with a bottle of whiskey. I was fortunate enough to see him 30-35 times in my life. The first one was at the old Rome Inn which used to be on 29th a couple of blocks from Guadelupe. I was living in Contessa dorm at the time (Freshman year-Fall of 1979). It was a Sunday night and the cover was $2 with 75-cent longnecks. He rocked all night, and there were no more than 20 people in the place. Got to see him after that at places like Steamboat 1874 & Soap Creek Saloon, and after moving back to Houston, Fitzgerald's & Rockefellers. My biggest regret is that I never saw him after 1986. I never got to see him after he cleaned up. The man may be gone, but the music and legend will live on forever. ------------------ Bring It!!
Stevie will always be the greatest guitarist to ever live in my opinion. Some of his performances just blew me away. He made me want to burn my guitar after I saw him play because I knew that I could never be that good and I could never play his music. Unfortunately, I never saw him live and I will live with that regret the rest of my days. I would not have liked to have seen him in his drug-induced days, however. Hey Pole, nice to see a fellow SFA-er in these parts. Which bar did you bartend at? I wonder if Stevie ever played Nacogdoches in the early days? ------------------
This might sound pretty unbelievable given that Stevie was based in Austin from 1971 until 1987, but from the biography I read, I do not recall them mentioning him playing in Nac-ville at any point. Doesn't mean it didn't happen. Lord knows my memory's hazy enough for it to have slipped, and besides that it's not like the book contains a list of every damn show the man ever played. ------------------ Just because I spent five years trying to get a hold of a hammer, I don't have to spend the rest of my life driving nails. I hate this hammer and I hate driving nails.
Hmmm....what was that damn drink that almost killed me that one time. I believe it was called the Blank Out??? Nac-o-nowhere... the infamous SFA party town. We had some hellacious parties in that little town. Luckily, I got out of school alive and well. Stevie would have liked it in his partying days, anyway... ------------------
