STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN it's gonna be 22 years!!! I saw him 8 weeks before he died!
I have fond memories of that show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUvPRTPssNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk5j3gU_uHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66UsFnXqLM
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN opened for JOE COCKER. The audience was there for STEVIE. I myself, though I had STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN's Couldn't Stand The Weather album and loved him (the show was perfection) was there for JOE COCKER (I'm sure I've reported time and again how I yelled at the fools who walked out after STEVIE left the stage "JOE COCKER's coming on!!!" :question:)
A lot of people missed COCKER, but, they were there for STEVIE.
I don't care; both acts were perfection. I could watch them both every night.
EDITED to correct count...
Actually it's 22 years this August. :smile:
I still continue to relentlessly champion his fretboard prowess to everyone I meet when it comes to talking guitars and music. SRV could play anything and with more natural accuracy and energy than anyone else I ever heard or seen. Sadly, hardly anyone has heard of the great man over here, but I have recently made sure that there's plenty of Stevie on the jukebox at our local bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq8JRe5oZHY
Twenty-two years ago on my birthday :bluesad:
We saw him play in Minneapolis just a few weeks before his death. That was an awesome show. I think the Dixie Dregs with Steve Morse opened up for him. An unforgettable experience, probably the best concert I've ever been to. And I LOVED Couldn't Stand The Weather, that album is some of the best blues (IMO) anywhere.
Thank you, CC. I'm great on years, but I always think 1989 with STEVIE, I don't know why, and of course it's 1990. I think I was in shock that terrible day.
Jack, that happens sometimes.
I remember feeling tremendously fortunate to have seen STEVIE live. I have also seen ERIC CLAPTON (when he toured with MARK KNOPFLER). No other guitarists I've had the pleasure (or not) of seeing come even close to those two shows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsHXd4rQnW0
I wish I had been able to see him just once....he was awesome! One of Texas' great native musicians.
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