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bigG said:
+1 Well said mud. Sometimes it seems like this world just can't contain so much talent, and they have to leave too early this mortal coil.
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+1. Here's to all the music, and to the wonder of what may have been. :beer:
 
Until recently I would wonder what the next SRV product would be, and then reralize again there won't be anything more to be put out by him. Still hard to believe he was taken away. Life ain't always fair, but that sucks. Glad I got to see him tear it up a few times.
 
they shut austin down when he died...

[i lived there at the time]

and for good reason.

rip, srv...

 
Talk about jammin' there.

I get the impression that SRV is possessed by Jimi Hendrix. :)
 
I remember having a very crappy day at work when word came over the radio that SRV and Clapton had been killed, later changed to SRV alone. The only good thing is that the station I was listening to went into "all SRV, all the time" mode. I also remember hearing the media say he crashed into a mountain in WI. Obviously they hadn't been to WI. We've got hills, but no mountains. A classmate of mine was at that last concert in Alpine Valley. Hard to believe it was almost 20 years ago!
 
R.I.P. SRV....

What would otherwise just have been a performance shot in mediocre style by someone in the crowd took on historic significance
when Stevie Ray Vaughn would die just over a month later.
This is the final song of the set of SRV's performance in St. Louis, MO on 7/15/1990.
It is the last known footage shot of Stevie Ray.



 
Childbride said:
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I just wish he'd shut up and play his guitar, do it with some feeling, ya know really get into it without showing off..., and who cares about the blues anyway? ;)

Damn, great clip, made my day, thanx CB! :AOK:

Here's a 10 min. backing track of TF for those who want to get the dust out of yer finger joints - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPgtlx3lXKk
 
We can only imagine what beautiful music Stevie would have created if he had more time on the planet. Of all the great, lost musicians, I miss Stevie the most. I never tire of his music. Never.

He would play here in Houston many times before and after he broke through, usually at Fitzgeralds. I saw him just one time in the early 80's, and was blown away. I was a Jimi fan already, and after hearing Stevie, I thought he could have been reincarnated!
 
What can I add that hasn't already be said? SRV was/is a Guitar God and is sorely missed. :master: :master: :master: :master: :(
 
Me too CB. There is something special about Austin and music from what I can tell, which is mostly from watching ACL, which has given me so many awesome performances. Even artists I have seen more than once seem to bring something special there. Must me something in the water, or firewater. Still one of if not my very favorite SRV disc has to be the very raw, Live from Austin CD when he was just a young'un, and was still Stevie Vaughan, not SRV yet.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
Me too CB. There is something special about Austin and music from what I can tell, which is mostly from watching ACL, which has given me so many awesome performances. Even artists I have seen more than once seem to bring something special there. Must me something in the water, or firewater. Still one of if not my very favorite SRV disc has to be the very raw, Live from Austin CD when he was just a young'un, and was still Stevie Vaughan, not SRV yet.
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i lived in austin in a very unique, special time. i have been back several times since... so i can say that.

austin, before it grew to a capacity that overflowed its infrastructure, was a phenomenal live music capital of texas.

i could go out any day of the week and hear musicians play unique music in any genre.

i saw joe ely, the thunderbirds, brian setzer, stevie, rockabilly galore, traveling acts, zz top, you name it, i could see it. you just went to the forum. not a stadium; a club/bar, and you were there.

austin has changed quite a bit.

the last time i went to 6th street, [where i hung out in back in the very early 90's on a regular basis] i was with my daughter by proxy and shiner.

there was a guy in an alley shooting up, and my purse almost got stolen.

it made me sad.

now, granted, there's sxsw, and lots of live acts in austin; i am never going to dis the austin scene and austin music. my brethren are talented and should be heard. it's just a different scene.

but i tell you what, back then, when stevie died, it was candle light vigils and mourning. street signs in remembrance. everyone knew what we had lost.
 
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Childbride said:
i lived in austin in a very unique, special time. i have been back several times since... so i can say that.

austin, before it grew to a capacity that overflowed its infrastructure, was a phenomenal live music capital of texas.

i could go out any day of the week and hear musicians play unique music in any genre.

i saw joe ely, the thunderbirds, brian setzer, stevie, rockabilly galore, traveling acts, zz top, you name it, i could see it. you just went to the forum. not a stadium; a club/bar, and you were there.

austin has changed quite a bit.
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So true on how Austin has changed. We'd road trip to 6th St in the mid to late 80's and saw plenty of great performances. During/after the Dell tech boom, Austin grew too fast and lost most of it's charm along the way, similar to what happened to California in the 60's and 70's.

Hey, I'm glad we caught it in the golden age! I guess Waco isn't exactly a hot bed of live entertainment, eh? :D I've visited there for several MTB races (Cameron Park), and could tell most parts of town rolled up the sidewalks fairly early.
 
Tig said:
So true on how Austin has changed. We'd road trip to 6th St in the mid to late 80's and saw plenty of great performances. During/after the Dell tech boom, Austin grew too fast and lost most of it's charm along the way, similar to what happened to California in the 60's and 70's.

Hey, I'm glad we caught it in the golden age! I guess Waco isn't exactly a hot bed of live entertainment, eh? :D I've visited there for several MTB races (Cameron Park), and could tell most parts of town rolled up the sidewalks fairly early.
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+1 to the first paragraph...

and waco actually is a hot bed of live entertainment...

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[not]
 
and waco actually is a hot bed of live entertainment...
[not]


Well....ya know CB........if you and Shiner would stop playing with Maggie (btw, how is your doggie? :D ) for a couple of hours, maybe y'all could get a song-list together and start playing at local places. :poke: Maybe an ex-Pres might take in your show (:rotflmao: ) and then before you know it, you and Shiner are headlining the entertainment at the next Republican convention. :bravo:

I miss Stevie too. The boy could just play like nobody else. :master:
 
I was a young lad in Austin around the time of Stevie's passing... Unfortunately, I was so caught up in speed and metal that I didn't appreciate his music at the time.

The cool thing about Stevie was that he paid homage to his heroes, yet still sounded like him. "Riviera Paradise" still sends chills down my spine, to this day.

I think about all the cool clubs in Austin that got shut down in order to put up another frat boy daiquiri bar. Makes me ill.

At least Antone's is still there, albeit in a larger, more "commercial" location. I've heard some incredible blues at it's original location.
 
I've got a lot of great 6th Street stories from my law school days. Unfortunately most of them end up with "I don't remember what happened after that".:thwap:

RIP Stevie.
 

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