25 Years Gone - Stevie Ray Vaughn

[ssjones]

I was opening a new restaurant this week and let the 25th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughns death slip by. We saw him in 1989 with Jeff Beck (In Step & Guitar Shop album promotion).
I bought this picture at that concert, and had it stashed for 20 years, before discovering in stashed in my LP copy of "In Step". I also had saved this newspaper collection of his death.
RIP Stevie.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoudTTcWp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGrz6U4979c

 

[johnnyreb]

Hard to believe it's been 25 yrs! I listen to his CD's I have often. Whenever I hear "Texas Flood" I think how prophetic!! I've been to the statue.

 

[ssjones]

Memphis also has a statue, on Beale Street. We visited there 15 years ago but are making a return trip on the way home from the New Orleans Pipe show (Memphis & Nashville).
This a guitar player I know from my area (Duffy Kane). He channels a pretty good SRV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E234gLZ33Mo

 

[aldecaker]

Most people loved Stevie Ray's guitar playing (and rightly so), but man alive, I loved his voice as well. He was one of the greats.

 

[newfie]

Something added to the bucket list.
"I've been to the statue"

 

[yazamitaz]

I had been in Saudi Arabia for about two weeks during Desert Shield (at the time) and read about his death in Stars and Stripes. I was already pissed off that I was in the desert but that pissed me off even more. As you can imagine there were not a lot of creature comforts when you first get into a foreign country where you are preparing for what happened there. I had my Sony Walkman (any of you youngins even know what that is???) and my tape of Vaughan Brothers, Family Style. I played the shit out of that tape for about a week straight. I loved his voice and the way he made that guitar sound.

 

[cobguy]

You just made me feel even older than I already was feeling! 8O
Twenty five years already ... dang. I saw him shortly before his death in 1990 at Cedar Rapids, IA ... RIP SRV!

 

[ejames]

One of my favorites! Wish he were still with us!

 

[seadogontheland]

The man was a technical genius. The way he could play was amazing; Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Beck were in his shadow IMO. Sad thing was he had just quit drugs and alcohol as well as finding God, all these changes and then we lost him. RIP Stevie. My goodness...has it really been 25 years??