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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsStevie Ray Vaughan's legend lives on 25 years after death
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/stevie-ray-vaughans-legend-lives-on-25-years-after-death-b99562934z1-323022431.htmlBefore the last song of the last show of a two-night stand at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, guitar legend Eric Clapton stepped up to the microphone. "I'd like to bring out to join me, in truth, the best guitar players in the entire world: Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray... Jimmie Vaughan." The group lit into an extended jam of the classic "Sweet Home Chicago," with 40,000 people soaking up blistering guitar licks as the performers traded vocals.
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 27, 1990 25 years ago Thursday four helicopters left Alpine Valley for Chicago, carrying performers and crew members. Three made it. The other flew barely a half-mile before crashing into a ski slope. Among the five dead: Stevie Ray Vaughan 35 years old, newly sober, on the cusp of real stardom, and already considered one of the greatest electric guitarists who ever lived.
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The Dallas-born Vaughan and his band, Double Trouble, first gained international attention in 1982 with a set at the Montreux Jazz Festival. After the performance, David Bowie hired Vaughan to record lead guitar for his "Let's Dance" album. Vaughan's breakout debut album "Texas Flood" came out the following year, which introduced the world to his wild style.
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To this day, you can hear Vaughan's influence when modern-day guitar masters like John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr. wail. And this past April, Vaughan and Double Trouble were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "making sure Stevie Ray's work will be honored and preserved," Hanley said. "Stevie's legacy lives on."
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Stevie Ray Vaughan's legend lives on 25 years after death (Original Post)
Scuba
Aug 2015
OP
Yep..."newly sober, on the cusp of real stardom." That was the tragedy on top of the tragedy.
Miles Archer
Aug 2015
#8
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. I first saw Stevie play at the old Rome Inn in Austin.
panader0
(25,816 posts)2. Kick and Rec for Stevie-
Saw him in Tucson. When he died, I got to work that morning, someone walked up to my truck and told
me the news. I went home.
Jokerman
(3,518 posts)3. I got to see the same lineup just days before Alpine Valley.
It was my second time seeing SRV perform live and one of the best shows I've ever seen.
His legacy is alive and well in the local blues bands and jams.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)4. Mein Gott. Is it already 25 years?
I never got the chance to see him play.
Amazing player.
Buck Turgidson
(488 posts)5. All Hail, SRV!
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SRV opened for Boz Scaggs on that Sunday in May. By August he was gone.
SRV opened for Boz Scaggs on that Sunday in May. By August he was gone.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)6. Good gawd, that was 25 year ago?
I gotta sit down.
Throd
(7,208 posts)7. I was fortunate to see him play about a month before his death.
One of the few times where the death of a famous musician affected me.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)8. Yep..."newly sober, on the cusp of real stardom." That was the tragedy on top of the tragedy.
"In Step" was a real leap forward...it was abundantly clear that while he probably would have kept one foot in the blues, he was like Jimi in more ways than one, he was exploring.
One of my all-time favorite songs was recorded with his brother Jimmy, TICK TOCK....