Stevie Ray Vaughn

**Nathan Explosion** · 03-15-2008, 11:13 PM

SRV - The greatest? One of my all-time favorite videos:

The piano is un-fucking-believable.

And for the record, no I did not search to see if this has been posted before, and I don't really care. It's a great video.

**ICEHOCEY77** · 03-16-2008, 12:26 PM

this was on the local PBS last weekend, it was incredible.

**Peruvian** · 10-03-2019, 06:32 AM

Happy birthday, Stevie. He would have been 65 today.

I was lucky enough to catch him at Radio City Music Hall in '86.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 10-03-2019, 06:41 AM

Local low power station has some DJs that have been showcasing SRV, such a loss of talent and unheard music.

**singlecross** · 10-03-2019, 08:32 AM

I saw him twice in the Summer of '89 (Massachusetts Blues Fest and Old Orchard Beach)... so glad. Some friends had never heard of him and I made them go to the second show. The Stray Cats were the opening act... friends were like WTF. Then Stevie stepped onstage, plugged in, and jaws dropped.

**Cheeseburger King** · 10-03-2019, 09:07 AM

incredible talent

**N1CK.** · 10-03-2019, 10:04 AM

I got to see SRV around 5 times. First in '85 in Chicago. He was always amazing live, and honestly even better once he got sober. RIP.

**SumJongGuy** · 10-03-2019, 12:10 PM

Agreed. Amazing and wish I had gotten to see him live.

**FLS** · 10-03-2019, 05:54 PM

I saw him at Lake Compounce in CT. Fourth of July 1990. If memory serves, it seemed like it was an amusement park that had a small concert area off to the side. I remember it not being crowded at all, got up close to the stage. Like everyone else, blown away!

**schindlerpiste** · 10-03-2019, 06:08 PM

**Game Over** · 10-03-2019, 06:26 PM

Crazy that a guy who survived/sobered up from an addiction that had him waking up with a 1/8th of coke dumped in a pint of whiskey to get going ended up dying in a helicopter crash.

Rip.

**idahospud** · 10-03-2019, 08:07 PM

When I was in high school, I worked for a guy originally from one of the Carolinas, with the accent to show for it, who ran a ski shop in the winter and built houses pretty much by himself in the summer. I was half useful for lugging lumber around but didn't accomplish shit at the shop, not sure I ever even learned how to use the cash register or the credit card reader. No matter because it wasn't busy, anyway.

Where was I? Oh, yeah: every time SRV would come on the radio this man would drop whatever he was doing, bellow "STEEEEVIEEEE!", and proceed to tell me about what we has doing the day Stevie died. "Awww man, when we heard Stevie died, me and the crew took the rest of the day off from work, man." Because it was a job site listening to a classic rock station, this would happen at least once a week.

It didn't ruin SRV for me, though.

**billyk** · 10-03-2019, 08:13 PM

Damn, I had several opportunities to see him in small clubs around town before he got really big, but never did. I do regret it.

**GoldMember** · 10-03-2019, 09:56 PM

I've gotta go with this. I think he made Hendrix proud.

**Jacques Strap** · 10-03-2019, 10:02 PM

I had no appreciation for SRV until I hit about 28. Then it was like a light-switch. What before sounded like aimless jamming became magnificent guitar poetry.

Easily my favorite of the six-string virtuosos.

Thanks for the videos.

**singlecross** · 10-04-2019, 11:50 AM

This is my favorite. Warming up at soundcheck with the freedom to fool around some.

**SumJongGuy** · 10-04-2019, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by steepconcrete

Crazy that a guy who survived/sobered up from an addiction that had him waking up with a 1/8th of coke dumped in a pint of whiskey to get going ended up dying in a helicopter crash.

Rip.

8 ball high balls!

Sam Kinison also died right after getting sober..