It IS true: Stevie Ray Vaughn single handedly brought Blues back to the marketplace, starting in 1983/84 . He really was the reason Classic bands got back together and recorded / toured: Allman Bros. , Little Feat , etc…
Stevie playing other peoples music has inspired me greatly. Funny how people discredit the people who gifted you all our traditional music. Only for you to make someone else the origon of it. Stevie would not like you for that dirty crap
Didn't get into Stevie until around 88'. Hearing him for the first time was like hearing "Eruption" for the first time; and that was before the solo section!! I wasn't inspired, I was immersed. Later, I moved to Austin, just south of William Cannon and Congress, where I could learn as much as I could. Met Jesse Taylor, whom I had the honor of playing with many times. Actually played one of Stevie's old Strats , then belonging to a super cat named Van Wilks, if I remember correctly. Stevie was an phenominal bluesman among throngs of exceptional bluesmen. It's the culture, love of blues & fellow man/woman that makes Stevie and Texas music, especially electric blues, unique. Most are great by choice, Stevie was great by design.
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I use to see Stevie and The Triple Threat Revue at the Rome Inn on Sunday nights, damn they were good, My girlfriend and I invited him to come over for dinner and we became friends, he was a great and humble guy, we moved to Kansas City and whenever they were in town we would meet up , God Bless him and the same for Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton, RIP Cutter Brandemberg and Stevie
@@clapdrix72 First time I saw Stevie he was playing with Paul Ray and the Cobras and they were opening for Muddy Waters at the original Antone's, during Muddy set an older black gentleman got on stage and gave his address out and invited everyone to his home to celebrate Muddy' s birthday. It seems the guy was related to Muddy, anyway we went to East Austin and pondered what to do, after a while we went in and this guy had a huge stack of ribs , beans , fry's and a big crockpot of grain alcohol and grape juice, all you could eat for $5.00 , we were the only ones there , anyway we got a plate of food and about an hour later here comes Paul Ray and the Cobras and Muddy and his band , we were made to feel at home and for a kid that loved the blues it was a wonderful experience, those folks were the best
I was one of the lucky ones in the audience that night when Stevie got up and played with Albert King at Antone’s. Living in Austin in the 70’s was a magical time and place.
I loved going to the Rome Inn on Sunday nights to see Stevie and The Triple Threat Revue with Lou Ann Barton, also the older guys like Fat Charlie Prichard , Austin was a great place and it was small, loved Casita Jorge's,best Tex Mex around
@@rockitflash Yeah I enjoyed Conan's deep dish pizza also, did you ever eat at El Patio on Guadeloupe, I lived close to El Patio when I first got to Austin and ate there all the time, I loved Soap Creek Saloon, Doug Sahm played there all the time, Austin was great in the 1970s , it's still nice but back then it was magic, Antone's, Armadillo World Headquarters, Hole in The Wall , so much good music
@@gregscavuzzo5457 Yes, I remember El Patio. I lived in Austin from 78-80. On 52nd, the Barton Hills, then on Hemlock in East Austin. I worked at the Sheraton Crest at 1st and Congress
@@rockitflash I lived there from 1973 to 1984 moved to Kansas City then back to Austin from 1986 to 1988 then back to Kansas City, man I loved Austin I lived all over,42& Barton , Bee Caves Road,and out south off St Elmo , it was a great time, you have a great night and keep Austin Weird
I really think Stevie had to go through all the shit he went through so he could be such a powerful voice for sobriety and perseverance. The universe knew what it was doing. And it knew he was strong enough to take it.
I will forever remember the morning I was told about his death by a co worker . I didn’t believe until I heard for myself .I got in my car and went home and stared at his albums .
Guess it was something as special as it gets to hang at Antone's, when SRV, Jimmy, the T-Birds, were on stage. Met my future bride their. Best of times.
Stevie received recognition from teachers such as Albert King, BBking , Buddy Guy, great talent from his beginnings ,he felt the blues as his life 🎸🎸🎹🥁
Great story, history, thanks Albert King,myopic did the Blues World a wonderful thing, I consider him one of the Blues guitarists Legends! RIP, Albert King, ain’t nuttin but the Blues, RIP SRV, died way too soon, and young!!
Not sure EXACTLY why I switched from bass to guitar in the beginning. But... Cold Shot was on the radio at the time and I just loved it. Didn't know the cat who was playing it, nor did I know that it was the same cat playing the guitar on Bowie's Let's Dance album which I also just loved at the time. Not too many years later I had my own SRV Signature Strat and a small goatee on my chin. Just like Stevie did I would tell people. Just like Stevie. Then on the way to work one dark, bad day I heard the news on the radio. I remember being in shock. No other persons passing ever hit me like that outside of family. Stevie was family to everyone. To this day I still wonder Lord why Stevie? It was just his time I guess. It was just his time. RIP SRV.
i moved to austin and 3 days later stevie played the park and it was unreal, just killing it on a nice summer evening. i had seen him at least 15 times by then, and i knew i had arrived at he right place. i immediately scored a 68 sunburst strat and had the future wide open as can be...a few months later a bolt of lightning changed everything, and at the time i was dismayed that as a newcomer to the area, i wasnt remotely part of the community that was suffering over his death although i felt i was as connected to him as anyone...crazy how you can feel so in tune with someone you have never met, and not only because of his music, but everything else he offered to the world. i literally fell off my couch that morning and spilled my freshly poured cereal everywhere and my girlfriend was like what the hell, as she turned to the tv she knew this was going to be a very long day. stevie was the reason i moved there, and what a great scene it was. ill tell you that austin as a town shut down that day almost completely but it tailspinned into a gathering at the park that was a redneck drunken partyfest celebration from hell, like it was new years or something - more excited that they were let go from work that day than anything else...i knew i shouldnt have gone there but i lived across the street ...i had been to antones a few times before all this and it was really something to imagine him tearing that tiny place up. i managed to get in there the night they all showed up for stevie and it was a somber perplexing night with a lot of important people there just devastated. man what an impact he had.
It gets muddy around Stevie’s statue in Austin when it rains. It should have better materials around it to keep it neat. Like cobblestone or something.
