My thanks to Big Steve's workout buddy Chris Layton who told me he was a drummer for a "pretty good guitarist he knew from college," whom he roomed with during his brief university years. I did not realize in 1986 who Stevie was Until he actually showed up at the gym under Chris' request of course. Stevie was sober, and this was a BIG deal and Chris and bass player Tommy were all living healthy lives. But it was the drummer, the athlete in every band, that believed in "gym life." On this day, everything just fell into place and it wouldn't have, had it not been for Chris. I was 31 here. And SRV was still yet to become who he became.
That interviewer is a jerk. What a slap in the face to great legend. To something he claimed as a dead genre he could have simply chosen to interview someone else from another genre, someone he thinks is making the big bucks. Why is the blues so great ? It’s because all of the genres that are worth a damn were born out of the blues! The blues came from the gospel. The blues had children. The blues will never die. If it does it die from this earth it dies with Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yet he probably in paradise playing, so it’s not dead and neither is Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yet the music lives on this earth to people who listen and play all the great blues artists. I’ve heard people like him before. The blues is hard to play, yet it’s very very easy to play the blues and sound washed up too!
He was talking about an aspect of the music business. If I’m correct this interview took place at the R&B Benefit concert in Austin to help raise money for the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
@@fivehead6675 you aren’t correct he was rude. If you listen to what he says. Look at Stevie’s eyes you can see he’s clearly bothering Stevie and his drummer Chris can see that too.. which is why he took over with the whole responding back .
@@incognitivedistortion8800 I didn’t see or hear rude he was simply stating how past artist never got their due and Chris and Stevie were agreeing and telling him this events purpose is to bring attention to those artists.
It's funny to think SRV was only 5'5" 😂 he looks pretty tough and his hands are really large for his height. He'd wear lifts to make himself look taller, especially because Tommy being so tall on stage
