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
All I can say is that I loved Stevie's playing ! He is sadly missed and taken too soon .I am 72 years old , and was playing the Blues for years , in and out of bands before I ever heard of SRV, and lamenting the fact that our music was fading away ! I am white , but does not make a difference because by our music , I mean Real American music needed a boost . I miss Stevie every day , and think of him often . I get choked up when I think of how much we all loved him .
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.
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.
For the record (no pun intended), "Texas Flood" was technically not Stevie's 'first record' -- it was his second. The first, produced by the late Joe Gracey and recorded at Jack Clement's place on Belmont in Nashville a year or two before Stevie hit the national scene, was never released. The record made it as far as the test pressing stage, and then the whole project just sort of went away. The masters -- weird to think of the fat, wide tape we used back then -- were handed over to some investors and destroyed. All this happened for reasons most murky, but I do know that Stevie didn't like the hiss on the recording -- recorded live in the studio, Lou Ann on vocals, Jackie Newhouse on bass, Chris Layton on drums -- and thought it had too many mistakes. I didn't hear the mistakes, but I sure could hear the hiss; it sounded like it had been recorded in a reptile house. It also sounded like it had been recorded on speed, probably because it was. If I recollect correctly, Joe Nick's Stevie biography says something about speed in juice, but the liquid wasn't juice; it was Kool-aide because the band couldn't afford real juice back then. Please believe me when I tell you that anything you've read (if you've read anything) about what-all happened on the trip to Nashville is nowhere near as weird as it actually was -- and nothing I've read was entire accurate either -- possibly because I was the only not-drunk, not-stoned, not-high person along for the ride and actually remember what-all happened. It's bittersweet and rather funny to think about it now; hah, hah, hah; we stayed at the Alamo Motor Courts (dirt cheap but reasonably clean) and could only afford one room with two beds -- so everybody was fighting about who had to share a bed with whom. The next day, when the session was under way, Lou Ann said "It's hot in here" and took off her sweater; she didn't wear underwear. The engineer -- he actually said, for real, as God is my witness -- the engineer said that Stevie had "no talent" and was a waste of his time due to his (the engineer's) father's having been a singing cowboy movie star -- and then the engineer half-way electrocuted himself when Lou stood there singing in all her glory... but I digress; the tapes and the masters disappeared. Oddly enough, a test pressing somehow got left behind. Years later, after Stevie passed away, a disreputable guitar player stole the test pressings from my closet and sold them to a German. The resultant bootleg is still out there. I just-so-happen to have a copy of it; maybe one of these days I'll write out the whole saga and put the record on RU-vid. It's taken me decades to talk about Stevie without falling apart. We were just kids back then, and I loved him like a brother -- but I never talked about him because everyone else in this town said more than plenty. I was like a witness, you see -- a silent witness with a weird habit of journaling everything... Lindagracy52@yahoo.com.
I can relate to Lou Ann's disregard for under garments. I took a roadtrip through Texas in July of '84 with Austin being the Highlight for sure. I saw Lou Ann at the Continental was it(?) on 6th St. and was able to walk right up to her on her break and ask how things were going. She said once Jerry Wexler produced her current release - Old Enough, everything changed for the better. The next day there was a concert in the town square with Lou Ann as head liner and Jimmie Vaughn got up to sit in. Being right up front, I couldn't help but notice the same blue jean mini skirt as the night before and heaven behold - no panties! I looked at Jimmie with raised eyebrows and he just looked at me knowingly with his trademark smirk. What a trip, what a town of music, oh what a memory. Only wish I could have seen Stevie that week too.
Linda Broussard You should get your story out! His legions of fans would be ever grateful for a glimpse of his life through your eyes or any others that were there. I for one would happily pay for the privilege.
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
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.
He not only played the Blues, he felt the Blues. The music was a part of hm and it’s obvious he felt every note in the deep recesses of his soul. I doubt there will ever be another artist quite like him.
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 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!!
@@patrickburns7913 I think they mean the footage of Stevie that the clips were taken from not the documentary as a whole. If you can find the former though please share!
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 .
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.
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.
Thank you so much for your wonderful insight. I had the pleasure to meet Jimmie Vaughan in Santa Cruz California a few years ago. What a gentleman he is. I never got the chance to meet Stevie. I believe that Stevie's main mission in life was to help others with their addiction issues. And I totally understand how you could love him as a brother. He was closer to God and Jesus then maybe some other fans realize. God bless you God bless Jimmy Vaughn and family. Just a little side note I have a very good friend his name is Ron Thompson of Ron Thompson and the resistors. Back in the late 70s and early 80s The Fabulous Thunderbirds used to stay at Ron's house. So life can be very interesting. I meant Ron in 1972 and who would have ever guessed that he would be part of a blues movement that Stevie and Jimmie lead in this country. God bless and good night.
pennyairE No unfortunately it’s never surfaced. This video is an excerpt from a short documentary about Antone’s. I guess the owner of the vid of Stevie only shared it for the documentary.
And yet Stevie would never have said or thought that. To compare the two overall as if it were a competition isn’t the point. Albert invented these licks that everyone still tries to play today. And still no one can do them like Albert. Stevie worshipped King for good reason.
@@daveedsonblues you said a mouthful. Stevie was one of the greatest practitioners of the guitar and an extremely passionate player yet as great as he was and as recognizable as his sound became, it was very much a derivative amalgamation of other players much more original styles. Guys like Albert on the other hand, while clearly being influenced by earlier Blues men manage to hone styles that just seem to sprout out of the earth, fully assimilated.
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
Stevie repeats his "famous lick" too often, I hold Jimmie much higher as a guitarist. Jimmie today and Jimmie back in mid 80's is two totally different slingers tho ;)
Jimmie plays like its still the 1950s. Its fine in its own way but it was never going to take off like stevie. If stevie wanted to play like his brother it's not like it wasnt possible
