RIP - Stevie Ray Vaughan....20 years today

[gibson08]

Where does the time go? I remember it as well. I also remember turning down concert tickets to see him a month or two earlier. Had I know then that he would be dead, I would have gone to see him.

RIP to a master.

I remember the same thing, I live in the Cincinnati area and he was playing somewhere not too far from here, I decided I would "check him out next time" and he was gone in a few weeks,,,def a sad day to remember def one of my guitar heroes.
R.I.P.S.R.V.

 

[ejecta]

Monster player and one of my favs. Never been another like him even though many have tried.

RIP

 

[robertkoa]

Doesn't seem like 20 years already, I agree.

If you want to bring him back a bit, that video" Live at The ELMOCAMBO " is totally cool, you guys should see it if you haven't, it's really well recorded, no announcer just Stevie ruling his guitar, and playing total kick ass rhythm as well and switching between the two so effortlessly, but Godzilla Like.

About three years ago I got that video and the Eric Johnson Austin City Limits video- good thing I didn't get them 10 years ago or I would have given up playing..........................

 

[9ball]

always been a big stevie ray vaughan fan. i remember i had this video - live at the el mocambo - even back when it was on VHS lol.
i was a teenager when he died i remember hearing the news on KSHE95 in st louis the day it happened and it being a big deal, KSHE played alot of SRV that night i think.

 

[gibson08]

Doesn't seem like 20 years already, I agree.

If you want to bring him back a bit, that video" Live at The ELMOCAMBO " is totally cool, you guys should see it if you haven't, it's really well recorded, no announcer just Stevie ruling his guitar, and playing total kick ass rhythm as well and switching between the two so effortlessly, but Godzilla Like.

About three years ago I got that video and the Eric Johnson Austin City Limits video- good thing I didn't get them 10 years ago or I would have given up playing..........................

ElMocambo is def great, wore out a VHS and then bought the dvd a long time ago, check out SRVs Austin City Limits performance as well, he def wails on that.
I am with everybody else, def does not seem like 20 years have passed, wow.

 

[jlbaxe]

I was living in Puerto Rico at 20 yrs old and was excited to fly back to the states to see one of his concerts and then I heard the news. I cant play like him but there is a part of me that is heavily influenced by him and comes out in my sometimes snappy rhythms and lately my poor attempts at playing leads

God must have the greatest band with Hendrix, SRV, Ronnie James Dio , Randy Rhoads, Janis and all the greats.

 

[Jay Strange]

Oh yeah, definately one of my favs.
I saw Stevie with Jeff Beck in Tampa.
What an amzing show. Jeff was killer but Stevie blew it wide open.
He filled the building with freightrain monstrocity.
When he and Beck played together once Stevie finished and
Beck began it was like a huge hole of force was missing.
SRV is not a dude you follow and Beck knew it, you could see
it written all over his face. Dont get me wrong I dig Beck and he does
what he does better than anyone. SRV had the FORCE
RIP Stevie

 

[JTyson]

Dosent seem like 20 years......Jeesh

 

[ampjunkie]

I had to work later that night and I remember my boss Cheryl asking if I wanted to go home because she and the others could tell I felt horrible.

Same sorta thing happened to me.

I was on this Bitnet discussion group (pre-Internet Internet). I was talking with this girl about SRV, and she happened to be going to Alpine Valley ... told me she'd give me a report in the morning .... the next day she asked "Have you heard?", and I felt my heart sink. I sorta knew, for some reason.

I was so shaken up my boss offered to send me home early. I declined, but I was basically worthless all the rest of the day, listening to all the tributes on the radio all day and night. He was my hero ...

Yeah, and 2 months earlier I saw him with my sister and brother-in-law. They asked if we could leave early ... "I said 'Sure, I've seen him many times, and I'll see him many more' .... little did I know that would be the last time I would see him play ...

RIP Stevie, you'll always be my hero.

 

[stephen sawall]

I was at the last show. The theater is a converted old ski hill. I had ski there many times since I was five. You may remember the helicopter hit one of the lines from the lift chairs. Seeing this reminded me of a girl I was very in love with then.