Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Stevie Ray Vaughan

[quote name="Roop"]This is probably the crappiest song I've been listening to all week, it's horrible actually. But then there I am I keep listening to it. It's the part where Stevie Ray Vaughan stops playing stupid, you gotta turn it up, I love that part. It's from the 60's, an anti-war hillybilly song from Ned Reyerson's highschool band. Yeah that's right: <i>the</i> Ned Reyerson, the guy Bill Murray punched. He had this band as a kid, and the Vaughans grew up in the same neighborhood down in Texas. It's like hilarious this video, Stevie Ray Vaughan at 14 trying to sound like Cream... is a bunch of stupid teenagers all of a sudden sounding like Cream trying to sound like stupid fucking teenagers. [youtube id="UwMHeS88-hE"] [youtube id="PCl8mD04UBQ"] Don't listen to much SRV these days, heard the songs too many times. It's seeing him live I miss, I managed to see him perform three times. First I didn't really know it, but he was coked up and playing crazy, whiskey fueled sweat flying everywhere and when he spoke it was and snarling garble but he sang great and his hands were massive, that's what I remember, and he'd swing the guitar and I'd never heard and felt such a thing. Afterwards I swore I had to see him again somehow, and my buddy with me completely agreed, so we managed it and got to see him when he was sober. He was actually better, could understand him, even danced around a bit, actually played better. Then I managed see his last show. My excuse for going to see Eric Clapton is this is remember this is right before he and his life and music started to suck. Dreyerson in his story blocks out the name of the place, but I've been up there plenty of times. He can't even remember the name of the damn state! It was in Wisconsin SVR died, a horrible horrible place I agree, nothing but in inbred back bacon eaters, and obviously not good helicopter pilots and some of them even try to be lawyers. It happened at a ski resort called Alpine Valley. I heard the pilot collided with a hill because of the thick fog, but Dreyerson's version is interesting, maybe not. Anyway the fog had rolled in during the encore, bunch of people up in a line with their guitars for one final jam session: Clapton was headlining the show of course. Then Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Stevie and his brother. They all unplug, the lights are going down and they're all doing that sideways wave as they exit stage left, but not Stevie, he walks downstage, and he finds a stand, and he unstraps his guitar and he puts it in, leaves it there. He waves as he's coming upstage and everybody else is gone at this point, then he's gone too and you can still see his guitar up there I'm like wtf you left it by itself.[/quote]