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I've had many funny conversations while logged on and met some crazy people.
horstman, tiggers, etc you have reduced me to tears...of laughter and I thank you for that.
I'll log on again when I return...
Meanwhile keep up the great work Radio Paradise, things wouldn't be the same without you!
EssexTex.
13 years later... how was your trip?
Same 3 songs in the same order 8 months later.
Is Bill a robot?
c.
What another amazing segue Bill - Ray Charles" What'd I Say" to SRV "Scuttle Buttin'"!!!! Then SRV to Derek Trucks' "This Sky". SRV lifts the scale and energy from Ray and Derek takes Stevie's superlative fretwork - breathing life back into the guitar solo as a complete songwork - and launches the guitar beyond our imagination and into a global and multicultural musical framework. Yeah, baby, yeah!!!
Same 3 songs in the same order 8 months later.
Is Bill a robot?
It is.
6.
Admittedly that's a small population of RP's audience, but I'm guessing there's some So. Cal listeners here.
Yes! Thank you for posting this! The minute I heard this track, I was racking my brain for where I used to hear it. I lived in LA from the late 80s to mid-2000s, and yet I couldn't remember it was KLOS. Even way back then I wondered who was doing that crazy riff!
Admittedly that's a small population of RP's audience, but I'm guessing there's some So. Cal listeners here.
SRV lives.
Sounds great to me!
P.S.—I toured Cape Cod in Sept. of 2014, AND NEVER SAW ONE TRAILER PARK!
I need to get out of the car and into work....
Haven't heard about too many big rock shows lately...
miss you so much, Cynaera...
everybody in my mushrooming multitude of homeless camps loves this groovy music...
Yeah, it may be this album - I had a different SRV song yesterday that was totally silent on the 192k stream.
Spent years at Fitzgerald's in Houston being around SRV before the HUGE fame hit. Back in those days we'd have to help him on stage sometimes (Pre sober days)...but he still never missed a lick, even high. We all knew just before Texas Flood came out that we were looking at some of the last times he'd play Fitz's. We even had semi-going-away parties (any excuse for a partay, eh?)...then it happened just as predicted. Our best buddy the sound man at Fitz's, James Buralge (still buddies to this day), agreed to be his soundman on tour. One day they were playing that hoppin' beer joint and the next they were in Germany opening for David Bowie. Miss you soooo much Stevie.
MABY MADE LIVING IN HELL , GOOD
god is this boring
Thanks, RP for keeping it all alive and connected and fully energized!
your South Park reference is not lost on me. Poor Patrick Duffy.
Spent years at Fitzgerald's in Houston being around SRV before the HUGE fame hit. Back in those days we'd have to help him on stage sometimes (Pre sober days)...but he still never missed a lick, even high. We all knew just before Texas Flood came out that we were looking at some of the last times he'd play Fitz's. We even had semi-going-away parties (any excuse for a partay, eh?)...then it happened just as predicted. Our best buddy the sound man at Fitz's, James Buralge (still buddies to this day), agreed to be his soundman on tour. One day they were playing that hoppin' beer joint and the next they were in Germany opening for David Bowie. Miss you soooo much Stevie.
I loved that place. Saw Poi Dog there several times, also Stick People, lots of 'great unknowns'.
Spent years at Fitzgerald's in Houston being around SRV before the HUGE fame hit. Back in those days we'd have to help him on stage sometimes (Pre sober days)...but he still never missed a lick, even high. We all knew just before Texas Flood came out that we were looking at some of the last times he'd play Fitz's. We even had semi-going-away parties (any excuse for a partay, eh?)...then it happened just as predicted. Our best buddy the sound man at Fitz's, James Buralge (still buddies to this day), agreed to be his soundman on tour. One day they were playing that hoppin' beer joint and the next they were in Germany opening for David Bowie. Miss you soooo much Stevie.
I recall that when this came out, I was Rocky Mountain Way-High on Trail Crew, making what would become North Peak...saw him a year or so later while at CU; of course he blew us away! as he'd done at Red Rocks (and with Bonnie Raitt to boot!) and I STILL love the way it blows into the room, knocks everything around a bit, then leaves with some mighty fine vibes hanging there...
BRILLIANT!
That dude could play. He is sadly gone.
That dude SHOULD play. He is sadly gone.
That dude could play. He is sadly gone.
As long as several are relating their SRV concert stories, here's mine; Last year of college, University of Maryland, fall of 79'. Went to a little bar in Georgetown in DC to see local Blues heroes the Nighthawks. Opening act was a relatively unknown trio from Texas. This place (the name of which I no longer can remember) held maybe 120 people tops, mainly all there to see the Nighthawks. Then Double Trouble started their set and Stevie began to wail...
The Nighthawks always knew who could play to their crowd and were never afraid to book real talent as an opening act for them. Four years later I saw then in Tempe Arizona at another little bar; opening act? The Robert Cray Band. Both bands ended the night crammed on the small stage together with a 15 minute jam that left everybody drained. Like your story, that night and that scene is burned into my brain.
I hope they play it again tomorrow.
4 pm pacific every day would be perfect. ...without the segue into pearl jam.
I remember reading about that concert - a bunch of people flew in to be there and right after their plane landed, the airport was shut down because of the blizzard. I have a friend who was able to get there to watch him, and she came back with stories, and a lot of tears in her eyes. Stevie Ray Vaughn gave everything, though there was only a small audience. He loved the music, and it was never about the money or the attendance - it was always about the music. Damn - why is it that the really great ones die too soon? Lennon, Harrison, Vaughn, Van Zant....
I saw him at the L.B. Day Amphitheater in Salem, Oregon in the 80's n a triple-bill - him, John Hiatt, and Robert Cray Band - I'd gone to see John Hiatt (and he did an awesome show, too - "Slow Turning" was my CD of choice after that), but SRV rocked. I'll never forget it. I'd never heard of him before, but hearing him play, watching his fingers on that beat-up guitar... It drove me to get out my ancient Yamaha acoustic and play every day until I had calluses again. And then, I re-learned "Stairway to Heaven," "Just the Wine," "Classical Gas," and a few things I'd written when I was in my John Denver phase.
I don't really have fingernails now, because of working at the local nursery/greenhouse, so maybe it's time to trim the nails and hug my guitar again...
Uh . . . this is flat picking. Sorry.
I hope they play it again tomorrow.
And the problem is??
Amazing! You got to witness a pretty cool piece of history :)
lucky you!
You said it all....
shawshank wrote:
Oh yes he was!
I (sadly) saw him live only once, in Kerkrade (NL) in the late 80's, but that gig really turned my (then young) conception of "how to excercise live music" upside down - and that still remains. That was the time when the stages got bigger and bigger, stadium shows with megawatts of lights and sound where en vogue... And then there was Stevie, in this tiny hall with 8 spots, a bass and a drumkit. He came up on stage, closed his eyes, stood on his toes and PLAYED for ~3 hours ... and just blew us all away!
From that gig on, i'm more in for the small, sweaty, "pure" club gigs then for the big, over-choreographed stadium shows.
...the funny thing is that everytime i hear him now, i can still see that huge sticker on his Marshall amp saying:
Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
thanks for the birthday rockout RP!!
HarrO wrote:
These three guys are probably looking down on us from wherever and thinking "damn, we really ought to jam together!"
And they have Jaco on bass and Keith on drums? That's a session I'd like to sit in on . . .
junebaby65 wrote:
YEAH!!
LOUD AND PROUD BABY!!!!!
Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
thanks for the birthday rockout RP!!
These three guys are probably looking down on us from wherever and thinking "damn, we really ought to jam together!"
Mmmm, most excellent music to brew beer to!
Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
thanks for the birthday rockout RP!!
Always makes me think if The Rock Report with Rita Wild(e) on KLOS in LA (and I believe syndicated around the country). Had to stop listening to KLOS about the time RP hit the Intarweb.
I've had many funny conversations while logged on and met some crazy people.
horstman, tiggers, etc you have reduced me to tears...of laughter and I thank you for that.
I'll log on again when I return...
Meanwhile keep up the great work Radio Paradise, things wouldn't be the same without you!
EssexTex.
Ditto this afternoon
I wondered if anybody noticed this.
I about freaked out when I heard the opening lick of this song, expecting Rita to come on and give an update! I almost forgot where I was for a moment! And yes, she's still using it.
I'm very happy to finally know which song she used for her reports. I always loved that freaky-fast lick. I should've known it was SRV. Thanks to RP for playing this!