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Edited on Sun Aug-07-11 01:45 PM by abq e streeter
and extra eeriness for me because I went to music camp as a teenager in East Troy, Wisc, and though I've never been to Alpine Valley (haven't lived in the midwest since the 70's), I have a strong suspicion that it was built on the site of the old music camp. When they showed an aerial view of the crash site that night on the news, there was a lake in the background that I'm almost positive is the same one I spent carefree summer days canoeing on, and also thought about how I conceivably had walked in the very place where that copter came down (although I guess it crashed into the side of what had to have been a man made hill). I saw Stevie Ray only once(I'm guessing , hobbit, that as an Austin guy, you saw him many many times),and admit I went in with a bit of a negative attitude along the lines of "OK, so it's the great Stevie Ray Vaughan; still just another white guy playing blues. OK, sucker, show me something". Took maybe about 5 minutes into the show for me to start laughing at myself for that and thinking, yeah, he IS the real deal, and he sure as hell "showed me something". His first tour being clean and sober too, and my friend , who'd seen him a year or two earlier said that as good as he'd been then, that she couldn't believe he could be even that much better this time, but he was.
To my fellow blues fans on this thread::toast:
Edit...Just remembered that I'd wanted to add this too---I played at the local Hard Rock Casino a few nights ago, and one of the bits of memorabilia they had was a copy of what apparently is the first record (a 45) with Stevie on it, by Paul Ray and The Cobras.
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