"Someday this kid

... going to shake the whole world up."

....John Lee Hooker

Boomp3.com"Couldn't Stand the Weather"

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" When Stevie Ray Vaughan was asked about his influences, his answer:

SRV: Albert King, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Hendrix, Jeff Beck, The Who, Clapton, The Monkees.

"Sometimes I wanna be just a regular guy, y'know," Vaughan said in 1989. "But then I look around me and I realize, 'Hey, I'm happy!' I'm doing what I wanted to do all my life."
"I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk" ...
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"In late '68, I heard a tape of Albert king and decided to dedicate myself to the blues. Listening to the great bluesmen - how they played so well and were so relaxed - really inspired me. I'm still trying to play that way. I'll probably pursue that the rest of my life"...

"For me, a lot of things are a matter of faith," he said during a conversation on his tour behind his finest solo effort, 1989's In Step. "I have to have faith in the music and faith in myself and faith in a higher power, 'cause all of them have gotten me this far."...

Svaki čovek se rađa s nekim darom u sebi, neki kažu od Boga . Taj dar čovek nosi u sebi I oseća I kada se, u nekom trenutku njegovog života, nekim tajnim putevima sudbine ,poklope sve kockice, ispliva na površinu ispolji ga na pravi način, ne gušeći u sebi, stvarajući nešto dobro, po čemu će se pamtiti I ako uzmemo je tačna definicija da je "smrt početak besmrtnosti", onda takav čovek sigurno spada u društvo besmrtnih.Takav čovek I dela koje je ostavio, ne može da se zaboravi,
Jedan od njih je I ...Stevie Ray Vaughan
Rock-blues gitarista, rođen 3. Oktobar 1954, Dallas, SAD ,u je bio delimično odgovoran za oživljavanje bluza kasnih osamdesetih i devedesetih.
Na njegov muzički ukus je uticao stariji brat, Jimmie, gitarista koji će uskoro postati jedan od vodećih teksaških R&B praktičara u grupi ˝The Faboulous Thunderbirds˝ u kasnim sedamdesetim godinama. Uz električni bluz, Stevie Ray se više zainteresovao za rock-orijentisani zvuk grupe Cream i Jimi Hendrix-a, koji će ostati kao trajni uticaj na njegovo stvaralaštvo. Posle svega naučenog o svirci od svog brata, Vaughan je svirao sa nekoliko bendova, u srednjoj školi, ali pošto su se svi na kraju raspali,pridružuje se bratu u Austinu sa osamnaest godina.. Tu im se pridružio Paul Ray & The Cobras, i snimaju singl 'Texas Clover', 1974, pre nego što formira bend ˝Triple Threat˝ sa lokalnim pevačem Lou Ann Barton, basista Jackie Newhouse i bubnjar Chris Layton 1977. Band menja ime u ˝Double Trouble˝ (naziv pesme- klasika Otis Rush-a) i 1979, pošto ih Barton napušta, Vaughan postaje vodeći pevač.
Bend je nastupao, kao Stevie Vaughan i Double Trouble, stalno podižući ugled SRV kao gitariste i privlače pažnju veterana producenta Jerry Wexler-a, koji im organizuje nastup na Montreux Jazz Festival 1982.
S novim basistom Tommy Shannon, bend je svirao na Festivalu publike, a priključuju im se David Bowie i Jackson Browne, obojica impresionirani njihovom svirkom. Browne je ponudio bendu studio za svirku u Los Angelesu, a Bowie angažuje Vaughan-a da radi na svom novom albumu . Kad se Bowie ˝Let's Dance˝ pojavio u 1982, sve recenzije su pozdravile Vaughan-ov Albert King-styled gitarski zvuk, ali i doveli do raskida saradnje sa Bowie i njegovog odustajanja od naknadne svetske turneje.
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble potpisuju za Epic Record 1983, objavljivljuju album Texas Flood. Dobre kritike i stalni nastupi obezbedili su da album stigne na US Top Forty. Couldn't Stand the Weather pojavljuje se sledeće godine. Prikazujući više od rock zvuka,album je na kraju prodat u više od milon primeraka u SAD-a uključujući i verziju Hendrix-ovog Woodoo Chile (Slight Return), a Vaughan postaje jedan od vodećih muzičara. Klavijaturista Reese Wynans je dolazi u Double Trouble 1985. svirajući na albumu Soul-to-Soul , gde Vaughan na blues-rock dodaje jazz inflections i to postaje njegov zaštitni znak. Iste godine Vaughan pravi album, Strike like Ligthning, za jednog od svojih heroja Lonnie Mack-a.
Posle rehabilitacionog programa lečenja od droge i alkohola, Vaughan-u Epic Record izdaje studio za snimanje albuma In Step, i organizuje turneju. Album se pojavio 1989 i prolašen je za njegovo najbolje delo,što ga dovodi ponovo na US Top Forty i visoko se kotira i u Velikoj Britaniji.
1990. Stevie Ray konačno snima sa svojim bratom Jimmie, ali ubrzo posle toga je poginuo, 27. Avgusta 1990, East Troy, posle pada helikoptera kojim je išao na koncert u Winsconsin.

Etta James called him "the best thing that happened to blues in 20 years." Buddy Guy said, "He's done more for black blues people than any record company ever did." And B.B. King tagged him "one of my very favorite guitarists."
"I cried when I heard," Buddy Guy said in 1991, during a conversation about Vaughan and the instrumental "Rememberin' Stevie" on Guy's comeback album Damn Right, I've Got the Blues. "He was like a brother to me, and he was always telling people that I was one of the people he got his style from."

Eric Clapton

"I don't think anyone has commanded my respect more, to this day."
The first time I heard Stevie Ray, I thought, 'Whoever this is going to shake the world.' It's going to be a long time before anyone that brilliant will come along again."
"I didn't get to see or hear Stevie play near often enough, but every time I did I got chills and knew I was in the presence of greatness. He seemed to be an open channel and music just flowed through him. It never seemed to dry up."

Robert Cray
I know nobody will ever forget him
The first time Stevie and I played together was in 1979 at the San Francisco Blues Festival. We did four or five dates together in the bay area and Santa Cruz, switching opening slots, and we became pretty good friends. We had barbeques together down in Santa Cruz. We went to pick him up one afternoon for a barbeque, and he was dressed up like Jimi Hendrix - had a Jimi Hendrix wig on and a little short kimono. We were just rowdy youngsters then; we were all between twenty and twenty-five. We'd always run across one another on the road here and there. There was always a big hug and "How ya doing?" and stuff like that. This past weekend, I hadn't seen him for a while, and he gave me a big hug.
Saturday [two days before the accident] was a great day. His brother, Jimmie, came down to the show. We were all taking photos, just clowning around. He was really happy.
I'll always remember how he kicked my ass all the time on the guitar. It was inspirational, you know?

John Lee Hooker
He really had it - his singing, his playing. Really hot stuff. He chopped it up, and really meant it.
The first time we met was in Austin; Texas at Antone's, and it was him and his brother, Jimmie. That was fifteen or twenty years ago, and at that time he could play tremendously. And I said, "Someday this kid's going to shake the whole world up." And he was one of the nicest people. You couldn't help but like him, you couldn't help but love him. I never cry, but yesterday, when I heard the news, I sat down on my bed and cried like a little baby.

Bonnie Raitt
"The most lasting memory of Stevie was his passion. I don't think there is anyone who tears into a song like the way he did. I think Stevie Ray was coming from some place so deep and so beautiful that there's no one you can compare to him."
I saw him play on Saturday night. He played unbelievably. To me Stevie Ray Vaughan was the greatest blues guitarist. For fire and passion and soulfulness, he was untouchable. He was scary to those of us who watched him. But he was so humble and gracious as a friend, and he wasn't stuck up about his playing.
Gregg Allman

I remember when he first came out, he was doing that Hendrix song [Voodoo Chile], and I heard all these people going, "Ah, he's just trying to do Hendrix." But he went a lot further than that. He was absolutely 100-proof, pure blues. Albert Collins, Muddy Waters - the essence of that was in everything he played. More than the Allman Brothers, he was straight-down-the-line blues. Stevie was always playing. After he'd get offstage, he'd get on his bus. And he had all these Stratocasters hanging there. He'd grab one and start goin'.

B.B. King
Any time we played together it was exciting. At first, he would always pull punches a bit. So one night I told him, "Play your thing. Go ahead, don't worry about me." And he did. His ideas were limitless. He flowed. He was like water, constantly drippin' with rhythm. It's a loss not just to the music - it's a loss to people as a whole. He was just such a nice man. To tell you the truth, it really hurts. The only thing that keeps me from crying is knowing the joy that he brought to us. I can see his smile right now, him sitting there with his Mexican hat on, going, "Hey, it's all right."

"...he was always quick to show gratitude to me and other artists who have been around. But when it came to playing the blues he earned plenty of respect himself."

"...the fact is that he affected the way blues will be played and heard forever."

"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie missed on both counts, but I never noticed."

Steve Winwood

If there's a difference between a musician and a performer, Stevie was a musician. He was interested in the purity of his sound. He thoroughly mastered the intricacies of his instrument, and he really knew how to make his guitar speak. But when we jammed, he wouldn't try and hog all the solos. He was a very generous player.

Lou Ann Barton

We first met in around 1975 when Jimmie saw me singing in Dallas and said, "I want you to be in my new band," which was the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Stevie was playing in a band called the Cobras, and after the Thunderbirds and I decided not to work together anymore, I asked Stevie if he wanted to do something with me. We put together a band called Triple Threat. When that band dissolved, we decided just to call it Double Trouble, because he and I were both featured. So that was the original Double Trouble. This is just too close to home - this is family. He and Jimmie couldn't be any closer to me than my own brothers. We've lived together for almost twenty years, lived in the same neighborhood and actually raised each other. We came up from the depths when we were getting fifty cents a night per head to play R&B, which nobody liked, and being white kids as well - he really worked hard to make his success possible. He was just so damned talented.

Nile Rodgers (Producer of 'Family Style' and 'Let's Dance')

There was one song on Family Style called "Brothers", and the basic concept was, I guess when Stevie and Jimmie were younger, there may have been just one guitar between them, or just one good guitar. So the way the record works is, they're switching off on the guitar. They insisted on doing it live, with Stevie actually taking the guitar out of Jimmie's hands and Jimmie taking the guitar out of Stevie's hands. And when we finished the first take - the one that appears on the album - Stevie pulled me aside while Jimmie wasn't looking. He says, "Nile, I know we thought of this... but I tell you, man, it hurts me to snatch the guitar out of my brother's hands, 'cause I love him so much." I just looked at him. I was really touched.

I remember when he came to the Power Station to do "Let's Dance", he had this certain aura about him. He had this certain vibe. He and I hit it off right away. He picked up some of the guitars and started playing and making his comments. Then he noticed that we were eating barbeque. He says, "Nile, man, I know where the best barbeque in the world is." I said, "Yeah, where, Stevie?". He says, "A place called Sam's Barbeque, down in Texas." And he gets on the phone, and within a few hours there's a box of ribs on its way to New York. That's the kind of guy he was.

Another time, when I wasn't around, he was playing with some of my guitars, and he broke one of the strings. He wrote me the sweetest little note - it was just very Stevie Ray Vaughan. It said, - I'm doing his voice, you know, 'cause he's got this accent - it said, "Nile, I love your guitars. Sorry, brother, didn't mean to break no straaang."

Joe Satriani

As a guitar player, he had an incredible signature tone and an extreme intensity. He played one of the most difficult guitars to play - the Fender Stratocaster - and he played with really heavy strings. And he strung it with high action, which means you have to really work harder than anyone to try to get a sound out. But if you've got what it takes, then what comes out is something very big and bold and original.

In August of 1988, we opened two shows for him at the Pier in New York, and I got to really listen to him up close. You could tell he was always striving to find that magical point. He was good at reaching for the magic and finding it.

I think what I'll really remember is the way he stood, you know? Sweat-drenched, with his eyes closed, grabbing some incredible note. Someone has to be totally absorbed to play like that. To play that intensely sort of wreaks havoc on the body - it's sort of a painful ecstasy. He played the blues, you know? I guess I'll remember that most of all.

Lonnie Mack
I first heard Stevie at a little club around the corner from Antone's. He was just a really good player. He had his own thing, but you could hear bits and pieces of other things. I could hear some of my things in there. His brother told me that Stevie listened to a lot of my old records. He particularly liked the lick on "Chicken Pickin'" and the riff on "Wham!".

As I got to know him better, it was easy to see that he had a really good spirit. Stevie was a giver, man - not only to his friends but to everybody. He was a very spiritual person. I used to tease him that he was the only guy I knew that had an old head on a young body.

He played his complete self through that guitar. And he knew that playing music wasn't about who sounded better than who else. It was the style that counted, and it was about having a good time.

Hubert Sumlin

[Stevie] was a friend of mine, partner - one of the best. I had known Stevie a long time, since he was a kid - him and Jimmie. I played with them so many times in Austin when Antone's had the first club on 6th and Brazos. I'll tell you the truth: That boy was something else, man. I feel like he was one of the greatest guys and guitar players who ever lived. And he was really just getting to do his thing. He bought a Rickenbacker for me about 10 or 12 years ago, but somebody stole it. Then he found the guitar somewhere in New York, years later. I was playing at Antone's, and here comes Stevie with the same guitar.

Albert Collins

We jammed many times, and I had so much fun. I really miss him. He did some Jimi Hendrix, some Albert King, a little of me, but he had it together for what he wanted to do. He had a direction, and he made it work. The kids really liked his fire.

Buddy Guy

Stevie told me how his brother Jimmie had learned a bit before him, and he kept hearing this record of mine. His brother wouldn't let him listen to it, so he went and stole it. He said, ‘These are the licks I want.' We laughed about that the night of his tragedy. I'll never forget some of the licks he was playing the last night. I think it was one of his best nights ever.

It was an honor to have him do [my] tunes, because just like I went to Muddy Waters and paid tribute to him, everyone pays tribute to someone they admired a lot. Music is handed down to the next generation. And he wasn't just some white kid saying, ‘I got it.' He told the truth. ‘I got this from Buddy Guy or Albert Collins,' or whoever he wanted to talk about. That was some of his greatness. All of us have a certain God-gifted talent. Blues was locked out with a skeleton key, but Stevie was the type of person where they gave this guy the key, he opened the door, and threw the damn key away and said, 'All of y'all come in here. Let's play and show people how this sh** is supposed to be done.' He was like a brother to me. This year I won three W.C. Handy awards in Memphis, and I had to dedicate them to that kid, because that kid woke blues back up.

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Album Family Style je objavljen nekoliko mjeseci kasnije, postiže najveći uspeh i dolazi na US Top Ten.
Posthumna kompilacija napravljena od studio snimaka The Sky is Crying (1991) postiže isti uspeh. Snimci sa koncerta 1980, objavljuju se na albumu In the Beginning , 1993. U novembru 1993 građani Ostina napravili su statuu u čast Vaughan na obali Town Lake.Jimmie Vaughan 1994,snima album Strange Pleasure, koji uključuje i pesmu Six String's Down ,koja predstavlja svojevrsno odavanje pošte gitaristi,zbog čije smrti, kako je rekao B.B.King, je ˝ izgubila ne samo muzika, nego i narod u celini˝.

Albert King & SRV

B.B.King,Albert King & SRV

Etta James

Jeff Beck& SRV

Pride and Joy

Jeff Healey & SRV

Mary had a little lamb

Lenny

Otis Rush - Double Trouble

"Ako možete da zamislite kombinaciju:

"Robert Johnson prodaje dušu đavolu"... mističnog,

sa efektom koji ostavlja na vas muzika "John Mayall's "Bluesbreakers" sa albuma koji je tek objavljen,...

i talenat i sposobnost jednog Hendrix-a , niste ni u neposrednoj blizini toga da otkrijete ono što je Stevie Ray Vaughan imao na blues "

( by Ted Drozdowski.... is a journalist and musician living in Boston. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Musician, Travel & Leisure, Live!, Saturday Review, the Boston Phoenix, and a host of other publications. He is the 1998 recipient of the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive for Journalism award.)

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