Been playing SRV all week long and tonight will be listening to the Eric Clapton performance from 8/26/90 that includes the encore with Stevie Ray. It would be his very last live performance. Although I have 3 or 4 versions of Stevie's last full set, I cannot bring myself to convert the files. It really saddens me to think of his passing, especially since he had cleaned up his abuses and his playing was superb by then.

Palama wrote:

Wanted to watch/listen & post his last performance, but what's offered on youtube is such a poor quality it's painful to listen to. Right now I'm jammin SRV with Albert King - In Session on DVD. Dig the intimate jam and how they played off each other. Also dig the simple camera-work. Reminds me of the days when I watched SRV on Austin City Limits.

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cacman wrote:

It is also rumored that Jimmie Vaughan has a soundboard recording of that last show but for obvious reasons it's too painful for him to have it released.

Palama wrote:

Although I haven't converted any of the 8/26 show files, it is said that none of them are really good recordings. It is also rumored that Jimmie Vaughan has a soundboard recording of that last show but for obvious reasons it's too painful for him to have it released.

Palama wrote:

He was an amazing guitarist.

There was a kid that learned how to play from SRV... Kenny Wayne Shepherd, he was pretty damn good in his own right. Had an album or two come out that were pretty good... and then he seemed to have disappeared. If you watch him play, he even has some of Stevie's mannerisms, not to mention a similar sound.

MACS wrote:

frank, you may be thinking of Jonny Lang - another amazing blues talent, though not in SRV's league....I do like him better than most Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Lang isn't a kid anymore, but almost inconceivably, he was only 15 when he recorded Lie to Me. Shepherd hasn't suffered at all from picking up SRV/Double Trouble drummer, Chris Layton. That guy doesn't get enough credit, IMO.

As if SRV's death wasn't tragic enough, he'd been able to pull himself from his path to self-destruction only to die in a helicopter crash. RIP

dstieger wrote:

There are 2 others blues guitarists I would add to this conversation Johnny Winter and Jeff Healey.

Speyside wrote: