bbryan wrote: 

Seek out tracks from the MTV Unplugged appearance, Rude Mood and Testify are particularly awesome. Also Lenny from the Live At Carnegie Hall Cd is achingly beautiful. Sigh...

Is anyone aware of any other SRV acoustic tracks available via Amazon or iTunes. Like Jimi, SRV didn't have many acoustic tracks in his catalog (this is the only one I am aware of).

Thanks,
BB 

Thanks Bill for playing SRV...the greatest!

 robbeek wrote: 
you were too liberal for Austin or Houston??? You can be to the left of Marx and fit in Austin. Houston has somewhat become New Orleans West after Katrina. Dallas has a few pockets of libs, but less notorious than Austin.

 NeuroJoe wrote: 
First move was to N.O. and yes, it was like a planet change in many ways, but the ghetto kids thought I was crazy, so they left off the usual harrassing and they learned I was an ok guy to be around.
The move to Texas was wrenching financially, but things have finally turned the corner (got all the bills paid off, and then got damned good raise late last year!!). Texas is much more to my liking in many ways. Michigan is home, but the bottom third (and the fools voting for bozos like Stupek) made the state unlivable (If everyone who lost a job in Michigan just this recession still lived there, the unemployment would be twice the rate now, and kids like me never stayed. 120 graduated and 6 years later and only 4 still lived in the area). So I go for visits. If I hit a lottery, I'd get some land in the woods, otherwise I'll not live there unless things change massively.
Tis sad, really.

 Otomi wrote: 
Former resident of Gladstone. 4500 people...6 or 7 bars on Main St. plus others in and around town (~_^) .
 

 Jamunca wrote: 
Yeah...but did anyone else also catch that extremely high-pitched noise right at the beginning of the track? I think I have a headache now...

 Jamunca wrote: 
oh thank you Jamunca i was seeking an explanation for my aural confusion 

 Jamunca wrote: 

It happened again! It's engraved...leave it there.

 Kemoc wrote: 

Bill left "A Day in the Life" continue playing in the background of his between-song station ID. There's a pause at the end of the song followed by that little brief, repeating outro. That bled into SRV's first verse and made me LOL at work. Thanks Bill!

Didnt know what that was

 Jamunca wrote: 

HILARIOUS! The Beatles break into SRV!

Anyone else catch that?

I love this song. Yes, it is easy to play and I think that was on purpose. This song was meant to be simple and pure. This song was written by Stevie and Doyle Bramhall about their experience being in recovery from addiction - "that's how it happens livin' life by the drop" - a double entendre. In fact, I believe it is specifically about how Doyle tried to get Stevie into recovery unsuccessfully for some time (or I may have it backwards). In honor of Stevie, Doyle still picks up a sobriety medallion for Stevie at what was his primary meeting in Texas. That kind of transformation is amazing.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
That's a start. Keeping an open mind and see what happens.

Terrific rendition of that song!

Always amazing......sing it Stevie

:'( I Soooo Miss Stevie.

 toterola wrote: 

Ah, see, there's your problem, you believe in fairy tales about an afterlife, and eternal damnation, and shit like that. Hence the insistence on having respect for "the dead" which really means, either having respect for a rotting bit of organic material, quietly minding its own business and decomposing; or it means having respect for the memories of people who, if you apply your fairy-tales to their lives strictly, are all going to Hell anyway. So why should I have respect for dead people, who by your rules (if you're a believer that is) are going to burn in hell? And if you're not a believer, then why have "respect for the dead" at all?

And by-the-by, you are a prude. You just haven't caught up to the fact that you've become your parents. It's okay, it happens to all of us.

 jpfueler wrote: 
You're in Burleson?  Got family there, but I got ran out of the state 'cause I am one of them long-haired hippie liberal types.  Still, the ole Lone Star state did give us the great Stevie Ray, Tommy Lee Jones, the wonderful Molly Ivins, just to name a few.

This is easy too play, too! Need the twelve string, though.

 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: 

You're all class there, slick. Here's to seeing you in Hell.

 jpfueler wrote: 
Wow, I can't imagine a bigger change in venue. That's like an Earthling moving to Mars.

Lived in Paradise, MI for a few years as a kid. Great place to live as a kid, not an adult (unless you like welfare and excessive drinking). My parents owned the Little Falls Inn and Red Flannel Saloon, being less than 10 miles from Whitefish Point I can't tell you how many times I heard "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on the bar jukebox. Always gives me a smile when Bill plays it here.

Just heard this yesterday morning on my drive in. It's ALWAYS a pleasure to hear SRV!

I love this song, allways liked to hear SRV just tear notes out of his guitar but had heard him do some accoustic stuff and he really was good on one so add that to his personal struggles and this is great song

 toterola wrote: 
Thanks for your humble opinion, I'll file it in the appropriate receptacle. *flush*  There it goes.

 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: 
Was this comment really necessary? I mean, really?

I think not. I ain't no "shrinking violet", but a lack of respect for the dead is a sign of a poor upbringing. You should be ashamed of yourself, and you should keep such ghoulish sh*t to yourself.

Just my humble opinion.

No wasted time....We're alive today
Churnin' up the past....There's no easier way
Time's been between us....A means to an end
God it's good to be here walkin' together my friend

aahhh  stevie    

funny, it starts just like 'revolution' so i understand why it comes after ' a day in a life' ;-)

 jpfueler wrote: 
Howdy, fellow Yooper! I grew up in Marquette! We go bar, get hoyhoyed! You betcha!