So I’m driving down 3rd Street talking to Eric about his Mac.\u00c2\u00a0 God, Apple might have only 4% market share, but everybody seems to be switching.\u00c2\u00a0 When I had tea with Lea this afternoon at Elixir there were three surfers.\u00c2\u00a0 Two PowerBooks and an iBook.<\/p>\n
And when our conversation was done, as traffic started to get heavy around La Cienega, I fired up the XM.<\/p>\n
I’m not the biggest Buddy Guy fan.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, he was ripping it up, live at XM, and I was ENJOYING it, but then he started playing this acoustic figure.<\/p>\n
Only one problem, it wasn’t Buddy Guy.<\/p>\n
As I started to reevaluate, wonder if I’d unfairly overlooked Mr. Guy, the guy playing started to sing.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was clear, it was Stevie Ray Vaughan.<\/p>\n
You know terrestrial radio is in trouble when Robert Hilburn takes potshots.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean who can listen to classic rock radio.\u00c2\u00a0 Does ANYBODY need to hear "Won’t Get Fooled Again" again?\u00c2\u00a0 And, if they play Stevie Ray, it’s "Little Wing".\u00c2\u00a0 It’s never "Life By The Drop".\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t play this kind of stuff on terrestrial radio.\u00c2\u00a0 Stuff that’s not in-your-face, that doesn’t square with the faux sunny personality of the deejay.<\/p>\n
Have you HEARD "Life By The Drop"?<\/p>\n
I haven’t.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, it’s on Stevie’s big posthumous record "The Sky Is Crying".\u00c2\u00a0 But, back in the early nineties, the only way to hear a track was on the radio or if you BOUGHT it.\u00c2\u00a0 And I couldn’t afford to buy everything.<\/p>\n
Oh, it starts off with a Buddy Guy blues figure.\u00c2\u00a0 Got to give the deejay credit for the segue.\u00c2\u00a0 But then "Life By The Drop" starts to rock, it starts to SWING!<\/p>\n
And what’s further amazing is, it’s ACOUSTIC!<\/p>\n
Oh, you can imagine being in a club.\u00c2\u00a0 With just a lone guy on stage, knocking you out.\u00c2\u00a0 The rhythm Stevie Ray pulls out of his guitar is stunning.\u00c2\u00a0 It cuts to your core just like a look across the room to a member of the opposite sex, when you lock eyes, when it’s just the two of you, when you know something’s going to happen.<\/p>\n
That’s what’s funny about the blues.\u00c2\u00a0 For down music, it’s incredibly optimistic.<\/p>\n
Today I wasn’t converted into a Buddy Guy supporter.\u00c2\u00a0 But I was closed by Stevie Ray Vaughan.\u00c2\u00a0 His loss is a tragedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Because he won’t be making MORE magical tracks like "Life By The Drop".<\/p>\n
Then again, I’ve got the albums he did record to peruse now.<\/p>\n
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