stepcousin
stuck in the 70's
- Joined
- May 24, 2011
- Posts
- 1,258
- Reaction score
- 6
My biggest musical regret!?
I had tickets to the Clapton/SRV/Robert Cray concert. Well, I SHOULD have had them, but I turned them down. Story recap. I was living in Minneapolis, not long after college at UW-LaCrosse. I was down there one weekend in a bar getting drunk (as I liked to do). Along comes the girl I had been on/off dating for about a year. She owed me money (from loans I had given her). She says "I have 4 tickets to Clapton and SRV next month. Do you want them?".
Me... being the drunk dumbass that I was, thought it out for a second. Lemme see, she still owes me about $500. The tickets are worth $150. The concert is on a Sunday. So, I'll likely have to do this: sell 3 of the tickets, keep one for myself. Drive all the way across wisconsin with 3 of my drinking buddies in -my- car (since I had the pimped out ride and no one else did). We'll go to the concert and more than likely crash there because we'll have drank too much to drive all the way across WI that night. So, we'll get up monday morning, drive all the way across WI to drop those guys off, then have a 180 mile drive back to Minneapolis and have to be ready for work by 3pm and more than likely with a hangover.
So, I turned to her and said, "nah, I want my money instead."
The concert: August 26th, 1990. Alpine Valley, WI.
(The second of two shows that weekend in East Troy.)
The billing: Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray.
The Encore: All three of them, along with Jimmie Vaughan and Buddy Guy jamming for about 20 minutes on the last encore. I have read stories that it was some of the most inspiring and incredible playing SRV ever did. I think it was Sweet Home Chicago (jam session version of course) that they were playing.
I got up on Monday morning (the 27th of Aug) and turned on the TV. There were reports all over MTV.... "SRV dies in helicopter crash following a concert at Alpine Valley". I damn near cried.:
Regrets?! Yah I've got a few. That one though. That's the worst one.
I live in Anchorage Alaska. Back in July 24th of 1990 (one of his last shows) he played up here but I didnt go. I wasnt a fan of SRV, they played his songs every 6 minutes on the radio and we were all sick to death of him, and I was a big metalhead and wasnt into blues rock at the time. So I didnt go. He died a month later. Didnt regret it at the time but as the years go by, it's one of my top concert no-shows that I regret not attending. Probably the biggest.
