I had tickets to see the great man twice. The first time he collapsed on stage a few days prior to the gig (caused by his drug and alcohol excesses) and was admitted to hospital - he subsequently went into rehab and cleaned himself up. The second time he was killed in a helicopter crash, a couple of months prior, after playing at a blues festival somewhere in America. If my memory serves me correctly the helicopter he boarded was actually meant for Eric Clapton.
The song he's playing here is from a studio album called The Sky is Crying (comprised of songs that never made it onto his previous studio albums), although the studio version is almost unrecognisable from the live version shown. SRV was known for varying, often radically, the way he played any particular song.
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