"BLUE" JIMMY: BLUESMAN
BLIND DOG OZZY: NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA
"BLUE" JIMMY: Saturday, April 18, 2015, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Thank you. You're welcome. It was the Summer of 1983 when I tuned into Los Angeles radio station KLOS and heard a song by the name of "Pride and Joy" by a band called Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble. I ain't never heard a guitar being played like that.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And you still ain't!
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"BLUE" JIMMY: By the end of the Summer I had bought a guitar and was going to the public library to look through their stack of dusty, vinyl Blues LPs and was learning to play Blues riffs from old, scratchy recordings from the 1920's.
BLIND DOG OZZY: CRACKLE, CRACKLE, CRACKLE, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Yeah, I was aware of The Blues as an art form since I was a kid because I had seen B.B., Albert and Freddie King on TV. But I never knew there were Blues bands like Double Trouble who could play this ancient American art form and rock the house down like Hendrix or Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Or a Blues guitarist who could play a Stratocaster behind the back through a wah pedal, tube screamer and a melting down Fender amp turned up to Heavy Metal volume!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Dude! Stevie Ray's exploits on guitar are legendary and I could write a whole volume on his technique, tone and one-of-kind equipment.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Like that bashed up Strat!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Or how he would play strings thick as piano wire and wear out a whole set of frets in one tour!
BLIND DOG OZZY: F**k!
"BLUE" JIMMY: But what I really want to talk about is the legacy of Double Trouble as a band and the mark they made in the history of the Blues. In the early 80's, The Blues was deep under ground and was kind of considered "old people's music" by the younger generation. Old masters like B.B. King were still great but wearing tuxedos and playing ballrooms in Vegas to an older crowd.
BLIND DOG OZZY: The Blues needed some sex appeal!
"BLUE" JIMMY: That's where SRV & Double Trouble came in! Looking like a Band of Gypsies for the MTV generation, handsome, loud and reeking of cocaine & whiskey, they took the music world by storm and made it cool to like The Blues again.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And everyone rushed to Guitar Center to buy a Stratocaster!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Including me, man! But once SRV & Double Trouble opened up the floodgates, Bluesmen who had been long forgotten like Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Albert Collins and Luther Allison were getting gigs and recording again.
BLIND DOG OZZY: The Blues was happening, baby!
"BLUE" JIMMY: So now I see that Strat of mine standing in the corner and think how it was once shiny and new with the tags still on it.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And it even had that new guitar smell!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Now, it's been played and abused and has decades of sweat and blood and beer all sunk into it and it's given me a lifetime of love and music.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And it's even starting to look almost as beat up as Stevie Ray's!
"BLUE" JIMMY: I would've never had all that if it weren't for that houserockin' band with the young man in a funky hat and cowboy boots.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Rock on Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Wow! Wow!
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BLIND DOG OZZY: And you still ain't!
"BLUE" JIMMY: By the end of the Summer I had bought a guitar and was going to the public library to look through their stack of dusty, vinyl Blues LPs and was learning to play Blues riffs from old, scratchy recordings from the 1920's.
BLIND DOG OZZY: CRACKLE, CRACKLE, CRACKLE, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Yeah, I was aware of The Blues as an art form since I was a kid because I had seen B.B., Albert and Freddie King on TV. But I never knew there were Blues bands like Double Trouble who could play this ancient American art form and rock the house down like Hendrix or Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Or a Blues guitarist who could play a Stratocaster behind the back through a wah pedal, tube screamer and a melting down Fender amp turned up to Heavy Metal volume!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Dude! Stevie Ray's exploits on guitar are legendary and I could write a whole volume on his technique, tone and one-of-kind equipment.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Like that bashed up Strat!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Or how he would play strings thick as piano wire and wear out a whole set of frets in one tour!
BLIND DOG OZZY: F**k!
"BLUE" JIMMY: But what I really want to talk about is the legacy of Double Trouble as a band and the mark they made in the history of the Blues. In the early 80's, The Blues was deep under ground and was kind of considered "old people's music" by the younger generation. Old masters like B.B. King were still great but wearing tuxedos and playing ballrooms in Vegas to an older crowd.
BLIND DOG OZZY: The Blues needed some sex appeal!
"BLUE" JIMMY: That's where SRV & Double Trouble came in! Looking like a Band of Gypsies for the MTV generation, handsome, loud and reeking of cocaine & whiskey, they took the music world by storm and made it cool to like The Blues again.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And everyone rushed to Guitar Center to buy a Stratocaster!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Including me, man! But once SRV & Double Trouble opened up the floodgates, Bluesmen who had been long forgotten like Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Albert Collins and Luther Allison were getting gigs and recording again.
BLIND DOG OZZY: The Blues was happening, baby!
"BLUE" JIMMY: So now I see that Strat of mine standing in the corner and think how it was once shiny and new with the tags still on it.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And it even had that new guitar smell!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Now, it's been played and abused and has decades of sweat and blood and beer all sunk into it and it's given me a lifetime of love and music.
BLIND DOG OZZY: And it's even starting to look almost as beat up as Stevie Ray's!
"BLUE" JIMMY: I would've never had all that if it weren't for that houserockin' band with the young man in a funky hat and cowboy boots.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Rock on Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Wow! Wow!
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