Stevie Ray Vaughan Crash Site and Memorial at Alpine Valley
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was a legendary guitarist with the band Double Trouble. He was performing at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on August 25 and 26th, 1990, and in the early morning hours of August 27, 1990, a helicopter carring Stevie Ray Vaughan and 4 others crashed into a ski slope at Alpine Valley Ski Resort less than a mile away. Today, we will explore the site, try to find the exact location of the crash and Stevie Ray Vaughan's death, as well as the memorial that was put up on the ski hill in tribute. I did receive permission from the ski resort to be on this property and search for the crash site as well. If any of you want to make this pilgrimage, I suggest obtaining permission also as they are very nice about allowing fans on the property to pay respects.
#stevierayvaughan #srv - Auta a dopravní prostředky
The fog was so thick I could hardly see my friends next to me, I made it up to the stage for sweet home chicago. They broke up a song on the radio next morning to tell us all. We pulled over and cried.
Talent like his comes along once in a lifetime. What a loss to the music world. Cant think of anyone any better than Stevie Ray.
Thank you for Sharing this. SRV is the reason I started playing guitar over 30 years ago, and he continues to inspire me today. I am just a little upset at the size of the marker. I would have expected a larger plaque.
I skied there today. Talked to an older security guy that was outside the chalet. He said there was a more grand memorial but someone stole it. He also said he was working security at the concert along with his brother. He left just before the helicopters took off, but his brother stayed and was one of the guards that got everyone on the helicopters. Probably the last one to see all those guys alive. His brother was the one that all the news people interviewed. I also asked him why no one heard the crash. He said at least one guy did, but he was pretty drunk so nobody believed him. Just a sad event. I saw SRV at the concert before Aline Valley. Just awesome to see live.
I read on Quora some years ago, a guy said as he was in the line of cars leaving the venue, he & his buddy felt a small/light shake & heard a faint "Boom" they brushed it off assuming someone set off one of those big fireworks... another personal account was from a woman working one of the beverage/food buildings said she felt a light short lived shake. 🤷🏻 A Google search led me to these two stories...I had to dig though...& Use all sorts of questions to get there. Such a sad & profound loss.
I was at that show. I have a replica of his Fender Stratocaster. He and EVH are my favorite guitarists. Alpine Valley is a GREAT place for concert. Being surrounded by the hills makes for fantastic acoustics. Just suck walking up and down the hill to get a beer.
I was up there about a month ago. It's beautiful this time of year and so serene. I left a few picks on the hill. RIP SRV
It really is. I did get chased by a groundhog there though.
@@FreyzelProductions I saw a group deer up on the hill with me. They didn't chase me though...but it would have been a cool story. You survived the groudhog attack...good on you.
@@FreyzelProductionsHahaha! Over & over or just once?
RIP Stevie Ray 😔
Just was reminiscing today. It has been 33 years. Hello to fellow Wisconsinites. I'd like to think he was met by Buddy Holly and had a talk about Wisconsin venues. 😢😢
I was at Alpine Valley last week (Jan 2024). At the end of my ski day, I was talking to staff at the ski hill and one of the guys showed me a picture of the new marker. Apparently, the oldest one was stolen? The gold one you saw was the second marker I think. The newest marker appears to be larger in size and is a piece of metal art work. It is silver/nickel colored and shaped as sVr, with the s and r being smaller than a 3x sized V. All letters upper case. I cannot find a picture of it on the internet, but the guy showed it to me from a picture on his phone.
Listen to him every day ..loved his music and his style ..
Thank you .. from Australia...
Great video! Excellent! Such a tragic event. You climbed to the top and was not even breathing hard. I would have been gasping! LOL. Thanks so much for taking us here. Tragedy aside, that is a beautiful area. Hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day weekend and God bless!
I did have to stop and rest a few times 😂
Thank you so much for this video. So very sad, what a huge loss he was and continues to be. A loss to music and the world.
I visit Stevie often. My dad grew up just miles from the Vaughan’s & played guitar too RIP
Thanks for sharing. I was born at the same hospital he was as we must have lived just a few miles from each other at that time before my family moved from OakCliff. I visited his grave since. I hope I can visit this area.
RIP SRV. ❤🎵🎸
Stevie was the White Jimi.👍
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The first time I skied buddy and I pulled into this parking lot and it was just like how freaking mountain I'm like we're skiing on I need to come to find out this is where Stevie Ray Vaughan passed. It's definitely a cool place but what a tragic Loss
Yeah, terrible. I live in the area and was supposed to go to the concert with my buddy and had to work instead...told him I'd catch SRV next time around...how wrong I was...
I'll never forget when that crash happened.
Thanks
Very interesting video thank you Jeff enjoyed it as always
Thanks Cosmos! I appreciate that!
Nice video, thank you very much.
Great video
Aerosmith is retiring after their last tour thanks for the video and Happy Memorial day
So sorry to hear you seen kiss live i wouldn't wish that on anyone
😂
He doesn’t even have a monument that’s sad. Music legend and all he gets is a tiny piece of metal nailed to a light pole and a few posters.
WOW 😡🤬
He has a monument in Austin where he was from.
@@michaelcarter5 yeah but not one where he died
They should make a museum like they did buddy holly, I'll even donate a hand make SRV strat replica.
I drove 9 hours to see The Dead there in 1988 and right before the show the Dead coptered into the stage area and their pilot was being somewhat reckless IMO. I remember recalling that observation when Stevie died there 2 years after that show....
There is a bizarre personal experience of mine that I went through when it came to the deaths of Stevie Ray Vaughn, and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin.
Long story short, when the news broke about Vaughn, I caught it while out cruising around Montgomery, Alabama. I was just about to get on the Southern Bypass when the local rock station, WXFX-FM 95.1 The Fox, announced over the air about the crash.
But go back several years before that. While in Montgomery, and again riding around, the local rock station then, WLSQ-AM 950, announced the death of John Bonham. I was listening to Bob Seger’s “Still The Same” before the DJ broke in.😢
Painful.....
Maybe you can help me out with a "Mandella Effect" kind of thing? See, I've been to Alpine several times (camped 3 days in the rain for the Dead in 89, saw GnR, Steve Miller, Lou Graham... I can't even remember who else) and I recall seeing a Stevie Ray Vaughan statue near the ticket entrance, but for the life of me I cannot find photos or mention of it anywhere. Do you remember seeing this? Perhaps it was a temporary thing??? It's a mystery to me.
I don’t remember seeing one. It’s very possible that it was a temporary thing. If anyone else sees this and knows, maybe they could shine some light on it?
@@FreyzelProductions I'm wondering if it was a temp thing put up during Futhurfest (maybe 1998 which I also attended), but I don't know. Agreed, maybe/hopefully someone with definitive insight will see my comment and chime in. Thanks :)
@@FreyzelProductions I notice Alpine's own website has the date of SRV's death wrong. They state it as happening on the 26th, but as you know it was past midnight, so technically the 27th.
They could of mafe a bigger monument ty Jeff
I kind of wonder why there isn’t something bigger. It took forever to find but I’m glad they allow people on the property to see it.
For the 4th time, lol, Alpine didn't put anything there. They should've. But a female fan put that one up.
@@Say_No-2_Animal-Abuse_ "DOESN'T ANYONE NOTICE THIS? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!"
Just like Kobe Bryant.
I don't think it holds forty thousand I was there the first night of the two-day concert the first band to play was out of Georgia or Alabama name Giada something like that they were really good then it was Robert Cray then Stevie Ray Vaughan and then Jeff Healey from the Patrick swayze movie Roadhouse came out and did a few songs before Eric Clapton and what I remember is Jeff Healey just about walked off the stage because he's blind Eric Clapton came out and grabbed him I remember Jeff Healey laughing saying yes I won't do that again then Eric Clapton came out and they did an encore jam together everyone you could see Bonnie raitt on the screen monitor but you never came out to perform we were going to stay another night but we said we'll come back next well there was a next year for Stevie Ray Vaughan may he rest in peace along with blues guitarist great Jeff Healey who died of cancer may they both rest in peace 🕊️🙏❤️
I was at the first show on Friday night as well. I still tell the story of Healey almost walking off the stage!😂😂 Stevie KILLED IT that night. On Sunday that weekend I got free 10th row tickets to Santana at the World Music Theater...mind blown!! Woke up Monday to my clock radio playing Pride N Joy...and then the Dj broke the news to me😮😢
@@tomironwood9 you know I've seen a lot of concerts in my life that really was an over-the-top concert it's just a damn shame that he had to die so young like I said that opening band I don't know what their name was but they sure were good Jada ???
Maybe this is dumb, but I kinda wish you hadn't done this. What is the goal?
About a dozen people requested to see the site and where the memorial was. Lots of Stevie fans are out there and can’t make it to the location but still want to see it.
@@FreyzelProductions Yes, thank you! I live a few hours away from Dallas & I'm thankful for you.
You would think they’d do a better job at a memorial marker than a brass tag on a telephone pole. RIP SRV
The venue didn't put it up. A fan did...the original one got stolen, but she went & put up another one. I hope this one stays where it belongs.
Something the size of a bracelet, and high enough up a pole that you can't read it unless you're 8 ft. tall? SERIOUSLY? Come on!!!
Also Eric Clapton was there to confirm the bodies as well kind of poor you think Alpine Valley could have did a much nicer memorial than a Pole with a little metal plaque definitely cheesey nicer memorial should be put up somebody should start a fund to make a really nice memorial also for the other gentleman killed in the crash
Alpine didn't put it there. A female fan did. It later got stolen by some dumba$$ & she put up another.
If only he was still around making songs that sound exactly the same so drunks can drink and not try and figure out what they're listening to.
Please post us some of your shred videos so we can laugh at how good you are . I don’t think people will be remembering your name anytime soon. Jealous much ?
I am by no means a pilot of helicopters but from the books I’ve read about SRV and this night if the pilot had just gone straight up up up out of the fog this never would’ve happened..the other three made it to Midway..was lucky enough to see Double Trouble once two years before this rest in peace SRV..
Same. Some say, the pilot was trying to go around & possibly accidentally touched the cyclic & caused the chopper to veer. He didn't know the layout & should've never been there in the first place. I agree though, go up & up!
Eric gave up his seat,that was Stevie's demise
I thought it was Jimmy Vaughan who gave up this seat?