MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > His 2000 Glastonbury show was the best live gig I > have ever been to - pure and simple. I thank my > lucky stars to have been there to witness it. > > I love the early stuff granted but I've a fetish > for Let's Dance as I was 5 when that was on the > radio. Then later I learned about Stevie Ray > Vaughan and realised that he played on most of > those tracks which is special. I'm still hunting > down any extended versions of the title track > which have Stevie at full strength. > > It would be a shame if he ever did Coachella - I > can't see it. It's also the most shit festival I > have ever been to with it's crowded nazi style > beer enclosure pen for "consumption of liquor" and > a typical over the top US style of stewarding. > Crap line ups too unless you love the Crash Test > Dummies and De La Soul. The best bit was in Palm > Springs at an aftershow party... in a bar with a > pool , girls in bikinis, and JD on tap - all with > a view of the sun setting over the desert..... "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming, 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'"