RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan: Talking with tour manager about fateful night! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media I

Today's Guest: Mark Proct, former tour manager for Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble and the Fabulous Thunderbirds,and author of Home Today, Gone Tomorrow: Snapshots from 40 Years on the Road – Austin and Back.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Mark Proct by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of Stevie Ray Vaughan fans who will always wonder why he never bought a fancy new guitar to replace that beat-up old one he carried everywhere… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

The first time I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan live in concert, he was close enough to reach out and touch.

Literally.

Vaughan and Double Trouble were playing at a long-gone Clearwater, Florida nightspot, Mr. T’s Club 19 in the mid-1980s. (It was next to the also long-gone Peaches Records & Tapes. I think the site is a Sam’s Club, now. Naturally.)
MARK PROCT podcast excerpt: "It was hard to believe what happened to Stevie the night before and we were not sure what we we were going to see (at the crash site). The FAA was already onsite and they were very nice to Jimmie and let us go up the hill to the site. The amazing part of this was that Jimmie was looking for Stevie's cross. We were there for a while and couldn't find it. We went to leave and a guy ran up to the car we were in. In this field he had found the cross and handed it to Jimmie. It was amazing."
You can LISTEN to this interview with rock 'n' roll tour manager MARK PROCT, author of HOME TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: Snapshots from 40 Years on the Road – Austin and Back, by clicking the audio player above!

I was sitting at the cool kids’ table – Tampa Tribune rock critic David Okamoto was there, as were Bill Templeton and Eric Snider, editors of the local music mag called, cleverly, Music. I was covering the show for the St. Petersburg Times. All of us had heard of the blistering blues guitaris