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10/3/1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan born

One of the true guitar heroes was born on this day in Dallas, Texas. Stevie Ray Vaughan's older brother Jimmy got him picking his way to eventual recognition as one of the greatest players in history when Stevie was just 7.  By age 12, SRV  was already getting invites to play in some of big D's emerging bands.  When he was 17, he left school to devote his full-time attention to playing.  For the rest of his all too short life, Stevie Ray had a guitar in his hands or close at hand during almost every waking hour.  We lost him in the first hour of August 27 in 1990 when the helicopter he boarded slammed into a fog shrouded mountainside after an amphitheater concert in East Troy, Wisconsin had wrapped-up with him jamming with his brother and fellow guitar greats Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Eric Clapton.


Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on October 3 include...

1938 Eddie Cochrane born.

1947 Buckingham Nicks and Fleetwood Mac guitarist, singer Lindsey Buckingham born.

1962 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee born. 

1972 Moody Blues release Seventh Sojourn.
1975 Who releases Who By Numbers.

1978 Aerosmith puts up bail money for 30 arrested on marijuana charges during the group's Fort Wayne, Indiana concert.

1980 Police release Zenyatta Mondatta.

1980 Bob Seger joins Bruce Springsteen on Thunder Road at The River tour opener in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1988 The documentary Imagine: John Lennon premieres in Los Angeles.

1989 David Bowie releases Sound & Vision box set.
1994 Eric Clapton opens his Nothing But the Blues tour.

1996 Van Halen fires David Lee Roth - again.
1998 Farm Aid staged in Tinley Park, Illinois with Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Phish, Wilco and others.

2000 Ben Orr of the Cars dies of pancreatic cancer.

2006 Lindsey Buckingham releases Under The Skin.

2006 Supreme Court declines to hear Vinnie Vincent's case against KISS over royalties.

2007 The Rolling Stones establish a new earnings mark when their A Bigger Bang tour hits $558 million in ticket sales.