He seemed to come out of nowhere, a Zorro-type figure in a riverboat gamblers hat, roaring into the 82 Montreux festival with a 59 Stratocaster at his hip and two flame-throwing sidekicks he called Double Trouble. He had no album, no record contract, no name, but he reduced the stage to a pile of smoking cinders and, afterward, everyone wanted to know who he was.According to road manager Don Opperman: The way I remember it, the ooos and the boos were mixed together, but Stevie was pretty disappointed. Stevie [had] just handed me his guitar and walked off stage, and Im like, Are you coming back? There was a doorway back there; the audience couldnt see the guys, but I could. He went back to the dressing room with his head in his hands. I went back there finally, and that was the end of the show. According to Vaughan: It wasnt the whole crowd [that booed]. It was just a few people sitting right up front. The room there was built for acoustic jazz. When five or six people boo, wow. It sounds like the whole world hates you. They thought we were too loud, but shoot, I had four army blankets folded over my amp, and the volume level was on 2. Im used to playin on 10! The performance was filmed and later released on DVD in September 2004.
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