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CREEM'S PROFILES

HOME: The Voodoochile Panhandle. AGE: Old enough to meaningfully testify. PROFESSION: Lone Star. HOBBIES: Keeping the Hendrix legacy alive, buying back his introduction to David Bowie, playing the real thang, shaving with a rare dexterity and acting as switchboard operator for the soul.

May 1, 1986

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CREEM'S PROFILES STEVIE EAY VAUGHAN

(Pronounced "Boy Howdy!")

HOME:

The Voodoochile Panhandle.

AGE: Old enough to meaningfully testify.

PROFESSION: Lone Star.

HOBBIES: Keeping the Hendrix legacy alive, buying back his introduction to David Bowie, playing the real thang, shaving with a rare dexterity and acting as switchboard operator for the soul.

LAST BOOK READ: Days Of Studio Glory by Dave Davies.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Flooding Texas for profit!

QUOTE: “I am twice troubled.”

PROFILE: While bro’ Jimmy was making a name for hisself in the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stevie Ray was blues-pickin’ his Way into Texas legend, acting as a sideman on Bowie’s Let's Dance, getting his own deal with CBS, publicly admitting he was unable to tolerate the weather, playing with jazz saxophonist Bennie Wallace and, in general, becoming one of America’s superstar guitarists of the ’80s.

BEER: Boy Howdy!