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>at Montreux"?
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SRV Talks About Montreux
"Things are starting to happen. What will come out of all this is yet to be seen, but we're gonna push for whatever we can get. I feel we can do something on our own in Europe. We've just worked really hard, and we're breaking out of the United States, is what we're trying to do. I figure we're just going to watch everything start to gel, but I can't say what'll
come out of it, and I wouldn't even try. We'll see. We'll just have to wait and see." Dallas Times Herald June 17, 1982. Bruce Nixon (one month prior to Montreux show)
"Jackson Browne has probably been the most important thing in all this [Montreux/ Bowie tour]. He saw us at Montreux and we jammed and everything for about eight hours at this club. We took one break for about 20 minutes.
We were having fun, needless to say. After the night was over, he offered us his studio for free - the use of his equipment, his engineers, his, you know, everything. And not long afterwards [November '82] we took him up on it and
we were supposed to pay for the tape and he ended up givin' us the tape, too. But he's incredible. All he wanted was to see us do what we wanted to do. We just did it ourselves." Music (Florida Edition) Sept. 8, 1983, Eric Snider
"We weren't sure how we'd be accepted. As soon as we were finished, someone came backstage to meet us. [David Bowie and I went] to the musicians' bar at the casino, where we talked for hours. [Double Trouble] ended up playing at the bar for several nights and Jackson Browne came in and jammed with us." Guitar World, Sept. '83, Frank Joseph
"[Jerry Wexler] helped us get onto that show, which started a whole chain of events. That's where David Bowie heard us. It's not just a jazz show anymore - they have a blues night and a country night - Bow Wow Wow played there, Laurie Anderson, too, okay. Then around November or so, he called while we were doing our album and asked me to play on his record. The rest is, ahh, history." Sounds, Sept. 24, 1983, Sandy Robert
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"After seeing the band at a show in Austin Texas, famed record legend Jerry Wexler helped to arrange our appearance at Montreux. Having never traveled a lot, a trip to Switzerland itself seemed exciting. The show in '82 was mostly dedicated to acoustic blues artists - with the exception being us."
"We hit the stage in standard tear-down-the-house fashion. Our performance was soon met with a number of "boos" from the audience. This made it difficult but we didn't let up. However, after the show we felt heartbroken and bewildered. Was this meant to be?"
"That same night we met David Bowie, who was in the audience. We talked for a while that night and later Stevie came to play on his Let's Dance record and almost did his world tour. The next night we played the musician's bar,
downstairs from the stage we had played the night before. At the end of his performance, Jackson Browne and his band came down and we all proceeded to jam until the sun came up. Jackson offered his studio to us if we ever wanted to use it while in Los Angeles - free of charge! After all was said and done this trip proved to be a moving experience in many ways."
"Little did we know, however, that the first trip would lead to recording the tapes at Jackson Browne's studio that would become Texas Flood or that Stevie would do the work he did with a guy named David Bowie or that we would receive our first GRAMMY for the Atlantic album Blues Explosion: Live From Montreux '82."
"The trip back in '85 was different. The people were there to hear us. The place was packed and we were still ready to tear the house down."
Chris Layton
August, 2001
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