“IN TEXAS, SOMEWHERE JUST UNDER GOD”
As Told By: Chris Hardy
Written By: Justyne Gurley
PHOTO BY: CHRIS HARDY
1986
Greek Theatre at UC Berkley
It’s a fairly small venue to be playing in, and they didn’t even fill half of it. Stevie Ray Vaughan was basically nobody at this point. So, I get there and I start talking to the box office woman, and I say, “Who is this guy? I’d heard some of his stuff but now I’m hearing he played with David Bowie before?” and she said, “Yeah, I don’t know either, but he’s really ugly. “He was really good though, in Texas he’s very popular and somewhere under God. “