Willy may have been but he was not.

[melanie2]

He could play the guitar while still a young child..He dropped out of highschool at the age of seventeen and cruised the night bars in downtown Austin with his older brother. Mick Jagger requested a CD sent to NYC, which led to his opening for Mick later that year. But he really went to town and impressed the world at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1983..then the world was introduced to a legend in the making. Like all legends to be, he had his ups and downs..he battled a drug and alcohol addiction, and at the height of his career, he beat that battle. He had just bought a new house seven months earlier. On August 26th, he played his heart out for a sold out show, along with Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton. He never played so well, according to Guy. Shortly after midnight, on August 27th, 1990, the helicopter in which he boarded took off, minutes later slamming into the side of a mountain. Thus ended the career and life of one of the blues greatest guitarists..he lay there, broken in body for seven hours. But he was no wimp. Willy may have been a wimp, but the late, great Stevie Ray definitely was not..

Twenty years later, he is still remembered by his fans and fellow musicians. I loved him. He turned me on to blues music and Jimi Hendrix.

Here is a live rendition of "Willy the Wimp"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZI2z19vbQ

 

[babinsky1]

Thank you.....I'll never forget him.

 

[melanie2]

Thank you.....I'll never forget him.

thank you babinsky for responding..

 

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

This was about a year or two before I was born,but I did like it.

 

[Hootus1]

If the house is rockin, don't bother knockin !!!

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Every single time I see the word "Willy" I fucking get the shudders because I HATE WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! That f'ing movie gave me so many nightmares. Why oh why did my day care show us it over and over again?

 

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

Every single time I see the word "Willy" I fucking get the shudders because I HATE WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! That f'ing movie gave me so many nightmares. Why oh why did my day care show us it over and over again?

Seriously...I thought everyone would love to visit Willy Wonka and his amazing Chocolate Factory!It was like Candy Land only more magical!

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Oh I'd be pretty amazed until people started getting sucked into pumping tubes and dropped into roasting ovens or even trapped inside a fucking television set (and the bloody Um-pa Loom-pas singing all the while). Then I'd pretty much be running in screaming horror for the nearest emergency exist (assuming Willy Wonka the child murderer had emergency exists installed in his murder factory of death)!

Seriously, how the hell did this film pass muster? The f'ing child welfare department would be all over Wonka's ass for the things he and his midget servants did to those kids! There would be a trial on national television and he'd be sent to the chair!

 

[PurpleStyle]

Every single time I see the word "Willy" I fucking get the shudders because I HATE WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! That f'ing movie gave me so many nightmares. Why oh why did my day care show us it over and over again?

It's all there black and white, clear as crystal. You stole fizzy lifting drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed, and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Cute Purple. Real cute.

 

[PurpleStyle]

How can you not like Willy Wonka? It's a wonderful movie, and Gene Wilder is the man. 😉

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

I dunno. Perhaps because Wonka was too damn good at his job at causing all but one of the little kids to suffer a fate worse than death itself.

Perhaps it was the fat little kid screaming for help while he as drowning in liquid sugar and then got sucked up the pipe into the grinding gears of the turbine engine.

Perhaps it was the kid who got permanently suck inside a television set (oh noes....the power went out to the television set and the kid been's erased from existance! Whelp...no need to worry about that little tyke anymore huh?).

Perhaps it was the little girl who got dumped into a FUCKING EGG CHUTE WHICH LED TO A GIANT ROASTING OVEN!

And all the while the fucking orange face painted green wigged freaks of nature were singing every single time it happened (Note I am calling umpa-loompas freaks of nature...not small people).

Yes the message at the end was uplifting...so the bloody hell what? All but one kid ends up dying and even one of the adults ends up dying too! You might as well call it Willy Wonka and the Murder Factory!

 

[melanie2]

uh shame on you all for hijacking this thread lol...i have to admit Willy Wonka is totally a creep oid...

 

[PurpleStyle]

Yes the message at the end was uplifting...so the bloody hell what? All but one kid ends up dying and even one of the adults ends up dying too! You might as well call it Willy Wonka and the Murder Factory!

The message at the end is simple: Be honest, and don't piss off Gene Wilder. :stickout

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

uh shame on you all for hijacking this thread lol

Sorry Izzy. I'll make it up to you...someday...somehow. 😉

The message at the end is simple: Be honest, and don't piss off Gene Wilder.

I'll be sure to send him an e-mail thanking him for my traumatized childhood. :stickout

 

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

I dunno. Perhaps because Wonka was too damn good at his job at causing all but one of the little kids to suffer a fate worse than death itself.

Perhaps it was the fat little kid screaming for help while he as drowning in liquid sugar and then got sucked up the pipe into the grinding gears of the turbine engine.

Perhaps it was the kid who got permanently suck inside a television set (oh noes....the power went out to the television set and the kid been's erased from existance! Whelp...no need to worry about that little tyke anymore huh?).

Perhaps it was the little girl who got dumped into a FUCKING EGG CHUTE WHICH LED TO A GIANT ROASTING OVEN!

And all the while the fucking orange face painted green wigged freaks of nature were singing every single time it happened (Note I am calling umpa-loompas freaks of nature...not small people).

Yes the message at the end was uplifting...so the bloody hell what? All but one kid ends up dying and even one of the adults ends up dying too! You might as well call it Willy Wonka and the Murder Factory!

Rox,I don't think they got murdered and died.From my understanding they were all back to the way they were after they left.I think he even told Charlie that at the end of the movie.

uh shame on you all for hijacking this thread lol...i have to admit Willy Wonka is totally a creep oid..

Sorry,Izzy..we were having an interesting conversation on Willy Wonka from Rox's perspective.

 

[Bator]

I think that I own every DVD that Stevie Ray ever released,I play guitar myself and although I,ll never be within light years of his talent,he,Jimi,Jeff Beck,Dave Gilmour,Mark Knophler,James{JY}Young,Muddy Waters,John Lee Hooker,Robert Johnson and Bo Diddley are my inspirations.He did the best rendition of Voodoo Child I have ever heard,second only to Hendrix.Kenny Wayne Sheppard is here to carry on the tradition and sounds the most like him.We sometimes forget about his older brother Jimmy who isn,t too shabby himself,you can listen to them play together on the song Tick Tock,which I love.He may be gone but he will never be forgotten.

 

[Bator]

Don,t get me started talking about guitar players,I,ll never stop and we have some pretty wild ones from up here in Canada as well,Neil Young,Randy Bachman,Alex Lifeson,Kim Mitchell,Rik Emmet,Pat Travers,Domenic Troiano,Colin James,Kenny Greer,Ian Crichton and the late great Brian{too loud}MacLeod and these are just off the top of my head.I told you not to get me started.Isabeau this is all your fault😉I know that this is supposed to be about Stevie Ray Vaughn.