Eric Clapton on Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Alpine Valley show-
Eric Clapton: I think, um, the best way to describe it was just to sit to-to be to have been in my shoes in the dressing room watching the monitor and so I could sit in my dressing room with the door open and hear him from the stage and see him on the TV, knowing I had to go out later and play and what was happening was I was actually so bowled over and-and so in love with this guy that was playing on stage from the heart completely, you know that I started to feel ashamed of what I was gonna go on and do cause I was gonna go out there and do Cream songs and do little dis-different kinds of music and here was one guy playing one kind of music in a one kind of way and it made me kind of feel "well God are you ever gonna be like this", you know that's the way I felt, "are you ever gonna get to THAT point, the point you are watching right now" and I don't know if any, that many people ever do - that many people ever do - 'cause I enjoy in my life playing all kinds of stuff you know I'm not-I don't I-know I play blues probably easier than-than- than anything else, you know everything else is bit of a-a learning experience but I do dabble around in other areas, your Rock and Roll and Country and this and that and songwriting, but um none of it has that oneness that Stevie Ray had.
