Talk about “raw” footage–what you’re about to see is very raw, unedited and rare, although it smooths out after a few seconds. In the summer of 1984, my cameraman, Tom Murphy, and I shot a few songs of SRV from just a few feet away with a handheld news camera. The show was being broadcast nationally across Germany, and we were just fine until we found ourselves in the German TV shot that they wanted to go to–you’ll notice at some point that the only thing between our shot and the national TV shot, is Stevie standing right between us–we were removed from the pit a few moments after ! After his set, I interviewed SRV backstage. I was barely 21 years old, so if the interviewer sounds like a kid with a Texas accent–well he *was* a kid. That was me! I’ll be adding more of this interview as I find it. Stevie was amazing. BTW, a new cleaned up version of that same concert can be found here, with good audio and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZNjEBtMAM
