Ross Mickel

Radio DJ & Curator of Live Music, Tune in Sat 10AM 1PM EST, for some great live tunes to start your weekend with on 105.9 The Radiator! #btv #radio

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@MichaelSteele Big surprise. He would’ve burst into flames.

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@sennatheking The ‘Could’ve been 8’ is kicker for me…

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@F1_AyrtonSenna I always wonder what might’ve been…

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@EricDLussier Was. Maybe.

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@sennatheking Senna and Schumacher…isn’t it obvious?

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@historyrock_ No doubt.

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@metallidan What am I looking at here? That’s a hatchet bodywork job. For sure no one driving that around town isn’t sketchy AF…do we know what they’re up to?

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In reality...I wish I could play guitar half as well as #StevieRayVaughan played in '86. Yeah, I said it...

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@MaxellCorp I gotta know...what's on 'em!?

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Back on the #StevieRayVaughan train today...picking up with the '86 show in Germany that I left off on yesterday. Sure, it's a little messy, but there are flashes of SRV brilliance in there, despite being (likely) drowned in whiskey

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@dgold Gotta give it a shot...

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I've been thinking: People say Twitter is a trainwreck lately...What if we poured a bunch of positive energy (and good music?) into it and drowned out the trolls?

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@dgold It’s worth a shot…

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@cynumber9 I just put on an '86 show. Ain't Gone 'n Give Up On Love is 21 minutes long. 6 minutes to get to the first vocals. It's not even that Stevie's playing is bad. It's just that it feels like he forgot he's supposed to be singing...for an uncomfortably long amount of time

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If you listen to it objectively, it's true what they say: #StevieRayVaughan's '85-'86 shows sometimes border on painful. You can hear that he's almost constantly playing himself in circles. Quite the contrast to sober SRV from '89-'90...

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@cynumber9 I see what you did here...

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@cynumber9 I've heard and read about similar instances. '86 shows are the most painful to listen to...you can tell he's an absolute mess.

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@iBroadcastMedia I can't tell you how satisfying it is to see the play counter tick from 0 to 1...

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There are 24 Listening Days before this year's annual #StevieRayVaughan tribute edition of #BootleggersBeware. It's time to go into Stevie overdrive, and make some picks for the setlist!