Yeah (SRV story) that's the original story I'd heard. But then a while back I heard the other story, not sure where. I seem to have a memory of watching some program that had the story, with bits of interviews with David Bowie and the surviving members of Double Trouble that seemed to support it. The Double Trouble guys didn't seem to know a lot about it - they had known about the possibility of supporting Bowie, but it hadn't really been a serious option and SRV was going off and doing the tour. And then suddenly he wasn't. David Bowie's input was along the lines of - it's a long time ago, not sure exactly what happened, it was real shame, pity I hadn't been available to talk things through when it all kicked off - I just heard "you havent haven't got a guitarist he's walked out", and I blamed him for years... turns out it might have been a misunderstanding due to his management wanting more money because he was starting to get famous in his own right, wish I'd known it wasn't SRV himself, we could have sorted it out, instead we just chucked him off the tour...
Who knows though? History gets rewritten all the time :lol:
Like you say, the brand gets bigger than the people involved - everyone has to tell the story to make the "brand", whatever bit of it they're involved in, remain as sellable as possible. Or at least that's what they think they're doing anyway! :lol:
Sounds to me like that's what's going on here.
