It’s often said that you should never meet your heroes. What if they don’t live up to the expectations you created for them in your mind, crumbling the façade and shattering the mirrors? It could alter your perception of what they mean to you forever.
Despite likely hearing this piece of advice at least once or twice, in 1976, a 22-year-old Stevie Ray Vaughan decided that meeting his hero would be worth the risk. Vaughan’s hero wasn’t just anybody, though. It was the six-foot-four, 250-pound-plus blues legend Albert King—nicknamed the “Velvet Bulldozer.” He had a fiery temper and didn’t take a liking to many other guitarists.
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