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Couldn't agree more, what a great way to honor a local legend. I'm sure alot of people feel Ms. Johnson is also deserving.
Unfair Park contributers might find ironic the name of SRV's first album- 'Texas Flood'

Pete, do you even know how to spell Stevie's last name?

Look, we let Austin erect a statue of Stevie Ray on Town Lake, which helped to promote an implicit understanding that he was somehow from there. This is an artist who was born, raised and buried in Dallas.

I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone that the music editor for the Dallas Observer wouldn't even know how to spell his name correctly.

Honestly, Jeff? OK, honestly: I was 99.9 percent sure it was with an "a" after the "gh" but I made the now-ridiculous assumption that the Morning News story I found this in would have been fact-checked. So I took their word for it.

Silly me. Lesson learned.

Pete, you weren't the first. Chelsea also did it in her recent blog piece about Rocky Athas and Lightning. (Your responsibility to fact-check as music editor, right?) And the Morning News actually got it right, as far as I can tell.

I don't bring this up to rag on you guys, but to raise a much broader point - this is an artist who will forever belong to Dallas, yet we've always let Austin claim him as their own- even going so far as to erect a monument to him that also serves as a tourist attraction for their city.

Apparently, the guy grows up here, sells 20 million records worldwide and we still can't even spell his name right.

The re-naming of Industrial Blvd. is an opportunity for the city to finally get this right. Given the history of ignoring our musical heritage, I fully expect them to rename the street anything but Stevie Ray Vaughan Blvd.

I think you're reading too much into all of this, Jeff. His name's been entered into the discussion out of the blue, and, far as I can tell, for no specific, logical reason (Did Stevie live on Industrial?) other than to honor him. That's a good thing. If no one cared that he was from here, no one would have proposed his name in the first place. Obviously, people care.

And, as far as a statue, someone's working on that, remember: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2008/01/a_metal_monument_or_trying_to.php

Pete, I meant The City (as in City Government), not the actual citizens themselves.

Obviously, Stevie's fans (myself included) care a great deal. How cool would it be to have a major street named after him? Like I said, it's a chance for us to reclaim a crucial piece of our cultural heritage that was more or less stolen by Austin.

Realistically, I can't see them ever naming it after anyone who wasn't either a local business icon like Stanley Marcus or a influential politician like Eddie Bernice Johnson.

C.R.E.A.M, kid. Welcome to Dallas.

Hey Liles, you didn't care when a writer mispelled Transona Five's name, and they're better than SRV. How many horrible white blues-rock bands did he influence?

*Hey Liles, you didn't care when a writer mispelled Transona Five's name, and they're better than SRV. How many horrible white blues-rock bands did he influence?

Oh, God. Tens of thousands of bandana-headband idiots all over the world, for sure. No question. When you sell 20 million records that's part of the bargain - connecting with people who get it for all the wrong reasons.

On the other hand, is Transona Five "better" because they never really influenced anyone at all?

Liles, just goofing around when I said better, but Transona Five was great. What's C.R.E.A.M?

Keep posting on this blog because your comments are better than the actual posts. This thread is hilarious.

I actually missed T5 the first time around, but went back and tracked down some of their stuff when they reformed for the Melodica Festival. Thay are/were great. And I'm sure they influenced somebody somewhere. They gonna keep it together or was Melodica a one-off?

C.R.E.A.M. is old Raekwon/Wu Tang Clan song - "Cash Rules Everything Around Me"