1986–88 concert tour by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Live Alive Tour
World tour by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
North America, Europe
Associated album
Live Alive
Start date
November 22, 1986
End date
December 31, 1988
Legs
8 in North America
1 in Europe
9 total
No. of shows
185 in North America
22 in Europe
207 total
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble concert chronology
Soul to Soul Tour (1985–86)
Live Alive Tour (1986–88)
In Step Tour (1989–90)
The Live Alive Tour was a concert tour through North America and Europe, undertaken by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble from 1986 to 1988. At the start of the tour, Vaughan and bassist Tommy Shannon had both achieved sobriety. Their success with overcoming long-term drug and alcohol addiction had been attained by entering a rehabilitation facility, where they stayed for four weeks. Although Vaughan was nervous about performing while sober, he received encouragement from his bandmates. Throughout the tour during performances, Vaughan would warn his audiences about the dangers of substance abuse.
Consisting of nine legs and 207 shows, the tour began in Towson, Maryland on November 22, 1986 and ended in New York City on December 31, 1988. The first five legs alternated with visits between the United States and Canada, before the sixth leg took the band to Europe. The final leg incorporated stops in the northeast, midwest and west coast, before the group's return to the northeast in December 1988.
Although Vaughan and Double Trouble did not follow a set list, all thirteen songs from Live Alive were performed at least once during the tour, and as many as eleven of them were included in each of the band's performances. The tour was generally well-received and provoked many positive reactions from music critics, most of whom took note of Vaughan's sobriety—in 1988, Rhys Williams of The Daily Tar Heel noted that "his enthusiasm seemed to reflect his cleaned-up image".[1] He would continue this lifestyle in the following years, before his death in a helicopter accident in 1990.
^Williams, Rhys (April 21, 1988). "After a rough year, Vaughan bounces back". The Daily Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. p. 4.
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