Theresa “T” Barksdale considers herself a diehard Stevie Ray Vaughan fan. Download Timex 1440 Sports Watch Manual Alarm Free. Her back is decorated with a mural to the late Texas guitarist. The ink has personal significance: She and her older brother, who died last year, designed it. She still remembers him sharing the recordings of Vaughan igniting his Stratocaster “Number 1” onstage at various clubs along Sixth Street in Austin. With Vaughan's death in 1990, the master 35-year-old Texas blues guitarist became a legend.

“The music just spoke to me, man,” Vaughan once said. “I loved the feeling you could get from playing and the feeling other people could get when you played for them.”. The spirit of giving that Vaughan embodied inspired a pair of Dallas bikers to found the SRV Remembrance Ride and Concert 23 years ago. The event raised money for the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund for musically gifted children. Barksdale, who owns T’s Blues & Tattoos in Austin, later took the reins of the SRV Remembrance Ride and Concert.

Running the charity event proved difficult; she found herself trying to get the books in order and repair its reputation. “There was several times I was told bridges were burned with the event,” she says. “I think things were done that people were not happy about.” These headwinds never stopped Barksdale. But in June, as Barksdale was in the midst of planning the 23rd annual event, this time in Austin, a letter arrived that put it into a tailspin. It was a cease-and-desist letter from an attorney for Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie's brother. “Please take note that Jimmie Vaughan has asked that I notify you that he has not consented to your use of the name or likeness of his brother or the initials ‘SRV,’” Ronald Habitzreiter wrote. “Further, you may not commercially exploit or use in any manner the likeness or name of Stevie Ray Vaughan or the secondary meaning of SRV, whether or not the same is cloaked in a charitable or non-profit related event.'

The letter said that while the family gave consent in 1995 for a single event, Vaughan wanted to re-approve the event every year. 'No person has the right to the continued use of the name SRV Remembrance Ride,” the letter concluded. Barksdale was stunned. She’d already secured $15,000 in sponsorships, something her predecessors hadn’t been able to do since 2010. She also lined up some bands and found two Austin venues, Hardtails Bar and Grill and Ernie’s On The Lake, to donate their space, something she says she couldn’t find in Dallas.

It’s become more difficult for Barksdale since the cease-and-desist letter arrived. Bands have dropped out, and the former vice president, Shon Beall, contacted sponsors and told them the ride was over, prompting Barksdale to send a cease-and-desist letter to get him to stop. Beall also told Vaughan’s attorney the event was over and that he can’t understand why Barksdale is determined to host the ride. 'Of course, I’m trying to cover my ass,” he says. “I can’t afford to get tied up in a lawsuit.” Barksdale isn't quitting. She says that despite the letter, she's trying to keep the ride alive because she believes in its cause. She says the event can be saved from its past.

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“I’m not sure why Jimmie’s attorney sent the letter,” Barksdale says. “I’m the one who is trying to repair it.”. Brian Maschino Jeff Castro wanted to do something to memorialize Stevie Ray Vaughan after the guitarist's helicopter crashed in August 1990 outside of East Troy, Wisconsin. Castro’s older brother first took him to hear Vaughan ignite his guitar onstage at the Bluebird Blues Club in Fort Worth about the same time he introduced Castro to motorcycles. It's a love affair that later led him to a leadership position in the Texas Motorcycle Rights Association.

“I started at a young age in motorcycles and blues,” he says. A couple of years later, Castro made some calls to find out what it would take to put up a statue of Vaughan in Oak Cliff and approached his councilman about renaming Hampton Road to Stevie Ray Vaughan Boulevard. He was put off by the red tape. “It was like having Elvis but nothing in their town to honor him,” he says. (It took Dallas city leaders nearly 30 years to honor the Vaughans; a statue of both brothers is set to be unveiled in Kiest Park next month.) Castro met Jim Haynes at a motorcycle rally Castro hosted to raise money for the Texas Motorcycle Rights Association's fight to repeal the helmet law in the ’90s. Haynes, who rode with the Boozefighters club, was also an avid Vaughan fan. He’d custom-painted Vaughan in his signature black gambler hat on the rear fender of his motorcycle.