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I was just watching a video on Youtube of a recent performance by Joe Bonamassa, Conor Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn. They toured last year, and played to sold out crowds at most of the shows. Seeing Clapton and Vaughn jamming together is kind of a big deal in my mind, considering Vaughn was supposed to be on the helicopter that crashed with Conor's father, the legendary Eric Clapton, twenty-eight years ago today (in a few hours after this writing). Pilot Jeff Brown made a critical error, putting the chopper into a ski slope in dense fog, killing all on board.

How might music history of the last three decades have turned out differently if the helicopter hadn't gone down? Or, taking a darker turn suppose Vaughn had been on board instead of Clapton? How might Conor Clapton's music career have gone differently with his father around for it?
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