Editing Stevie Ray Vaughan (section)

==== ''Live Alive'' ====
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After touring for nine and a half months, Epic requested a fourth album from Double Trouble as part of their contractual obligation.<ref>{{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=204}}</ref> In July 1986, Vaughan decided that they would record the LP, ''[[Live Alive]]'', during three live appearances in Austin and Dallas.<ref name="Hopkins 2011 136-137">{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|pp=136–137}}</ref> On July 17 and 18, the band performed sold-out concerts at the Austin Opera House, and July 19 at the Dallas Starfest.<ref>{{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=205}}: "The Austin shows sold out in minutes, as fans showed their support for their hometown hero."; {{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|pp=136–137}}: ''Live Alive'' recording dates.</ref> They used recordings of these concerts to assemble the LP, which was produced by Vaughan.<ref>{{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=205}}</ref> Shannon was backstage before the Austin concert and predicted to new manager Alex Hodges that both Vaughan and he were "headed for a brick wall".<ref name="Paul 99">{{harvnb|Paul|1999}}</ref> Guitarist Denny Freeman attended the Austin performances; he called the shows a "musical mess, because they would go into these chaotic jams with no control. I didn't know what exactly was going on, but I was concerned."<ref name="Paul 99" /> Both Layton and Shannon remarked that their work schedule and drugs were causing the band to lose focus.<ref>{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=137}}</ref> According to Wynans: "Things were getting illogical and crazy."<ref name="Paul 99" />

The ''Live Alive'' album was released on November 17, 1986, and was the only official live Double Trouble LP made commercially available during Vaughan's lifetime, though it never appeared on the Billboard 200 chart.<ref>{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=152}}; {{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=268}}</ref> Though many critics claimed that most of the album was overdubbed, engineer Gary Olazabal, who mixed the album, asserted that most of the material was recorded poorly.<ref>{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=140}}</ref> Vaughan later admitted that it was not one of his better efforts; he recalled: "I wasn't in very good shape when we recorded ''Live Alive''. At the time, I didn't realize how bad a shape I was in. There were more fix-it jobs done on the album than I would have liked. Some of the work sounds like [it was] the work of half-dead people. There were some great notes that came out, but I just wasn't in control; nobody was."<ref>{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=137}}: "..better efforts..."; {{harvnb|Paul|1999}}: Vaughan quote about ''Live Alive''.</ref>