J'ai fait quelques autres recherches, il semble que cette version du public coincé de Montreux soit un peu réductrice.
On est en 82 quand meme, à Montreux il n'y avait pas de jazzeux extrémistes, le festival était déjà très très ouvert !
Pas mal de versions parlent plutôt d'un son horrible, ce qui en effet face à un guitariste presqu'inconnu du public peut facilement tourner au désastre...
"Some say that it was because the music was way too loud for the area that they were playing in, and Stevie didn't seem to notice."
"He was not booed because of his tatoos, because he was white or because the audience didn't understand electric blues. He was loud. Way too loud for the room he was playing in. He was so loud you couldn't even understand what he, or the rest of the band was playing. The stage sound was so loud that even when the house sound was turned off you still couldn't understand what he was playing. He also appeared to be so "absorbed" in his music that he didn't realize what was happening. Everyone I spoke to at the concert felt that he was on drugs (which later turned out to be a major problem for SRV).
The next day Jackson Brown was playing and during the soundcheck his people repeatedly said "let's keep the volume down because yesterday SRV was booed off the stage because he was so loud".
When SRV came back the 2nd time, he was already a star (or a rapidly rising star) and even though he was still very loud, it wasn't as bad, plus this time he had built a fan base. We all know that stars are forgiven almost everything by their hard core fans."
Je pense que ça a été un mélange de tout ça, quelques gars qui attendaient du blues acoustique, beaucoup qui auraient été juste éclatés par le son trop fort (on voit d'ailleurs des tissus épais sur ses amplis, pourquoi ??) et aussi pas mal de réactions positives, on voit pas mal de gens debouts et dansant (peut être aussi un raison qui fait que des spectateurs n'étaient pas contents, quand tu es derrière c'est pas top...).