High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stevie Ray Vaughan was an American guitarist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of Double Trouble. He was killed in a helicopter crash piloted by Jeff Brown on the side of a ski hill at Alpine Valley Resort in East Troy, Wisconsin on Monday, August 27, 1990; Vaughan had just performed at the resort`s amphitheatre with Double Trouble. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, where it was stated that all of the victims were killed immediately. Shortly after local news stations reported Vaughan`s death, crowds gathered at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas for a candlelight vigil. He was buried on August 30, 1990, at the Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas.