Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Mark Proct, former Stevie Ray Vaughan and Fabulous Thunderbirds tour manager.'Order "Home Today, Gone Tomorrow: Snapshots from 40 Years on the Road -- Austin and Back" by Mark Proct: http://amzn.to/1Jphkok MARK PROCT podcast excerpt: "It was hard to believe what happened to Stevie the night before and we were not sure what we we were going to see (at the crash site). The FAA was already onsite and they were very nice to Jimmie and let us go up the hill to the site. The amazing part of this was that Jimmie was looking for Stevie's cross. We were there for a while and couldn't find it. We went to leave and a guy ran up to the car we were in. In this field he had found the cross and handed it to Jimmie. It was amazing."Key Interview Moments:• 6:25 Mark Proct discusses being a native New Yorker working for Willie Nelson and touring East Texas in the mid-1970s;• 14:00 The state of the Fabulous Thunderbirds when Proct agreed to become the band's tour manager in Europe -- even though he had never been