SRV death affected me a lot !. This is what Clapton thought of SRV's playing during his last few days:
“The worst thing for me was that Stevie Ray had been sober for three years and was at his peak. When he played that night, he had all of us standing mere with our jaws dropped. I mean, Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan and Buddy Guy were just watching in awe. There was no one better than him on this planet. Really unbelievable,” Eric Clapton said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk