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GALLERY: Stevie Ray Vaughan Gear

A look at some of Stevie's guitars, amps, and effects from the book, "Stevie Ray Vaughan Day By Day, Night After Night His Final Years, 1983-1990"
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Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day, Night After Night - His Final Years, 1983-1990

As one of the most influential guitarists to ever pick up a Strat, Stevie Ray Vaughan left a Texas-sized mark on guitardom that is still felt decades after his untimely passing on August 27, 1990. In the early ’80s, his unique brand of Hendrixand Albert King-inspired wailing expanded outside his native Lone Star state, and soon he was on the road and rubbing elbows with his heroes. In Craig Hopkins’ new book, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day by Day, Night After Night - His Final Years, 1983-1990 [Backbeat Books], you can see a virtual day-by-day account of highlights from the last seven years of SRV’s life. Hopkins conducted several hundred interviews with many of Vaughan’s closest friends and family in an effort to create the definitive work on Vaughan’s legacy. Here, we present Hopkins' information on Vaughan's gear.

He says, "The first two secrets to Stevie’s tone are his soul and his hands, so you are defeated before you even begin in your quest for his tone. For those who are interested, the following is the best I can do for you in answering gear questions."


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maggie-az
on 04/23/2012 		Stevie Ray Vaughan is #1 world's best , the only stringer Albert King would let on stage with him, and there will never be anybody better than he. Even in all around energy and style ,it came from the heart and soul, he loved his guitar, and it loved him.
Betr'n U
on 04/11/2012 		Stevie was a hack. My grandma could play better than him, and she never picked up a guitar in her life.
Chris
on 03/16/2012 		Stevie may not have been a Hendrix but in his own right he was every bit as good if not a better guitar player than Jimi. However, what Hendrix did have over Vaughan was his song writing and lyracle abilities. Don't get me wong there were moments in Jimi's guitar playing that were brilliant, but music flowed out of Stevie and his technical ablities combined with his feel were far superior. His ability to incorporate jazz scales and chords into blues songs was amazing. The use of the dominant 7th chords and mixolydian modes really showed off his technical abilities. And You guys seem to forget two of Stevies other influences... T-bone Walker and Kenny Burrell. So while Jimi may have indeed been one of the most innovative and inspirational performers of our time. The award for the most bad ass blues guitarist goes to Lord Vaughan.
SouthPaw Willie
on 01/02/2012 		Hey Wimpy Willie. You got it brother. It wouldn't make any difference what guitar he played, it would always come out sounding like SRV. It's all in your fingers and soul. For a player like SRV, he was able to take a guitar that had issues, and make those issues work for him.
He was a naturals natural.
Norman Jon Baker
on 01/02/2012 		Talk to Kenny Wayne Sheppard(KWS), see what he thinks. He started his career as a clone/ripoff of Stevie.
Bossmodder
on 12/31/2011 		Stevie was as previously mentioned a one of a kind player there are tons of imitators ,but no real replacements. Never will be . There is hope though... Check out former John Mayall and the BluesBreaker Guitarist Buddy Whittingtons 2 solo albums. He's from Texas like Stevie and others. He's a great great player. Few out there with the feel and emotion Buddy sqeeze from his axe. Much the same as the way Stevie played but not copying or imitating Stevie
Mark Thompson
on 12/31/2011 		It is commonly believed that Jimi Hendrix was/is the BEST guitar player ever. I believe that Stevie Ray Vaughn was/is the best BLUES player ever, and the best TONE ever. I also believe that Terry Kath, in ALL-AROUND style and talent had them both beat. Kath had more of a jazzy style but could play anything. That's just my opinion. Funny and tragically sad that all three genius' died way too soon.
Jessie
on 12/30/2011 		the final out come of all the comments is that neither any of us will, ever be able to play or do exactly what Stevie did with the instrument in his hands.You and i only wish that we could do what he did!There has been one Hendrix And one Vaughan!No one wants another one.learn from him learn from your influences.And Play your instrument,Understand that you will never ever play Just like Stevie.We all are stars and we all have the chance to shine as bright as we can.I do it every day every night,more when i am on stage playing,and when i shine the most is when i let the guitar play me.i figured that out a long time ago.its the instrument playing me.i am just a vessel to get the music heard again again.thanks so much,and i hope you can hear what i am saying.there is a difference between hearing and listening! Have fun its important ,good luck
DP
on 12/29/2011 		Quick fix - Copy and Paste and email it to yourself
Rich McCrackenII
on 12/29/2011 		Stevie Ray was good,but he was no Jimi Hendrix. Stevie did get a great tone though. I really respected him for the fact that he helped musicians such as Albert King,Albert Collins,etc get the noteriety they deserved before they passed away. Thanks to Stevie,we have all this great music from blues pioneers for future generations.



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