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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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StratMan
on 03/10/2013 		I love Danny Gatton, but he couldn't even come close.
jimmy
on 01/18/2013 		i saw stevie in philly and to all of you who think you know what your talking about he is the greatist guitar player to ever walk the face of this earth
Craptock
on 12/27/2012 		Danny Gatton could blow him away...
Dheep'
on 12/27/2012 		"Betr'n U - Stevie was a hack." - I finally ,Truly understand what the word Troll means. You are one in every sense of the word. You must have been disappointed - NO ONE took your bait.:-)
Robert Cross
on 10/16/2012 		Has anybody heard the exact SRV tone again somewhere? awesome! Check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuOzfKs _K0
MjM
on 06/28/2012 		It is just so damn silly to yak on and on about this or that player being the "best" at this or that. It's a waste of time. What SRV did was take the southern blues and mix in the power rock of the late 60's/late 70's. By doing so he gave us a new sound to drool over, sorta of a in-your-face blues. The man bled his music - like Chet Atkins does, like Tommy Emmanuel does, like Buddy Rich did, or Louie Armstrong, or Ella Fitzgerald. And if you can't see that and can't just dig that for what it is, shut up and go play with your pocket protector. Ya'all just jealous anyway.
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.



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