Stevie Ray Vaughan In Know?Friday 27th of January 2012 10:36:02 AM
Hello friends! This time we review a little the life and career of someone we all know .. .nada by the time of grones nor his mother knows...
friends this this narrated and written by me, hope to be useful to this great and meaningful community! the most largest and blues Web greetingsEzekiel Luncevich.
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The loss of was a death in the world of rock and like Ottis Redding and Jimmy Hendrix. Vaughan was the catalyst for a massive revival of the
DID YOU KNOW?
Stephen Stevie Ray Vaughan was born on October 3, 1954. Stevie was born and grew up in the neighborhood of Oak Cliff in Dallas, Texas (U.S.A.). Neither of his parents had any significant or outstanding musical talent, but they were fans and music lovers of music in their genres. Usually wore little Stevie Ray and his eldest son, Jimmie, to concerts by Fats Domino, Jimmy Reed and Bob Wills. Although Stevie initially wanted to play the drums as a first instrument, at the age of eight he was given his first guitar.
In 1963, he bought his first album, "Wham" of Lonnie Mack. He heard so many times that his father finished breaking of envy because he was a frustrated musician.
WISEWhat?
During his teenage years developing their sound and style based on the musical styles of Albert King, Otis Rush, Jimi Hendrix and Freddie King. In the year of 1969 enters the scene Austin Texas so forming his first band "The Blackbirds", which won a job playing at a club called "Country Club Hills" something you much reason to continue his career as a musician and resulting in the abandonment of his studies in high school.
Near 1974 Stevie Ray gets one of their most prized treasures; a damaged and rustic fender stratocaster which call "Number One" achieved by buying in a store's commitment to a very low price due to its antiquity and its ugly appearance, without embarago Stevie made use of his talent and genius to modify that guitar, changing their microphones and its so colocandole bridge a left-handed guitar bridge for the tremolo was something that he facilitated their use above the strings, stevie complained about the standard stratocaster already had the tremolo very close the volume control, this hindered his ability to execute.
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"The Number One"
Already armed and with better technical Stevie decides to collaborate with many other bands such as "The Nightcrawlers", "Triple Threat Revue" and "Paul Ray & The Cobras" (a band which won the prize for best band of the year in austin).
In September 1977 Stevie meet bassist Tommy Shannonand drummer Chris Layton that Stevie formaria his best and last group called "Double trouble" (originally called " & Double Trouble"). The band formed decided already perform functions without stopping by throughout Texas until the year of 1979 where he decided to play for the first time outside of Texas; in the "San Francisco's Festival".
On July 11, 1981 the band is filmed performing in a festival. The following year manager Stevie will give the tape to Mick Jagger, which eventually caused the band to do a private performance at a party by the Rolling Stones in New York's Danceteria on April 22, 1982. Shortly after that the band made the most important presentation of his career when playing at the Festival International of Jazz Montreux, Switzerland, being the first band not scheduled in advance to play at this concert. They were Stooges but ironically won a Grammy Award for the version of the song "Texas Flood" in this recital, which gave rise to one of the most incredible SRV records live: "Live At Montreux".
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Ending the year of 1982 David Bowie contact Stevie Ray for a contribution to his new album of the year "Let's Dance". Positively Stevie ray contributes guitar rhythm and one quite basic but very "Bluesy", grateful for the work of Stevie; David Bowie invites you to be part of its musicians during the tour for the year 1983. However Stevie rejects the offer becauseproduction and elaboration of its first study together with "Double-Trouble" album called "Texas Flood"
DID YOU KNOW?
The main instrument of Stevie Ray was his Fender Stratocaster which call "number one" this was a guitar of the 59' in its early days had a finish "Cherry" Sunburst with a mast in "Rosewood".
"Number One" was a guitar made 100% of manufactures, but Stevie when you buy the "Customizo" colocandole a new selector of 5 tracks and a new bridge of guitar for lefties, stevie had a few fender neck had more big ever manufactured was said that they were of the few with neck "E" being that the guitars of "stock" do not pass "D".
In addition to "Number One" Stevie ray had other guitars used for recording and live such as:
-"Yellow". A Strat with single coils of yellow
-"Lenny". That guitar granted by his wife fairly customized
-"Butter". A Strat of the 61' with "Slab-board".
-"Main". The only guitar to his credit which was not Fender. A Hamilton "Custom" who had his name embedded in the mast.
-associated. A white Strat equipped with microphones "lipstick" designed by him.
STRINGS AND PICKS
He used ropes fairly coarse, useduse calibre 0.13, however use for a long time strings caliber 0.11 and 0.12 alternandolas, and always tuned them medium tone down E.
As for picks always used fender medium gauge picks.
AMPLIFIERS
Stevie had a series of amplifiers used at the same time:
-2 Fenders "blackface" Super Reverbs
-1 head Dumble "Steel String Singer" of 150 Watts with screens Dumble 4 x 12 "
-1 Head Marshall "Major" of 200 watts with screens Dumble 4 x 12 "
All their amplifiers installed Electro-Voice speakers
PEDALS
I always use an Ibanez Tube Screamer.
-Used pedals Wah-wah Vox Vintage from the 60'
-Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face Vintage
-A Octavia Tycobrahe of the 60'
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"Lenny" is a guitar given to by his wife Lenora "Lenny" Vaughan which was named so in honor of his wife.
It was birthday number 26 Stevie ray and his wife who years ago was conocerian at a halloween party, was not that give her to her husband. While wandering in the streets she realized the existence of a striking guitar in a shop window of a store of commitment, initially the valia guitar $350 dollars... no think again "Lenny" buy what would be one of the more treasures of .
/ > This a Fender Stratocaster of the 69' with mast in "Rosewood" (Rosewood) and finish "Sunburst" in 3 colors that due to the passage of time was running in a finished natural Brown, was practically a relic, but something was wrong with this guitar; their microphones were virtually useless and his neck was fully rotten, non moisture, then is when "Lenny" replaces the microphones from guitar colocandole about "fender strat vintage" which I gift him his brother Jimmie.
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Taking the guitar almost ready, please contact one of the more close friends of Stevie, nothing more and nothing less than the guitarist and vocalist of ZZ Top Billy Gibbons, who very kindly gave her and install a new neck in Maple which stevie was not accustomed, but which in the future gave many fruits, Finally the day that "Lenny" gave this guitar to her husband, he was already surprised than ever before anyone you had given a very special gift. Shortly after with his new guitar Stevie made some modifications the style as hitting their famous "SRV" opening to his guitar in addition to give his famous "burnt" cigarette in the headstock.
Something that characterized much this guitar was a casual but strange incrustacion under the bridge of the guitar shaped like a vine similar to some mandolins in the 20th century.
"Lenny" with its characteristic signature "SRV" something that identifies all the guitars of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Here concludes my work with this wonderful guitarist whom I owe all my teaching, I hope that anyone who reads this review learn and teach about one of the guitarists that revolutionized music and how to play the guitar, thanks to all who are interezaron to read, we will see in the future... Best regards
Ezequiel
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