Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughanwas an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. In spite of a short-lived mainstream career spanning seven years, he is widely considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of music, and one of the most important figures in the revival of blues in the 1980s. AllMusic describes him as "a rocking powerhouse of a guitarist who gave blues a burst of momentum in the '80s, with influence still felt long after his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth3 October 1954
CountryUnited States of America
Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.
I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord on the piano and you had to write all the notes down in about ten seconds. I just couldn't do it.
And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.
Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.