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
Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.
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.