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
Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
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.