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This is a list and description of the guitars and other equipment played by musician Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan played a number of Fender Stratocasters throughout his career, one of which, a 1963 body and a 1962 (with a rosewood slab fingerboard) neck, became "the most famous battered Strat in rock history."
Number One, also called First Wife, was the nickname given by Stevie Ray Vaughan to his favorite Fender Stratocaster, built c. 1963. [2] In 1974, he acquired the guitar as a trade at a music store in Austin, Texas. [2] In 1990, it was retired due to many replacements of frets, though he continued to play it occasionally.
Vaughan's grandfather, Thomas Lee Vaughan, married Laura Belle LaRue and moved to Rockwall County, Texas, where they lived by sharecropping. [1] [nb 1]Stevie's father, Jimmie Lee Vaughan, was born on September 6, 1921. [3]
This open-C tuning gives the initial harmonic series when a C-string is struck. [4] The C-C-G-C-E-G tuning uses the harmonic sequence (overtones) of the note C. When an open-note C-string is struck, its harmonic sequence begins with the notes (C,C,G,C,E,G,B♭,C).
Some guitarists choose open tunings that use more complex chords, which gives them more available intervals on the open strings. C 6, E 6, E 7, E 6/9 and other such tunings are common among lap-steel players such as Hawaiian slack-key guitarists and country guitarists, and are also sometimes applied to the regular guitar by bottleneck (a slide ...
W. C. Clark Blues Revue (1990, 2001 classic encore with Stevie Ray Vaughan and 2001 "Big Blues Extravaganza" classic encore) Jack Clement (1998, 2000 classic encore) Vassar Clements (1978, 1979, 1990 "Will The Circle Be Unbroken") Cluster Pluckers (1991 with Chet Atkins) Hank Cochran (1980, 1981 "Encore") Bruce Cockburn (1992) Joe Cocker (2000)
Chuck Berry's showmanship has been influential on other rock guitar players. [3] He used a one-legged hop routine, [5] and the "duckwalk", [6] which he first used as a child when he walked "stooping with full-bended knees, but with my back and head vertical" under a table to retrieve a ball and his family found it entertaining; he used it when "performing in New York for the first time and ...
César Carrillo Díaz (July 13, 1951 - April 26, 2002 ) was a Puerto Rican born guitar amplifier technician and guitarist who worked with a number of high-profile musicians, most notably Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Neil Young, and others.