Stevie Ray Vaughan

Early life

Stephen Ray Vaughan was on 3 October 1954, at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Texas to Jim and Martha Vaughan born. His brother, Jimmie Vaughan, is three years older. At the age of 7, Vaughan earned his first guitar, a Sears toy guitar with three strings. Among the first songs he learned to play, hits were from the sleeping caps, a Texas garage-rock band, an international hit in 1962, with "Wine, wine, wine." In 1963 Vaughan received his first electric guitar, a hand-me-down from his brother.

Early Career

Jimmie Vaughan's friend, Doyle Bramhall heard Stevie Ray Vaughan played a song called "Jeff's Boogie" by The Yardbirds, and was impressed. Vaughan would help Bramhall singing and songwriting development. In 1967, Vaughan first band, The Chanton, played an outdoor show at Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas and began to advance beyond school dances and private parties. During the summer of 1970, after a fall in a barrel with grease while working for a fast food restaurant, Vaughan quit his job, his first relatively long-lived band, Blackbird, and dedicated his life to music to work.

In 1971, Vaughan made his first studio recording, sitting with a high school band called A thousand for a compilation called A New Hi Cast. The two songs on the album presents Vaughan's burgeoning talent was recognized early. During the Christmas holidays, he left high school and moved to Austin, Texas with Blackbird. Their home base was a nightclub on the outskirts of town called Soap Creek Saloon. End of 1972, he joined a rock band called Krackerjack, but quit a few months later, when the singer decided that the band should wear theatrical make-up on the stage.

In March 1973 Marc Benno Vaughan, with his band the Nightcrawlers, the one album in Hollywood was for A & M Records. The recording featured Doyle Bramhall on drums, along with the beginning of a partnership with songwriting Vaughan. The album was not released, however, and the band traveled back to Texas. A year later, he found a battered 1963 Fender Stratocaster in a music store in Austin. It would remain as his favorite guitar for the rest of his life.

End of December 1974, Vaughan, a popular Austin band Paul Ray & the Cobras, averaging about five shows per week. The Cobras releases a record and won "Band of the Year in Austin Music Poll. Three years later Vaughan left the Cobras and formed Triple Threat Revue with singer Lou Ann Barton, WC Clark on bass, on Mike Kindred on keyboards and Fredde "Pharaoh" Walden drums. Later, Jackie Newhouse replaced WC Clark on bass and Chris Layton on drums Walden replaced. Vaughan and Lou Ann renaming of the band Double Trouble, although Barton has in the year 1980 for Roomful of Blues to sing. On 23 December 1979, Vaughan, and Lenora "Lenny" Bailey were married between sets at the Rome Inn in Austin nightclub.

Double Trouble

Tommy Shannon, the former bassist in Krackerjack replaced Jackie Newhouse in 1981. In July the band played a music festival in Manor, Texas, and a videotape of the performance was the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts made. Double Trouble then played a private party for the Rolling Stones at New York nightclub Danceteria. On 17 July 1982, Vaughan & Double Trouble played the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland to act, the first unsigned to perform at the event. A few in the audience began booing the loud band during their performance since the event was mostly acoustic music. Vaughan later met David Bowie and Jackson Browne jammed with after the show, during an after-party that lasted for hours in the morning.

Bowie asked Vaughan on lead guitar on his new album Let's Dance to play. The album was Bowie's best-selling album of his career. Bowie invited Vaughan on his Serious Moonlight tour go. During the rehearsal period, Vaughan decided at the funeral of Muddy Waters to visit and do not therefore found for five days. When David Bowie, Stevie, that he wanted to come to him down a flight of stairs with a liitle dance routine while playing his guitar, expressed Stevie realized that this was not his appearance. He was not a "pop" artists, and refused to dance numbers like you rehearse, shortly after he left the tour with David Bowie, and went back to his music and his career focus with Double Trouble.

Browne offered Vaughan free time in his recording studio in Los Angeles, and the band accepted the offer in November 1982. In the spring of the following year, listened to music producer John Hammond, a cassette tape of the Montreux performance, and the band got a record deal with Epic Records. Hammond is credited with the discovery of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, among others. On 13 June 1983, the recordings in Browne's studio in Texas Flood, Vaughan & Double Trouble's debut album was released and turned to enthusiastic reviews and sold more than half a million units. Along with an appearance on Austin City Limits, the readers of Guitar Player magazine voted Vaughan as "Best New Talent" and "Best Electric Blues Guitar Player" with Texas Flood "Best Guitar Album".

On 15 May 1984, could not stand, was published, the weather and reached number 31 on the Billboard charts. In October 1984, Vaughan & Double Trouble At Carnegie Hall. To celebrate its thirtieth birthday, Vaughan brought along an all-star band support, including Dr. John on keyboards and his brother Jimmie, on guitar, the tailored suits of velvet, wore mariachi. His wife and his parents flew from Texas to share after his triumph. In November 1984, Vaughan "Entertainer of the Year" and "Instrumentalist of the Year" won in the National Blues Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.

Drug and alcohol dependence

On 30 September 1985 was released the band's third album, Soul to Soul, with new band member, Reese Wynans on keyboards. It was her third gold album and went to number 34 on the Billboard charts. In July 1986, the band shows in Austin and Dallas for their fourth album, Live Alive. On 27 Died August 1986 Vaughan's father, Big Jim Vaughan, Parkinson's disease. The end of September 1986, Vaughan sick while on tour in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He managed to make it through three more shows with his illness. He was then in a hospital in London, before moving to a rehabilitation center in Atlanta, Georgia, was flown allowed. His addictions were extensive cocaine use and addiction to a Crown Royal whiskey. After being released, clean and sober, Vaughan's songs took on a theme of dealing with the recovery from drug abuse. Songs like "Tightrope" and "Wall of Denial," were written by Stevie Ray Vaughan and fellow musician Bromhill Doyle.

Recreation

Vaughan struggled through two more concerts, although the last thirteen days, which were on the tour called off, while Vaughan was taken to a hospital in London. He emerged clean and sober in Atlanta, Georgia. Tommy Shannon was also clean and sober while in Austin. Live Alive on 15 Published November, 1986.

In the spring of 1987, MTV aired the show band in Daytona Beach, Florida as part of its Spring Break coverage. Vaughan also appeared in the film back to the beach, performing "Pipeline" with Dick Dale. He also appeared on Cinemax TV special BB King with Eric Clapton, Albert King, Phil Collins, Gladys Knight, Paul Butterfield, Chaka Khan, and Billy Ocean. Later this year filed for divorce from Lenny Vaughan.

In 1988 appeared with Vaughan Stevie Wonder called on an MTV special characters. Double Trouble also headlined a concert at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The show, with jams with Katie Webster, Albert Collins, BB King, was called for a special Showtime Coast to Coast rotated. Vaughan divorce from Lenny was completed towards the end of the year.

On 23 January 1989, the band at an inauguration party in Washington conducted, DC for George HW Bush. The band's fifth album, In Step, was released in June, and went to a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Blues Recording win".

In the spring of 1990, Vaughan and his brother, an album, a feature that the music they had grown with. They participated in Ardent Studios in Memphis and produced by Nile Rodgers. The brothers decided to call it Family Style. This summer, Vaughan & Double Trouble went on tour with the British soul singer Joe Cocker, touring places such as Alaska and the Benson & Hedges Blues Festival.

Death

At the end of the summer part of the "Step In" tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble two concerts on 25 and 26 August at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin, while on tour with Eric Clapton.

to avoid traveling in the next place, the tour manager reserve four helicopters to congested highway traffic. In very dense fog, the helicopter, not for the flight under instrument flight rules (certified IFR) raised at 12:40 Shortly after the lift-off area was a 300-foot hill. Vaughan's helicopter pilot was unfamiliar with the area and not a sufficient height to climb immediately after take-off. Vaughan's helicopter crashed in the hills.

According to the findings as reported by the National Transportation Safety Board, the cause of the accident was determined to be insufficient planning by the pilot and the inability to reach sufficient altitude to clear an obstacle. Fog and haze, and the rising grounds were listed as factors. All passengers including Vaughan, the pilot and three members of Eric Clapton's Travel Group were killed on impact.

On 31 August 1990, were held for the burial at Laurel Land Memorial Park Vaughan in Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. Brother Jimmie, mother Martha, Janna, and his girlfriend were present. Among the mourners Stevie Wonder, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Nile Rodgers.

Legacy

Vaughan memorial at Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. (301547.1774 97452.4228 / 30.263104833N 97.750673W / 30.263104833, -97.750673)

That was in 1991 album The Sky Is Crying, the first of several posthumous Vaughan releases to achieve chart success. Jimmie Vaughan later co-wrote and a song in tribute to his brother and other deceased blues guitarists, entitled "Six Strings Down". Bonnie Raitt album luck of the draw of 1991 was dedicated to him. Many other artists recorded songs in remembrance of Vaughan, including Eric Johnson, Tommy Emmanuel (the song Stevie's Blues), Buddy Guy and Steve Vai ("Jibboom" on the album The Ultra Zone, 1999) and guitarist Wayne Perkins ("Big Stratocaster" , from the album Rambling Heart). Stevie Wonder included a song on his 1995 live album, entitled Natural Wonder "Stevie Ray Blues". On the album, Wonder covers the song as "Stevie Ray Vaughan Blues".

Musicians like John Mayer, Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Colin James, Jonny Lang, Los Lonely Boys, Mike McCready, Eric Johnson, John Petrucci, and Doyle Bramhall II have cited Vaughan as an influence.

In 1991, Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed a third Vaughan's birthday in October, as "Stevie Ray Vaughan Day." An annual motorcycle and concert in Central Texas benefits the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.

In 1992 the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation released the Stevie Ray Vaughan signature Stratocaster, which Vaughan had helped design. From 2007, the model is still in production. In 2004, Fender also released a limited edition exact replica of "Number One". The last guitar that Vaughan played before his death will be on display in the Hard Rock Cafe in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In the same year Vaughan's name in Stephen King's You will know mentioned they got a hell of a band, a short story about a town inhabited by late music legends.

In 1994, built the city of Austin the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Statue at Auditorium Shores on Lady Bird Lake, the website a number of Vaughan's concerts. It is one of the city's most popular tourist attractions have become.

In 2000, Stevie Ray Vaughan in the Blues Hall of Fame was launched. Stevie Ray Vaughan qualifications for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.

In November 2007, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation released a second tribute to Vaughan, an exact copy of his second beloved guitar: Lenny. This guitar was him by his wife Lenora ("Lenny") on his 26th Birthday and Vaughan was given very fond of it. According to Fender, the original Lenny was a 1965 Start that he saw in the window of a pawnshop that it was impossible to perform. The guitar has a strap, a case lined with Vaughan's name in the material, sells a range of brochures and memorabilia and a leather-bound certificate of authenticity embroidered.

In 2008, residents voted Dallas' Industrial Boulevard renaming, with Vaughan's reputation as one of the finalists alongside Stanley Marcus, Eddie Bernice Johnson and Cesar Chavez.

Influences and style

Vaughan's blues style was influenced by many blues guitarists. Foremost among them were Albert King, Otis Rush, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix. He was also strongly influenced by early blues-rock guitarist Lonnie Mack, to Vaughan, "has really taught me guitar from the heart", Vaughan, which affects play idolized Mack since childhood needed [edit produced] and played on Mack's 1985 Alligator Records album Strike Like Lightning and covered "Wham!" which was written by Mack, among others. Vaughan's older brother Jimmie Vaughan has stated that Johnny "Guitar" Watson was the guitarist and Vaughan, he studied the most. Vaughan also quoted his brother as an exercise influence.

Vaughan's sound and playing style, which often incorporated simultaneously lead and rhythm guitar parts, drew comparisons to Hendrix. Vaughan covered several Hendrix tunes on his studio albums and in performance, such as "Little Wing," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and "Third Stone from the Sun." He was also heavily influenced by Freddie King, [edit needed another Texas bluesman], particularly in the use of tone and attack; King's heavy vibrato can clearly be heard in Vaughan's playing. [Edit Another stylistic influence was] Albert Collins. [Citation needed] to get by using his index finger as a la Albert Collins, he was the same tonal nuances from his amplifiers coax. Vaughan was also a significant influence from the jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell. [Edit]

Main musical equipment

Guitars

Stevie main guitar was a cherished, beat-up 1963 Fender Stratocaster he called the number one. He always has to One as a '59-No. "1962" was stamped on the neck, and "1963" was written in the body cavity. On the back of the pickup, "1959" was written on the back. The fretboard was a "veneer" Board "(bent at the bottom), although all other rosewood board Stevie's guitars were slab panels (flat on the bottom).

Number One was 100% equities, but the five-way switch and the Lefty vibrato arm. By 1980 Stevie needed repaired his vibrato arm, and have a left-handed vibrato was the only one in the camp. Number One was the only guitar with a vibrato arm Lefty. All of his other guitars had righty vibrato arm. In the last tone position, was a push-push pot with a dummy coil fitted, to reduce the hum from the single-coil pickups. Different value capacitors were also added so that the sound would be close to the original sound.

Number One had a very big neck and it is perhaps the greatest of all start neck ever made. Fender rated the necks in terms of size, either A, B, C or D, D, the largest. The body was made of alder. Stevie's favorite Fretwire be as high as it could.

All of his other main guitars Vintage Strats and Strat-style guitars.

"Yellow" was a single pickup yellow start that had Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge.

"Lenny," a brown stain finish on natural wood and a mandolin pick guard in 1910 after the bridge with a maple neck.

"Butter," a 1961 Stratocaster with a slab-Board

"Main" is a tailor-made Hamilton's guitar, which had placed his name on the fretboard,

"Charley made" a white Start with "lipstick" pickups for Stevie by Charley Wirz, who wrote for Stevie "Life Without You"

Strings and picks

Its strings, high to low, were generally 0.013, 0.015, 0.019, 0.028, 0.038, 0.058. Sometimes he had with a slightly brighter high E string, like a .012 or .011. He has always voted down one half step.

Picks were always Fender media, played on the side, round edge.

Amplifier

Stevie used a combination of amplifiers, everything runs at the same time.

Two "Blackface" Fender Super Reverb

150-watt Dumble Steel String Singer with a 4×12 Dumble below

200-watt Marshall Major head with a 4×12 Dumble below

Two "Blackface" Fender amplifier Vibroverb (numbers five and six off production line) with a 15 "speaker, the power supply to a Leslie-type Fender Vibratone housing with a rotating speaker inside.

His amps were all upgraded to Electro-Voice speakers.

Pedals

He always uses an Ibanez Tube Screamer, starting with the original first edition of 808, the TS-9 and then the TS-10 Classic.

Vintage 60's Vox wah-wahs

Vintage Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face

'60 'S Tycobrahe Octavia

Grammy Awards and nominations

1984: Best Traditional Blues Album for Blues Explosion (Various Artists)

1986: "Say What", from soul to soul, nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble)

1987: "Pipeline" with Dick Dale, nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance

1989: Best Contemporary Blues Album for In Step (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble)

1990: Best Contemporary Blues Album for Family Style (The Vaughan Brothers)

1990: Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "D / FW" (The Vaughan Brothers)

1992: Best Contemporary Blues Album for The Sky Is Crying (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble)

1992: Best Rock Instrumental Performance for his cover of Hendrix's "Little Wing" (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble)

Discography

Main article: Stevie Ray Vaughan Discography

See also

Texas portal

List of the guitars of Stevie Ray Vaughan used

Music of Austin

Chicago Blues Festival

Notes

^ Bluepower.com, from first February 2008.

^ "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Rolling Stone magazine to use the 931st Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937559/the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time.

^ Hopkins, Craig. "Stevie Ray Vaughan: A Brief Chronology." http://www.stevieray.com/bio.htm.

^ "Stevie Ray Vaughan chronology. http://www26.brinkster.com/jakapa/srv/chronology.htm.

^ Moser, Margaret, "Paul Ray & The Cobras" Austin Chronicle, http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:115106

^ Moser, Margaret, "Triple Threat" Revue ", Austin Chronicle, http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:501355

^ "Ely Band Gigs of 19771982. http://www.ely.com/ElyBandGigs1977-1982.htm.

^ "Stevie Ray Vaughan". VH1. 2007th http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/vaughan_stevie_ray/bio.jhtml.

^ "Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan Rhapsody Music". All Media Guide. 2008th http://www.rhapsody.com/stevie-ray-vaughan/texas-flood–epic-legacy.

^ Holden, Stephen (October 8), "POP: Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist, at Carnegie Hall", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/08/arts/pop- stevie-Ray-Vaughan-guitarist-at-Carnegie-hall.html

^ Http: / / www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=11034

^ Http: / / www.guitarnoise.com/artist/stevie-ray-vaughan/

^ "NTSB Identification: CHI90MA244. NTSB Aviation Accident Database. National Transportation Safety Board. 09/11/1992. http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?ev_id=20001212X23968&key=1. From 07/05/2009.

^ Crossfire, pp. 26 364

^ Under the title "SRV", from the album Venus Isle

^ Stevie Ray Vaughan Remembrance Ride & Concert.

^ StevieRay.com Fender.

^ Future Rock Hall entry for Stevie Ray Vaughan.

^ "Stanley Marcus, Stevie Ray Vaughan make Industrial Boulevard list"

^ Davis, History of the Blues, DaCapo 2003, p. 246

^ "Strike Like Lightning". http://www.answers.com/topic/strike-like-lightning.

^ Crossfire, p. 204

^ Crossfire, p. 228

^ Awards Tommy Shannon.

References

Patoski, Joe Nick & Bill Crawford (1993). Stevie Ray Vaughan: caught in the crossfire. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-16068-7.

External Links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations relating to: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Wikimedia Commons to: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan on the Open Directory Project

Stevie Ray Vaughan at Sony Music

Official NTSB report on the crash in which Vaughan died.

Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Internet Movie Database

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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tommy Shannon Chris Layton Reese Wynans

Studio albums

Texas Flood Could not Stand the Weather Soul to Soul In Step Family Style (w / Jimmie Vaughan) The Sky Is Crying

Live albums

Live Alive In the Beginning Live at Carnegie Hall Live In Tokyo

Compilations

The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Volume 2 The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Videos

Pride and Joy Live at the El Mocambo Live from Austin, Texas Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985 A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan

Tours

Texas Flood Tour could not stand the weather Tour Autumn Tour First tour of Australia, Japan Tour 1985 Soul to Soul Tour European Tour 1986 Live Alive Tour Step In The Fire Meets The Fury Tour Tour

Original Songs

"Crossfire" Lenny, "" Love Struck Baby, "" Pride and Joy, "" Rude Mood "," Say What! "Texas Flood"

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