A capa ao lado é da Guitar Player americana de Janeiro de 2004. No Brasil teve a capa igualzinha em referência á matéria principal...na capa celebra-se os 50 anos de Strato- Fender : SRV.
Bem, pediram pra eu comentar alguns links de música instrumental e por isso, vou começar por uma das minhas paixões - o blues de SRV.
Garoto do interior, ele começa á tocar blues desde moleque...repare na alavanca pra canhoto numa strato pra destros, numa guitarra que foi reformada várias vezes, incluindo uma reforma pelos luthiers especialistas da própria Fender, depois que o mesmo morreu em um acidente de helicóptero em 1990... usava encordamento 0.13 não sei como, e os bends e a velocidade bluseira não se afetavam em nada... a combinação do encordamento pesado e 2 amps de estrutura diferente deram á SRV um invejado som, um timbre reconhecível á distância, um som que deu fôlego ao blues na década de 80, tempo que foi celeiro de guitarristas farofeiros e chatos...sinceramente, antes de Steve Vai, Greg Howe e etc... esse cara já tinha uma musicalidade mais madura, sim... tradicional, mas, realmente visionária do cenário da música tradicinal americana até então. Daí sua importância pra guitarra em ares tão tecnológicos e carregados musicalmente. Como uma pessoa podia fazer algo tão tradicional soar tão bem?
SRV .
Steve Ray Vaughan gravou cd´s também com Albert King e Jeff Beck, esse último tão citado entre os guitarristas obrigatórios que você DEVE passar.
Linkando sobre SRV:
http://www.bluesup.com/CDreviewsV.htmlNo Wikipedia você encontra:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan"Life and career
Vaughan was born and raised in the
Oak Cliff neighborhood of
Dallas,
Texas, but dropped out of
Kimball High School and moved to
Austin to pursue music. Vaughan's talent caught the attention of guitarist
Johnny Winter, and blues-club owner
Clifford Antone.
Vaughan's first recording band was called Paul Ray and the Cobras. They played at clubs and bars in Austin during the mid-1970s, and released one single.
[1] Vaughan later recorded two other singles under the band name The Cobras.
[2] Following the break-up of The Cobras, he formed Triple Threat in late 1975, which included bassist Jackie Newhouse, drummer
Chris Layton, and vocalist Lou Ann Barton. Barton left the band in 1978 to pursue a solo career, and the three remaining members started performing under the name Double Trouble, inspired by an
Otis Rush song of the same name. Vaughan became the band's lead singer.
Tommy Shannon, the bass player on Johnny Winter's early albums, replaced Newhouse in 1981. A popular Austin act, Vaughan soon attracted the attention of musicians
David Bowie and
Jackson Browne, and played on albums with both. Bowie first caught Vaughan at the 1982
Montreux Jazz Festival, where some members of the audience booed the band, probably because they disliked Double Trouble's hard blues sound. (The crowd response was quite different when they were invited to headline "Blues Night" at the festival again in 1985.) Bowie then featured Vaughan on his 1983 album
Let's Dance.
[3]The critically acclaimed
Texas Flood, produced by
John Hammond, featured the top-20 hit "
Pride and Joy" and sold 500,000 copies, earning the band a
Gold Record. The band's next albums,
Couldn't Stand the Weather (1984) and
Soul to Soul (1985), also "went gold", but did not receive as much critical acclaim as their debut.
Drug addiction and
alcoholism took a toll on Vaughan in the mid-1980s, and after becoming acutely ill in Germany while on tour, Vaughan managed to struggle through three more shows before entering a
drug rehabilitation program in
Atlanta, Georgia. He eventually recovered fully from his addictions and became a
teetotaler.
Upon his return from rehab, Stevie Ray Vaughan, still with bandmates Double Trouble, recorded
In Step (1989), which is praised by some as the band's best work since Texas Flood. The album won a
Grammy Award for
Best Contemporary Blues Album. Vaughan shared a headline tour with guitarist
Jeff Beck in 1989.
[
edit] Death
In the early morning of
August 27,
1990, Vaughan died in a
helicopter crash near
East Troy, Wisconsin. After a concert at the
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, where earlier in the evening he appeared with
Robert Cray,
Buddy Guy,
Eric Clapton and his older brother
Jimmie Vaughan, the musicians expected a long bus ride back to Chicago. Stevie was informed that three seats were open on one of the helicopters returning to Chicago with Clapton and his crew, enough for Stevie, Jimmie, and Jimmie's wife Connie. It turned out there was only one seat left, which Stevie requested from his brother; Jimmie obliged. Taking off into deep fog, the helicopter crashed moments later into a ski slope on the side of a hill within the
Alpine Valley Resort. Vaughan, the pilot, and two members of Clapton's crew died on impact. No one realized that the crash had occurred until the helicopter failed to arrive in Chicago, and the wreckage was only found with the help of its locator beacon.
[4] The main cause of the crash was believed to be pilot error.
[5] The next morning Stevie's brother Jimmie and good friend Eric Clapton were called to identify the body.
The media initially reported that Vaughan and his band had been killed in the crash. Chris Layton saw this on the news and had security let him into Vaughan's motel room. Layton saw that the bed was made and the clock radio was playing the
Eagles' song, "Peaceful, Easy Feeling", which includes the lyrics "I may never see you again". Layton and Shannon then called their families to let them know they were okay.
Stevie Ray Vaughan is interred in the Laurel Land Memorial Park,
Dallas, Texas.
[
edit] Posthumous events and recognition
Vaughan memorial at
Town Lake, in
Austin, Texas.
September 1990 saw the release of
Family Style, an album that Vaughan had recorded with his brother Jimmie. The 1991 compilation album
The Sky Is Crying was the first of several posthumous Vaughan releases to achieve chart success. Jimmie Vaughan later co-wrote and recorded a song in tribute to his brother and other deceased blues guitarists, entitled "
Six Strings Down". Many other artists recorded songs in remembrance of Vaughan, including
Eric Johnson[6] and Buddy Guy.
In 1991,
Texas governor
Ann Richards proclaimed October 3, Vaughan's birthday, to be "Stevie Ray Vaughan Day." An annual motorcycle ride and concert in
Central Texas benefits the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.
[7]In 1992, the
Fender company released the
Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Stratocaster, which Stevie had helped design. It was a reproduction of his battered 1962
Fender Stratocaster, which he had affectionately named "Number One" (and sometimes referred to as his "first wife"). As of 2006, the model is still in production. It depicts "Number One" as it would have been brand-new in 1962, though when Stevie bought it in 1974 it was already badly weathered. In 2004, Fender also released a limited edition exact replica of "Number One".
[8]In 1994, the city of Austin erected the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Statue at Auditorium Shores on
Town Lake, the site of a number of Vaughan's concerts. It has become one of the city's most popular tourist attractions.
In 2003,
Rolling Stone magazine placed Vaughan at number seven on their list of the "100 greatest guitarists of all time".
[9] Musicians such as
John Mayer,
Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
Jonny Lang,
Los Lonely Boys, and
Eric Johnson have cited Vaughan as an influence.
In 2008, Stevie Ray Vaughan will become eligible for the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
[10][
edit] Musical influences and style
Vaughan's blues style was strongly influenced by many blues guitarists. Foremost among them were
Albert King, who dubbed himself Stevie's "godfather", and
Otis Rush,
Buddy Guy, and
Jimi Hendrix. He was also strongly influenced by
Lonnie Mack. Stevie is recognized for his distinctive guitar sound, which was partly based on using heavy thirteen-
gauge guitar strings that he tuned down one half-
step. Vaughan's sound and playing style, which often incorporated simultaneous lead and rhythm parts, drew frequent 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, another Texas bluesman, mainly in the use of tone and attack; King's heavy
vibrato can clearly be heard in Vaughan's playing. Another stylistic influence was
Albert Collins.
Vaughan preferred to make use of the immediate tonal capabilities of his
guitar amplifiers, adding few effects. His effects included the
Ibanez Tube Screamer, a
wah-wah pedal, the
Octavia, and occasionally a
flanger/
chorus. He also used volume as a dynamic, coaxing effects from the natural performance of his amps when
overdriven.
[
edit] Vaughan's guitars and musical equipment
For guitars, Stevie used some
acoustics and a Hamiltone Custom, but he mainly used
Fender Stratocasters. His most famous was a Strat with a Brazilian
rosewood "veneer" fingerboard; it had "1962" stamped on the neck and body, but "1959" written on the
pickups. Unlike what was widely believed, he never used bass frets, but did use Dunlop 6100s, the largest frets made at the time. On this particular guitar, he also had a left-handed
tremolo installed and was known as "Number One". It had a D-shaped thick neck that was perfect for his large hands and thick fingers. It possessed a deep, dark growl of a tone that was immediately identifiable. Even though it used all "stock" Fender Strat parts, about the only "original equipment" parts it possessed by 1990 were the body and the pickups. Over the years, Stevie and Rene Martinez, his guitar tech, replaced the pickguard, tremolo, and neck. The guitar was meticulously examined by Fender Custom Shop workers to gather specifications for a run of 100 exact copies in early 2004.[
citation needed] The pickups were never overwound purposely, but were from a batch of pickups made at Fender in 1959 that had been mistakenly overwound, producing Number One's distinctive sound. The neck was damaged during a stage accident, and a spare was used from another of Stevie's Stratocasters. After he died, the original neck was put back on and the guitar was given to his brother.
"Lenny" was a 1963 maple-neck that was named after his wife, Lenora. It had a very bright, thin sound. Supposedly, Stevie found this guitar in a pawnshop, but couldn't afford to buy it. One of Stevie's roadies, Byron Barr, bought it and he and Lenora presented it to Stevie for his birthday in 1976. According to the story, Lenora was supposed to pay Byron for the guitar; she started a pool with her friends to collect the money, but it was Stevie who eventually settled the debt, with cash and a leather jacket. Its neck was originally a thin rosewood, but Stevie replaced it with a thicker non-Fender maple neck. "Lenny" can be seen and heard on "Live at the
El Mocambo". He plays it at the end of the set during the encore, playing the song of the same name;
Lenny. Stevie also used the guitar during the song "Riviera Paridise", this can also be seen and heard on the
DVD "Live From Austin Texas".
"Charley" was a Stratocaster built for him by the late Charley Wirz, a friend and owner of Charley's Guitars in Dallas, Texas. Three Danelectro "
lipstick tubes" are the pickups, and it had a hardtail bridge.
"Red" was a 1964 with a lefty neck that let him emulate the sounds of
Otis Rush and
Jimi Hendrix. This setup was able to give Stevie not only the sound he wanted, but the feel that lacked from a right hand neck.
Vaughan also played a guitar made by deceased Minneapolis, Minn., luthier, Roger Benedict. A semi-hollow, Alder-built guitar called the "Groove Master" was a model of choice for Vaughan. It is a seafoam-green Stratocaster-shaped guitar with three lipstick pickups.
Jimmie Vaughan has possession of all of Stevie's guitars, save for the only one released to the public, "Lenny". It was sold in the Eric Clapton guitar auction for more than $600,000.
He used a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, many different
Ibanez Tube Screamers (most notably the TS-808, but he also used a TS-9 for solos sometimes), Vox or
Dunlop Cry Baby wahs (one of which was owned and used by Jimi Hendrix), and at one point a Univibe, though he usually used his
rotating Leslie speaker cabinet. Sometimes he used two wahs duct-taped together, so they moved in unison.
His amps were a blonde '62 Fender Twin, a 100-watt
Marshall JCM 800 half stack, a 150-watt
Dumble Steel String Singer, two '64 Fender Vibroverbs (they are consecutively numbered: 5 and 6; Stevie was very proud of having obtained such low serial numbers). He also had a pair of 4x10 Fender Super Reverbs. At some venues he also had several Marshall full stacks for volume.
[
edit] Discography
[
edit] Studio albums
Texas Flood (
1983)
Couldn't Stand the Weather (
1984)
Soul to Soul (
1985)
In Step (
1989)
Family Style (with brother
Jimmie Vaughan as "The Vaughan Brothers",
1990)
The Sky Is Crying (posthumous compilation) (
1991)
[
edit] Official live audio releases
In the Beginning (recorded
1980)
In Session (with
Albert King, recorded
1983)
Live at Carnegie Hall (recorded
1984)
Live Alive (recorded
1985 and
1986)
Live At Montreux 1982 & 1985 (recorded 1982 & 1985)
[
edit] Compilations
Greatest Hits (
1995)
The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (
1995)
The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Volume 2 (
1999)
Blues at Sunrise (
2000)
SRV (box set, with early recordings, rarities, hits, and live material) (
2000)
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Stevie Ray Vaughan (
2003)
[
edit] Notes and references
^ The 45-RPM Other Days b/w Texas Clover (1975), Viper 30372.
^ * My Song b/w Rough Edges, The Cobras w/W.C. Clark (1979), Hole Records HR-1520 and Blow Joe Blow (crazy 'bout a saxophone) b/w Sugaree The Cobras (1980), Armadillo Records ARS-79-1.
^ Vaughan played on the songs "
Let's Dance", "
Modern Love" and "
China Girl".
^ Obituary from People magazine^ Celebrity Plane Crashes^ Entitled "SRV", from the album
Venus Isle^ Stevie Ray Vaughan Remembrance Ride & Concert^ StevieRay.com - Fender^ Rolling Stone lists the 100 greatest guitarists of all time^ Future Rock Hall entry for Stevie Ray Vaughan[
edit] External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Stevie Ray VaughanSony Music websiteStevie Ray Vaughan fan club1985 Stevie Ray Vaughan interview on Modern Guitars magazineBob Willmot's SRV Gig Database contains an extensive list of Vaughan's live performances.
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