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Guitar Geek Corner
Welcome to guitar geek corner. This is a new thing where I share music triva and gear talk.
Today's Artist:
S.R.V.
Powerhouse Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan. From 1983 to 1990, Stevie Ray was the leading light in American blues, consistently selling out concerts while his albums regularly went gold. His tragic death in 1990 at age 35 cut short a brilliant career in blues and American rock & roll just as he was on the brink of superstardom.
Stevie was known for playing a Fender Stratocaster with a sketchy history. His favorite and signature guitar, which he named "number one" was believed to be a 1959 body which had been modified with a 1961 D shaped neck and a odd period with the fretboard wood being Pau Fero instead of the more traditional Rosewood or Maple slab fretboard material which had the norm coming out of the Fullerton, California factory.
Through the years due to his vicious and relentless playing style the guitar began to morph into its characteristic battle worn patina.
Watch this clip of Stevie Live at the El Mocombo
In Toronto.
Stevie played many guitars throughout his career. Mostly various types of Stratocasters. Occasionally you would see him with a Gibson ES-335, Les Paul or an Epiphone Riviera.
But the most interesting weapon in his guitarsenal if you will, is the Gibson Firebird.
Used in several live shows this is the guitar recorded almost as much as number one.
Stevie is pictured here playing his 1964 Firebird at Boston Street Market in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1982, at an early Double Trouble show. The guitar was customised to suit his playing.
This man had such an impact on me. His music is thunderous and powerful and yet he is such a gentle spirit. Stevie you will never be forgotten thank you for everything you gave us in your short time on this planet. Just how much has Stevie influenced my life?
You tell me...
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One of my new greeting cards! Featuring a Texas Bluebonnets watercolor painting. I think the tiny bee addition is my favorite detail 😊
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a big part of what makes eiffel feel like such a real person to me is that he's so average and unfulfilled even by attainable metrics. like, not even getting into any pop culture escapist fantasies. eiffel is the kind of guy who thinks if he was born a few decades earlier he'd be a traveling musician living out of a van, but realistically he'd be doing more or less the same stuff. he could be a local radio dj or a guy with a used record store or drive an old truck and have a yard full of rusty old cars up on cinder blocks he's trying to revitalize. he could be a skater, if he had the patience, and, um. the balance. zach once said that if eiffel had the money he'd buy a motorcycle and never learn how to ride it, just take a bunch of pictures of himself with it and tinker with it constantly, and if anyone asked why he doesn't ride it, he'd keep saying he wants to do some more work on it first. i think about that so much. there are a lot of things that he could do, that fit his sort of character archetype, and they aren't even remarkable things, but he doesn't. eiffel drove a corolla and worked at pizza hut and probably lived in a shitty apartment. sincerely, this is the best thing about him. this is why he's a real guy to me.
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The wildflowers and bluebonnets are out, God I love Texas
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