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| Stevie Ray Vaughan was born on October 3 1954 ,in the Oak Cliff Section of Dallas Texas. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan (born March 20, 1951) and the son of Jim and Martha Vaughan. At the age of 11, Stevie began playing the guitar (under brother Jimmie's inf |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was born on October 3 1954 ,in the Oak Cliff Section of Dallas Texas. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan (born March 20, 1951) and the son of Jim and Martha Vaughan. At the age of 11, Stevie began playing the guitar (under brother Jimmie's influence ), and was playing in local teen combos soon after.
Stevie didn't do well in high school,as He would sit at the back of the classroom and doze off due to his playing music all night. As a result, his grades suffered.
In 1972, Stevie dropped out of high school and moved to Austin Texas to play music full-time. Doyle Bramhall, a songwriting partner of Stevie's and longtime friend, was the first one to tell Stevie that he had potential as a guitar player.
In the early seventies, Stevie played in a band with Doyle called the Nightcrawlers.
During the mid-seventies, Stevie played with a popular Austin band called the Cobras.
In 1976, Stevie formed a blues-R&B band called Triple Threat Revue, starring himself, Lou Ann later turned into Triple Threat with Stevie, Lou Ann, Chris Barton, W.C. Clark, Fredde Pharoah & Mike Kindred. This band Layton and Jackie Newhouse. When Lou Ann left in 1980 to go to the Roomful of Blues, Stevie renamed the group to Double Trouble.
In January 1981, Jackie Newhouse replaced Tommy Shannon on bass.
On December 20 1979, Stevie married Lenora (Lenny) Baily in between sets of a gig at the Rome Inn in Austin Texas. Sometime later Stevie wrote an awesome instrumental song and titled it "Lenny"
1982 proved to be Stevie's most eventful year. David Bowie saw him at the Montreaux Festival and asked him to play on Bowie's LET'S DANCE album.Also, Jackson Browne gave him studio time at his Studio in Los Angeles. In addition, John Hammond from Epic Records signed Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble to their label. This was the beginning of Stevie's worldwide touring and international stardom.
In 1983, TEXAS FLOOD, Stevie and Double Trouble's debut album, was released and the band appeared on Austin City Limits for the first time. Meanwhile,the El Mocambo video was recorded in Toronto Canada.
In 1984,COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER was released.
In 1985, SOUL TO SOUL was released. In addition, Stevie played 5 songs and produced Lonnie Mack's comeback album STRIKE LIKE LIGHTNING.
In 1986, LIVE ALIVE was released. Later that year, Stevie entered rehabilitation to rid himself of his drug problems. He stayed away from people who could supply him with drugs, and rebuilt his relationship with his mother Martha. Stevie remained sober and drug free for the rest of his life.
In 1987, Stevie appeared in a movie called Back to the Beach as himself. In the movie, he played a duet with Dick Dale and they performed the song "Pipeline". Also in 1987, Stevie filed for a divorce from Lenny.
In 1988, Stevie performed an acoustical set on MTV. Later that year, his divorce became final with Lenny.
In 1989, IN STEP was released. Stevie also toured with Jeff Beck, and recorded his 2nd Austin City Limits performance. Both Austin City Limits performances were released some time later on a single video called LIVE FROM AUSTIN TEXAS.
In 1990, Stevie toured with Joe Cocker, and recorded FAMILY STYLE with his brother Jimmie.
On August 27 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash right after leaving a concert he performed with Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and his brother Jimmy held at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin. His music and spirit will live on FOREVER.
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best guitarist ever to live
who here agrees that no one is better than
srv? if you don't, you should listen to
more of his songs, maybe you will change your
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| | I have. Jimi Hendrix was a better guitarist. | L1th1um | jimi made the style, and srv wouldnt have
been as good, or he wouldnt have played what
he had if jimi hadnt developed the style
before srv. srv is the better, creative, and
more complicated guitarist, and jimi was the
most INFLUENTIAL guitarist EVER...these are
both 2 of the best guitarists ever though. | reelbigpunk22 | | I still say Jimi... | BillieJoeKing1039 | no u guys i am gonna have to argue that the
greatest is actually Jimmy Page and second is
SRV then Hendrix then Clapton then slash then
Tony Iommi. | immortalife30 | im guna have to argue with all of you. Jimi
was most inluential. Page was second most
influential. Third was EVH. but as far as
best goes, Yngwie malmsteen is number one.
Then its Joe satriani. Then its Steve Vai.
ANd in fourth its Stevie Ray Vaughan. Listen
to sum of Yngwies and satch's stuff.
theyre amazing, trust me, ull chang ur minds
abuot the best guitarist. i used to think the
same thing as u untill i herd one of
satrianis albums. but overall theyr all great
guitarists. | motleycrue085 | ok this my view on this:
first of all
all these guitarists are exellent, otherwise
they wouldn't be know/rememberd..
but i saw one of you guys said:
yngwie is the best guitarist, well he's
great, absolutely, but that said: if you look
at his playing stile, you'll hear a lot of
classical stuff: he's all bach inspired he
does great things but.. he doesnt sound like
he's put hes feeling into it
if you listen to jimmi page playing the blues
you can defenitely hear that he means it
and, have you guys ever heard of eric
johnson? he toured with G3 a while
he's also a great guitarist
and ofcourse jimi is one of the greatest but
my fave will always be: Rany Rhoads he was
magnificent
but for everyone its someone else who's
the greatest | Noods | Hai Guy's...this is my opinion about the
topic "the best Guitarist"
ever, all the greatest guitarists on the
entire world are influenced by one or another
great hero of themself and use all those
influence-ingredients to create theire own
influencing music, i think you can bring it
back to the question of
"taste", because all the
greatest are
"tastefull-influenced" by
theire own Greatest!.... even Jimmie Hendrix. | stepinto | Stevie was the best blues player ever.
Jimi was the best psycadellic player
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