True story: In 1979 at Fitzgerald's in Houston Texas, my band was opening for Stevie and Double Trouble. Backstage - after we played - Stevie offered to buy my 1962 Gibson Epiphone thin, black, sun burst hollow body guitar...strung left handed. I'm left handed. He played it just fine upside down. If he had offered to trade me one of his, on the spot, I would have done it. I've always wondered why he was so suddenly obsessed with my guitar (it was our first meeting...we went on to play more gigs with him in Houston and Austin). Now, thanks to your video, I know. Very surreal...very cool!

I grew up a couple of blocks from Charley's guitar shop in Dallas and knew Charley and Renee well. I was lucky enough to play all his early strats while 'dusting' the guitars for strings as a kid. I met stevie and jimmy there in the late 70's. I saw stevie several times throughout his career and he always remembered my name. He was a genuinely good person. The best SRV shows werent at Antones like many believe but in Dallas at a club called Tango's. SRV and Eric Johnson played there together for a couple of years in the early days 2 or 3 times per month. They would do a Hendrix jam after their sets for another hour or so. Those shows were legendary.

My buddy saw srv twice. Once was when he was drinking and was cool, but really whacked out. Kinda all over the place, but nice. The 2nd was when he got sober. He actually remembered my friends name and chatted backstage with him for 2 hours. He said was was as if Stevie didn't want them to leave. He said he was just about the nicest human being he's ever met. He was treated like he was famous, yet he was in the presence of a a humongously popular srv, which really speaks to Stevie's character. My friend randy always gets really sad when Stevie's make gets mentioned. He made quite an impression on him, especially since my friend was only about 19 or 20 years old and was just starting to get his own band name or there. Rest well, Stevie... Rest well

Lenny is currently on display at the guitar center in Austin down the street from my house. I go there sometimes just to look at it.

I got to see his last Canadian performance that was a double billing with Joe Cocker. We had great seats that were right beside the stage. I was planning to learn some of his magical licks , being a guitarist myself, but when he stepped out on the stage with his feathery hat, poncho flaring and all of his bling, I was star struck. I just sat there with my mouth open. I must have looked like a little school girl. I don't think I looked at his fingers at all. Next thing I knew, the show was over. I promised myself that next time I'd make a better showing of myself but sadly, he died a few short weeks later.

I saw SRV open up for The Moody Blues in Omaha, Ne. The Moody Blues let SRV have full volume on the p.a. for his set. It was a blistering, soul piercing experience. They did a half-time section during Voodoo Chile, I've never heard a recording them doing that. God bless SRV and Double Trouble, they added so much color to my life. Thank you Moody Blues for giving them the run of the p.a. that night.

l go to the grave once a month and weep.....l live in Arlington between ft worth and Dallas......really hurts as he was my age and I've played 55 years now.

Back in 1985 I was a Tokai factory Rep and got to meet Stevie in person at the New Orleans NAMM Show and heard him play the Tokai Strat! He was a great talent, RIP Stevie Ray! :-)

I would see him all the time on the National show "Austin City Limits"on PBS (Public Television Station) in the 80's. I was so memorized by his guitar playing! Thank you for the great post!

Saw him live 3 times ....rest in peace ....first time in a old theater in salem,mass ....what impressed me was how nice he was to people......he did a ad for Tokai strats in mid 80's

A beautiful story. Thanks for sharing. He is my number 1

Thanx for another great vid... I really love and appreciate your no nonsense delivery and the slide show's good enough for a 2nd viewing... thanx again and cheers

seems like almost every guitar he owned was a gift from a friend..

I can still remember the first time I heard Pride and Joy, '83 I think. I kept listening on the radio to see who this was. His tone and the way he played just knocked me out. And years later, working for the same company. I know right where I was standing when some one told me he had died.

Enjoyed the video!! I grew up in Oak Cliff... same as Jimmy and Stevie. The guitar bug bit me in 1961. Over the years I played in San Antonio, South Texas and Austin... I bought three guitars from Charlie's Guitar Shop later in life (90's)... Still have em! 2 Strats & 1 Tele. I used to go into Ray Hennigs "Heart of Music" store in Austin regularly in the mid to late 70's. Thanks for the video.... brought back a lot of memories. Best Always, JP

Awesome information, Thank you for posting. Its hard to believe Stevie has been gone for 30 years!!!!! I feel like he is still here. His music sounds fresh every time I listen to it.

Awesome video, thanks so much. SRV one of the greatest of all time. Surprise to hear he didn't get his first guitar until 6, I could have sworn he was born with one!

Man. This guy was hard on his guitars. 🤘🏻

Number 1 was a 63 strat with 62 neck. Fender custom shop documented it when they stripped the guitar down. Also Rene said that stevie thought it had 59 pickups after looking inside and seeing 59 written on one in pencil. They were actually stock 63 strat pickups and somebody had written the resistance on the back of the pickup as 5.9

I saw him in October 1985 in a tiny college gym in Missouri, I think that would have been the Texas Flood tour. Out of this world amazing.

I saw his last show, i won 2 free tickets, ive played guitar since 88ish off n on.. n most of my friends are all in bands n 1 is related to a very very highly successful band... none of them knew who Stevie ray Vaughan was.. i did only bcz my friends parents has an album of his.. it has Rivera paradise, i herd it n i was in love instantly! So.. i went to his alpine valley show alone, which was his last. I still have my 2 tickets.. 1 completely intact. Ive got most all his music and hes in my top 3 all time favorite musicians. 👍great great Great Coverage on him.. your EXSTREAMLY asvy on him n thank you for all yr great info on him n his rigs ect.. new subscriber right here!

Great video SRV is so missed . I made it a point to see every show from NY and all over New England . I was very impressed with all the info on the #1 guitar . I always wanted to know the line up of a blues festival Stevie headlined at Great Woods in Mansfield Mass . I was 18 at the time not knowing much about blues . THAT show changed my world . That was Stevie's mission of enlightenment to the world of blues on the world . Thank you SRV for being in this world but for a far to short of a time .

I like to breathe between my sentences.

Stevie is the whole reason I fell in love with strats. Playing them is what keeps the marriage strong. 💪.....

Ive always loved watching musicians play, more so of those that truly loved playing. Ive listened to alot of artists. SRV is my favorite guitarist, and always will be. Im a graphic artist of sorts, I have favorite tools. And I have an eye for detail and for beauty. Stevie made beauty when he played... thankyou for this video.

Very privileged to have seen Stevy twice and Jimmy once in Christchurch New Zealand . RIP to a great musician.

It’s not the guitar it’s the player . So often you see guitars that are cobbled together that on paper would be not that valuable . But in the hands of someone like Stevie it’s turned into something special

Excellent job describing SRV, you're the MAN!

The amount of research you do and the info you deliver is phenomenal!! Keep up the good work. New subscriber.

What an amazing work, thank you very much man, I love your show!

He was the greatest. Nobody other than hendrix can or ever could touch him. I still miss stevie

Awesome Share SRV 💖 always Remembered an awesome Guitarist and a great Man with a heart of gold.

The first guitar I owned was a 66 mustang that I bought from Charlie. He sold it to me for a hundred bucks tax and all. I was 15 years old at the time and it seemed like a lot of money. I still have it and next to my kids, it's my most prized possession. When I bought it, they had one of Stevie's guitar's behind the glass wall and at the time I hadn't even heard of him. Charlie was one of the greatest ever.

The 1961 known as "Scotch" was bought by SRV at a great old club called "The Boathouse" in Norfolk, Virginia. My favorite guitar SRV owned.

Great work - awesome images from the early days. So the story I heard about No 1’s lefty tremolo goes something like this: Stevie was very rough on his gear -namely the tremolo arm. His tech - Rene, kept a stash of spares until he ran out while on the road. In a pinch he scoured the local music shop but all they had were gold lefty units. He modified the rout to make room for the lefty system and the rest is history.

Fascinating! Thanks for your research and for posting it.

This was the best rundown yet thanks.

It shows you that the music industry was a small world on a big planet. Great video.

Something deep in the SRV lore that I absolutely _LOVE_ is that SRV owned Jimi Hendrix's wah pedal, the same famous wah pedal that Hendrix had used on songs like Voodoo Child (and so the wah pedal that SRV used on his own cover of Voodoo Child was literally the exact same wah pedal that Hendrix had used on the original). I think it was a Vox wah. But yeah Hendrix gave it to Jimmy Vaughan as a gift. And then eventually Jimmy gave it to his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who by that point was already the world's biggest Hendrix fan. Just imagine that, you're the biggest fan of a musician in the world, and you've dedicated years years of your teenage years to learning absolutely every single Hendrix song note for note and can play them exactly as they sound on the records, with every subtle tiny touch that Jimi did, which are really difficult to be able to recreate exactly, it's not just about playing the same notes, it's about HOW you play them. And yeah so teenage SRV is the biggest Hendrix fan, and then his brother comes home to visit one day and says "here Stevie, happy birthday, here's Hendrix's own wah pedal". That's just so crazy to me. The equivalent for me would be when I was a teenager, when I became an absolutely enormous SRV fan, my dad gave me a birthday present one day that happened to be the _EXACT_ tubescreamer that SRV himself owned and used. It would be absolutely insane, to own the exact tubescreamer that he'd used on all my favourite songs of his. Jimmy wasn't the greatest brother in the world, him and Stevie Ray always got into fights and stuff. But they did seem to really love each other. They always forgave each other after they'd had a fight, either physical or verbal, and that brotherly love really stuck through and kept going through every argument they had. And this was an example of that, Jimmy giving Stevie the one and only wah pedal that Hendrix had so extensively used on every record he made. Seriously, just comprehend that. Jimmy had something that was given to him by a now long dead guitar hero, the most celebrated guitarist in history, who sadly died very very young. He could have sold that wah pedal for a LOT of money. Going by other similar auctions for famous guitars or amps or pedals owned by famous guitarists, he could probably have got over $1 million for it. Or at least hundreds of thousands. Either way, a lot of money. But he decided instead to give it to his brother, this insanely valuable pedal, because he knew the value he'd get from making his brother the happiest kid in the world was worth way more to him than any amount of money would he worth to him. He knew his brother was the biggest Hendrix fan in the world, and so who better to give Hendrix's own wah pedal to? Nobody would cherish it and protect it and love it and use it as any great pedal should be used (instead of just sitting in a glass case in a museum somewhere) as much as the world's biggest hendrix fan would. Man, what a brother.

Hendrix and Freddie King were both massive influences on SRV! I love how "percussive" his playing was!

I love anything SRV, blues, & Texas. Thank you for the video! 🦚❤️

Very good vid heaps of information. Great job. Best vid on SRV guitars

What a fabulous player...I saw him a long time ago...he was born a month after me...miss u so bad SRV...what a player man...

Cool video! Long time player and fan, saw Stevie a couple times 89 and 90 but didn't know some of this info. Very cool thanks!

I never knew#1 belonged to Christopher Cross before Stevie acquired it. What a weird connection.

Stevie Ray Vaughan is my favorite guitarist and he is number one in my books

Nice format with your work here. Nice and clean.

Thank You for Doing this Video about The History of Stevie Ray Vaughn's Many Guitars!,The Greatest Guitarist of All Time!!!!

Thanks, did not know of all theses guitars. He could play anything better than anyone. RIP SRV, the best ever in my opinion.

This is a true blues guitarist.He left too soon.

Awesome research. Thanks for putting in the effort for us "guitar nerds" :) . This is a great series.

I knew Steve back in Dallas. He was a year younger than me but, we shared the same birthday month. Steve's first really serious band, Blackbird, was House Band at the Zodiac Club [Johnny Nitzinger's place in Ft. Worth] for a time. The lead singer for Blackbird, Christian DePlique and I worked together at the original Neiman Marcus downtown. He and I used to take our lunch breaks at McCord's Music just a few blocks away. I'd pull a bass off the rack, plug it in and groove the bottom end, tapping my boots on the tile floor, while DePlique sang Blues and Soul tunes. DePlique, who was known as "Professor Plique, Doctor of Soul", invited me several times to go out and hear his band but, I was gigging on my own and seldom had a weekend night off. When I left that band I finally, had the opportunity to hear my friend's band, Blackbird. It was a really good band but, not a GREAT band. He was only 17 and had yet to become the "animal" he grew to be several years later in Austin. Those were Steve's Epiphone days. We jammed, did more than a few lines, etc. and got along really well, being of similar personalities. At one point, it looked as if I would be going into his future with him but, I changed my mind at the last minute. Surprisingly, I'm glad I did. I wasn't ready for the craziness and all the nose bleeds that followed around him. DePlique came back from Austin and lived at my Apartment for a while. I'm still friends with DePlique. He lives in Europe now, doing Blues, Jazz or Gospel festivals. That's my part of his story.

Absolutely riveting video. Great work.

Thank you! Mighty nice recounting.

Stevie is incomparable.

Still wants to bring tears to my eyes

This was really awesome! Thanks!

Thanks for putting all this together. Jimmy Hamilton would be a good resource. He worked on SRV's guitars and still designs and builds guitars in South Florida.

Fascinating as ever, Ramon! X

My God......You.( I could not make out your name, shame on me), are so Beautifully AND Brilliantly Thorough, WOW! I DO NOT SUBSCRIBE to channels ( Rarely if Ever ) BUT......After hearing You, I Just had to. This is the first time I've seen your Channel, I Cant wait to see MORE of you! I'd like to add that I was Blessed to see Stevie about a Month before his Accident, ALSO the Fabulous Thunderbirds opened for them, How AWESOME IS THAT!!! It was an open air concert in San Antonio pretty close to the River. Anyways Thank you so VERY MUCH for Posting this Beauty. R.I.P. STEVIE.............🎸♥️

Saw him live at the P A Beach Club in Gardner, MA a year before he died. He had just gotten clean. It was the most fun I ever had at an outdoor general admission show. We were hit with a sudden downpour and he quickly started "The Sky Is Crying." He mostly played #1 and the butterscotch Strat that day. A photo of my sister and me at that show was buried with our dad in 1991.

Thanks for this video. Always wanted some info on SRV's guitars

Awesome video, very informative! Thanks!😁🤟✌

Amazing video. Thank you 🙏🏼

Very cool! thanks for posting...

Sweeeeeeet info bro thanks man as always waiting for your videos always 👌

Nice presentation. I love SRV, Jimi, Clapton etc and strats of course! But it was cool to see Stevie's non strat collection as well.

Excellent work!! Well done.

Great rundown of SRV's axes. Thanks.

I saw a video once were Stevie was playing with the Thunderbirds and it was announced as well as you can see Stevie playing a six string baritone Danalectro

Excellent video thanks for the information so many guitars! We usually hear about #1, scotch, red, lenny, and Charlie and sometimes the riviera

great video bro, relaxing with this after work with my tea..

Great video, SRV was one of the greats for sure.

Thanks for sharing all the info you've put together. Good that you highlight his heavy string use and how he weared the frets of his strats like nobody. Also seems is always an ES335 playing a big role in the way all of our guitar heroes play, I didn't know about that and the other guitars he used early in life.

Such a cool video, good breakdown and knowledge

I would LOVE to hear SRV's Rickenbacker tone. I bet that was interesting! Also.. the left handed vibrato on Number One was a result of needing a replacement on a sunday on tour and only being able to find a lefty one. Also.. the neck on Number One was replaced because the original broke when some gear fell on it. That's according to his guitar tech, anyway..

He also had a gibson L-1 (the same model Robert Johnson used) that he only used in one acoustic recording I've seen. Also a seafoam (I think) green Benedict Groovemaster made by Roger Benedict in Minneapolis, MN. There's only one pic and maybe a few bootlegs of him playing it. Great vid!!

Great video Mr Goose

Well put together, cool unseen pics! U da man bro

Thank you !! Very intresting....

Great Job!

He was playing at the University at Buffalo spring fest in 1984. I was a student but I didn't know he was going to play nor was I that much into him so I missed the show. One of the big regrets of my life.

Yes a part 4 please

@4:52 stevie was a comedian😂😂😂 I've seen that picture so many times it cracks me up. God bless his soul.

awesome video...theres a story i read about an 80s Hendrix signature series prototype that the custom shop made 10 of or something like that...a white right hand body with left hand neck and lefty bridge and bridge pickup...similar to the voodoo strat that came out in the early 2000s...anyway one showed up in a texas guitar shop and a local guy put a big deposit on it and was gonna pick it up that friday on payday...that thursday night he went to see stevie and a club and stevie was playing one of the 10 prototype hendrix guitars he went to the shop the next day even more jazzed that he was gonna have one of the same guitars stevie did...only to find the store owner handing him back his deposit and offering a big discount on any guitar in the shop...saying i had to man it was stevie ray vaughan...

The inlay on Lenny is a pick guard from a vintage Loar made Gibson mandolin. Love your videos.

Yo Mongoose, Once again your research is bleedin' FLAWLESS man!! Though I rarely 'Sub' to folks anymore, I've just subbed to you, (was going to after the John Lennon video but I wanted to see how accurate you truly are, lol)!! Thanks again for posting, these are endlessly entertaining. ~Mark~

Cool vid man I enjoyed it thank you.

The tall guy in striped pants to the left of Stevie is actor Steve Tobolowsky, the sheriff in Wild Hogs movie......who knew? I like the part where Stevie was told he had picked out a junker guitar....HE MADE HISTORY WITH IT!!! What a talent!

How interesting that Cross owned that strat first

Jim Hamilton , moved to Ft. Lauderdale Fl. and was my guitar tech, good friend, a great guy, hope you are doing well Jim.

Great video, now i would like to see someone do a video on the different amps. he used and the amp settings he liked, that would be another good video 👍.

Great video, thanks.

Nice job there on the video, Guitar Show!

Good research man ! Thanks for this.

the 1980 Voodoo Fender Stratocaster Large Head, LH Neck w/ Serial#S972270; is #1 of rumored 25 or so prototypes Fender supposedly produced, which has a stamp on the back that says "Original Prototype, Not For Resale, Fender Musical Instrument". Many say that they will never admit it, due to a possible pending suit. Most of the guitar dealers in that region wound up with them. When the Hendrix family found out about them, they threatened a lawsuit and mysteriously almost all of those prototypes vanished into thin air, as if they were never made, .....but they were. There's an interesting article on that #1 prototype, and how Stevie wound up with it, if you search the net. I have a lot of close-up pictures of this guitar. I recall seeing Stevie play about 30+ times, back in the old milk truck days, before his album deals with David Bowie or Jackson Browne.

Great video!

I've been in Ray Hennigs music shop in Austin many times. I sat in the talking to him and Ray Benson one time.

One of my friends Alan Haynes has a red guitar (edited) from Stevie that he Still jams on til this day... It looks like the one at 7:57 but has no paint on the upper half now after many years of use

I used to see Stevie play quite often around the Lubbock,Texas area starting in the late 70's. The Cotton Club, Fat Dawgs, Stubbs and I think a bar called the Rox or Roc Z. I can't remember, a good time was had by all.