3 0tt.1954 Austin Texas-27 ago.1990 E.T. Wisconsin
Star of american guitar players galaxy he is known as one of the most important electrical guitar player in the rock/blues history. Stevie was totally self-made without any knowing of the musical theory: he played, singed and composed without writing any note and that makes his technical capacity and his talent almost incredible.! Suddenly revealed at first Montreaux jazz festival in which took apart , by Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) and by David Bowie, with Jackson Brown help, S.R.V. made his first played.
After a collaboration with Bowie, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, always he is come back to his first great love, the blues, obtaining fame and commercial successes, without betraying his musical styles.
In 1990, after a concert with Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton, went up to an helicopter to come back in his Chicago hotel, taking the place of Clapton, because, tired, wished withdraw first to the hotel . After few minutes, the helicopter crashed to an hill. Today in Texas his birthday, 3 October, is dedicated to him (Stevie Ray Vaughan day). In 1992 Fender begun the production of S.R.V. Signature Stratocaster guitar, designed with Stevie before his death. Between 1990 and today, a lot of famuos musicians made tribute concerts and special recordings on his memory's honour.
The Vaughan style, compared to critics to Hendrix, is characterized by quick phrases, often repeated with a great rythm precision, but with slow melodic too. A particolar side of Vaughan song derives of the use of guitar cords with greater dimension bigger than normal (0,13-0,14 instead of canonical 0,09 ). Use of this cords allows with a specified pressure to obtain an explosive sound and cutting riffs.