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Stevie Ray Vaughan ::: Gone too soon
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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1807751" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>What an incredible guitarist.</p><p></p><p>Hendrix was one of his heroes, and he played the same model electric guitar as Hendrix (Fender Stratocaster).</p><p></p><p>SRV strung the guitar with a string gauge two measures higher than Hendrix - he wanted the tone from the thicker gauge strings. The thicker the string, the thicker the tone.</p><p></p><p>But it's a feat of strength playing the blues on a guitar with strings that thick - SRV played 12's (the number designates the gauge of the thinnest string), and 12's are generally used by guitar players who don't bend the strings so much - think jazz.</p><p></p><p>So, SRV was killing Hendrix covers and performing his own songs on these tree-trunk strings, bending them like it was nothing.</p><p></p><p>For comparison, Hendrix was using 10's (two sizes smaller), and Jimmy Page was using 8's (four sizes smaller).</p><p></p><p>OK, guitar-geek stuff over.</p><p></p><p>----------------------------</p><p></p><p><strong>RIP, gone too soon.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1807751, member: 18225"] What an incredible guitarist. Hendrix was one of his heroes, and he played the same model electric guitar as Hendrix (Fender Stratocaster). SRV strung the guitar with a string gauge two measures higher than Hendrix - he wanted the tone from the thicker gauge strings. The thicker the string, the thicker the tone. But it's a feat of strength playing the blues on a guitar with strings that thick - SRV played 12's (the number designates the gauge of the thinnest string), and 12's are generally used by guitar players who don't bend the strings so much - think jazz. So, SRV was killing Hendrix covers and performing his own songs on these tree-trunk strings, bending them like it was nothing. For comparison, Hendrix was using 10's (two sizes smaller), and Jimmy Page was using 8's (four sizes smaller). OK, guitar-geek stuff over. ---------------------------- [B]RIP, gone too soon.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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