Speaking of guitars, this one is for my son Matthew who has a special edition of this superb Stevie Ray Vaughan album coming from his music club VMP [Vinyl Me, Please - well worth finding out about]
Chris Layton: Countless people have told me how much they loved Stevie’s guitar tone on Texas Flood. There was literally nothing between the guitar and the amp. It was just his Number One Strat plugged into a Dumble amp called Mother Dumble, which was owned by Jackson Browne. The real tone just came from Stevie, and that whole recording was so pure; the whole experience couldn’t have been more innocent or naïve. If we had known what was going to happen with it all, we might have screwed up. We just played. The magic was there, and it came through on the tape.
He touched people in such a way that it was irrelevant that he played the guitar, that he played a Stratocaster, that he played the blues. It had nothing to do with any of that. Stevie was able to grab on to something that people struggle to express in their own lives and do it for them. That connection was there, even if they couldn’t identify what it was about it that moved them so much.
Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
by Alan Paul, Andy Aledort
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