A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan’s ‘Lenny’ Guitar
It’s been fairly well reported that Fender is going to be issuing a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar named Lenny, but I thought I’d mention it as well because I think the Tribute Series guitars by Fender have been great.
Aside from “Number One,” “Lenny” is the most recognizable guitar that Stevie Ray played; he played it in concert each time that he played the song “Lenny.” The guitar was bought for Stevie Ray as a 26th birthday gift by his wife, Lenny. It’s a ‘65 Stratocaster with a maple neck that was given to Vaughan by Billy Gibbons (originally the guitar has a rosewood fingerboard).
Like other guitars in the Tribute Series, the Lenny guitar is an exact replica of the guitar played by Stevie Ray, down to the Mickey Mantle autograph and the burn marks on the headstock.
The guitar will be available at Guitar Centers across the United States. However, only 235 of the tribute guitars will be available for sale, with only 185 of those available in the US. The guitar will be available for viewing at several Guitar Centers, beginning November 30th and will be available for purchase on December 12th.
My Gear
I always enjoy looking at photos of other people’s guitar setups, so I thought I’d post a few photos of my office, where I keep all of my guitar gear.
In the photo below, you can see my electric guitars/bass: a Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Strat, a Fender Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass, and a Paul Reed Smith Singlecut SE.
In the next picture, you can see my acoustic guitars, which include a Takamine GS-330S dreadnought and an Alhambra 7P classical guitar.
Next, you can see a couple of my amps: a Twin Reverb ‘65 Reissue and a Fender Rumble15 Bass amp.
Finally, you can see my practice setup: a Fender G-DEC 30 amp next to an iPod music station.
What does your guitar setup look like?
Quick Links
This is a collection of links I’ve found interesting over the past week or so.
In Rainbows - Radiohead’s new album, sans record label, where you pay what you feel the album’s worth. Not so shocking insight: most fans are paying retail prices for the album
The Added Value of Free - Thoughtful comments from my friend Taylor about “giving away” music: “When music consumers no longer feel that they are being squeezed for every last dollar…people will be willing, not hesitant to fork over the cash for new music.” I couldn’t agree more
The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free - More thoughts on “free music” by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch
Loving Layla by Eric Clapton - An excerpt from Eric Clapton’s upcoming autobiography, which will be available on October 9 (via IG)
Lazy Rock Star? Gibson Creates Self-Tuning Guitar - Interesting new self-tuning technology coming from Gibson (via IG)
The Paul Newman of Punk Rock - How punk label Hopeless Records has given more than $1 million to charity (via TDS)
SRVGuitar.com - Create your own SRV relic guitar (via JP)
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Birthday
JP reminded me that today, October 3, is Stevie Ray Vaughan’s birthday. In his post, JP linked to the video below, which is marked as being from May 11, 1980.
I’ve said before that Stevie Ray is one of my favorite guitar players of all time, so I’m always interested in seeing videos like this. Apparently, Number One actually did used to be sunburst!
In celebration of Stevie Ray’s birthday watch the video and add a few Texas blues licks to your arsenal this week.
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