I watched SRV play the hell out of that thing for the first time on a PBS special or something when I was a young kid. From that second I was hooked and I knew I had to go buy a Strat so I could be like Stevie!

Thank You for passing on this great bit of information! Austin Texas and Stevie Ray Vaughn. A Great bit of Texas History ! Jimmie Vaughn should be thanked a million times over for sharing his time and the wonderful memories this guitar and what it represents to the music world !

Rick

The sounds he produced from this guitar are amazing, I saw him with Jeff Beck with this ax and it was awesome

I would give a year’s wages to just hold it. Even more to play it, but it wouldn’t be right though. This guitar was meant for Stevie, and only Stevie. I bet money that Jimmie hasn’t even played it since Stevie’s death. Long live Stevie, and his music!!!

Thanks for this post. Just found you on twitter from the recommended section. I want to put this on my blog as well and I’ll cite that I heard about it from you.

Justin – I suspect Stevie’s the reason a lot of people bought a Strat. He got amazing sounds out of this instrument.

Rick – glad you enjoyed the post! I agree…Jimmie should be thanked for letting other people enjoy this instrument.

Dave – I wish I could have seen SRV with Beck. What an amazing show that must have been.

Jeff – I agree…someone on another site posted about how it would be great to this guitar played by someone else, but I think it’s music making days are behind it.

Ben – glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks!

i was lucky enough to be at his last show at alpine valley. makes we want to cry just looking at it

Rich, I wish I could have seen him play live just once. To have seen his last show would have been amazing.