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"Number One" composite Stratocaster
ca. 1963
Fender
Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the key drivers of the 1980s blues revival, used "Number One" as his main instrument throughout his career. Vaughan acquired the Stratocaster, built from a 1963 body with a 1962 neck and 1959 pickups, from Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas music store in 1974 and modified it with a black pickguard featuring his initials. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Otis Rush, Vaughan added a lefty vibrato. Vaughan played this guitar on his albums with Double Trouble and with his brother Jimmie Vaughan, and he likely used it on David Bowie's Let's Dance in 1982, made after the two met at the Montreux Jazz Festival. |