SRV's Rickenbacker

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:27 am

Graham G & Larry C,

Here's a picture you were after of Stevie Ray Vaughan with his Rickenbacker Capri 360.....

8mileshigh · Post by **8mileshigh** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:25 am

Cool......could I have a close up in colour please!

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:56 am

Graham,

The picture above is already 150% the size of the original in a book and it's in black and white!

eggman · Post by **eggman** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:41 am

Darren,

Thanks for the pic. I've never been a big fan of SRV, but pics like that oughta be more widely distributed; might serve to quiet some of the anti-Rickenbacker folks who say that Rickenbackers are too wimpy for "da Blooze"!

Larry

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:00 pm

There's another pic or two I've seen, including one of his whole band where's he has the back of the guitar showing - I want to say he decorated the back with something or other. Been a while since I've seen it.

bluesyric · Post by **bluesyric** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:06 pm

Kenny, that one is in one of his biographies. The back of the Ric says "Stingray" in sparkley truck stop letters.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:07 pm

Whatta tasteful guy! I wonder where it is now...

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:59 pm

I would think in the recesses of Jimmie's (his less talented brother) closet. After all he supposedly got the rest of his guitars.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:02 pm

Jimmy couldn't play nearly as well as Stevie, but then who could? Jimmy himself freely admitted this and said that when they were kids Stevie was "obsessed" with the guitar.

Still, Jimmy is a very good player in his own right and the Fab T-Birds were a hell of a band.... where are they now?

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:17 pm

I heard they broke up. Jimmie did some nice stuff. Six Strings Down was a nice tribute.

But he could not be compared with SRV even on his best night.

I'd love to see that Ric get played though.

jwargowski · Post by **jwargowski** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:05 am

The T-Birds are still around, though without Jimmie. They mostly play the club and State Fair circuit. Kim Wilson can still blow a good harp. Jimmie has done some very respectable work without them, and tours with his own band.

soundmasterg · Post by **soundmasterg** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:11 pm

I saw the T-Birds without Kim Wilson, but with Nick Curran and the rest of their members at the local blues jam I go to every wednesday in Portland a month or two ago. They had just got done playing a gig across town and came into Duff's Garage at the jam, and Suburban Slim, the host of the jam convinced them to go up. They were pretty good, but I think Suburban Slim's jam band, and regular band are both better. Slim's regular band is called "The Strangetones."