Stevie Ray Vaughan's musical instruments

This is a list and description of the guitars and other equipment played by musician Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan played a number of throughout his career, one of which, a 1963 body and a late 1962 rosewood (curved fingerboard) neck, became "the most famous battered Strat in rock history." He was notoriously hard on his guitars, and many of them required extensive periodic maintenance. He used a limited number of (mainly vintage) effect pedals, and favored Fender and Marshall amplification.

Vaughan was hard on his instruments and his equipment and was reported to hear even the slightest malfunction, even when, for instance, he was running 32 amplifiers into the mixing console for the recording of In Step. His guitars were serviced by Charley Wirz. Really? Don't be confused, Stevie did not have 32 amplifiers in his early career.

This much is true so far. but Charlie was long, long gone, and stating here that it was from a heart attack is being kind to those who would not approve of the heavy drug use he was involved in. Charlie brought on his own death and was 6 feet under when "In Step" was recorded. After the death of Charlie, documented here as a heart attack" was really caused by overdose. It was the death too of the institution of "Charlie's Guitar Shop" in Dallas as it had been known by locals. Charlie is a legend in his own making, he required nor desired a last name nor the use of one with his friends or his clientele, even just the visitors to his shop. All the musicians in the 1980s who lived in Dallas or visited Dallas for gigs knew him plainly as " Charlie". I miss him still.

The guitar maintenance person who came next in line is Byron Barr. This was Stevie Ray Vaughan's express wishes to have Byron keep, maintain and handle Vaughan's guitar stock locally and on the road after Charlie had passed away. With Charlie no longer alive there was a void and it was aptly filled by Stevie's guitar man, Byron Barr. Byron can be seen in all video/photographs taken at and after Stevie's show at the Palladium Nightclub in Dallas on North West Highway. Stevie and Double Trouble were the warm up band for Tina Tuner. The Palladium is and has been sadly long gone, bulldozed for a parking lot and strip mall of stores. Dallas style in the 1980s. The Palladium was a rather large venue, seating upwards of 3-4K people for live shows. I spoke with Stevie on the stage that night, Byron was a personal and mutual friend of mine and Stevie's. Byron carried on his job for Stevie Ray for some years to come until they had a falling out. Byron Barr also held this job until Stevie gained acclaim on the world stage.

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