![]() "Lenny" on the El Mocambo video is played on Lenny, as is "Riviera Paradise" on ACL 1990 video. ![]() See the file on the guitar called Scotch too. But I don't know whose comment this was and whether they had any new info. Note from Elenor: This "renaming" of Lenny as Scotch seems unlikely, based on all the other 'stuff' I've read in the archives. It was a sound baffle that crushed the guitars (and nearly Rene Martinez) at the Garden State Arts Center (Homedale, NJ) in the summer of 1990. He definitely used Lenny on his song "Lenny," and later on "Riviera Paradise." If you have the El Mocambo video, he plays Lenny on "Lenny." BTW, his wife's name was Lenny, short for Lenore or Leonore, something like that. I remember that several of his guitars were damaged in a stage accident where some lighting fell from the rafters, but I don't remember if Lenny was one of those guitars damaged (Number 1 *was* damaged, though). It was a right-hand model, but I think the neck was changed later to a left-hand neck. It was a maple-neck 1962, I believe, to which Stevie later did some mild hot-rodding. Lenny was a gift from his then-girlfriend, later-wife. Information and comments pulled from archived TexasFlood mailing list digests. One thing Stevie did was to add a filigree-style decal at the bridge, and add his "SRV" initials on the pickguard. Lenny didn't change much through the years. Stevie loved to use this guitar for songs played softly, and regularly finger-picked solos to even further soften the tone. These pickups, combined with the maple neck and slightly lighter strings, gave Lenny that characteristically sweet, bright, ringing tone that is immediately identifiable as a Strat. These pickups were also microphonic (meaning, if you would tap them with your finger, you would hear that sound coming through the amp). He only used four springs in the vibrato. Lenny was also strung lighter, but only by one step or so. He kept the right-hand vibrato, and set it to both pull up and push down, unlike Number One. ![]() Stevie ended up replacing the neck with a thicker non-Fender maple neck, given to him by Billy Gibbons. Lenny, the guitar, originally came with a fairly thin rosewood neck. In the end, Stevie repaid Byron, himself, with some cash and a leather jacket. She started a pool among friends to collect the money, but never did receive enough. Byron and Lenny presented it to Stevie for his birthday, with the agreement that Lenny would reimburse Byron. Byron Barr, one of Stevie's roadies at the time, ended up buying the guitar. Legend has it that Stevie found this guitar in an Oak Cliff pawnshop, but couldn't afford it. Lenny, the guitar, is named after Stevie's ex-wife. This was another guitar that, over the years, produced Stevie's trademark jazz-like tones on songs such as "Lenny" and "Riviera Paradise." Stevie Ray Vaughan's Guitar called "Lenny"Īnother readily identifiable guitar in Stevie's arsenal of axes was the brownish-orange 1963 or 1964 maple-neck Strat he called "Lenny".
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