correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "Lenny" the song at the beginning of the video one of the few that MR Vaughn did NOT use "number one" on? He used the guitar his wife bought him, "lenny" right?
Hollywood needs to wake up and make a movie on the life and times of SRV. How it all started, how he got all his guitars, all the behind the scenes stuff while Jimmy is still around to get the facts straight. They did it for Buddy Holly, but i would think theres alot more Blues players and Blues fans then there is old time rock and roll theses days.
Number One belongs in a museum for all to see and expreience. This is the only place that should have been allowed to purchase it and only if the money from the sale went to Stevie's favorite charity. The only one who know's for sure about Number One is Jimmy.
The neck is not original. I also heard Jimmy sold number one to a private dealer. There was a theft at a storage locker where Stevie's clothes and other things were stored but no guitars were stolen at that time.
actually you all are wrong. the neck your seeing is from another one of srvs guitars!!! he broke the original trying to do a trick his brother used to do. he tryed bouncing off the wall and the neck broke. lol you guys crack me up. later on fender repaired the original neck and put it back on.
@srvforme Actually, you are mistaken. The original neck was destroyed in a stage incident in NJ on July 9th, 1990. Stevie cried when the lighting came down on his beloved Strat. R. Martinez salvaged what he could, but the neck was destroyed. By the way, there are rumors that the original guitar went missing after Fender copied it. I even read an article where JLV said the guitar is missing. Any info to clear this up would be appreciated.
you guys are blind if you think this is a copy. the date is on the back of the body behind the springs still. and if you look at the head stock where the old vintage style tuners use to be, the markings from them are there. fenders re-pro didn't get that detailed in the relic. even under the pickguard its warped and old. fender cant re-pro that good.oh and the reason it has new hardware is because stevie constantly changed his hardware. so yeah. its the real thing. accept it.
you guys are blind if you think this is a copy. the date is on the back of the body behind the springs still. and if you look at the head stock where the old vintage style tuners use to be, the markings from them are there. fenders re-pro didn't get that detailed in the relic. oh and the reason it has new hardware is because stevie constantly changed his hardware. if you documented the guitar better you would see that. so yeah. its the real thing. accept it.
ok people so that's THE actual number 1..Jimmy Vaughan is actually there..the script in the pickguard is a of Rene not being able to find holographic lettering so the "tonite show" graphics dept came up with that last min!..also you can see the split headstock..the pearl tuners..and the fact that Jimmy Vaughan is there watching everything remember this is 2003 Jimmy probably most likely let them take a gander at it by now and Jimmy Vaughan has the actually #1 locked away with the rest of stevi
@gsus723 It is the live at Montreux 1982 where he was booed the whole time he was on stage. Funny that they used a song SRV never played on Number One as the backing track for this video...
Apparently you are the retard.... since you can't read. I said this was BS.
But I could understand Fender wanting to take a look at the guitar and analyze it, it doesn't mean Fender would own it you no talent ass clown. You can obviously tell in the video that this is just a replica, there are tons of them online.
first off this is the finest Hotel in Austin, second, Stevie continued to make many modifications to his No. 1. Also what makes me think this is authentic, is that Jimmy is really, really unable to let this guitar out of his site. So it makes total sense that they would meet somewhere like this, instead of a fender custom shop. Im sure Jimmy wouldnt have that sort of thing. A man offered Jimmy a billion dollars for this guitar. Jimmy told him, to screw himself.
I think this is BS too.... first, Fender would have it in a lab or at least at the custom shop somewhere, not in some shitty hotel in Austin.
2nd, if you look at this video at 1:57 top left of the pic toward the strap lock of the guitar there is no white lettering, and if you look at 1:33 of this video (and many other videos) you see white lettering (SRV im guessing) by the strap lock. So i call BS.
@ericnhitterdal59 you retard, why would Fender have Number One? Jimmie Vaughan has pretty much all of Stevie's guitars now, except for like Lenny. You're a dipshit.
Part 1 of it has the White SRV that you talk of on the Top Body Horn but the 2nd part It is no longer there, by that time either worn off or removed by Stevie himself.
the guitar was repaired for Stevie earlier in 1990 with the new pic guard and possibly bridge tremolo to im not sure on that. about a month before Stevie was killed a piece of stage prop hanging above at a show fell and snapped the head off the no#1 and he used the neck from Scotch till his death. Jimmey had it repaired with rods and glue and it came out pretty good and this is what you see in this video. I must also say seeing the guitar without Stevie leaves an empty feeling in your heart
I always thought SRV have taken his guitar with him the night of the crash... as anyone would have done if the guitar was as special as Number One, so I believed it broke then and that was the double tragic result of the accident. This video makes me doubt... definetely Number One (the real one) should be in a museum.
I think it could be a proto-type they were showing Jimmy. The bridge looks fairly new, there is a lot of gold on it and all guitar players know that comes off really fast, and in another video in an actual interview SRV shows Mickey Mantle's signature on THIS GUITAR as well as Lenny.
@Geeper123 who's to say he didn't replace the bridge and saddles?or they replaced it before giving it to the custom shop?who know's who fucking cares?I'll tell you one thing on this guitar it has Kluson's and on the cheap srv signiture model(which i own) it has those fucking retard tunners that you stick the end of your string in?And half assed frets?I had to replace both but now its ok.the J.L.V. tex mex has hotter pickups though,I've lost them,swapping around,fuck me
I dunno how often Stevie changed stuff on the Guitar but Also if you look at the Austin City Limits Video the guitar has a 3 ply Black/White/Black pickguard and not the single ply liker this one
This is definitely a fake because Stevie Ray's guitar did NOT have that SRV in creme lettering in the last few years of it's life. Stevie put the holographic multi-colored self adhesive letters in a block type font. This appears to be one of the 100 copies Fender made. They should have put the holographic letters on there instead of what they ended up using. More people were used to seeing it as it was for the last several years up until the crash. Thanks for reading!!!
Then why do Photographs of him from his last ever Show 26th August at Troy Valley show him with the Script letters just like in this Video and not the Holographic????????
We have read the comments on this video. We feel that most of them are incorrect. We got our facts strait. This is the real number one. No replica. Have played it myself in 1984 in Houston. The guitar is restored to stock config. The strings Stevie played at Alpine Wally is 0.58 - 0.11 and those are still on the guitar. He played an long time with the neck from red. When the stock neck got worn out. Red then got an new one left handed at 1987. SRV wore then recovered back to the stock neck.
SRV still is owned by the family and is stored in an security valve. For those who are curious how SRV wore as an guitar. It had an quite deep low range tune. He played 1978 to 1983 most of the time 0,12 - 0,13 on the high E's And sometimes up to 0,18 on the E's. Charley Wirz persuaded him to go 0,11 instead to save his fingers. So 1984 > he started to use thinner strings. You can validate that by pictures vids. If you wonder something contact me via PM.
That's what I always thought too until I saw the Canadian TV interview (search "Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview") where he clearly shows it on the back of #1 as well.
I think if i were to hold that guitar i would cry man, seriously. You can't help lookin at it like a dog thats owner died and think, Stevie's gone, now the guitar has no one :~(
I'm curious about the missing Mickey mantle signature too in this other video "Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview" you can clearly see it around the 5 minute mark.....
@Geeper123 Your thinking of his other guitar "Lenny". He used the guitar for the Star Spangled Banner at the Houston Astrodome before an Astros game. His wife happened to be sitting next to Mickey Mantle so when SRV met up with his wife, he had Mickey Mantle autograph the guitar.
@dpordy99 That's what I thought too, until I saw the Canadian TV interview (search ""Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview") where you can clearly see it and he points it out and talks about it on the back of #1.
@dpordy99@dpordy99 That's what I thought too, until I saw the Canadian TV interview (search ""Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview") where you can clearly see it and he points it out and talks about it on the back of #1.
this is NOT the original, is this fool trying to pass this video off as such? and anyway, thats a lie, the original is not ONE of the most famous in the world, its THEE most famous in the world
@hemet92544 Someone mentioned the guy in the video works at Fender.. look through the comments and they said his name. If you can fact check it and find the guy let me know, I'm curious.
@hemet92544 Yea but I'm not 100% until Jimmie tells me its not, because the guy in the video works at Fender. I actually sent him a msg on twitter to see if he can confirm it.. the guy in the video.
@freaknbigpanda LOL come on man, since when has Jimmy EVER said anything about this guitar? never, for one its his own business, its his number one item left behind and willing to bet he has it locked away somewhere and does not nor ever has played with it since stevies death, would you? and i def would not let somebody take it to some hotel and fawn all over it, this video is a joke, its just playing to peoples emotions, like diamonds to women
@hemet92544 Oh I totally agree with you, but the fact that the dude works for Fender.. why would he be doing all this with a mock SRV 1 taking measurements and such? thats what I don't understand.
@freaknbigpanda just ask yourself this, where is Jimmy in the video??? this guitar if real would not be out of Jimmy's site, and WHO is Fender "dude", name?
@freaknbigpanda yea okay, but also its take apart, no WAY would Jimmy let that guitar get taken apart, and WITHout him being there??? and since Jimmy is not in that room, i don't believe its number 1, the wife. as i said this video is a sham, playing off peoples emotions. but everyone can go ahead and believe what they want, freeeeeeeeee country haha
@freaknbigpanda oh yea! haha i guess they were taking it apart to get the specs to build copies??? that geetar is the most expensive geetar in the world, and they tore it apart haha oh welllllll
Wow, if I were there touching that guitar, I would just break down and start crying. I would also probably be to scared to touch it unless SRV was right there giving me permission. Wow, wow, wow, wow.....
and why would Fender or Jimmie make a video like this documenting "Number One" while playing "Lenny" He never used this guitar for that song. He used a wine red Strat that he called "Lenny".
There were at least two of these guitars. Each nearly was an exact copy of the other, but one left out a very important difference. There is a guy who makes the replicas, and he has proof and documentation that one was burried with stevie, and the one in the photo here is the one he used as a second guitar. Jim Cara builds the most remarkable clones of the SRV #1 and has documentation and photos of every variable. He's kind of a dick if you get him on the phone.
@666HELLGUITAR i'm not doubting your info, however, where do you get your info from? The Vaughan Estate owns Number 1, it's in the posession of Jimmy Vaughan. He has it in an undisclosed location. This meeting took place in a hotel in Austin well after midnight so that Jimmy could get Number 1 in the room without a mob of folks trying to get after him so see what guitar he had in the case because that has always been the big mystery, 'Where is Number 1!'
How did this thing get so fucked up? I know he played the hell out of it for a long time but it looks like he tried to do some homemade relic work himself with a pick axe
@StratoBlaster420 He pretty much did lol. he stood on this guitar, he bit it, and its fallen so many times. I was even surprised to see how many chips it has haha. just watch some of his live videos and youll understand.
@dogododo Lol, he called this guitar his first wife so wouldn't that be domestic violence? I've seen some of his live videos but never did I see him stand on it or it fall or get bitten.
It's like watching a autopsy! It just seems so surreal. If I were the Vaughan family and I had to bury one of my kin.....The thing was like a body part to the man...I would want it gently laio on my chest with my arms folded over it asking the lord to change the rules and let me take it with me.
This is an amazing guitar the pick guard and stickers wer replaced shortly after the seperation from his wife in 1988. From what i understand, the neck and the strings were were put back on and then passed on to Jimmie Vaughan. As for the neck, the tuners look similar to the ones on "Scotch".
That neck is scalloped from wear! all the way down to the fret markers. Looks almost like Yngwie's Play Loud scallops, shallow but none the less scalloped! Crazy!
jimmy let it out 1 time.... and the ORIGIONAL STRINGS were on the guitar from Stevie's last night. Those look pretty thin to be 13's. Also. Jimmy made Feder wear gloves to preserve the guitar. Cool video tho. Maybe next time do a song that features the Correct Guitar, not Lenny.
@Bluestouse86 i thought the original neck was put back on after stevie's death? how could the strings from the show in Wisconsin be on there if the neck was replaced? it's possible, and i'm not calling you a liar , i'm just questioning some of the facts you presented.
@cibobary87661:08 Does that look like vintage style tuners? The origional Neck did not have Reese's tuners on it. The Replacement neck did. and yes, the origional was re-installed, but the origional strings were re-wound onto the guitar, very time consuming but possible
@Bluestouse86 oh so is that the neck from Red? or what? I'm real confused, is this a real video of Number One or a reproduction? That's crazy that they rewound the strings from the concert in east troy, what a tribute. anyways thanks for clearing some of that up. what is this video from?
@Bluestouse86 ok i see it now, different SRV stickers, different headstock and neck, this guitar is a very good reproduction that often appears at the Dallas blues fest. there's other videos of it on youtube. unless stevie or jimmie replaced the SRV stickers, THIS IS NOT NUMBER ONE.
Wrong. Look at any pics of the guitar/peformance from the night he died in Aspen. The neck was replaced with the original after he died, but this is 100% the real deal.
@ginashina yea i did some more extensive research and realized he changed the stickers and/or pickguard later in his career. i should have looked into things furhter before making my claims.
In the beginning the song "Lenny" was played at Carnegie Hall on his Lenny guitar not his #1. Just thought it was weird... A video about first wife but listening to a song played on another. I'm also a huge nerd.
Something about his video is fascinating and wrong all at the same time. It's incredible to see #1 up close, but it's almost sacrilege to see it poked, prodded and measured like it's an autopsy. It's like they are trying to find it's soul, and in turn, Stevie's soul. I could never bring myself to touch that guitar. I wouldn't consider myself worthy.
@stratboy59 you know in a sense that is very true, i couldnt even begin to play that guitar..............maybe just stare at it,and miss Stevie...........
there is NO WAY this can be the real #1 that SRV used... The one he owned is currently in one of the museums in dallas. it may be in austin now, who knows. but no one has the right to touch his guitar other than his brother Jimmy, or his wife Lenora.
@avin4723 That is his brother Jimmy in some of the pictures. I remember watching an official video of this when it happened. Trust me, it was the real Number One. They met in a hotel at night so the guitar could be moved from and back without anyone noticing and therefor drawing no attention for security reasons.
@avin4723 you can bet that number one is not on display , jimmy has it in a vault in texas , toooo valuable to be on display. one of the most valuable guitars in the world ........................... 7 figures++++
Correct me if I am wrong ... there is only one problem with this little video. "Lenny" if I am not mistaken was played on his #2 Strat was it not? The white one?
@skynrdpikr Lenny was played with the guitar he named after his wife "Lenny" which was the guitar she bought for him on his birthday, it wasn't white, it was an old sunburst design that had faded over time so you can't tell, it just looks red. This was, for the most part, the only time he has ever played Lenny was for his song Lenny.
@skynrdpikr no not the white one it was the one he called lenny given to him by his then wife lenora, it was sort of brownish red color with a odd mosiac below the bridge autographed by micky mantel
This guitar is a 1963 body with a 1962/1963 curved board neck .. but the Custom shop repro is a slab board or at least the first ones were. They could not be bothered to reproduce it properly - much more expensive to make the curved board at 7 inch radius.
I second that! How about scuttlebuttin' or testify? Or how about voodoo chile? Or even wham, love struck baby, little wing...the list is longer than my leg. Why Lenny?
Kinda sucks that they play lenny while showing off stevie's #1... I think it would be more appropriate to play a song he actually played with #1.. lol
as a cynic i have anyalysed pictures of number1 and cross examined them to this. and i can tell you freinds....this IS the real deal......hot daaaang!!!!
Wow! IN-SANE to hold and film a piece of history like that! What an honor! This version of "Lenny" reminds me of when I bought the CD, took a bus to a local music store in Boise, ID to buy it and was so stoked to listen to it, I went into a stereo shop near my house and BEGGED them til they put "Lenny" on a Pioneer system that was one of the store-wide systems. The sales guy and I just smiled, reveling in SRV's Fretboard artistry!
the audio sounds like a cover? of course its his style but seems to lack the intensity of SRV and something just sounds off. could be one of the first recordings of lenny i guess
@LICherrygirl Dont get your panties all tied up in knot..its not put down to female guitar players..Dont know where your anger is coming from..its a joke,, get it? NOT!!
But actually Stevie did never play this song (Lenny) with 'Number One'. He always did it with a red Strat with a maple neck. Just check his live performances of Lenny!
Great!! But actually Stevie didn't play this song ('Lenny') with 'Number One' he always did it with a red Strat with a maple neck. Just check his live performances of Lenny!!
Is that the orginal SRV No.1 Strat?!
SEVENTHSON89 1 month ago in playlist Stevie Ray Vaughan
lenny
Tankwylde 1 month ago
Lenny Live.at the El Mcambo
Tankwylde 1 month ago
sounds amazing but the price on this thing was 17000 on this thing.... wow. i dont think i know anyone who can afford that
Nyumgoway 2 months ago
What's the song at the start? Just lovely, lovely, lovely.
gavquinn 3 months ago
Please, can someone tell me what's the name of the song in this video...?
Send me a msg please...
Tnx.
andrewbozhozr 3 months ago
@andrewbozhozr
Dude the name of the song playing in the backround of this video is SRV's "Lenny".........
njatho 3 months ago
correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "Lenny" the song at the beginning of the video one of the few that MR Vaughn did NOT use "number one" on? He used the guitar his wife bought him, "lenny" right?
lowew79 4 months ago
So what exactly did happen to the guitar? Did someone strip it or was it natural?
beatlesman369 4 months ago
@beatlesman369 Its in his family's hands. Its locked in a bank vault with all his other gear.
nuttymanyelismate 4 months ago
Lol..Lenny was played..on well ..Lenny..the second most famous guitar..
terryscottslaughter 4 months ago
Fender and Guitar Center can kiss my ass. $17,000 for a worn out looking guitar? Fuck that.
michaeltrctt465 4 months ago
Hollywood needs to wake up and make a movie on the life and times of SRV. How it all started, how he got all his guitars, all the behind the scenes stuff while Jimmy is still around to get the facts straight. They did it for Buddy Holly, but i would think theres alot more Blues players and Blues fans then there is old time rock and roll theses days.
humbucker101 4 months ago
Number One belongs in a museum for all to see and expreience. This is the only place that should have been allowed to purchase it and only if the money from the sale went to Stevie's favorite charity. The only one who know's for sure about Number One is Jimmy.
spider62able 4 months ago
Beautiful Guitar, and gorgeous song, but didn't SRV play this song on his "Lenny" guitar, and not on his Number One Sunburst?
jacojaco258 4 months ago
The neck is not original. I also heard Jimmy sold number one to a private dealer. There was a theft at a storage locker where Stevie's clothes and other things were stored but no guitars were stolen at that time.
spider62able 5 months ago
@spider62able I wouldn't have sold that guitar for any amount of money.
Nem33 5 months ago
am i tripping or is the tremelo on the wrong side?
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DesignRec 5 months ago
Whoever filmed this really sucks at camera work.
NeilFraudstrong 6 months ago 2
Sorry to break it to you, but SRV did not play Lenny on Number One.
NeilFraudstrong 6 months ago 5
It's the real guitar, just accept it. Fender recorded the documentation and released this DVD of it with the guitar.
mayerguitar 6 months ago
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mayerguitar 6 months ago
actually you all are wrong. the neck your seeing is from another one of srvs guitars!!! he broke the original trying to do a trick his brother used to do. he tryed bouncing off the wall and the neck broke. lol you guys crack me up. later on fender repaired the original neck and put it back on.
srvforme 6 months ago
@srvforme Actually, you are mistaken. The original neck was destroyed in a stage incident in NJ on July 9th, 1990. Stevie cried when the lighting came down on his beloved Strat. R. Martinez salvaged what he could, but the neck was destroyed. By the way, there are rumors that the original guitar went missing after Fender copied it. I even read an article where JLV said the guitar is missing. Any info to clear this up would be appreciated.
cdevers100 6 months ago
Guitar porn
MrBadAssBoy123 7 months ago 6
where did this recording come from? theres no drums bass...
BondsMusic 7 months ago
@BondsMusic No way! you have a great ear!
PlAyInSomeBluez 7 months ago
fake
phil21469 7 months ago
i want it T_T
Finester92 8 months ago
you guys are blind if you think this is a copy. the date is on the back of the body behind the springs still. and if you look at the head stock where the old vintage style tuners use to be, the markings from them are there. fenders re-pro didn't get that detailed in the relic. even under the pickguard its warped and old. fender cant re-pro that good.oh and the reason it has new hardware is because stevie constantly changed his hardware. so yeah. its the real thing. accept it.
natezach97 8 months ago 4
you guys are blind if you think this is a copy. the date is on the back of the body behind the springs still. and if you look at the head stock where the old vintage style tuners use to be, the markings from them are there. fenders re-pro didn't get that detailed in the relic. oh and the reason it has new hardware is because stevie constantly changed his hardware. if you documented the guitar better you would see that. so yeah. its the real thing. accept it.
natezach97 8 months ago
ok people so that's THE actual number 1..Jimmy Vaughan is actually there..the script in the pickguard is a of Rene not being able to find holographic lettering so the "tonite show" graphics dept came up with that last min!..also you can see the split headstock..the pearl tuners..and the fact that Jimmy Vaughan is there watching everything remember this is 2003 Jimmy probably most likely let them take a gander at it by now and Jimmy Vaughan has the actually #1 locked away with the rest of stevi
ecmfreestyle 8 months ago
for the song. what live performance is this?
gsus723 9 months ago
@gsus723 It is the live at Montreux 1982 where he was booed the whole time he was on stage. Funny that they used a song SRV never played on Number One as the backing track for this video...
krabymcgee 8 months ago
why are we listening to him play Lenny for a video on his number one, everyone knows he played his guitar called "lenny" for that track
chrisgpix 9 months ago
@chrisgpix You are 100% correct sir......good call
smooretogo 7 months ago
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
3:19
MyManDan 9 months ago 30
Any one know mby where's now the orginal one SRV's Fender Stratocaster called "number one"? thx.
SEVENTHSON89 9 months ago
@SEVENTHSON89 why do you think?
SKAuthenticDank 9 months ago
@ethline
Apparently you are the retard.... since you can't read. I said this was BS.
But I could understand Fender wanting to take a look at the guitar and analyze it, it doesn't mean Fender would own it you no talent ass clown. You can obviously tell in the video that this is just a replica, there are tons of them online.
Your a douchebag, learn to read.
ericnhitterdal59 10 months ago
first off this is the finest Hotel in Austin, second, Stevie continued to make many modifications to his No. 1. Also what makes me think this is authentic, is that Jimmy is really, really unable to let this guitar out of his site. So it makes total sense that they would meet somewhere like this, instead of a fender custom shop. Im sure Jimmy wouldnt have that sort of thing. A man offered Jimmy a billion dollars for this guitar. Jimmy told him, to screw himself.
musicloveyes 10 months ago
I think this is BS too.... first, Fender would have it in a lab or at least at the custom shop somewhere, not in some shitty hotel in Austin.
2nd, if you look at this video at 1:57 top left of the pic toward the strap lock of the guitar there is no white lettering, and if you look at 1:33 of this video (and many other videos) you see white lettering (SRV im guessing) by the strap lock. So i call BS.
ericnhitterdal59 10 months ago
@ericnhitterdal59 you retard, why would Fender have Number One? Jimmie Vaughan has pretty much all of Stevie's guitars now, except for like Lenny. You're a dipshit.
ethline 10 months ago
@ericnhitterdal59
Sorry dude you slightly Mistaken.
The Austin City Limits DVD is perfect reference.
Part 1 of it has the White SRV that you talk of on the Top Body Horn but the 2nd part It is no longer there, by that time either worn off or removed by Stevie himself.
jayzakk72 2 weeks ago
i dont buy it! it seems like kind of an insult to be putting it on youtube like that! if it was the real deal you should be ashamed.
nevsaydie13 11 months ago
They took number one to a ghetto hotel not some fender lab? Odd.
dirtnasty81 11 months ago
uhh.....Im not so sure, Im checking it
maybe u stole it lol
grovzy1 11 months ago
uhh.....Im not so sure, Im checking it
grovzy1 11 months ago
at 3:20 and 3:30 you can see the headstock splice, great work!!
MultiJerkoff 11 months ago
super thin rosewood, many refrets!!!
MultiJerkoff 11 months ago
I say BULLSHIT.. That is NOT SRV's guitar..
522drwagon 11 months ago
the guitar was repaired for Stevie earlier in 1990 with the new pic guard and possibly bridge tremolo to im not sure on that. about a month before Stevie was killed a piece of stage prop hanging above at a show fell and snapped the head off the no#1 and he used the neck from Scotch till his death. Jimmey had it repaired with rods and glue and it came out pretty good and this is what you see in this video. I must also say seeing the guitar without Stevie leaves an empty feeling in your heart
BIGBADBOB99 11 months ago 2
@BIGBADBOB99 I agree.Stevie's guitar was his best friend.
STRATCAT101 11 months ago
I always thought SRV have taken his guitar with him the night of the crash... as anyone would have done if the guitar was as special as Number One, so I believed it broke then and that was the double tragic result of the accident. This video makes me doubt... definetely Number One (the real one) should be in a museum.
diecer50 11 months ago
3:19 "Shut the fuck up!"
MrBl0nd3 1 year ago
@MrBl0nd3 LOL!
Guitargod170 11 months ago
Funny to think that, the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen, is the same guitar that got beat to shit. xD
lmafia9009 1 year ago
Pretty ironic that the song playing wasn't actually recorded on number 1...
Cheesebomb08 1 year ago
I think it could be a proto-type they were showing Jimmy. The bridge looks fairly new, there is a lot of gold on it and all guitar players know that comes off really fast, and in another video in an actual interview SRV shows Mickey Mantle's signature on THIS GUITAR as well as Lenny.
Geeper123 1 year ago 17
@Geeper123 Was thinking the same thing, they didn't show the back of very well, but I didn't see a signature when they did show it.
lmafia9009 1 year ago
@Geeper123 who's to say he didn't replace the bridge and saddles?or they replaced it before giving it to the custom shop?who know's who fucking cares?I'll tell you one thing on this guitar it has Kluson's and on the cheap srv signiture model(which i own) it has those fucking retard tunners that you stick the end of your string in?And half assed frets?I had to replace both but now its ok.the J.L.V. tex mex has hotter pickups though,I've lost them,swapping around,fuck me
DanielGrozier 4 months ago
@Geeper123 look at the fretboard man !!!!
superiansuper 3 months ago
@Geeper123
Hmmmmm Hard to say.
I dunno how often Stevie changed stuff on the Guitar but Also if you look at the Austin City Limits Video the guitar has a 3 ply Black/White/Black pickguard and not the single ply liker this one
jayzakk72 2 weeks ago
@Geeper123 ya i looked at some pics too and the tuning knobs arnt the same.
VivaLaPeacecore 1 week ago
@Geeper123 well actully i take that back,, they did put the orignal neck back on so thoes tuner knobs could of been on that. idk lol
VivaLaPeacecore 1 week ago
23 people are against a guitar wonder
Rubi7577 1 year ago
3:19 lol at the audience " SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
an651m 1 year ago
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freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
do guitars long to be played?
nickkalisz 1 year ago
@nickkalisz im sure Henry does
KeithWasHere1 1 year ago
@lordzwaan lol make sure you tell the smithsonian not to restore it.
nickkalisz 1 year ago
This is definitely a fake because Stevie Ray's guitar did NOT have that SRV in creme lettering in the last few years of it's life. Stevie put the holographic multi-colored self adhesive letters in a block type font. This appears to be one of the 100 copies Fender made. They should have put the holographic letters on there instead of what they ended up using. More people were used to seeing it as it was for the last several years up until the crash. Thanks for reading!!!
yur1bgw9i 1 year ago
@yur1bgw9i It's just a different pickguard.. someone mentioned the guy in the video works at Fender.. so I doubt it's a fake.
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
@yur1bgw9i
Then why do Photographs of him from his last ever Show 26th August at Troy Valley show him with the Script letters just like in this Video and not the Holographic????????
jayzakk72 2 weeks ago
thats a man's guitar
kissforlife1 1 year ago
We have read the comments on this video. We feel that most of them are incorrect. We got our facts strait. This is the real number one. No replica. Have played it myself in 1984 in Houston. The guitar is restored to stock config. The strings Stevie played at Alpine Wally is 0.58 - 0.11 and those are still on the guitar. He played an long time with the neck from red. When the stock neck got worn out. Red then got an new one left handed at 1987. SRV wore then recovered back to the stock neck.
MrBigPike1st 1 year ago
SRV still is owned by the family and is stored in an security valve. For those who are curious how SRV wore as an guitar. It had an quite deep low range tune. He played 1978 to 1983 most of the time 0,12 - 0,13 on the high E's And sometimes up to 0,18 on the E's. Charley Wirz persuaded him to go 0,11 instead to save his fingers. So 1984 > he started to use thinner strings. You can validate that by pictures vids. If you wonder something contact me via PM.
MrBigPike1st 1 year ago
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That's what I always thought too until I saw the Canadian TV interview (search "Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview") where he clearly shows it on the back of #1 as well.
Geeper123 1 year ago
I think if i were to hold that guitar i would cry man, seriously. You can't help lookin at it like a dog thats owner died and think, Stevie's gone, now the guitar has no one :~(
jembrannan 1 year ago
I'm curious about the missing Mickey mantle signature too in this other video "Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview" you can clearly see it around the 5 minute mark.....
Geeper123 1 year ago
@Geeper123 Your thinking of his other guitar "Lenny". He used the guitar for the Star Spangled Banner at the Houston Astrodome before an Astros game. His wife happened to be sitting next to Mickey Mantle so when SRV met up with his wife, he had Mickey Mantle autograph the guitar.
dpordy99 1 year ago
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@dpordy99 That's what I thought too, until I saw the Canadian TV interview (search ""Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview") where you can clearly see it and he points it out and talks about it on the back of #1.
Geeper123 1 year ago
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@dpordy99 @dpordy99 That's what I thought too, until I saw the Canadian TV interview (search ""Stevie Ray Vaughan 1985 Lifetime Show Canada TV SRV Interview") where you can clearly see it and he points it out and talks about it on the back of #1.
Geeper123 1 year ago
@dpordy99 I didnt know that great info
ratherbhunting1 1 year ago
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Geeper123 1 year ago
Fuck.the helicopters.
ilmanmuutajamuutilma 1 year ago
@lordzwaan SRV NUMBER1 HAD MICKEY MANTELS SIGNATURE ON BACK.ITS POSSIBLE IT WENT DOWN IN HELICOPTER. . . SRV 4EVER
kennyz6979 1 year ago
this is NOT the original, is this fool trying to pass this video off as such? and anyway, thats a lie, the original is not ONE of the most famous in the world, its THEE most famous in the world
hemet92544 1 year ago 2
@hemet92544 Someone mentioned the guy in the video works at Fender.. look through the comments and they said his name. If you can fact check it and find the guy let me know, I'm curious.
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
@freaknbigpanda This is a REPLICA people, Jimmy would NEVER let this guitar out of his SITE
hemet92544 1 year ago
@hemet92544 Yea but I'm not 100% until Jimmie tells me its not, because the guy in the video works at Fender. I actually sent him a msg on twitter to see if he can confirm it.. the guy in the video.
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
@freaknbigpanda LOL come on man, since when has Jimmy EVER said anything about this guitar? never, for one its his own business, its his number one item left behind and willing to bet he has it locked away somewhere and does not nor ever has played with it since stevies death, would you? and i def would not let somebody take it to some hotel and fawn all over it, this video is a joke, its just playing to peoples emotions, like diamonds to women
hemet92544 1 year ago
@hemet92544 Oh I totally agree with you, but the fact that the dude works for Fender.. why would he be doing all this with a mock SRV 1 taking measurements and such? thats what I don't understand.
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
@freaknbigpanda just ask yourself this, where is Jimmy in the video??? this guitar if real would not be out of Jimmy's site, and WHO is Fender "dude", name?
hemet92544 1 year ago
@hemet92544 Mike Eldred Director sales and marketing for Fender custom shop.. 4:52
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
@freaknbigpanda yea okay, but also its take apart, no WAY would Jimmy let that guitar get taken apart, and WITHout him being there??? and since Jimmy is not in that room, i don't believe its number 1, the wife. as i said this video is a sham, playing off peoples emotions. but everyone can go ahead and believe what they want, freeeeeeeeee country haha
hemet92544 1 year ago
@hemet92544 Dude I just noticed.. look at 5:40 it's Jimmie Vaughan.. : x
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
@freaknbigpanda oh yea! haha i guess they were taking it apart to get the specs to build copies??? that geetar is the most expensive geetar in the world, and they tore it apart haha oh welllllll
hemet92544 1 year ago
@hemet92544 And at 5:55 I fully believe this is the real deal now, the real Number 1.
freaknbigpanda 1 year ago
Wow, if I were there touching that guitar, I would just break down and start crying. I would also probably be to scared to touch it unless SRV was right there giving me permission. Wow, wow, wow, wow.....
agarza1978 1 year ago
The low E string is totally off the fret board when they film right above it. Is this really Steveies guitar?
sergionano1 1 year ago
@sergionano1
I think its a fake.........
and why would Fender or Jimmie make a video like this documenting "Number One" while playing "Lenny" He never used this guitar for that song. He used a wine red Strat that he called "Lenny".
Case Closed!
mwlm1 1 year ago
@lordzwaan DR. JONES SIT DOWN!!!
Lowclef 1 year ago
eghhh god it rips me apart that you guys took apart the best strat in the world haha
5:64
kissforlife1 1 year ago
There were at least two of these guitars. Each nearly was an exact copy of the other, but one left out a very important difference. There is a guy who makes the replicas, and he has proof and documentation that one was burried with stevie, and the one in the photo here is the one he used as a second guitar. Jim Cara builds the most remarkable clones of the SRV #1 and has documentation and photos of every variable. He's kind of a dick if you get him on the phone.
666HELLGUITAR 1 year ago
@666HELLGUITAR i'm not doubting your info, however, where do you get your info from? The Vaughan Estate owns Number 1, it's in the posession of Jimmy Vaughan. He has it in an undisclosed location. This meeting took place in a hotel in Austin well after midnight so that Jimmy could get Number 1 in the room without a mob of folks trying to get after him so see what guitar he had in the case because that has always been the big mystery, 'Where is Number 1!'
agarza1978 1 year ago
@lordzwaan Amen....
golfgalval 1 year ago
How did this thing get so fucked up? I know he played the hell out of it for a long time but it looks like he tried to do some homemade relic work himself with a pick axe
StratoBlaster420 1 year ago
@StratoBlaster420 He pretty much did lol. he stood on this guitar, he bit it, and its fallen so many times. I was even surprised to see how many chips it has haha. just watch some of his live videos and youll understand.
dogododo 1 year ago
@dogododo Lol, he called this guitar his first wife so wouldn't that be domestic violence? I've seen some of his live videos but never did I see him stand on it or it fall or get bitten.
StratoBlaster420 1 year ago
@StratoBlaster420 haha a pick axe that is too funny
douglas84zz 1 year ago
when the vid was done he dimmed the lights and made love to it.
zvegasz 1 year ago
The real one must sound like heaven.
RIP Stevie.
order57 1 year ago
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what the fuck does this holy guitar do at someones home, it belonges in the smithsonian as lordzwaan say
MRklaasvaak1 1 year ago
wat the fuck does the guitar at someones home, it should be in the smithsonian as lordzwaan said
MRklaasvaak1 1 year ago
@MRklaasvaak1
Jimmie vaughan has all stevies gear locked up in a bank box some where..
BluesThor 1 year ago
@BluesThor they sold "Lenny" in an auction. if i remember correctly, Eric Clapton bought it
psycohockeyfan 1 year ago
@psycohockeyfan
i know they sold it. guitar center bought it for 623 500 $ :)
BluesThor 1 year ago
It's like watching a autopsy! It just seems so surreal. If I were the Vaughan family and I had to bury one of my kin.....The thing was like a body part to the man...I would want it gently laio on my chest with my arms folded over it asking the lord to change the rules and let me take it with me.
Givemeyourmarshall 1 year ago
is this the real thing!?
carlosfrusciante1 1 year ago
This is an amazing guitar the pick guard and stickers wer replaced shortly after the seperation from his wife in 1988. From what i understand, the neck and the strings were were put back on and then passed on to Jimmie Vaughan. As for the neck, the tuners look similar to the ones on "Scotch".
talecia08 1 year ago
I think it's whrong to copy others guitars :(
if you want a cool guitar.
make it your self
96Bluesboy 1 year ago
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picosim2 1 year ago
That neck is scalloped from wear! all the way down to the fret markers. Looks almost like Yngwie's Play Loud scallops, shallow but none the less scalloped! Crazy!
yjmsrv 1 year ago
What the hell ?
alexbuhmann 1 year ago
jimmy let it out 1 time.... and the ORIGIONAL STRINGS were on the guitar from Stevie's last night. Those look pretty thin to be 13's. Also. Jimmy made Feder wear gloves to preserve the guitar. Cool video tho. Maybe next time do a song that features the Correct Guitar, not Lenny.
Bluestouse86 1 year ago
@Bluestouse86 i thought the original neck was put back on after stevie's death? how could the strings from the show in Wisconsin be on there if the neck was replaced? it's possible, and i'm not calling you a liar , i'm just questioning some of the facts you presented.
cibobary8766 1 year ago
@cibobary8766 1:08 Does that look like vintage style tuners? The origional Neck did not have Reese's tuners on it. The Replacement neck did. and yes, the origional was re-installed, but the origional strings were re-wound onto the guitar, very time consuming but possible
Bluestouse86 1 year ago
@Bluestouse86 oh so is that the neck from Red? or what? I'm real confused, is this a real video of Number One or a reproduction? That's crazy that they rewound the strings from the concert in east troy, what a tribute. anyways thanks for clearing some of that up. what is this video from?
cibobary8766 1 year ago
@cibobary8766 also, where is the crack on the headstock???
Bluestouse86 1 year ago
@Bluestouse86 ok i see it now, different SRV stickers, different headstock and neck, this guitar is a very good reproduction that often appears at the Dallas blues fest. there's other videos of it on youtube. unless stevie or jimmie replaced the SRV stickers, THIS IS NOT NUMBER ONE.
cibobary8766 1 year ago
@cibobary8766
Wrong. Look at any pics of the guitar/peformance from the night he died in Aspen. The neck was replaced with the original after he died, but this is 100% the real deal.
ginashina 1 year ago
@ginashina yea i did some more extensive research and realized he changed the stickers and/or pickguard later in his career. i should have looked into things furhter before making my claims.
cibobary8766 1 year ago
In the beginning the song "Lenny" was played at Carnegie Hall on his Lenny guitar not his #1. Just thought it was weird... A video about first wife but listening to a song played on another. I'm also a huge nerd.
JustinoFundido 1 year ago
i don't understand the white wood above the pickguard. how does that happen?
avin4723 1 year ago
@avin4723 That's the result of wild strumming, the pick scraped away the paint as well as any dirt, revealing the clean wood underneath...
camel747 1 year ago
i think fender destroyed srv's guitar with the replica.. the relicing on the replica suck ass!!! RIP SRV!
BluesThor 1 year ago
Something about his video is fascinating and wrong all at the same time. It's incredible to see #1 up close, but it's almost sacrilege to see it poked, prodded and measured like it's an autopsy. It's like they are trying to find it's soul, and in turn, Stevie's soul. I could never bring myself to touch that guitar. I wouldn't consider myself worthy.
stratboy59 1 year ago 5
@stratboy59 Quueeerrrr.
holliesteelsucks 1 year ago
@stratboy59 you know in a sense that is very true, i couldnt even begin to play that guitar..............maybe just stare at it,and miss Stevie...........
vetmusician 1 year ago
anybody, what distortion or overdrive is he using here?
mojoefly 1 year ago
there is NO WAY this can be the real #1 that SRV used... The one he owned is currently in one of the museums in dallas. it may be in austin now, who knows. but no one has the right to touch his guitar other than his brother Jimmy, or his wife Lenora.
avin4723 1 year ago
@avin4723 You are an idiot. This was when the Fender Custom Shop took it apart in detail so they could released the tribute replicas.
internetassault 1 year ago
@avin4723 That is his brother Jimmy in some of the pictures. I remember watching an official video of this when it happened. Trust me, it was the real Number One. They met in a hotel at night so the guitar could be moved from and back without anyone noticing and therefor drawing no attention for security reasons.
AndersonWigwam 1 year ago
@avin4723 he was divorced from her at the time of his death do your homework
MrLarrygib1966 1 year ago
@MrLarrygib1966 i know he was divorced. doesn't mean he couldn't have left her that guitar.
jimmie has it though so it doesn't matter.
avin4723 1 year ago
@avin4723 you can bet that number one is not on display , jimmy has it in a vault in texas , toooo valuable to be on display. one of the most valuable guitars in the world ........................... 7 figures++++
MrLarrygib1966 1 year ago
Correct me if I am wrong ... there is only one problem with this little video. "Lenny" if I am not mistaken was played on his #2 Strat was it not? The white one?
skynrdpikr 1 year ago
@skynrdpikr Lenny was played with the guitar he named after his wife "Lenny" which was the guitar she bought for him on his birthday, it wasn't white, it was an old sunburst design that had faded over time so you can't tell, it just looks red. This was, for the most part, the only time he has ever played Lenny was for his song Lenny.
agarza1978 1 year ago
@skynrdpikr no not the white one it was the one he called lenny given to him by his then wife lenora, it was sort of brownish red color with a odd mosiac below the bridge autographed by micky mantel
MrLarrygib1966 1 year ago
This guitar is a 1963 body with a 1962/1963 curved board neck .. but the Custom shop repro is a slab board or at least the first ones were. They could not be bothered to reproduce it properly - much more expensive to make the curved board at 7 inch radius.
backthisway 1 year ago
lenny is by far the greatest song he ever wrote
aquaboy232008 1 year ago
@aquaboy232008 wrong
raderw311 1 year ago
@raderw311 i disagree
aquaboy232008 1 year ago
@raderw311 thats your opinion
aquaboy232008 1 year ago
@bigpurchase
I second that! How about scuttlebuttin' or testify? Or how about voodoo chile? Or even wham, love struck baby, little wing...the list is longer than my leg. Why Lenny?
fbender722 1 year ago
@fbender722 he said WROTE. sadly little wing and voodoo chile rnt on the list
midgetrocker36 1 year ago
Kinda sucks that they play lenny while showing off stevie's #1... I think it would be more appropriate to play a song he actually played with #1.. lol
bigpurchase 1 year ago
as a cynic i have anyalysed pictures of number1 and cross examined them to this. and i can tell you freinds....this IS the real deal......hot daaaang!!!!
boomboxbadboy1 1 year ago
Wow! IN-SANE to hold and film a piece of history like that! What an honor! This version of "Lenny" reminds me of when I bought the CD, took a bus to a local music store in Boise, ID to buy it and was so stoked to listen to it, I went into a stereo shop near my house and BEGGED them til they put "Lenny" on a Pioneer system that was one of the store-wide systems. The sales guy and I just smiled, reveling in SRV's Fretboard artistry!
Featster74 1 year ago
the audio sounds like a cover? of course its his style but seems to lack the intensity of SRV and something just sounds off. could be one of the first recordings of lenny i guess
juffurey 1 year ago
@juffurey it's from the carnegie hall album
joehudson 1 year ago
isn't it like a '59 neck and a '61 body or something???...
bonscott01 1 year ago
well its said that the neck form one of his other strats was put on one before his death
dejiita 1 year ago
@dejiita They took the neck from the red Strat and put it on number one once they were no longer be able to refret it.
atolleter 1 year ago
@atolleter oh sorry i must have gotten that wrong my bad
dejiita 1 year ago
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@atolleter oh sorry i must have gotten that wrong my bad
dejiita 1 year ago
is he gonna have sex w/it on the bed, in a hotel?? That wood looks like worn potatoe skin lol
wisesatyr72 1 year ago
@wisesatyr72
wtf? is that supposed to be funny? SO NOT funny !
WE Players: Axe men & women do play all the time YES even in bed!! I sleep with my #1 & 3 ! So what you got to say now?
huh ?
Didn't think so,,,
Cherry Black
LICherrygirl 1 year ago
@LICherrygirl Dont get your panties all tied up in knot..its not put down to female guitar players..Dont know where your anger is coming from..its a joke,, get it? NOT!!
wisesatyr72 1 year ago
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LICherrygirl 1 year ago
was his body 1 piece???
xodusattack 1 year ago
Great!!
But actually Stevie did never play this song (Lenny) with 'Number One'. He always did it with a red Strat with a maple neck. Just check his live performances of Lenny!
Serkkka 1 year ago 9
@Serkkka You mean "Lenny" the brown Strat.
atolleter 1 year ago
@atolleter Yes, you're right. That drawing "engraved" behind the bridge is unmistakable.
Serkkka 1 year ago
@Serkkka
It's true, the strat you are talking about was a present from hsi wife, for whom the song is written for
besnico 1 year ago
Great!! But actually Stevie didn't play this song ('Lenny') with 'Number One' he always did it with a red Strat with a maple neck. Just check his live performances of Lenny!!
Serkkka 1 year ago