Who cares, the sound is majestic. Stevie Ray Vaughan could have made a $20 Cort sound like a freaking Stradivarius violin.
@jimmyfranklin
21 күн бұрын
I totally agree!! It’s just surprising considering the strat icon he is! And if anything I thought it was really freakin cool! 😎
@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy5 күн бұрын
Tbf, Tokai does make some great instruments
@davidnovatka33469 күн бұрын
You better stay away from the pot dude.
@Whatdahell878918 күн бұрын
Bro it was just for the photoshoots come on. Or he could have used tokai in dtudio too. Ik he used em on stage few times
@jimmyfranklin
17 күн бұрын
Yea. Idk about just for the photo shoot. It seems he played them regularly and had a relationship with the company. Pretty cool either way!
@dwightburns6699
12 күн бұрын
tokai Stratford fantastic guitars any of those Japanese
@csi2448
11 күн бұрын
The live photo that is shown here is from 1982, and is in one of Craig Hopkins' (ran the SRV fan club and wrote many books on him) books. It's thought that Stevie bought it while on tour, since he often did that, and didn't use it much. Quote/word vomit incoming from Craig Hopkins. "An endorsement deal was being explored at the time (1982) and five Tokai guitars plus a of couple basses were negotiated as a goodwill offering toward Stevie signing with the brand. A signed contract for a Tokai endorsement was found that corroborates Hopkins’ guess, but the signature and the information provided on the contract (dated December 30, 1984) appears to be forged, with his wife Lenora - “Lenny” - as the signed witness. This potentially falsified contract was likely the basis for the creation of the ’85-’86 Tokai catalog and poster that featured Stevie Ray and Tommy Shannon playing Tokai guitars/basses. Stevie was known to have been infuriated by the marketing. Once, when presented with the poster by a fan, Stevie wrote “I PLAY FENDER” over the Tokai logo. Another major complication to Hopkins’ explanation that the Texas Flood Tokai was a possible endorsement guitar is that the 1984-’85 timing of this deal puts Tokai in the middle of a headstock change for their American-distributed guitars. In fact, a Stevie-owned Tokai that sold at auction for over $20,000 (with COA and photographic proof) was, in fact, a Tokai AST, which featured an altered, non-vintage, Strat-style headstock. This guitar that sold also appears to be one of the guitars Stevie is photographed playing in the infamous Tokai poster. All of this together points to the free promotional guitars given to Stevie as being the 1984-introduced ASTs instead of his earlier Springy Sound models. To make this Stevie-Tokai situation even weirder, Craig Hopkins has stated that Stevie is also playing a Tokai on the cover of Live at Carnegie Hall. The photographic evidence from Chuck Pulin’s photoshoot that night lends credence to his claims, but the decal is neither conclusively a Tokai or Fender based on the available photographs."
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Who cares, the sound is majestic. Stevie Ray Vaughan could have made a $20 Cort sound like a freaking Stradivarius violin.
@jimmyfranklin
21 күн бұрын
I totally agree!! It’s just surprising considering the strat icon he is! And if anything I thought it was really freakin cool! 😎
Tbf, Tokai does make some great instruments
You better stay away from the pot dude.
Bro it was just for the photoshoots come on. Or he could have used tokai in dtudio too. Ik he used em on stage few times
@jimmyfranklin
17 күн бұрын
Yea. Idk about just for the photo shoot. It seems he played them regularly and had a relationship with the company. Pretty cool either way!
@dwightburns6699
12 күн бұрын
tokai Stratford fantastic guitars any of those Japanese
@csi2448
11 күн бұрын
The live photo that is shown here is from 1982, and is in one of Craig Hopkins' (ran the SRV fan club and wrote many books on him) books. It's thought that Stevie bought it while on tour, since he often did that, and didn't use it much. Quote/word vomit incoming from Craig Hopkins. "An endorsement deal was being explored at the time (1982) and five Tokai guitars plus a of couple basses were negotiated as a goodwill offering toward Stevie signing with the brand. A signed contract for a Tokai endorsement was found that corroborates Hopkins’ guess, but the signature and the information provided on the contract (dated December 30, 1984) appears to be forged, with his wife Lenora - “Lenny” - as the signed witness. This potentially falsified contract was likely the basis for the creation of the ’85-’86 Tokai catalog and poster that featured Stevie Ray and Tommy Shannon playing Tokai guitars/basses. Stevie was known to have been infuriated by the marketing. Once, when presented with the poster by a fan, Stevie wrote “I PLAY FENDER” over the Tokai logo. Another major complication to Hopkins’ explanation that the Texas Flood Tokai was a possible endorsement guitar is that the 1984-’85 timing of this deal puts Tokai in the middle of a headstock change for their American-distributed guitars. In fact, a Stevie-owned Tokai that sold at auction for over $20,000 (with COA and photographic proof) was, in fact, a Tokai AST, which featured an altered, non-vintage, Strat-style headstock. This guitar that sold also appears to be one of the guitars Stevie is photographed playing in the infamous Tokai poster. All of this together points to the free promotional guitars given to Stevie as being the 1984-introduced ASTs instead of his earlier Springy Sound models. To make this Stevie-Tokai situation even weirder, Craig Hopkins has stated that Stevie is also playing a Tokai on the cover of Live at Carnegie Hall. The photographic evidence from Chuck Pulin’s photoshoot that night lends credence to his claims, but the decal is neither conclusively a Tokai or Fender based on the available photographs."