“Lonnie came into an Austin club where we were playing. I asked him if he would play, but Lonnie, the master of the Flying V, said he wouldn't touch anything but a Gibson”: When Stevie Ray Vaughan met his oft-overlooked, pioneering, V-wielding guitar hero

Stevie Ray Vaughan (left) and Lonnie Mack perform onstage in the mid-1980s.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Stratocaster are one of those iconic guitarist/guitar pairings – Brian May and the Red Special, Jimmy Page and his Number One 1959 Les Paul, et cetera.

Less well-known, but equally air-tight, was the relationship of one of Vaughan's foremost guitar heroes, the always-underrated Lonnie Mack, to the Gibson Flying V. And Mack's loyalty was not without reason.