Prince and the Hohner “Mad Cats”
Prince was known for playing some very unique guitars through the years such as “The Cloud Guitar” which was designed and built by Dave Rusan, the “Love Symbol” which was originally built by the brilliant German luthier, Jerry Auerswald, in 1993. He was also...
Jerry Garcia Tiger and Wolf guitars
Jerome John “Jerry” Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the...
Carlos Santana’s Guitars
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American rock guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, Latin music and jazz fusion. Santana continued to work in these forms...
Eddie Van Halen and the Frankenstrat
Around early 1977, Eddie purchased a Stratocaster body from Boogie Bodies shop, owned by Wayne Charvel and Lynn Ellsworth. The popular theory is that he also purchased a neck that same day, went home, and pieced together the parts creating the infamous Frankenstrat guitar....
Jeff Beck’s most famous guitars
Jeffery Beck was born in Wallington, Surrey, England on June 24, 1944. He showed interest for music at a very young age, and he was a part of a church choir and took piano lessons for 2 years. His interest in string instruments came after his uncle showed him how to...
Gretsch and Malcolm Young
Malcolm Young’s Guitars and Gear Malcolm (Mal) Mitchell Young was born on January 6, 1953, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. Mal‘s rig was relatively simple, and he mostly...
Fender and Mark Knopfler
Summary of Mark Knopfler’s gear What guitar does Mark Knopfler play? Mark Knopfler almost always plays a Fender Stratocaster or a Gibson Les Paul. For example, in “Sultans of Swing,” Mark Knopfler played a 1961 Fender Stratocaster finished in red. And, for comparison, in...
Red Special and Brian May
This is the guitar Brian May built with his father Harold in the early 1960s, and the one he has used as his main recording instrument ever since. It is one of the most unique guitars in rock music history because it is the...
Gibson and Bob Marley
Around early May 1973, Bob Marley walked into Top Gear, a scruffy music store on Denmark Street, a small side street in central London filled with offices and music-biz shacks. Top Gear, known for its stock of good second-hand instrumentation, regularly welcomed famous and...
Lucille the B.B.King’s guitar
B.B.KING The biography of BB King, pseudonym of Riley B. King, starts with his birth on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi. A blues guitarist but also a historic singer from the 1950s onward: with 41 studio albums, 19 live albums, 10 collections...
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