Star Guitars
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Star Guitars

101 Guitars That Rocked the World

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 22 Apr |Learn more

Star Guitars

101 Guitars That Rocked the World

About this book

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King’s Lucille, Eric Clapton’s Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s First Wife, Billy F Gibbons’ Pearly Gates, Neil Young’s Old Black, and many more. Here’s the first-ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music.

            Other best-selling guitar histories look at the rank-and-file models, but this book is unique in profiling the actual “star guitars”—the million-dollar babies, such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock, which sold at Sotheby’s auction house in 1993 for $1,300,000. Amateurs buy guitars to emulate the stars—Clapton’s Strat, Slash’s Les Paul—and this book explains the stars’ modifications, thus showing how others can recreate those famous tones.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Foreword by Billy F Gibbons
  4. Introduction
  5. Chet Atkins: Gretsch 6120
  6. Jeff Beck: 1954 Fender Esquire
  7. Chuck Berry: Gibson ES-350Ts
  8. Ritchie Blackmore: Fender Stratocasters
  9. Michael Bloomfield: 1959 Gibson Les Paul
  10. Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards, And Don Wilson: Mosrite Ventures Models
  11. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown: Mid-1960s Gibson Firebird
  12. Roy Buchanan: 1953 Fender Telecaster “Nancy”
  13. Peter Buck: 1970s Rickenbacker
  14. Maybelle Carter: 1928 Gibson L-5
  15. Charlie Christian: Gibson ES-150
  16. Eric Clapton: “Beano” Gibson Les Paul
  17. Nels Cline: 1959 Fender Jazzmaster
  18. Kurt Cobain: 1969 Competition Series Fender Mustang
  19. Eddie Cochran: Mid-1950s Gretsch
  20. Steve Cropper: 1963 Fender Telecaster
  21. Dick Dale: Fender Stratocaster “The Beast”
  22. Dimebag Darrell: 1981 Dean ML
  23. Dave Davies: Late-1950s Gibson Flying V
  24. Bo Diddley: 1958 Rectangular Gretsch
  25. Bob Dylan: Gibson Nick Lucas Special
  26. Duane Eddy: 1957 Gretsch
  27. The Edge: 1976 Gibson Explorer
  28. Peter Frampton: 1954 Les Paul Custom
  29. Rory Gallagher: 1961 Fender Stratocaster
  30. Cliff Gallup: 1955 Gretsch Duo Jet
  31. Jerry Garcia: Doug Irwin “Tiger”
  32. Danny Gatton: Redneck Jazz Guitars
  33. Billy F Gibbons: 1959 Gibson Les Paul “Pearly Gates”
  34. David Gilmour: 1954 Fender Stratocaster “0001”
  35. Peter Green: 1959 Les Paul Standard
  36. Woody Guthrie: Fascist-Slaying Guitars
  37. Buddy Guy: Fender Stratocasters
  38. Reverend Horton Heat: Gretsch 6120W
  39. Jimi Hendrix: Fender Stratocasters
  40. Buddy Holly: 1957 Fender Stratocaster
  41. Son House: National Duolian and Style O
  42. Tony Iommi: Jaydee “Old Boy”
  43. Waylon Jennings: 1953 Fender Telecaster
  44. Eric Johnson: 1957 Fender Stratocaster
  45. Robert Johnson: Gibson L-1
  46. Brian Jones: Vox Phantom Mark III Prototype
  47. Steve Jones: 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom
  48. Albert King: Flying Vs
  49. B. B. King: Gibson “Lucille”
  50. Mark Knopfler: 1937 National Style O
  51. John Lennon And George Harrison: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 & 1957 Gretsch Duo Jet
  52. Lonnie Mack: 1958 Gibson Flying V
  53. Yngwie Malmsteen: 1972 Fender Stratocaster “The Duck”
  54. Bob Marley: 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special
  55. Hank Marvin: 1959 Fender Stratocaster
  56. J Mascis: Fender Jazzmasters
  57. Brian May: The Red Special
  58. Roger Mcguinn: Rickenbacker 360/12
  59. Wes Montgomery: Gibson L-5CES
  60. Scotty Moore: Gibson ES-295
  61. Thurston Moore And Lee Ranaldo: Fender Jazzmasters
  62. Willie Nelson: Late-1960s Martin N-20 “Trigger”
  63. Rick Nielsen: Custom Hamer Five-Necks
  64. Ted Nugent: 1960s Gibson Byrdlands
  65. Jimmy Page: Gibson EDS-1275
  66. Brad Paisley: 1968 Paisley Fender Telecaster
  67. Les Paul: “The Log” & the Recording Model
  68. Carl Perkins: Gibson Les Paul Goldtops
  69. Luther Perkins: Fender Esquires
  70. Elvis Presley: 1942 Martin D-18
  71. Prince: Hohner HG490
  72. Bonnie Raitt: 1965 Fender Stratocaster
  73. Johnny Ramone: Mosrite Ventures II
  74. Dave Rawlings: 1935 Epiphone Olympic
  75. Django Reinhardt: Selmer Modèle Django Reinhardt
  76. Keith Richards: Early 1950s Fender Telecaster “Micawber”
  77. Mick Ronson: 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom
  78. Carlos Santana: PRS Santana
  79. Brian Setzer: Gretsch Guitars
  80. Slash: Kris Derrig Les Paul Copy
  81. Bruce Springsteen: 1950s Fender Esquire
  82. Joe Strummer: 1966 Fender Telecaster
  83. Hubert Sumlin: Mid-1950s Les Paul Goldtop
  84. Andy Summers: 1961 Fender Telecaster Custom
  85. Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Gospel Guitars
  86. Johnny Thunders: Late-1950s Les Paul Junior
  87. Pete Townshend: Export Version Rickenbackers
  88. Nigel Tufnel: Ernie Ball/Music Man “Mr. Horsepower”
  89. Edward Van Halen: “Frankenstrat”
  90. Stevie Ray Vaughan: 1962 Fender Stratocaster “Number One”
  91. T-Bone Walker: Gibson ES-5N
  92. Muddy Waters: Late-1950s Fender Telecaster
  93. Jack White: 1964 Airline Res-O-Glas
  94. Johnny Winter: 1963 Gibson Firebird V
  95. Ronnie Wood: 1971 Zemaitis
  96. Angus And Malcolm Young: 1968 Gibson SG Standard & 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird
  97. Neil Young: 1953 Gibson Les Paul “Old Black”
  98. Acknowledgments
  99. Index
  100. Dedication
  101. Copyright Page