For Jess, Freddie, and Flo. Thanks for putting up with all the noise. First published in 2010 by Voyageur Press, an imprint of MEl Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA Copyright © 2010, 2011 by Voyageur Press All rights reserved. With the exception of quoting brief passages for the purposes of review, no part of this publication may be reproduced without prior written permission from the Publisher. The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. All recommendations are made without any guarantee on the part of the author or Publisher, who also disclaims any liability incurred in connection with the use of this data or specific details. We recognize, further, that some words, model names, and designations mentioned herein are the property of the trademark holder. We use them for identification purposes only. This is not an official publication. Voyageur Press titles are also available at discounts in bulk quantity for industrial or sales-promotional use. For details write to Special Sales Manager at MBI Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA. To find out more about our books, visit us online at www.voyageurpress.com. ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3821-6 Digital edition: 978-1-61059-767-8 Softcover edition: 978-0-760-33821-6 Editors: Dennis Pernu and Michael Dregni Design managers: Katie Sonmor and John Sticha Design: John Barnett / 4Eyes Design Layout: Sandra Salamony Cover design: Jason Anscomb Printed in China " • • my orse. IS IS -WI LLI N ~ ~LSON, on naming his Martin guitar "Trigger" NIGEL TUFNEL: Now this is special, too, it's a ... look, see, still got the 01' tag on it. See, never even played it. "All the Americans will wish MOVIE DIRECTOR MARTY DIBERGI: You just bought it and ... they could play on this TUFNEL: Don't touch it! Don't touch it! No guitar! At least it's got tone, one, no one, no! Don't touch it! DIBERGI: Well, I wasn't, uh, I wasn't gonna you can hear the chords touch it. I was just pointing at it. like you can on the piano. TUFNEL: Well, don't point, even. DIBERGI: Don't even point? Don't talk to me any more TUFNEL: No. It can't be played ... never. about their tinpot guitars! DIBERGI: Can I look at it? TUFNEL: No. Listen to this, it speaks like -This Is Spinal Tap a cathedral! " -DJANGO REINHARDT "Right after I'd seen Steve Winwood playing his white Strat, I was in Nashville and I went into this shop called Sho-Bud where they had stacks of Strats going for virtually nothing because they were so unfashionable and so unwanted. I bought a big pile of them all for a song-they were really cheap, like $300 "It doesn't have any dead spots or $400 each-and I took them home and gave them or any high spots-which is very, out. ... I made Blackie out of a group of them: I took the pickups out of one, the scratchplate off another, very strange. It makes it fun to and the neck off another and I made my own guitar play lead, because you don't a hybrid guitar that had all the best bits from all these have to worry where you're at. It's Strats .... What makes Blackie unique for me is the fact that I made it! It was one of the last guitars that not much of a solo instrument, I actually built myself, really. Therefore it felt like it but I can't really play by myself was invested with some kind of soul, you know." worth a darn, so it doesn't make -ERIC CLAPTON much of a difference." RAWLINGS -DAV ~ " joke that shou d "I used to playa place called Twist, Arkansas, on weekends, mostly at the beginning of my career. It got quite cold in just have a Twist, so they would take a big garbage can, half-fill it with kerosene, and light that fuel for heat. One night in co ection of 1949 two guys got to fighting, and one of them knocked the other over on that container and it spilled on the floor. Jazzmasters It looked like a river of fire. Everybody started running for the front door, including B.B. King. But when I got and Jaguars. outside, I realized that I left my guitar, a Gibson acoustic, and I went back for it. When I did, the building started to can do pretty collapse around me. I almost lost my life trying to save my guitar. The next morning much anything, we found out that the two "There's no reason for guys had been fighting about a lady. I never did get any sound my guitar being called meet her, but I learned Micawber, apart from her name was Lucille. So from my the fact that it's such an I named my guitar-and unlikely name. There's every guitar I had since Jazzmasters then-Lucille, to remind no one around me called me never to do a thing like and don't Micawber, so when I that again." scream for Micawber -B. B. KING need another everyone knows what I'm " guitar. talking about." -KEITH RICHARDS eLi -N [;LS N [; "She's a '59 Stratocaster. I've always called her my first wife. And she don't talk back to me, she talks for me. She don't scream at me, she screams for me." -STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN l()l GUITARS ROCKED TIff W(lRI.D Ttt~\T BY DAVE HUNTEJI F(lREW(lRO BY BILLY F GIBRO~C; Voyageur Press Foreword by Billy F Gibbons . . . . . . . . ... 10 Introduction . .. . ....... . . . ... . ... . .. 12 CHET ATKINS: Gretsch 6120 .................... 14 NUS CUNE: 1959 Fender Jazzmaster ............. 48 ,JEFF RECK: 1954 Fender Esquire ... . ............ 18 KURT CORAIN: 1969 Competition Series Fender Mustang .... .... .. ... ... . .. 50 CHUCK RERRY: Gibson ES-350Ts ........... . .... 20 EDDIE COCHRAN: Mid-1950s Gretsch 6120 . ....... 52 RITCHIE RI.ACKMORE: Fender Stratocasters ........ 24 STEVE CROPPER: 1963 Fender Telecaster .......... 54 MICHAU RI.OOMFIUD: 1959 Gibson Les Paul. ...... 26 DICK DAI.E: Fender Stratocaster "The Beast" .. . ... 56 ROR ROGI.E. NOKIE EDWARDS. AND DON WII.SON: Mosrite Ventures Models ........ . ...... . .. 28 DlMERAG DARREI.I.: 1981 Dean ML ..... . ......... 58 CI.ARENCE "GATEMOUTH" RROWN: DAVE DAVIES: Late-1950s Gibson Flying V ........ 60 Mid-1960s Gibson Firebird ................ 30 RO DIDDI.EY: 1958 Rectangular Gretsch ........... 62 ROY RUCHANAN: 1953 Fender Telecaster "Nancy" .. 32 ROR DYl.AN: Gibson Nick Lucas Special .......... 66 PETER RUCK: 1970s Rickenbacker 360 . . .. . .. . . .. . 34 DUANE EDDY: 1957 Gretsch 6120 ........ . ..... . . 68 MAYREI.I.E CARTER: 1928 Gibson L-5 ............. 36 THE EDGE: 1976 Gibson Explorer. ............... 70 CHARUE CHRISTIAN: Gibson ES-150 .............. 38 PETER FRAMPTON: 1954 Les Paul Custom ......... 72 ERIC CI.APTON: "Beano" Gibson Les Paul, RORY GAI.I.AGHER: 1961 Fender Stratocaster ....... 74 1964-65 Gibson SG "The Fool," 1964 Gibson ES-335, & CUFF GAI.I.UP: 1955 Gretsch Duo Jet ............. 78 Fender Stratocaster "Blackie" . . . .... . ...... 40 ,JERRY GARCIA: Doug Irwin "Tiger" .............. 82 [ DANNY GATTON: Redneck Jazz Guitars .... .. .... .. 84 MARK KNOPFLER: 1937 National Style O .... .. ... 142 RILLY F GIRRONS: 1959 Gibson .JOHN I.ENNON AND GEORGE HARRISON: Les Paul "Pearly Gates" ................... 88 1958 Rickenbacker 325 & 1957 Gretsch Duo Jet .................... 146 DAVID GILMOUR: 1954 Fender Stratocaster "0001" .. 94 I.ONNIE MACK: 1958 Gibson Flying V .. .... .. . . . 152 PETER GREEN: 1959 Les Paul Standard ... .. .... .. 98 YNGWIE MAI.MSTEEN: WOODY GUTHRIE: Fascist-Slaying Guitars ........ 100 1972 Fender Stratocaster "The Duck" ....... 154 RUDDY GUY: Fender Stratocasters .............. 102 ROR MARLEY: 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special. ..... 158 REVEREND HORTON HEAT: Gretsch 6120W .. .. .... . 108 HANK MARVIN: 1959 Fender Stratocaster ... .. ... 160 .IIMI HENDRIX: Fender Stratocasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 .J MASCIS: Fender Jazzmasters ... . ... . .... .. ... 162 RUDDY HOLLY: 1957 Fender Stratocaster ......... 118 RRIAN MAY: The Red Special .......... . .... . .. 164 SON HOUSE: National Duolian and Style O ....... 120 ROGER MCGUINN: Rickenbacker 360/12 .......... 168 TONY IOMMI: Jaydee "Old Boy" ... . ..... .. .... . 122 WES MONTGOMERY: Gibson L-5CES ... . .... .. ... 170 WAYLON .JENNINGS: 1953 Fender Telecaster . .... . 124 SCOTTY MOORE: Gibson ES-295 ................ 172 ERIC .JOHNSON: 1957 Fender Stratocaster ........ 126 THURSTON MOORE AND I.EE RANAI.DO: RORERT .JOHNSON: Gibson L-l ................. 128 Fender Jazzmasters ..................... 174 RRIAN .JONES: Vox Phantom Mark III Prototype . . . 130 WILLIE NELSON: Late-1960s Martin N-20 "Trigger" . 180 STEVE .JONES: 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom .. .. . 132 RICK NIELSEN: Custom Hamer Five-Necks ....... 184 ALRERT KING: Flying Vs ...................... 134 TED NUGENT: 1960s Gibson Byrdlands .......... 188 R. R. KING: Gibson "Lucille" ..... . ..... .. . . ... 138 .IIMMY PAGE: Gibson EDS-1275 . . ... . .... .. ... 192 ~ ...... , ... • " "ll , RRAD PAISLEY: 1968 Paisley Fender Telecaster . ... 196 ANDY SUMMERS: 1961 Fender Telecaster Custom .. 242 I.ES PAUL: "The Log" & the Recording Model ..... 198 SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: Gospel Guitars ......... 244 CARl. PERKINS: Gibson Les Paul Goldtops ........ 202 .JOHNNY THUNDERS: Late-1950s Les Paul Junior ... 246 I.UTHER PERKINS: Fender Esquires . . .... .. .. . . . . 204 PETE TOWNSHEND: Export Version Rickenbackers . 248 ElVIS PRESI.EY: 1942 Martin D-18 & Gibson J-200 .. 206 NIGEl TUFNEl: Ernie Ball/Music Man "Mr. Horsepower" ...................... 250 PRINCE: Hohner HG490 ...................... 210 EDWARD VAN HAI.EN: "Frankenstrat" ............ 252 RONNIE RAITT: 1965 Fender Stratocaster ..... . ... 212 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN: 1962 Fender Stratocaster .JOHNNY RAMONE: Mosrite Ventures II . . ..... . ... 214 "Number One" & Early 1960s Fender DAVE RAWI.JNGS: 1935 Epiphone Olympic ....... 216 Stratocaster "Lenny" .................... 258 D.IANGO REINHARDT: T-RONE WAI.KER: Gibson ES-5N ................ 264 Selmer Modele Django Reinhardt . ..... . ... 218 MUDDY WATERS: Late-1950s Fender Telecaster .. . . 266 KEITH RICHARDS: Early 1950s .IACK WHITE: 1964 Airline Res-O-Glas .. .. .... .. 270 Fender Telecaster "Micawber" ........ . ... 220 .JOHNNY WINTER: 1963 Gibson Firebird V ........ 272 MICK RONSON: 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom .... 222 RONNIE WOOD: 1971 Zemaitis ................. 274 CARI.OS SANTANA: PRS Santana ... . . . .. . . . .. . .. 224 ANGUS AND MAI.COJ.M YOUNG: 1968 Gibson RRIAN SETZER: Gretsch Guitars ..... . . . .. . .. . . . 226 SG Standard & 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird . . . . 276 SI.ASH: Kris Derrig Les Paul Copy ............. 230 NEIL YOUNG: 1953 Gibson Les Paul "Old Black" .. 282 RRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: 1950s Fender Esquire ...... 234 .JOE STRUMMER: 1966 Fender Telecaster ..... . ... 236 Acknowledgments . .. ......... . ... . . 286 HURERT SUMI.JN: Mid-1950s Les Paul Goldtop . ... 240 Index ............. ... ............. 287
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