Star guitars: 101 guitars that rocked the world

✍ Scribed by Hunter, Dave;Gibbons, Billy F(Foreword)

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
Gretsch 6120......Page 16
1954 Fender Esquire......Page 20
Gibson ES-350Ts......Page 22
Fender Stratocasters......Page 26
1959 Gibson Les Paul......Page 28
Mosrite Ventures Models......Page 30
Mid-1960s Gibson Firebird......Page 32
1953 Fender Telecaster "Nancy"......Page 34
1970s Rickenbacker 360......Page 36
1928 Gibson L-5......Page 38
Gibson ES-150......Page 40
"Beano" Gibson Les Paul, 1964–65 Gibson SG "The Fool," 1964 Gibson ES-335, & Fender Stratocaster "Blackie"......Page 42
1959 Fender Jazzmaster......Page 50
1969 Competition Series Fender Mustang......Page 52
Mid-1950s Gretsch 6120......Page 54
1963 Fender Telecaster......Page 56
Fender Stratocaster "The Beast"......Page 58
1981 Dean ML......Page 60
Late-1950s Gibson Flying V......Page 62
1958 Rectangular Gretsch......Page 64
Gibson Nick Lucas Special......Page 68
1957 Gretsch 6120......Page 70
1976 Gibson Explorer......Page 72
1954 Les Paul Custom......Page 74
1961 Fender Stratocaster......Page 76
1955 Gretsch Duo Jet......Page 80
Doug Irwin "Tiger"......Page 84
Redneck Jazz Guitars......Page 86
1959 Gibson Les Paul "Pearly Gates"......Page 90
1954 Fender Stratocaster "0001"......Page 96
1959 Les Paul Standard......Page 100
Fascist-Slaying Guitars......Page 102
Fender Stratocasters......Page 104
Gretsch 6120W......Page 110
Fender Stratocasters......Page 114
1957 Fender Stratocaster......Page 120
National Duolian and Style O......Page 122
Jaydee "Old Boy"......Page 124
1953 Fender Telecaster......Page 126
1957 Fender Stratocaster......Page 128
Gibson L-1......Page 130
Vox Phantom Mark III Prototype......Page 132
1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom......Page 134
Flying Vs......Page 136
Gibson "Lucille"......Page 140
1937 National Style O......Page 144
1958 Rickenbacker 325 & 1957 Gretsch Duo Jet......Page 148
1958 Gibson Flying V......Page 154
1972 Fender Stratocaster "The Duck"......Page 156
1957 Gibson Les Paul Special......Page 160
1959 Fender Stratocaster......Page 162
Fender Jazzmasters......Page 164
The Red Special......Page 166
Rickenbacker 360/12......Page 170
Gibson L-5CES......Page 172
Gibson ES-295......Page 174
Fender Jazzmasters......Page 176
Late-1960s Martin N-20 "Trigger"......Page 182
Custom Hamer Five-Necks......Page 186
1960s Gibson Byrdlands......Page 190
Gibson EDS-1275......Page 194
1968 Paisley Fender Telecaster......Page 198
"The Log" & the Recording Model......Page 200
Gibson Les Paul Goldtops......Page 204
Fender Esquires......Page 206
1942 Martin D-18 & Gibson J-200......Page 208
Hohner HG490......Page 212
1965 Fender Stratocaster......Page 214
Mosrite Ventures II......Page 216
1935 Epiphone Olympic......Page 218
Selmer Modèle Django Reinhardt......Page 220
Early 1950s Fender Telecaster "Micawber"......Page 222
1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom......Page 224
PRS Santana......Page 226
Gretsch Guitars......Page 228
Kris Derrig Les Paul Copy......Page 232
1950s Fender Esquire......Page 236
1966 Fender Telecaster......Page 238
Mid-1950s Les Paul Goldtop......Page 242
1961 Fender Telecaster Custom......Page 244
Gospel Guitars......Page 246
Late-1950s Les Paul Junior......Page 248
Export Version Rickenbackers......Page 250
Ernie Ball/Music Man "Mr. Horsepower"......Page 252
"Frankenstrat"......Page 254
1962 Fender Stratocaster "Number One" & Early 1960s Fender Stratocaster "Lenny"......Page 260
Gibson ES-5N......Page 266
Late-1950s Fender Telecaster......Page 268
1964 Airline Res-O-Glas......Page 272
1963 Gibson Firebird V......Page 274
1971 Zemaitis......Page 276
1968 Gibson SG Standard & 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird......Page 278
1953 Gibson Les Paul "Old Black"......Page 284
Acknowledgments......Page 288
Z......Page 289

✦ Subjects

Music