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When Jimi Hendrix set fire to his Stratocaster at the Monterey Pop Festival, he said this as an act of love. “You sacrifice the things you love,” he said. “I love my guitar.” The big guitarists in the world undoubtedly love their guitars-Stevie Ray Vaughan even went so far to call his beloved six-string as his “first woman”. Here are 20 legendary and iconic guitars that are connected to the musicians forever they loved.
Iconal guitars are much more than just musical instruments – they are contemporary witnesses, trademarks and often silent co -authors of world -famous songs. Each notch in the wood, every scratch on the paint tells a story: of sold-out arenas, smoky clubs or night-long studio sessions. Whether handmade individual pieces or legendary series models – iconic guitars carry the soul of their players and often shape their sound for decades.
1
Eric Clapton’s “Blackie”
Clapton’s loved one “Blackie”, a modified Fender Stratocaster from the fifties, was composed of parts of three strats that the guitarist bought in a shop in Nashville in the 1970s. After Clapton had retired the guitar in the middle of the eighties, she achieved a record-breaking price of $ 959,500 at an auction in favor of CrossRoads-Clapton’s Rehabilitation Center.
2
Neil Young “Old Black”
Most of Neil Young’s electric guitar tracks were recorded on “Old Black” – a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop from the fifties, which he exchanged in 1969. The guitar has been modified several times over the years and has plenty of signs of wear.
3
Bruce Springsteens Fender Esquire
Often incorrectly referred to as a telecaster: The natural wood guitar on the iconic album cover by Born to Run (1975) is actually a strongly modified fender Esquire from the fifties.
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Willie Nelson’s “Trigger”
Willie Nelson has been playing a Martin N-20 concert guitar from Nylon for over 40 years, which he called “trigger”-after the horse of Roy Rogers. The famous piece without a whipping board now has a striking, large hole in the body. Nelson once said: “When Trigger goes, I stop.”
Famous in the film Purple Rain: Princes curved, custom-made “cloud” guitar was designed by a guitar builder from Minneapolis and later rebuilt by Schecter.