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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 1, 2020 0:11:35 GMT
A single guitar. Prince's "cloud"? Jimmy Page's double neck? Bo Diddly's "Cigar Box"? Hendrix's White Strat?
I'd put out there Brian May's "Red Special". Nothing visually sets it off. But he built it himself. And he's played it for his entire career and STILL plays it. For 57 years!
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Post by millar70 on Jul 1, 2020 0:55:40 GMT
First thing I thought of was Page's double-neck, totally iconic.
Brian May is a good call.
Willie Nelson and Trigger
Neil Young and Ol'Black, that Gibson he's played since the beginning of time.
Jerry Garcia had a few iconic ones: The Tiger, The Wolf, Rosebud (the hula girl)
I gotta bring up McCartney's Hofner bass as well.
Nice topic for a thread!
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jul 1, 2020 5:20:59 GMT
BB King's Lucille
May's Red Special is a good second place though.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 1, 2020 5:42:57 GMT
Clapton's 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard, aka "Beano", is a holy grail of sorts. Used during his Bluesbreakers days, it was stolen, never to be seen again - unless you believe Joe Bonamassa.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 1, 2020 5:54:01 GMT
Trigger is the only guitar I know by name even though I saw Bo's "Cigar Box" up real close at a county fair.
Stray thought the other night ...when Willie "goes" will Trigger be buried / burnt with him ?
Somehow that seems more fitting than putting Trigger in a museum like Roy Rogers did with the other Trigger.
I did not know this: Nelson met the nylon string Martin N-20 guitar in 1969 after a drunk destroyed his last guitar.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jul 1, 2020 5:56:18 GMT
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Post by onethreetwo on Jul 1, 2020 5:57:32 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 1, 2020 6:08:00 GMT
Albert King's Gibson Flying V has to be in the discussion.
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 1, 2020 6:19:46 GMT
B.B and Lucille ain't half bad.
Live at Sing-Sing Prison
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 1, 2020 6:33:45 GMT
Buddy Guy's Polka Dotted Strat is one of my favorites.
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Post by staggerstag on Jul 1, 2020 9:42:16 GMT
"Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk" -Thunder Road
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Post by sostie on Jul 1, 2020 10:10:54 GMT
BB King's Lucille May's Red Special is a good second place though. Wasn't there many many "Lucilles" and not all the same design?
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Post by sostie on Jul 1, 2020 10:13:41 GMT
Brian May's guitar probably. (It certainly would be one of the most valuable if it ever went to auction) I'd say this is pretty iconic
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jul 1, 2020 10:50:16 GMT
BB King's Lucille May's Red Special is a good second place though. Wasn't there many many "Lucilles" and not all the same design? Technically yes though they were all based on BB King's original ES-355.
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Post by cypher on Jul 1, 2020 11:08:33 GMT
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Post by NJtoTX on Jul 1, 2020 11:40:23 GMT
This one.
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Post by onethreetwo on Jul 1, 2020 17:19:47 GMT
This one. Possibly. It's the only one in this thread that gave its life for rock 'n roll.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 1, 2020 17:47:07 GMT
This one. Possibly. It's the only one in this thread that gave its life for rock 'n roll. Lots did for Pete Townsend
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 1, 2020 17:51:36 GMT
shame on me for forgetting Woody
Also Frankenstrat. For a while in the day, everyone had a guitar painted like Eddie Van Halen
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Post by petrolino on Jul 1, 2020 21:03:27 GMT
The Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley) specials, some riffing on the diddley bow. He was a carpenter and skilled as a mechanic.
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