Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World

Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World
Dave Hunter (Author), Billy F Gibbons (Foreword)
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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.

• Rank: #99352 in Books
• Brand: Quayside Publications
• Published on: 2010-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.14" h x 9.44" w x 11.12" l, 3.72 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

• Brand Name: Baker and Taylor Mfg#: 9780760338216
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