David Gilmour’s most famous Fender guitars
David Gilmour is best known for playing Fender Stratocaster guitars. He has used a number of different Stratocasters throughout his career, including a black Stratocaster (“The Black One”) that he purchased in the 1970s and has used extensively on many of Pink Floyd’s albums and live performances. Gilmour...
Gretsch and Malcolm Young
Malcolm Young’s Guitars and Gear Malcolm (Mal) Mitchell Young was born on January 6, 1953, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. Mal‘s rig was relatively simple, and he mostly...
Fender and Mark Knopfler
Summary of Mark Knopfler’s gear What guitar does Mark Knopfler play? Mark Knopfler almost always plays a Fender Stratocaster or a Gibson Les Paul. For example, in “Sultans of Swing,” Mark Knopfler played a 1961 Fender Stratocaster finished in red. And, for comparison, in...
Red Special and Brian May
This is the guitar Brian May built with his father Harold in the early 1960s, and the one he has used as his main recording instrument ever since. It is one of the most unique guitars in rock music history because it is the...
Gibson and Bob Marley
Around early May 1973, Bob Marley walked into Top Gear, a scruffy music store on Denmark Street, a small side street in central London filled with offices and music-biz shacks. Top Gear, known for its stock of good second-hand instrumentation, regularly welcomed famous and...
Lucille the B.B.King’s guitar
B.B.KING The biography of BB King, pseudonym of Riley B. King, starts with his birth on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi. A blues guitarist but also a historic singer from the 1950s onward: with 41 studio albums, 19 live albums, 10 collections...
Frank Zappa’s guitars
“Considering the fact that Frank rarely used anything standard, it’s hard to imitate his sound. The important thing is to have the right mid tones and to have the feedback controllable at will. Frank devised the system to do this by equipping his guitars...
Zakk Wylde’s most famous Gibson Guitars
Zakk Wylde is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society, and as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and occasional actor. He was also the lead guitarist and singer of Pride & Glory, which released a...
The Gibson SG and Angus Young AC/DC
Angus Young is one of those guitarists who has been “attached” to one guitar for his entire career. In Young’s case, his guitar of choice is the Gibson SG, which he has used virtually since the beginning. His first guitar was a 1970 or...
Extrema founder and guitarist TOMMY MASSARA
Not many people get to “enjoy” this privilege; interviewing the founder of one of the bands that have and have characterized your musical preferences and tastes since your teenage years. I have never stopped following Extrema, loving TOMMY‘s sound and “guitar” skills, and when...
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