a little more from the article where i got it from...
Marc Ford is ambivalent about gear mania: "B.B. King once said, 'Give me any guitar and amp, and I will get my sound, because my soul is me and not the instrument.' That's totally right-on. Give me a Hondo II, and I'll make some nice sounds with it. The guitar is just wood and some electric bits. Get over it."
Of course, Marc doesn't use a Hondo II. His main road hog is a stripped-to-the-wood '71 Gibson Les Paul Standard, a Christmas girt from Chris Robinson. "I had never played Gibsons before, " says Ford. "I was always a Stratocaster man, because you can throw them on the ground, step on 'em, drag 'em behind your car, and they still work. Gibsons always seemed too precious. A Gibson is like a Cadillac; it almost plays itself. With Fenders you've got to really dig in to get it out of there."