the story behind the guitar of B.B. King, Lucille.
he named the guitar after he played a show in a juke joint that caught fire and he ran in and grabbed the guitar. he reflected on how foolish that was and he decided only a man in love would act that way so he named the guitar after a woman.
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the #0001 strat of david gilmour is NOT the first strat ever produced but it was made in june 1954. it has a special paint job, gold finish, and gilmour suspects it was a cust shop job with the special numbering included. he said it is the kind of guitar the separates the players from the wannabies and will never be sold.
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malmsteen has a duck strat. its a 72 yellow strat and has a donald duck sticker on the headstock. malmsteen has played it on all of his albums and he is pictured with it often.
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the NO.1 strat was vaughn's main intrument that had to be rebuilt often. he was very hard on his intruments. ever seen him live? he also used such thick gauge strings that his fingers would get cut up and he'd put superglue on the tips to keep playing! it was buried with him after his tragic helicopter crash in 1990. he was only 35.
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eddie van halen built his famous frankenstein guitar and used throughout the 70s and early 80s. he used bicycle tape to create those famous designs on the body, the white and black stripes on a red finish. it has a kramer neck and sometimes is confused with a kramer but the body is from a strat.
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Jeff Beck once had Rod Stewart as the lead singer of his band. He was also lead guitarist of the Yardbirds replacing Eric Clapton. Two of his notable albums have included the George Martin produced 'Blow By Blow' and the brilliant self titled 'Guitar Shop' in 1989.
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David Bowie and Peter Frampton went to school together. The 15 year-old Bowie and the 12 year old Frampton would jam together, Bowie with his saxophone. The two would reunite much later when Frampton played lead on Bowie's 'Never let Me Down' album and subsequent tour.
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Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, two American blues men, is where the band Pink Floyd formed their name. Syd Barrett, the main contributor to the bands early live success and also the brilliant 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' album, increasingly became more and more mentally unstable. He would often stop playing in the middle of a gig, or go off on his own tangent. It got to a point where he was impossible to play with and was replaced by Gilmour.
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Van Halen pioneered a technique that would become his trademark. The two-handed tap involves using fingers on the plucking hand (right hand for right handed guitar) to hammer-on, snap-off notes. These were often used on harmonic frets. You can hear an 'uncredited' Eddie Van Halen's solo work on Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' recording.
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Part of 'The Who' guitarist Pete Townshend's live act was to smash a guitar up on stage. He first did this when he broke a guitar on a low ceiling while playing live, and continued the demolition as if he initially broke the guitar on purpose.
