Unexpected choice of guitar

Tony Iommi's White Strat !

 

Pretty sure that one was single-coil Fender Strat pickups... maybe just a straight Strat on the recording (he was playing some kind of a Strat a bunch around the time of that album)

 

The man played a bicycle at one time, gotta love Frank.

 

I think to see Taylor with a Strat is not that uncommon (I think there's one even featured on the cover of his 1979 solo LP) but a Tele?

 

I'm preferring to imagine the ridiculous baseball bat for the recording, but you're probably right...

 

You never know... it sure works perfectly for it at live shows & he's had it for years!!

 

EVH, Kramer double neck for Cathedral/Secrets

 

I just remembered what McCartney played during his brief stint in Nirvana:

 

The ironic thing is that the red Les Paul “Lucy” that he recorded the original studio track with was sitting just a few feet from him on stage. He has said that he made things very difficult for himself playing that hollow body rather than a solid body.

 

Jimmy playing a unique Gibson guitar at Knebworth 1979 (because of a broken string)

 

Rory Gallagher with a Tele !

 

Unexpected to see Ian Curtis with a guitar but that Vox Phantom Special IV suited him somehow.

 

Is that the same Les Paul who played bass with Les Beatles?

 

I’m guessing this is the ‘64 he recorded “Ten Years Gone” with.

 

Yeah, but with a Strat pickup configuration.

 

You are correct. Still most pics of him have him using a Les Paul, with an SG predominant in his early Stones days.

 

The Les Paul Clapton played on the Beatles recording was there as well.

 

This is really cheating in a sense since this is from Antonioni's Blow-Up, shooting the scene for which apparently a number of guitars were broken, until they got it right with a 1963 Höfner Senator E1 Thinline.

I think the only time you will see Jeff Beck with this guitar.



and certainly not that specific guitar ever again. Heh.

 

Exclusively built for smashing!

 

Alvin Lee

 

The reason you didn't see it more because it was stolen pretty early on. Johnny was convinced Robin Zander from Cheap Trick stole it as he started playing the same model around the same time...

 

Came here to specifically mention Jimmy and playing a Tele on Zep I! He used it I believe as well on a lot of later studio material such as the iconic solo to Stairway on record and such.

 

That's a Gibson RD Artist... it came with a Bob Moog designed circuit board (compression/expansion, bright, boost, etc.). Didn't impress many guitar players who preferred their own pedal array and after several redesigns, the model was put away. For whatever reason, they brought it back a few years ago with active p/u but left out the boards. Still, a cool guitar that was a bit too complicated to find a market.

 

I don't think Elvis understands the concept of strap buttons.