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  Mad Stratter

  1 year ago

  I'm surprised you take issue with the inclusion of Bo Diddley... how many other guys do you know who play a shoe-box-with-a-neck-guitar?
  
  It's apparent that they picked the number 28 ahead of time and struggled to meet that quota when they actually started thinking of guitars... they should have kept it to a list of 10 and left out all the fluff.
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  Wookie

  1 year ago

  Whoops, that was one of the ones I meant to bold. I went over the list about 5 times making sure I didn;t miss any and I still did. Good spot.
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  Jol Dantzig

  1 year ago

  There's so many ways to interpret this list, depending upon your viewpoint.
  Imagine if you walked into a room where all of the guitars on the list were hanging up on the walls, and you had to name each guitar's owner...
  
  That's one way to look at it.
  
  Another would be if the names of guitarists were listed, and you had to name their main guitar...
  
  Hey, where's John Lennon's black Rickenbacker? Or Merle's Bigsby? Or Charlie Christian's ES 150?
  
  
  In the end, it's not really worth arguing about.
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  Wookie

  1 year ago

  "Imagine if you walked into a room where all of the guitars on the list were hanging up on the walls, and you had to name each guitar’s owner…"
  
  Thats exactly where I am coming from. But you are right. It's not really that important, but makes a damn good discussion topic, that's for sure.
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  Matt Willian

  1 year ago

  uhh Jack White's airline is pretty recognizeable...
  also suprising that they didn't include Steve Vai's Jem
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  Wookie

  1 year ago

  It is, but when I see it I don't instantly think Jack White, whereas I'm sure a lot of people do. The Jem however is a good call. I would think it doesn't make their list because outside the guitar world Vai isn't exactly a household name.
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  Dave

  1 year ago

  Joe Strummer's Tele. Sunburst spraypainted black (poorly) with the black (and in some places, the sunburst) worn through, with a sticker that says "Ignore Alien Orders". Wonderful.
  
  James Burton's Tele: Pink Paisley. Fender thought they'd sell 'em to hippies, but the only folks I've ever heard of playing 'em are country guys.
  
  Waylon Jennings' Tele: Covered with Black leather with white figures sewn on. As much a part of the opening to Dukes of Hazzard as the orange Dodge Charger.
  
  Clarence White's Tele, then Marty Stuart's Tele: A late-50s sunburst Tele, with a Strat pick in the neck, a German griffin sticker behind the bridge and a whole freakin' other body bolted on to hold the B-Bender hardware. Leave it to a hot country picker to play a double-wide.
  
  Springsteen's Esquire: Retrofitted with a neck pickup. Black pickguard, blonde body. The black-and-white pick on the cover to Born To Run made it iconographic.
  
  Jerry Garcia's later customs (to prove I'm not only a Tele fan): Beautiful rich rosewood with gold appointments. I can't look at things like some Ibanez S series guitars without thinking about a Steal Your Face sticker behind the bridge, even if their actual shape looks more like a BC Rich take on a Stratocaster.
  
  Lonnie Mack's Flying V: He had a V. He wanted a tremelo bridge. He found a Bigsby, but it was a tailpiece Bigsby. So he connected the wings of the V with a metal rod to hook the tailpiece to. Nobody's rockin' a Flying V like this one!
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  Dave

  1 year ago

  And I forgot. George Lynch's Mr. Scary: You could give George Lynch a bog-standard Strat or Les Paul and film only his right hand, without sound, and I would say, "Hey, that's George Lynch!" And he has had a few notable paintjobs on his superstrats. The Kamikaze. The tiger stripe. But Mr. Scary is the skull and bones. Scary halloween art with a neck. It's him.
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  Wookie

  1 year ago

  Now those are some great suggestions. Another one I thought of was Rory Gallagher's strat where he had rubbed the entire finish away.
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  jmevans12

  7 months ago

  Yeah, Garcia's guitar has been viewed by more people in person then any other. I think if you took a pole from everyone in America and said who's guitar is this? several million deadheads would know "rosebud" (probably by name). What other guitar if you posted it would SEVERAL MILLION people know? Maybe eddie van halen's "frankenstein" Jimi's strat would just look like a strat to people who didn't know guitars, same with most of the others; unrecognizable from guitars of the same make,model and color. But if you don't know deadhead culture, it's kind of a shocker.
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