Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World

By Dave Hunter

Book Overview

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil Young's Old Black, and many more. Here's the first-ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music. Other best-selling guitar histories look at the rank-and-file models, but this book is unique in profiling the actual "star guitars"--the million-dollar babies, such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock, which sold at Sotheby's auction house in 1993 for $1,300,000. Amateurs buy guitars to emulate the stars--Clapton's Strat, Slash's Les Paul--and this book explains the stars' modifications, thus showing how others can recreate those famous tones.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760338213
• ISBN13: 9780760338216
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 11.3"