Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World

ISBN: 0760338213

Author: Hunter, Dave

Condition: New

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. Kings Lucille, Eric Claptons Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughans First Wife, Billy F Gibbons Pearly Gates, Neil Youngs Old Black, and many more. Heres 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 Sothebys auction house in 1993 for $1,300,000. Amateurs buy guitars to emulate the stars-Claptons Strat, Slashs Les Paul-and this book explains the stars modifications, thus showing how others can recreate those famous tones.