Most famous guitar?

[guitartango]

What about the First UK strat as played by Hank Marvin (The Shadows). Worth a mint so i am told

 

[sumitomo]

In the Blues world really it's Roach Mulligan's ole Silvertone,man that axe was magic!and it survived the hotel room fire that he died in.Sumi

 

[pes_laul]

In my day and age it would be:

1.The double neck SG (though most people dont know who plays it)
2. Zakk Wyldes Les Paul
3.EVH frankenstrat

 

[Kodiak3D]

In my day and age it would be:

1.The double neck SG (though most people dont know who plays it)

I dunno. This guy kinda started the fad...

However, I'm going to guess you mean Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria.

 

[markb]

I dunno. This guy kinda started the fad...


However, I'm going to guess you mean Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria.

Damn! I always thought it was the bloke out of Pilot. Dig those threads, man :dude

 

[Trailer Park Casanova]

Awe come on you guys,,,,

Paul McCartneys Hofner.

 

[deeaa]

Yeah McCartney's bass would probably be one of the most known ones.

I'd say that and EVH's axe would be strong contenders.

You guys are thinking way too much like guitarists, and to top it off, mostly like American guitarists. Like that Clapton's guitar...even I have no clue as to what does Blackie look like..I always thought Clapton played a Les Paul for a good while at least, only in latter years some strats. And I play the guitar!

I'd bet NOBODY else than a guitar player would know for instance SRV's guitar. And outside america, probably only those guitarists who are into country stuff. I woulda never even heard of the guy if I didn't play the guitar - who would have?

Clapton's guitars? Very few would know them, although everyone knows the musician. BB's Lucille? Who the hell is BB King anyway? Led Zeppelin and Page's doubleneck would definitely be head and shoulders above in recognizability internationally than any of those.

But Beatles is known everywhere in the world. And, thanks to Pepsi, also Van Halen's guitar. I remember when the ads were on TV...most people had no idea who the dude playing the solo was, but everybody surely remembers the guitar, it was such a prominent feature in the ads for the 'New Generation'...so they might not be able to link that dude being in this old hardrock band that's quite popular in the U.S. and well known among guitarists - you'd tell them it's the guy who plays in the old hit 'Jump' and they'd know the band, but anyway...they'd recognize the guitar.

But hey, this is a very interesting thread...you know, I teach 800 people aged between 16 and 50, it'd be a very interesting thing to get color pics of all these guitars and make a poll whether they recognize any of them. If I remember to do that when I return to work...

 

[Kazz]

I dunno. This guy kinda started the fad...

However, I'm going to guess you mean Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria.

Naah...I am going to go out on a limb and say he is talking about Steve "Steamin" Clark of Def Leppard. Steve is the reason that my personal fave Frank Hannon has a double neck SG.

 

[Kodiak3D]

You guys are thinking way too much like guitarists...

Well, uh, this is a guitar players' forum

BB's Lucille? Who the hell is BB King anyway?

OK, I was willing to overlook the fact that the world missed out on the country music, but you don't seriously expect me to believe you play guitar and have never heard of B.B. KING, the King of Blues?! :nope

You MUST look up some of his music. oke
If for any reason, just so you will at least know who he is.

 

[Retro Hound]

I have trouble believing Finland is that isolated. I spent two years in Germany and BB King is not unknown internationally. Nor are many of the other artists that our Finnish friend has yet to discover.

 

[Trailer Park Casanova]

OK now you just quoted a whole bunch of complete unknowns more ;-) Yokam? Brooks? Gospel? Does somebody listen to it beside in southern churches?

Elvis and Lee I know of course.

James Burton's Telecaster? :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burton_Telecaster



Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burton

 

[deeaa]

I have trouble believing Finland is that isolated. I spent two years in Germany and BB King is not unknown internationally. Nor are many of the other artists that our Finnish friend has yet to discover.

Well now that I connected the dots, yeah, he's even held concerts here.

What can I say - I guess I just don't know that many guitarists. I couldn't name guitarists from almost any of my favorite bands even. I listen to a lot of music but I don't care so much about who are the people who make it---neither I care much for lyrics and such, covers etc...I just care for the music. Hell 90% of the time I'm listening to my own iPod I don't even know what band it is that I listen to...I don't try to remember them, I find good music and listen to it but not so much remember band or record names and definitely not the names of the players.

But I remember guitars much better...I bet I could describe the guitars the players use much better than the players themselves, LOL. Whenever I watch a band live, it's what I watch..their equipment. But I go to gigs very rarely, maybe once a year or so, even more rarely than go out to a bar or something. Still, I remember exactly what gear and guitars the last band I saw live used, but I've forgotten the band name completely.

Actually, speaking of that, it may be more of a cultural thing. When I was working in the U.S. I felt strange about names; people would call each other by their names. That rarely happens here. We just say hello guy, just hello, or something like that. I knew that my name is hard to pronounce (it's Antti and it's pronounced sort of "N't-e", or "Unt-ee") so when people asked what's my name I just said 'call me whatever you wish'. But I got the impression people sometimes felt offended I didn't use or know their names, even if we'd met only like a few times. Hell, I still don't even know what's the real name of our own guitarist, I just know him by his nickname although I've known him since grade school. Same with the previous band, I never got to knowing the other guitarist's family name and I'm not entirely sure what the singer's surname is. They're all in my phonebook just by first names. My phone is full of names like 'the lespaul dude' or 'salesman' or whatever because I didn't get their names.

Names aren't so important here I guess...and I myself am terrible with names. I started working in my current workplace the first time 10 years ago and I still don't know most of my colleagues by full name. I know all but 2 in our room, though. I suppose its because I have like 800 new students every year...I don't even try to remember their names. Whenever they do class work and such, stuff I need to evaluate and write down grades etc. I always ask what was the name again. Sometimes they get also a bit insulted, especially if it's been a long all-year course or 100 hours or something.

Yeah...sometimes I feel like I know names especially badly, like when I started taking care of my Mom's monetary affairs and the bank clerk asked me what's her name, and I drew a complete blank for a few seconds, and then stumbled her second name first and used her maiden name while groping for the info in my memory...the teller sure gave me an odd look ;-)

 

[Monkus]

these three immediately come to mind, you can probably tell i grew up in the 80's...

 

[mrmudcat]

James Burton's Telecaster? :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burton_Telecaster



Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burton

Great clip brother!!!!

 

[marnold]

Man, Burton looked like a kid in that clip. Of course, if it was from the year the song was recorded (1959), he WAS young. He only turned 20 in August of that year.

 

[pes_laul]

I dunno. This guy kinda started the fad...

However, I'm going to guess you mean Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria.

Of course I know who jimmy page is :thwap

But not alot of other kids my age do

 

[Kodiak3D]

Of course I know who jimmy page is :thwap

But not alot of other kids my age do

...which is sad. Zeppelin has gained some popularity since the O2 concert and the Mothership CD release, but a Zeppelin Gutiar Hero or Rock Band would really make a difference (which Page was said will never happen).

 

[Perfect Stranger]

I'd say...mine...of course!

 

[Trailer Park Casanova]

...which is sad. Zeppelin has gained some popularity since the O2 concert and the Mothership CD release, but a Zeppelin Gutiar Hero or Rock Band would really make a difference (which Page was said will never happen).

He was with Robert Plant at a little restaurant in the desert above Calif's Yucca Valley.
They have homes near there we're told.

My daughter asked him about his "Sessions" as a working-for-wages studio recording musician. Pre-Zepplin.

He named a few tunes and bands he recorded for, but was never a member of the bands nor toured with them. "Played a few licks, pulled a check".
Hermans Hermits and the Searchers I think he also mentioned.
But I was on the rumside, so don't hold me to that.

You can tell his the sound of his fist if you listen closely to some of the old British invasion tunes.

- Or at least ya think ya do. Ahh, hell, I think I do.

 

[Trailer Park Casanova]

Man, Burton looked like a kid in that clip. Of course, if it was from the year the song was recorded (1959), he WAS young. He only turned 20 in August of that year.

Today:

BTW, Who was/is "Scotty" that used to play with Elvis as well?

 

[wingsdad]

BTW, Who was/is "Scotty" that used to play with Elvis as well?

That would be his original sideman from the Sun sessions since 1954, Scotty Moore. Cool clip here from the '68 Comeback TV special...

 

[Rampant]

Dudes

"Most famous guitar"

Too difficult. Yeah most guitarists will have heard of Lucille.... but would you recognise it without BB being in the picture.

Thinking more like "man in the street", I guess that for a guitar to be famous it probably needs to be recognisable on it's own and "man in the street" says, yeah, that' such-and-such's guitar.

For instance. Black Tele with black and white chequered pickguard equals Avril Lavigne.

Or. Union Jack liveried axe equals Oasis.

Also. Black Acoustic equals Johnny Cash.

Ultimately. Glossy red Strat equals Hank Marvin/The Shadows.

All depends on what you mean by "most famous guitar"

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Rampant, you have a strong point regarding "everyman". That is why I come back to Van Halen's frankenstrat. Known on its own enough for its motif and look to be copied by shoe companies, etc. And the VH demographic covers young kids to folks in their 40s and 50s.

 

[Perfect Stranger]

As bad as I hate to admit it.....EVH is probably correct.

 

[Blaze]

For the older guys , this one has to be near the first rank..

 

[Rampant]

Rampant, you have a strong point regarding "everyman". That is why I come back to Van Halen's frankenstrat. Known on its own enough for its motif and look to be copied by shoe companies, etc. And the VH demographic covers young kids to folks in their 40s and 50s.

Hmmmm. Copied by shoe companies!

Ladies and gentlemen. The "most famous" guitar. Eddie's frankenstrat. Probably. LOL

 

[rugbynyc]

Rampant, you have a strong point regarding "everyman". That is why I come back to Van Halen's frankenstrat. Known on its own enough for its motif and look to be copied by shoe companies, etc. And the VH demographic covers young kids to folks in their 40s and 50s.

Strictly speaking about non-guitarists. I would imagine that if you showed a random group of people pictures of the guitars mentioned in this thread, just guitars without guitarists in the picture, I would guess 2 things would happen:
1 a lot of people, maybe half would not recognize any of the guitars
2 of those that do, EVH frankenstrat would be most recognized.

That being said, I don't think it's the frankenstrat per se that's famous but the pattern painted on it that is famous.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...ues-nike-over-guitars-signature-color-scheme/

Yeah, we talked about it here once. I don't think it is worth a lawsuit, but the design sure does bring to mind the frankenstrat. LOL!!

 

[Rampant]

Contender?

 

[Tig]

Hmmmm. Copied by shoe companies!

Ladies and gentlemen. The "most famous" guitar. Eddie's frankenstrat. Probably. LOL

Just drop by VanHalenStore.com (I'm not kidding about the website!) for all your shoe needs!

Don't forget Nike's version... :rollover