Jimmy Page acquired his 1964 Fender Lake Placid Blue Stratocaster in April 1975 from Sam Ash in New York City and used it at the 1975 Earls...

Waddy Wachtel has played with Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Lin...

Mike Ness of Social Distortion says: "My main guitar that I use on stage and recording is a 1976 Gibson Goldtop Deluxe. When I got tha...

Pat Metheny started using the Roland G-300 guitar synthesizer on the his Offramp album in 1979. Made in Japan by Ibanez, the Roland G-303 c...

Santana started playing some of the original Paul Reed Smith guitars in the late 1970's. Over the years, there have been a series of Sa...

Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad used a 1967 Messenger guitar on the early Grand Funk albums. Messenger guitars were built in Astoria, Or...

The 1954 Gibson Les Paul Custom that Frampton played on Humble Pie’s Rock On and Rocking the Fillmore albums and his own Frampton Comes Ali...

While playing in the Runaways, Jett was using a blond Les Paul and wanted a lighter guitar.  She heard from one of her road crew that Eri...

Since Richard Thompson was a founding member of Fairport Convention, this Stratocaster was his main electric guitar, and was used on 1982...

Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick has played his 1978 Hamer Standard over 3,000 times live on the band's "Dream Police" track. Ric...

O For his solo acoustic gigs, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr often plays a 1950's Gibson CF-100 equipped with a Sunrise sound hole pickup. ...

In the early 1970's, Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead had his heavily modified Gibson EB3 stolen.  His next bass, dubbed "The Godfa...

Malcolm Young of AC/DC plays a 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird with a number of modifications, including stripping the original red paint to a n...

Billy Duffy of The Cult bought his first 1970's single cutaway, mono Gretsch White Falcon in the early 1980′s. According to Duffy: ...

Woody Guthrie owned and played numerous acoustic guitars during his career including Slingerland, Martin and a number of Gibson models. ...