Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World - Rilegato

Hunter, Dave

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ISBN 10: 0760338213 ISBN 13: 9780760338216

Casa editrice: Voyageur Press, 2010

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

`This lavish, full-colour collection of the most iconic guitars in music is the ideal stocking-filler'
--The Guitarist, 1 November 2010

'The pictures are great...There's sufficient text to keep the guitar anoraks happy too'
--Manchester Evening News, 4 December 2010

'A thoroughly captivating read...fully stocked with superb photos, tour posters and artwork' --Guitar & Bass Magazine, 1 February 2011

L'autore:

Dave Hunter is an author, musician, and journalist. He is the author of several popular books about guitars, amps, and effects, including Voyageur Press's Star Guitars, The Fender Stratocaster, The Gibson Les Paul, and 365 Guitars, Amps & Effects You Must Play. A regular contributor to Guitar Player and Vintage Guitar magazines, he resides in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Billy F. Gibbons, co-founder and lead guitarist of ZZ Top, is also a renowned guitar aficionado and collector.

His iconic, 1959 Gibson Les Paul, nicknamed "Pearly Gates," is among the famous guitars featured in Star Guitars.

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• Editore: Voyageur Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0760338213
• ISBN 13: 9780760338216
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288