for excample guys like:

Jeff Loumis (Schecter)
Kirk Hammit, Jame Hetfield (ESP)
Kerri King (Dean)
Robb Flynn (Jackson)

cheers

Hi Jay: Keef is widely credited with starting the whole "relic" thing. He had the Custom Shop build him a replica of his '50s Tele, which was considered too valuable to take on the road anymore. However, when he took delivery of it he said it was fine but didn't have the worn in feel of the original. History records him as asking; "could you bash it up a bit, please?"

So we have the old coconut hunter to thank/blame for the look of untold thousands of guitars. Enough credit for any man...

Cheers - C

PS Speaking of old Teles, has Bruce Springsteen been mentioned on this thread yet? Not exactly great as a player, but surely a great who plays...

How do you figure Mark Knopfler doesn't play a Strat?Just about every video i have ever seen of him he is playing a Strat

Ah...Kirk Hammit did an still plays Fender guitars. He also had quite the Fender collection as well. Watch who you put on here. I posted Alex Lifeson from Rush and got into a battle...even though he plays exclusive to Gibson now and he admitted to using a Fender/Gibson hybrid guitar(s) in the Eighties (actually had 4 of them customized). (lol)

RK

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2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

Sure. But then everybody's played everything at some point in their lives. Jimmy Page recorded his most famous solo on a Tele - but sure as heck he's a Les Paul player in all our minds.

This thread can only be about the guitar we most associate with a given player.

Regarding which: has Joe Bonamassa been named yet? We've all seen him play Strats and Teles - but he is very clear that he is primarily a Les Paul guy...

Cheers - C

My point exactly... Check back on the thread and see some of my responces. You have to play a guitar to know whether or not you want to use it.

RK

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

KR has a Mary Kaye Strat that he used a lot on the Bridges to Babylon tour (played it on, I believe, Miss You) and during the Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll sessions.

I'm a Stones geek. Sorry.

Chances are he'll outlive the Tele.

Little known fact :
Estaban is from the Polish Hill neighborhood in PITTSBURGH!
(go stillers)

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Epi LP Standard
Epi Sheraton II
Epi CE200 Jumbo
Epi FT365 12 string (30 + Years old)
Univox Naked Bass (35+ years old)

I think Keef has successfully pickled himself. He prematurely aged himself, but then has been in a holding pattern for 30 years.

He has worn out plenty of guitars. In fact the genesis of reliccing can be traced back to him.

He had worn out his stage Tele's, and got fender to build him replicas, among the earliest CS jobs. (I have heard the first real CS commission was a tele for Elliot Easton of the cars, but no idea if this is true,)

Anyway richards said he didn't like playing the shiny new axes on stage, and asked them to beat them up and age them for him.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

I've seen a lot of names of guys I've seen play Strats listed as non-Strat Players--Page mostly played Teles, Les Pauls, & Danos in addition to various acoustic guitars & mandolins, etc.

But he did play a Strat now & then.
So did Zappa.

And others on this list.

http://www.zeppinhood.net/lzequip/60strat.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/peve59/zappa.jpg

And Hendrix, Clapton and SRV have played Gibsons.

Hmm.

Don't get a Strat because your favorite guitarists uses one.
Get a Strat because you like it, then get a Les Paul or a whatever.

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