Lucille B.B. Kinga, Blackie Erica Claptona, Number One Steviego Raya Vaughana, Pearly Gates Billy’ego F Gibbonsa i wiele, wiele innych. Oto pierwsza na świecie ilustrowana historia gitar, na których grały największe gwiazdy muzyki – od selmera należącego do Django Reinhardta, poprzez stratocastera spalonego przez Jimiego Hendrixa w latach 60. XX w., po jazzmastera rocznik ‘59 – faworyta Nelsa Cline’a.
Guitar aficionados will love this book. Within its pages, is a huge selection of guitarists, and the guitars that they are most associated with. Lots of great pictures and stories, about some of the most important guitars in the history of music! An excellent addition to any guitarists library.
I won this book as a GoodReads First Read. It is amazing. It's a perfect coffee table book for any guitar lover. It was a lot of fun to read more backstory about some of my personal favorite axes, all represented here: Brian May's Red Special, Slash's Kris Derrig Les Paul Copy, and of course, the king of them all, Rick Nielsen's Custom Hamer 5 necks.
The story of how the guitarist aquired their guitar, What was done to it. What happened after death and so on. GREAT! Good insight, just what I wanted.
But i expected much more from the photos. Ok to see the guitarist playing their guitar live and/or studio. Great. Bad print of commercial from the time, ok. But I wanted much better images of the guitar itself, alone
A great read for those of us ""music nerds"" who care what guitars were played on classic albums by timeless bands/players. I was able to create a whole list of guitar players that I need to track down and listen to thanks to this book. Rock on!
Even though I am broadly aware of these iconic instruments and the myths spun around them, I spent quite a while reading all the write-ups and examining the fantastic pictures very closely. Time very well spent, I say.
The text about the guitars is good, but what's up with the photos? Too many photos of concert posters, tickets and album covers. This is a book about guitars after all.