One subject that used to come up a lot on various guitar forums I used to visit, were various famous or obscure electric guitars, the ones that piqued our fancy. Here are mine. A esoteric mix of grunge and new wave offsets, strange home custom builds, and obscure Eastern manufactured stuff. I felt like, making gear guides, I was kinda' reinventing the wheel so-to-speak.
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Kurt Cobain's 1966 Fender Jaguar
| The guitar that's the sonic voice of a "generation" I guess you could say. In 1991, Kurt Cobain bought a $345.00 Fender Jaguar from a guy named "Marty" in the L.A. Recycler with a road case. The guitar would go on to be the most iconic "Nirvana Guitar" of them all. This hyper-modified Jaguar was the lust of just about every teenage would-be guitarist in the 1990's and is still the reason many a Jaguar (hopefully now just Squiers) are getting hacked up, even today 30 years later.
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Ric Ocasek's 1974 Fender Jazzmaster
| While normally a "Gibson Man" (heck, the entirety of The Cars basically were), one guitar of long standing and high reference in Ric Ocasek's collection is the "Pepto-Bismol Pink" 1973-1975 Fender Jazzmaster. It has a very long and interesting history and was used a TON on The Cars catalog, sometimes it seems, inconsistant with merely being another clean tones Fender doing the "clickety 8th-note" thing that really punctuated a nice part of The Cars' catalog. It even took a brief vacation with the Schwartzmen Bros. in Rooney for awhile before being returned to Ric Ocasek just in time for Move Like This and the 2018 RRHOF induction. It's current whereabouts though are mysterious.
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Paul Dean's "Dean Machine(s)" (Odyssey/Hondo/Kramer Paul Dean Models)
| Sort of a "Deluxe" one-page version of my Google Site - this page deals with the original gutiar designs of Paul Dean from 1981-1989. Paul designed and built his own guitar, got Odyssey in Vancouver to make 50 of them, then through connections got in touch with Hondo, who released another version of the guitar in a slightly larger quantity, and then through more connections, went to Larrivee, who was working with the seminal 80's guitar maker, Kramer, and lead to a Kramer model as well. With unique features and a unique body shape, this is going to be an interesting page.
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Edward Van-Halen's "Bumblebee" (and it's Relatives)
| Everyone knows about the Frankenstrat - Ed's $80 neck and $50 body made by Boogie Bodies for Charvel in San Dimas CA in the late 70's - but let's talk about the "Sequel" - The "Bumblebee" guitar, the guitar that was to be Frankie's refined successor that never came to succeed the almighty Frankenstein - and of course, two other famous "Bumblebees" that laid part with why Eddie parted with Charvel (eventually going to Kramer) - Don Dokken's chrome-guarded version given to the guitarist of "The Weasels", and Tom McDermott (Rick James) 100% copy he was seen with in the early 80's. To add to Bumblebee's famous status, the guitar's final resting place was with Dimebag Darrel Abbott of Pantera who was shot to death on Stage in December 2004 - Eddie gave the guitar to Dime saying "an origianl deserves an original".
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