# Alex, I'll take musicians and their instruments for $100

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 22, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ill-take-musicians-and-their-instruments-for-100/115360 "2002-06-22T00:30:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ill-take-musicians-and-their-instruments-for-100/115360/1 "2002-06-22T00:30:58Z")

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Does anyone know of a website that gives a list of rock musicians and the instruments they play? For example, when you see Eric Clapton, he’s usually wailing on a Fender Stratocaster. Neil Young almost always plays his Gibson Les Paul.

Attempts at Googling were unsuccessful.

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**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ill-take-musicians-and-their-instruments-for-100/115360/2 "2002-06-22T01:04:29Z")

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That’s a very interesting question but most guitarists use multiple instruments while recording.

I doubt that there is a list out there but if you find one let me know.

Slee

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ill-take-musicians-and-their-instruments-for-100/115360/3 "2002-06-22T15:50:46Z")

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Lots of players have a **main** guitar and “gearhead” type magazines usually have a box mentioning a guitarist’s standard setup. All I’ve been able to find so far is [http://www.acousticguitar.com/gear.shtml](http://www.acousticguitar.com/gear.shtml) which has a list of featured artists’ acoustic choices in fairly frightening detail. Poking around guitar sites looking for “gearbox” or “gearhead” would probably be the go.

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**Author:** ![ArturoBandini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@ArturoBandini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArturoBandini)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ill-take-musicians-and-their-instruments-for-100/115360/4 "2002-06-22T15:55:19Z")

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Oh, man…There IS a website that I used to have bookmarked…It has graphics-based details of the instruments, pedals, and amps used by specific artists, and IIRC, they had a pretty big catalogue of bands. Each musician’s set-up was diplayed in a nice graphic flowchart kinda way…

I’ve spent the last fifteen minutes trying to find it, but the address is nowhere to be found on my hard drive and I’m taking a break from searching for it on yahoo/google/etc.

But now you’ve got me wantin’ to know, too!

If you find it before I do, let me know – this is gonna keep me up for days!

A.B.  
“We were fucking corndogs. We’d go drink and pogo”

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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ill-take-musicians-and-their-instruments-for-100/115360/5 "2002-06-22T17:26:59Z")

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My husband is a musician, and I’m sure he’s got stuff like that bookmarked somewhere. Watch this space and I’ll get back to you.