I’m not talking about guitar makes (of course Gibson Les Paul, for example, has a page), I’m talking about individual guitars. Blackie (Clapton’s favorite) has a page, and Trigger. Any others?
I have to admit that my eyes got a bit misty (in a manly sort of way) when I read Trigger’s page.
Peter Frampton had a black, triple-humbucker Gibson Les Paul, which had been given to him by a friend; it became his favorite guitar, and it appears on the cover of his Frampton Comes Alive! album.
The guitar was lost in a 1980 plane crash, along with the rest of Frampton’s gear, but decades later, a fan saw a guitarist playing a familiar, fire-scorched Les Paul, and arranged to have it returned to Frampton. After having it restored (though it retained the scorching), Frampton dubbed it the “Phenix” (that’s an intentional typo), and began using it again on tour.
I think the black strat would have it’s own page, sure enough it does.
I had a close-up look at it at the “Pink Floyd: Their Mortal remains” exibition at the V&A a few years ago. It is very much a working musician’s guitar, very much battered about but that didn’t stop it selling for $4m a few years later (a record at the time).
I seriously considered putting a bid in for it as the reserve was $100-150k which sounded ridiculously low and if you could get it for anything close to that you were guaranteed a massive profit.
In the end, I didn’t because the music memorabelia world is simply not that negligent (as it proved to be)
So far, I’ve resisted the temptation to create a Wikipedia article about my bog-standard Mexican Strat, so that I’ll be the first poster to own a guitar with its own page.
Oh, and my darling wife thinks my posts give the impression that I was free to do as I liked, she would like me to clarify that my idea of putting in a bid would never have gained executive approval.
A list is only as good as its embarrassingly glaring omissions…Buck Dharma’s (Blue Oyster Cult) Cheeseberger guitar is notably missing from the wiki List of Guitars.