# Identify this fantasy guitar player story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409 "2015-05-06T19:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/1 "2015-05-06T19:15:52Z")
Features a middle aged white Blues guitarist with a magic guitar that was made from the wood of Muddy Waters shack. The “hero” is a drop out in this world, but the new world he goes to treats musical ability as a superpower. Could be from the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/2 "2015-05-06T19:35:31Z")
No clue. But Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top famously DID get a guitar made from the wood from Muddy Waters’ (nee McKinley Morganfield’s) shack. It’s called the Muddywood guitar. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/3 "2015-05-06T21:17:26Z")
And it’s kinda a crime that it was made into a Moderne shape. But maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/4 "2015-05-06T23:07:39Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > And it’s kinda a crime that it was made into a Moderne shape. But maybe that’s just me. Hey **squeegee** - long time no post. Hope you’re well. Yeah, not quite a Moderne, but I totally agree with your assessment - not great. It’s shown in Post #5 of this thread: [http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=928700](http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=928700) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/5 "2015-05-07T00:21:19Z")
The second half of your description sounds like Alan Dean Foster’s _Spellsinger_, but the first half is completely off from that. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/6 "2015-05-07T05:15:57Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Hey **squeegee** - long time no post. Hope you’re well. Yeah, not quite a Moderne, but I totally agree with your assessment - not great. > > It’s shown in Post #5 of this thread: [http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=928700](http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=928700) Hey, **WordMan** (waves) - nice to see you, too! Yeah, that is one seriously ugly guitar to carry MW’s legacy around. Did there really need to be a coil of poop laid over the top? Gibbons had a liking for kitchy guitars that could be endearing to a point, but this is just fail. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/7 "2015-05-07T14:09:55Z")
I would have said Spellsinger as well but that had nothing to do with Muddy Waters… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/8 "2015-05-07T14:22:23Z")
I would have guessed the Silver John novels by Manly Wade Wellman, but there’s no mention of the guitar being made from Muddy Waters’ shack… ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/9 "2015-05-07T15:10:53Z")
Doesn’t sound un-Spider Robinson-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/10 "2015-05-07T15:22:08Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Doesn’t sound un-Spider Robinson-ish. True, but Jake Stonebender’s guitar was made by somebody named after a Princess Bride reference. Goldman, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-fantasy-guitar-player-story/719409/11 "2015-05-07T15:51:59Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > True, but Jake Stonebender’s guitar was made by somebody named after a Princess Bride reference. Goldman, maybe? “Lady Macbeth” was (is) a Gibson. A wizard named Montoya repaired it in an early Callahan’s story.\* There’s not enough overlap between the Callahan stories and the OP’s summary for it to be the same - I’m wondering if it’s a late SR novel or story I might have missed. Fits thematically with many of the others. - It was to my mild regret that I found Spider doesn’t travel with LB and brought a backup guitar instead.