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Don’t stop
from Arts in Austin
by LASA Ezine
Plug-in your favorite Some of the most iconic guitars of all
Kurt Cobain’s “Fender 1969 Mustang, Compeition Burgundy”
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This guitar is undoubtely best known for its appearance in the music video for the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, filmed on August 17, 1991.
Jimmy Page’s “Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck”
Jimmy Page used both, sixstring and a twelve-string guitar while recording “Stairway to Heaven”, so he needed to switch from one to anohter mid-song while playing live, which was too uncomfortable to do, so he stumbled across the doulbe-neck solution.
Eric Clapton’s “Blackie” was his main recording and performance guitar in the 1970s and 1980, and has become his most famous instrument. Clapton’s guitar tech, Ted Newman-Jones assembled it from three late 1950s stratocasters: it has a 1956 body, a 1957 neck, and 1950s pickups.