Signature Series
The Players
Twelve names that shaped these models. Tap one, then collect the guitars they made famous.
Jimmy Page
3 guitarsThe Riff Architect · British blues boom · 1968–1980
Session kid turned Zeppelin's producer, riff writer and guitarist.
Jimi Hendrix
1 guitarThe Experience's Wild Man · Psychedelia · 1966–1970
Played a right-handed Strat flipped and restrung, and rewrote the instrument in four years.
Angus Young
1 guitarThe Schoolboy · Arena rock · 1975–present
Two pickups, school uniform, duckwalk, fifty years of the same perfect idea.
Brian Setzer
1 guitarThe Rockabilly Cat · Rockabilly revival · 1981–present
Dragged 1957 into the eighties with an orange hollowbody and a pompadour.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
1 guitarThe Texas Hurricane · Texas blues · 1983–1990
Heavy strings, jumbo frets and a beaten Strat that fought back.
Slash
1 guitarThe Top Hat · Sunset Strip · 1987–present
The burst, the hat, and the riff every kid on the Strip learned second.
David Gilmour
1 guitarThe Black Strat · Prog · 1968–present
One battered black Stratocaster behind three decades of bends.
George Harrison
3 guitarsThe Quiet One · Beatles · 1961–1970
The parts nobody else would have played, on the records everyone knows.
Paul McCartney
1 guitarThe Left-Handed Beatle · Beatles · 1961–present
The violin bass, played upside down since the Cavern.
Joe Satriani
1 guitarThe Surfing Alien · Shred school · 1987–present
Made an all-instrumental rock record go platinum, then taught half the Bay Area.
Kurt Cobain
2 guitarsThe Seattle Frontman · Grunge · 1989–1994
Cheap pawn-shop offsets, one fuzz pedal, and the record that ended hair metal.
Prince
1 guitarThe Minneapolis Genius · Minneapolis funk · 1978–2016
Played everything on his own records, and the guitar solos were the least surprising part.
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