Even if you’re not a musician, you look up to your favourite musos because of who they are and what they’re able to do. But while it’s the musicians that we know and love, any musician will tell you they’d be lost without their favourite gear.
Perhaps that’s why so many of our most iconic guitarists spent their entire careers playing the same instrument. Whether it’s for reasons of comfort or efficiency, some guitarists are absolutely inseparable from the guitars they played.
In some cases, the guitars actually manage to take on a life of their own and become as iconic as their famous owners. We begin to associate the instruments with the qualities of the guitarists. Here are 12 cases just like that.
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