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NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 29: Vince Gill performs with the Eagles during SiriusXM presents the Eagles in their first ever concert at the Grand Ole Opry House on October 29, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Vince Gill tells how a tragedy brought him his prized 1959 Gibson Les Paul ’Burst

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

In a 2017 interview with Guitar Aficionado, the country-rock six-string ace revealed how a sad and deeply personal twist of events brought a prized '59 Les Paul into his life

Guitars
Vintage vinyl record cover - Ronson, Mick - Play Don't Worry - US - 1975
How the search for Mick Ronson’s Ziggy Stardust Les Paul ended in $200,000 and heartache

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

How Rick Tedesco found and lost his dream guitar.

Guitars
Lenny Kravitz performs on stage at the Sant Jordi Club on June 3, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.
Lenny Kravitz on the desperate deal that gave him his number-one guitar

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The guitarist learned vintage-guitar hunting from Tom Petty and Mike Campbell. Then a chance parking-lot encounter landed him a ’53 Goldtop conversion that's appeared on every album since Are You Gonna Go My Way.

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NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 29: Vince Gill performs with the Eagles during SiriusXM presents the Eagles in their first ever concert at the Grand Ole Opry House on October 29, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Vince Gill tells how a tragedy brought him his prized 1959 Gibson Les Paul ’Burst

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

In a 2017 interview with Guitar Aficionado, the country-rock six-string ace revealed how a sad and deeply personal twist of events brought a prized '59 Les Paul into his life

Guitars
Steve Lukather of Toto performs at Lucca Summer Festival at Piazza Napoleone on July 24, 2024 in Lucca, Italy.
Steve Lukather tears up remembering how his dad gave up a new car to buy him his first good guitar

By Phil Weller Published

The future Toto guitarist got the instrument he’d dreamed of thanks to his father’s major sacrifice

Guitarists
Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society performs with his Grail Gibson Les Pau during opening night of the Ozzfest 2001 North American tour at the Tweeter Center in Chicago, Ill.. 6/8/01
Zakk Wylde’s beloved Grail Les Paul fell off the back of a truck. Here’s how he got it back

By Phil Weller Published

It was the guitar he launched his Ozzy Osbourne career with, but it nearly crashed out of his life forever

Electric Guitars
LEFT: Jack White poses with his custom Fender Three-Wheel-Motion Low-Rider Telecaster, at Third Man Records in Nashville, March 20, 2022. RIGHT: A detail of Jack White's 1964 “JB Hutto” Montgomery Ward Airline electric guitar
Jack White’s surprising reason why he avoided the guitars everyone else was playing

By Phil Weller Published

White explains how rejecting iconic guitars helped him carve out his identity — and why he has no regrets.

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Luthier Tanya Shpachuk from Tadyka Guitar Repair un Ukraine holds a Les Paul guitar damaged in a drone strike and subsequently repaired
Ukrainian guitarist completely restores a Les Paul heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike

By Phil Weller Published

Luthier Tanya Shpachuk says the guitar is symbolic of her nation‘s defiance in the face of Russian aggression

Guitars
Dutch band Focus posed holding awards in Hilversum, Netherlands in 1975. Left to right: Bert Ruiter, Colin Allen, Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman.
The Dutch prog-rock band that combined Chuck Berry guitar riffs and yodeling to score a top-10 hit

By Phil Weller Published

The prog classic was born out of a moment of magic, and continues to appear in popular culture decades on

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LEFT: Musician Carl Verheyen, former member of Supertramp, performs onstage during the Get Together Foundation benefit for fire relief at The Canyon on January 28, 2025 in Agoura Hills, California. RIGHT: Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen performing at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 30, 1984.
Carl Verheyen on the time Eddie Van Halen borrowed – and nearly destroyed – his Les Paul

By Phil Weller Published

The guitarists were performing the same venue when they crossed paths in the 1970s

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