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Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: octavio_amzer on December 13, 2007, 07:12:35 AM

which guitars are named by famous musicians?

(company and brand names don't count)

the ones I know about are:

the les paul (gibson)

the randy rhoads (jackson)

the Kelly (jackson)

all of them are/where designed by musicians and have unique shapes

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: gingataff on December 13, 2007, 07:27:32 AM

A large percentage of anything made by Ibanez, ESP, Dean and Musicman has an artist name or abbreviation as it's model number.
There are also a lot of artist model Fender guitars which are largely variations of Strats and Teles.

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: Ratrod on December 13, 2007, 10:05:00 AM

Gretsch Chet Atkins models. He prettymuch re- or codesigned all 6120's, Tennessee roses and some Jets.

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on December 13, 2007, 10:49:01 AM

Jackson King V = Robbin Crosby of Ratt (King was his nickname)

Burns Marvin

Gibson Trini Lopez

Hadn't known that the Jackson Kelly was named after the guitraist Brad Kelly from Australian band Heaven

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: Philly Q on December 13, 2007, 10:59:05 AM

Yeah, there are loads of "signature" guitars which are just tweaked versions of standard models - especially the hundreds(?) of different Fender artist models.

There aren't so many where the artist influenced the design from the ground up.  I can't think of many with the artists' names, but I can think of a few artist designs:

Nuno has his Washburn N4 models, and he also had the more Les Paul-ish P4/Princess models.  I don't know if he actually came up with the "P" body shape though.

And (the great) Rick Derringer co-designed the BC Rich Stealth, later used by (the late) Chuck Schuldiner.

And there was the Patrick Eggle Tony Iommi model, which had his name but he never seemed to use it much.

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: Mr Ed on December 13, 2007, 12:19:39 PM

I assume we mean named models and not just signature ones?

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: gingataff on December 13, 2007, 12:33:39 PM

Quote from: Mr Ed

I assume we mean named models and not just signature ones?

What would you say is the difference?

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: Mr Ed on December 13, 2007, 01:09:37 PM

Well... as Les Paul, for example, I don't class as a "signature" model as such compared to a Slash Les Paul. You dig? I'm sure it sounds weird but I think there's a very, very, very thin line.

Maybe I can explain it different... are we after entire models that are named after/designed by a person rather than just a variation? Same example - Les Paul designed that entire guitar, the Slash Les Paul just has some different parts on it?

Any better?  :lol:

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: shaman on December 13, 2007, 01:22:44 PM

anyone out there have one of the Neil Schon designed Jacksons(cool axe...)...I think it was Jackson...

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: Philly Q on December 13, 2007, 01:39:44 PM

Quote from: shaman

anyone out there have one of the Neil Schon designed Jacksons(cool axe...)...I think it was Jackson...

They were branded as "Schon" guitars, but made by Jackson - with a very Jackson-like logo.  Later on they were made by Larrivee.

I just found out that Ed Roman guitars got hold of a load of Schon/Jackson body blanks without pickups or hardware:

http://www.edroman.com/guitars/schon/parts.htm

(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/schon_016.jpg)

Title: famous musician names on guitars
Post by: shaman on December 13, 2007, 03:24:27 PM

ahh yes...and,btw, I have that magazine somewhere in the attic!!Ed Roman...what a fellow...!