Guitar Heroes

In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. In order to heat the hall, a barrel half-filled with kerosene was lit, a not uncommon practice. During a performance, two men began to fight, knocking over the burning barrel and sending burning fuel across the floor. This triggered an evacuation. Once outside, King realized that he had left his guitar inside the burning building. He entered the blaze to retrieve his guitar, a Gibson acoustic. Two people died in the fire. The next day, King discovered that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. King named that first guitar Lucille, as well as every one he owned since that near-fatal experience, as a reminder never again to do something as stupid as run into a burning building. On December 19, 1997, King presented Lucille to Pope John Paul II following a concert at the Vatican.

Les Paul, inventor of the electric solid body guitar	Les Paul	large view Solid Body Guitar Log
large view Slash		Jeff Skunk Baxter
Jeff Skunk Baxter, member of Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan	large view BB King and Lucille take turns	large view Eddie VanHalen
Eddie VanHalen, Staccato Classical style	Mark Knopfler, plays 6-string like a 12-string	Mark Knopfler
large view Elvis	Rockabilly chickapickin'style	large view Stevie Ray Vaughn
Stevie can make his guitar CRY, taking turns like BB King	large view Brian Setzer, rockabilly style, admired Elvis
Chuck Berry	"He can play a guitar just like-a-ringin' a bell.....	large view Eric Clapton then
large view Clapton--Yardbirds, Cream, Derek and Dominoes	large view Clapton Now	Peter Frampton, made his guitar talk with talk box
large view Frampton's talkbox	large view Jimmy Page
large view Jimmy Page with Bow	large view Jimi Hendrix	large view Fender Stratocaster like Hendrix
	large view Carlos Santana	Santana crossed over Latin music to Rock
Pete Townshend	large view Pete Townshend	Townshend Windmill
large view Jeff Beck	large view Prince's Guitar