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35 Fender Stratocaster stars: part 1
The best-selling guitar, the best players
The MusicRadar Team, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 3:01 pm BST
Before reuniting with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998, John Frusciante lost his teeth to drug addiction. The following decade would see him crawl back to a creative peak and release an astonishing body of work of which his ‘day job’ as a funkateer alongside Anthony Kiedis and co is only one facet.
Despite the huge variety of sounds and instruments he uses, it’s those Bold As Love-style embellished rhythm parts played on a Strat neck pickup that have become his signature.
Here he’s pictured rocking his original ’57 sunburst Strat. He also owns 1962 sunburst and fiesta red models.
Next page: Mark Knopfler
User comments (6)
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Don't get your underwear all twisted up, raceface. Eric's Johnson and David Gilmour are in Part Two. Totally represented.
But John Mayer? I don't know...He has yet to prove himself. Plus he brags way too much. -
yes dave gilmour and eric johnson,a mockery they aren't on the list!!!
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Where the devil are David Gilmour and Eric Johnson? It's part one of a two-part feature.
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I've owned 3 strats and always regretted selling them on, usually to buy something else.The present one is a definite keeper as like any other guitar it has it's good and bad points, the bits that drive you mental and the bits you can't live without but I love it to bit's.. Why do so many great players own and play strats. Who knows but I suppose we could ask Robin Trower, Matt Schofield, Buddy Guy, John Mayer, Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Robert Cray, Walter Trout., Ritchie Sambora, Andy Latimer, Gary Moore, Steve Hackett,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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I like strat players (if Dave Gilmour and EJ aren't on here, the person who edited this needs to be shot), but personally I would not like to play one as my main guitar, the sound lacks balls even when cranked in my opinion, and I never saw the point in putting a whammy bar that doesn't work well in a guitar. To me, that's like putting a supercharger that takes ages to work in a ferrari.
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Cool. But where the devil is David Gilmour and Eric Johnson?
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