Rock: Guitar Music and the Most Representative Guitarists
In that sense, there have been quite a few rockers who have become legends, along with their guitars. For example, Jimi Hendrix's performance of the American national anthem on a Fender Stratocaster at Woodstock in 1969 has gone down in history. Eric Clapton's black and white guitar was of the same model, with a design that is still one of the most popular today. Van Halen, for its part, delighted the world with its famous Frankenstrat, so named for combining the sound of a Gibson with the appearance of a Fender. Another very personal guitar is Keith Richards' Micawber, a Telecaster with open G tuning and no sixth string, which gave the Rolling Stones their distinctive sound. Other rock legends have opted for Gibson guitars, such as Angus Young, who played such universal riffs as Back in Black with various models of this brand, or Slash and his Gibson Les Paul, or Jimmy Page, who popularized the double-neck guitar. All of them have inspired generations of guitar music fans with their genius.
