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Jared Leto

Jared Leto is one of the most accomplished and versatile creators of his generation. He’s an Oscar-winner actor with two decades of film and television roles under his belt, quietly amassing a list of critically acclaimed appearances in films like Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad among many others. His band Thirty Seconds To Mars has been in action since 1998 His guitars attract my attention. The Pythagoras and Artemis.

"Jared wanted to build a couple of very specific guitars that would represent the aesthetic of 30 Seconds To Mars. The result was the Pythagoras and Artemis guitars. These guitars have taken on a life of their own and embody the persistence and determination that is synonymous with 30STM. Artemis (the black guitar) was commissioned by Jared as a companion to the original McSwain white Pythagoras. Jared wanted this version to be black with red glyphic inlays. It is basically the same as the white Pythagoras except that this version is a 25-1/2” scale.black custom McSwain guitar 25-1/2” scale with red glyphic inlays " (the McSwain Guitar Website.)

Are your compositions written mainly on guitar?

Jared Leto:I would say guitar is my main instrument; I’ve written more songs on a Martin acoustic than I’ve written on anything. And then I use a Les Paul often as well.

The Les Paul is your main electric?

Jared Leto: Yeah; I’ve been using an SG a bit live because it’s light and fun to play.

So you’re essentially a Gibson player. Have you ever experimented with Fender-styled instruments?

Jared Leto:I utilized both but live I’ll play mostly a custom guitar [a pair of Steve McSwain-designed guitars dubbed Pythagoras and Artemis] that I had built years ago or a Gibson. I like the weight of it and the sound that I get from it. But they’re both tools and it depends on the song in the moment and what you’re goin’ for. But there’s nothing that beats the direct, clean tone of a Strat; it’s hard to beat that if you’re goin’ for something on the cleaner side of the world you know?

Interview by Steven Rosen.Ultimate-Guitar.Com © 2010.

Takamine is just great guitar! TT - SERIES. Takamineis known for its steel-string acoustic guitars. Guitars of Takamine have the most natural acoustic-electric tone,in my opinion.

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Jon Bon Jovi

is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor, best known as the founder and frontman of the rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983.

Notable instruments

Takamine EF341C

Gibson Les Paul

Fender Telecaster

Duesenberg Starplayer TV

Jon Bon Jovi's favorite guitar “Takamine” is marked by the initials of his beloved guitar teacher and the year that he passed away.

Takamine do have some big names in their Signature Series guitars – ex Eagle Glen Frey and country megastar Garth Brooks both have models made to their spec – but Bruce Springsteen, it seems, is more than happy to use the standard catalogue model. Jon Bon Jovi feels the same way, having used his EF341 for the last 15 years.It plays good, sounds good, and looks good and there are a lot of good guitars in this price range. 

“When I write a song, that's when the magic happens. Having written something that's going to be around long after we're all gone is as close to immortality as we'll ever be," Bon Jovi

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Thom Yorke

Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician best known as the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead

Some of his guitars

Fender Mustang Bass

 Gibson ES330 No1

Epiphone Casino No1. 

In the 90's Thom preferred solid-body electric guitars. He initially used Telecasters and SG's, but had shifted to Deluxe Telecasters and Jazzmasters.But although Thom used solid-bodies for these albums, he did acquire a Gibson ES-330 (a hollowbody) around 2007 and began using it for older songs. no sense to list all the guitars) too much.

Thom had Apple stickers On his guitars long before Apple Music.

Yorke had the retro rainbow Apple logo stickers on both his black 1974/75 Fender Telecaster Deluxe and his Fender Telecaster Custom as well as an acoustic guitar.

For reasons unknown he eventually covered up and or removed the stickers on both guitars. Full

I like his  Epiphone Casino ‘Ed’s

’Ed’s guitar, dating from between 1965 and 1970. Thom first used the instrument in 2010, at the Radiohead for Haiti show for a performance of Lucky. He subsequently used it frequently on Radiohead’s 2012 tour, and for the 2013 Atoms for Peace tour. He did not use it for any 2016 performances, using his ‘63-63 Casino as his primary Casino instead.Full

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Chad Kroeger

Chad Robert Kroeger (born November 15, 1974) is a Canadian musician and producer, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian rock band, Nickelback.

Chad Kroeger started as Nickelback's lead guitarist, and has retained his competitive streak. "I'll sit down and have a go with any shredder," he puffed in 2002. "I learned by jamming along with Metallica, Megadeth and Testament, and you cannot play along with those bands without a good right hand."

Gibson Chad Kroeger Blackwater Les Paul Electric Guitar  

the Chad Kroeger "Blackwater" Les Paul comes disguised as a traditional single-cutaway Standard with all the appointments that have made this guitar legendary for more than 50 years, but hides some simple yet clever surprises that expand its sonic capabilities exponentially.

The neck is the same as any gibson les paul, but  It has incredible natural sustain.

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Noel Gallagher

He served as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis. Noel such an influential guitarist,  who inspired many kids to pick up an electric guitar since the band released its debut single “Supersonic”,

now I'm really interested in his acoustic guitars.

His favourite is and will always be an Epiphone EJ-200 or, as of late, the Gibson J-200 and...

I want to talk about Noel Gallagher’s Gibson J-200 With The Adidas Sticker!Why Noel put an Adidas sticker on his guitar? 

”Since I gave up being a professional drug user, I’ve always got to be addicted to buying something and adidas trainers have become my vice. I don’t know how many I’ve got, hundreds probably. My girlfriend’s friends come round and tell me I’ve got a problem.” Noel Gallagher

Apart from Gibson and Epiphone, the only other brand Noel has used quite a bit has been Takamine, who make some really nice guitars… In addition to the aforementioned I Found Martin D-28. 

Acoustic-wise, you've been known to play an Epiphone EJ-200 and a Gibson J-200, but you're using a Martin on stage now, right?

"That's right. It's a D-28, and I bought it brand-new in a shop, just straight off the peg. It's fucking incredible. It's got a new Baggs pickup system in it, which is pretty amazing.

"I didn't use it on the record, though. I used another Martin - it belongs to one of the guys in the studio. I like to use other people's guitars sometimes. So there was this Martin hanging up, so I took it down, started it strumming it, miked it up, and it felt very natural. I used it on all the record. I've since tried to buy the fucking guitar, but the bastard won't sell it to me - probably 'cause he knows it's been on the record now." Full Good Big Interview about all guitars

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley's guitars were a major component of the iconic rock and roll image created by Elvis Presley that revolutionized popular culture in the 1950s and 1960s. 

It's hard to list all guitars but...some of them:

-1955 Martin D-28 

-Gibson Ebony Dove 

-1965 Gibson EBS-1250 Double Bass 

-1956 Gibson J200 

-Fender Precision Bass 

But I'm generally not interested in his guitars...Everyone remember the '68 Comeback Special concert? As a child, I always watched this concert.I became interested in this guitar. BUT this is not his guitar!

The 1963 Gibson Super 400 CES Florentine model belonging to Scotty Moore played an important role in Elvis Presley's stage performance, the '68 Comeback Special.

The Gibson "Super 400" is a high-end carved solid wood archtop guitar, the largest, fanciest-adorned, and highest-priced factory-built archtop / hollowbody guitar ever. It is a highly influential guitar model that inspired many other master guitar builders (including Stromberg's Elmer Stromberg and D'Angelico's John D'Angelico). It was first sold in 1934 and named for its $400 price (many Gibson guitars were named for the sticker price during that era of the company). 

About the memorable “sit-down” jam session for Presley’s 1968 NBC-TV special :

“When they walked out on stage, their guitars were already in place. Scotty had his Gibson 400 Sunburst and Elvis had his Gibson J200, a natural-grain flattop model that Scotty had obtained for him from the manufacturer. They began the show with some of their early material … During the first couple of songs, Elvis kept glancing at Scotty, who was sitting to his left. Scotty’s brightly colored guitar shone in the camera lights. It was bigger than Elvis’s guitar, it was better looking, and it sounded better than his guitar. Elvis decided he just had to have it. Scotty was playing lead for a while and all of a sudden Elvis wanted to play lead. So he goes over and grabs Scotty’s guitar.  I thought, ‘What are we going to do here.’ Scotty wasn’t very happy about that. Elvis was a flogger and I knew Scotty was afraid he’d scar up the guitar. It worked out, but oh boy, he doesn’t like anyone to touch that guitar.Elvis played Scotty’s guitar for the remainder of the show… If Scotty was fuming on the inside, he never showed it. He kept going, never missing a beat … Elvis was the star, so he wanted the biggest, flashiest guitar.” James L. Dickerson

How well Elvis played the guitar?  it is also interesting to add some quotes of people who knew about his relationship with this instrument.

“He couldn’t press the strings down on it, they was set so high. So I let him practice on mine—I had a little Martin. I just tried to show him basic chords. I would take his fingers and place them, say, ‘You’re pressing the wrong strings with the wrong fingers,’ trying to straighten him out. He couldn’t really complete a song for a long time, couldn’t move his fingers and go with the flow of the music, but once I straightened him out he started to learn to do it right.” Jesse Lee Denson, son of a family friend

“This cat came out in red pants and a green coat and a pink shirt and socks, and he had this sneer on his face, and he stood behind the mike for five minutes, I’ll bet, before he made a move. Then he hit his guitar a lick, and he broke two strings. Hell, I’d been playing ten years, and I hadn’t broke a total of two strings. So there he was, these two strings dangling, and he hadn’t done anything except break the strings yet, and these high school girls were screaming and fainting and running up to the stage, and then he started to move his hips real slow like he had a thing for his guitar.”Bob Luman 

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Paul McCartney

Notable instruments

Höfner 500/1

Rickenbacker 4001S

Epiphone Texan

Fender Jazz Bass

Yamaha BB1200

Gibson Les Paul

Epiphone Casino

Martin D-28

Wal 5-String Bass

I found information that seemed interesting to me))

In June 1956, McCartney’s father gave him a trumpet for his fourteenth birthday. “I used to play it a little bit,” he recalls in Many Years From Now, the Barry Miles biography, “because that was the hero instrument then, The Man with the Golden Arm and everything, but it became clear to me fairly quickly that you couldn’t sing with a trumpet stuck in your mouth.”

At the same time, skiffle-band fever was sweeping England, and after getting his dad’s permission, young McCartney brought the trumpet back to Rushworth and Dreaper’s Music, where he traded it in for this model made in Germany by Framus.

When he got home with the £15 guitar, he “couldn’t figure out at all how to play it. I didn’t realize it was because I was left-handed, and it wasn’t until I saw a picture of Slim Whitman, who was also left-handed, and I saw that I had the guitar the wrong-way round.”Full

The terrible thing about me is that I got locked in a mindset that I picked up from my dad. He really ground it into me to never be in debt, because while we weren’t on the poverty line, there wasn’t much money to go around.

“It was great advice, but it did lead to my always tending to look for a great instrument, yes, but one that was reasonably priced, even when I could afford stuff. It was many years before I ever got a Fender bass, even though I thought they sounded terrific.Full

McCartney wrote "I Lost My Little Girl” using his first guitar, a Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar , which he still owns.

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Klaus Meine

Klaus Meine (born 25 May 1948) is a German vocalist, best known as the lead singer of the hard rock band Scorpions. He and guitarist Rudolf Schenker are the only two members of the group to appear on every Scorpions album.

Notable instruments

Dommenget Doublecut "Black Beauty"

This DOUBLECUT got ordered by Matthias Jabs as a birthday present for Klaus Meine´s 60th birthday.Slimline design, corinna body and neck, varved maple top, ebony fretboard.

DOUBLECUT  Comeblackmade for Klaus Meine 

Dommenget Klaus Meine Signature Guitar

Very slim carbon reinforced neck. Klaus plays it at his solo performance on Mtv. Pickup is an L.R.Baggs Anthem

Klaus Meine with a guitar

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Caleb Followill

Lead singer of Kings of Leon Anthony Caleb Followill has a relatively minimal guitar rig.But he gets a big sound from it (and a big pleasure,I think)

1975 Gibson ES-325 -  Caleb Followill was seen several times using this guitar.  And Also we remember,okay...I remember how 

the 27-year-old frontman destroyed this guitar. 

 The reason was a bad sound. Followill explained:

"I got a bit angry after T In The Park and broke my guitar, so I have to get a new one. We have zero reasons to complain, but I do blame me breaking my guitar on being overworked.”

"The guitar was just made for me, it sounds like us. It's got everything." Caleb Followill on his 1972 Gibson ES-325

Off in the night, while you live it up, I'm off to sleep                                   Waging wars to shape the poet and the beat                                                 I hope it's gonna make you notice Someone like me 

“Use somebody” is good.In the end we all use each other.When we attract someone's attention too.When we want it. We use each other.Just...We either do not notice or don’t want to notice this.

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David Keuning

David Keuning is the guitarist for the American rock band The Killers. He's the author of the song you know for sure!  Mr. Brightside.

Let's list all the guitars that David uses:

- Fender Starcaster 

- Ibanez Destroyer 

- Fender Stratocaster candy apple red 

- Red Epiphone G-400 used in the early days

- Gretsch White Falcon 

- Ebony Gibson Les Paul Custom 

- Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar

and i wanna stop!

Gibson! Today’s Les Paul Custom is based on the model from the mid-1950s, but with several modern appointments. The body is crafted with a hand-carved maple top, which is fitted to a body made from a solid piece of mahogany with strategically routed holes to lessen the weight of the guitar, resulting in a Les Paul with enhanced acoustic qualities and improved resonance.

I want to highlight special quotes of David:

I’m certainly not the only modern guitarist who does this, but one thing I try to do is avoid power chords and straight barre chords. I’m always looking for unusual voicings, and I try to be as inventive as I can without over-thinking it. I’ve actually noticed quite a few wrong versions of my guitar parts making the rounds as tablature and sheet music. “When You Were Young,” for example, is not this [plays F, Gm, Am and C as a 6th-string-root barre chord progression up the neck]. It’s this [plays a similar progression, re-voicing the chords with a sliding grip that has his thumb playing the root note, and the third and fourth fingers covering the 5th and octave on the A and D strings respectively, and the first string throughout.) 

I used a Gibson ES-335 for most of the sessions. On previous records we had tuned the guitars down a half-step to Eb [Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb, low to high], but on this one we were mostly in standard tuning, and my 335 is the guitar that I keep in standard tuning live. That’s a nylon-string on “I Can’t Say,” and the prechorus of “Spaceman.” I prefer the sound of a nylon-string to a steel-string. Live, I thought of putting the acoustic guitar on the stand, but I opted to just play the parts on electric, at least for now. full

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Мike Jagger

is an English singer, songwriter and actor, the lead singer and a co-founder of the Rolling Stones. 

He doesn't have the skills of a pro guitarist but played Gibson Hummingbird,Danelectro model 1457

Silvertone Model 1457 Amp-In-Case Model Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar and Amplifier Set, made by Danelectro (1965), made in Neptune. This is a very nice example of these nice sounding and playing little guitars.

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Leva Bi - 2

was born on September 2th,1972, Minsk. The Lead Vocalist of Bi - 2.He really has a voice that can not be forgotten.

His guitars:

-Rickenbacker 

-Yamaha

-Takamine

-Fender

I dare to suggest that Leva is using a Martin Guitar....clear sound.

 C.F. Martin & Co. has been creating the finest instruments in the world for 183 years. Yes and the company is also known for producing high-quality, popular acoustic guitar stringsand they have been making their own strings since 1970.

The list of Martin players, past and present, reads like a Who's Who of the musical world and includes such legends as Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, John Mayer and countless others. 

Fender acoustic guitar sounds good enough together with the Gibson.Just..Without words.

Song For all who are still looking for cranes (Looking for the perfect person) -

Let the tomtit ( person who is just around but you do not need her/him) free to a certain death.Let it snuggle up to freedom.  

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Jerry Horton

Papa Roach Guitarist.  Jerry Horton was born in Charleston, South Carolina.Talented, I would say а brilliant guitarist of our time.

He's like a Schecter’s fan. Well, it's not very surprising when some of them named after you ... Would You be a fan of the guitar with your name “on the head”? Thats a list of...Look!

Schecter Solo 6 & Schecter Solo 6 Jerry Horton Model

Schecter Tempest Customs and Signature Models

Schecter C-1 Jerry Horton Model Electric Guitar

Jerry has played Schecter guitars since his group Papa Roach burst onto the music scene in the late '90s with their multi-platinum debut Infest , and the smash single 'Last Resort'. Horton has rocked Schecter guitars for well over a decade.

I want to emphasize that it is a damn nice guitars, plays great. Nice top and finish!

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Shura Bi-2

Alex was born on February 3th, in Bobruisk, Belarus.He is a frontman of Bi-2.

Plays guitar "Gibson Les Paul Custom Lite" 1992 and "Gibson Explorer".And all attention to the first one!

Do You know the difference between  LP Custom and LP Custom Lite?

These two guitars have a different body.Custom is the thickest and heaviest among all LP's,in contrast to Custom Lite (Moreover,almost twice as thin(!))The working surface of the Custom Lite is covered with a layer of rosewood, not black wood, as Custom.

I must say, Alex has an almost exclusive model! The 92-year model !There are 200 such guitars with Floyd Rose and without in the world.It is known that Paul McCartney has such a guitar.

Are you breaking my heart? We'll never be together What for the poetry? I'm dying And don't understand anything There are no good recollections That's the plot of my sufferings

Solo parts of this guitar are gorgeous.

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Ian Curtis

Someone will say that he is already dead. Is it important? Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer-songwriter and musician.   Let us go immediately to the point.

I was interested in the fact that I can not decide exactly what this guitar is...

Notable instrument Vox Phantom VI Special

But... looks so simular to Teisco. And I Found THIS... Eko Ghost IV!!!

The Vox Phantom is an electric guitar , originally released in 1962 by the Jennings company. It is unique for its distinctive, pentagonal shape, which became part of the iconic representation of the British Invasion. Originally made in England, manufacturing was later relocated to Italy.

I found the video and we can see this guitar but only with New Order.Interesting sounds.

Numerous copies of the Vox Phantom's distinctive five-sided body design were manufactured, by companies such as Teisco and Kawai under the Domino brand name.

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Fito Cabrales

Adolfo "Fito" Cabrales Mato (October 6, 1966) is a Spanish songwriter, singer and guitarist. Fito received a Latin Grammy nomination in 2015 for Best Rock Song for "Entre la Espada y Pared".

He is using Fender and Duesenberg Starplayer TV Mike Campbell DTV-MC.Possibility you have never heard about Duesenberg)

“Is the Guitar Perfect? Pretty Damn Close.” - Mike Campbell American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

All this instruments are fitted with its own hardware.I have no idea about - good this guitar or not.

Don't you see you're always behind When you're following fate

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Andreas Crap

 Andreas Crap, guitarist and co-founder of the German Industrial metal band OOMPH. 

Seems he is using Gibson Holy Explorer Satin Cherry 

The Holy Explorer  sports a single volume control perfectly positioned for swells, and two of Gibson’s hottest humbucker pickups”a 496R in the neck and a 500T in the bridge. The Holy Explorer is limited to just 350 guitars.