HeyJaredTony Bacon
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- Sep 6, 2026
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The surprising history of the first-ever signature guitars, from custom builds for teachers to high-profile artists (opens the original)
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Finding the first one of anything can be a tricky business. It can make your head hurt. Try this, for example: Who made the first guitar? Impossible to know, especially as you can tie yourself in knots defining ‘guitar’ before you even get to brands and time periods and… well, you get the picture. But let’s try something that ought to be simpler. What was the first signature guitar? You know what a signature guitar is, of course. One that bears the name of a well-known musician, usually alongsid
“I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. It was like seeing an instrument from outer space. I said to myself, ‘That’s the future – that’s what I want’": The story of Eric Clapton’s Cream guitars (opens the original)
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When Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton were putting together Cream in summer 1966, Eric had with him his Les Paul. This was the guitar that we now know as the ‘Beano’ ’Burst. He’d bought it the previous year when he was a member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, but now he plugged it in for Cream’s early rehearsals at a church hall in north-west London. However, before he’d had a chance to play it in public or in the studio with his new band, it was stolen from the hall. Infamously, the ‘B
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