Associate the gear with the player!!

[FusionFarmer]

Yup. He started out with the Rickys, but switched to Gibsons because the Rickys were "too fragile". Rickenbacker gave him shit for saying that, but it was true. He plays mostly Strats now, but all of the live footage you see of him, and most of the really well known Who material was all Gibson. It was only early on that he used Rickys.

Picture Pete in your head. White jumpsuit. Doc Martens. White SG. Doing a windmill!

Yeah Pete broke a really expensive Rickenbacker while performing at a gig. He discovered it made a cool sould when he beat it on the low ceiling. and low and behold it broke, so he finished it off by bashing it on the floor and the crowd loved it. thats when he switched to Gibsons on stage (SG mostly) cuz the Ric's were too expensive and hard to get, to be smashing up after every show , and Gibsons were considered fairly inexpensive back then, He still uses Ric's when he records

http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipm...ex.htm#ptlinks

[quakana]

Gibson-ZaKK
Fender-Clapton
Ibanez-Vai
Epiphone-ZaKK
Rickenbacker-Geddy
Jackson-Mustaine
Charvel-Mayday
Dean-Dimebag
ESP-Hamett/Hetfield
BC Rich-Blackie Lawless (not really)
PRS-Santana
Carvin-Rudy Sarzo (have no idea why he comes to mind)
Ernie Ball/Musicman-EVH
Suhr-Yeah...Suhr himself
Anderson-Who??

AMPS:::
Fender-Old Guys
Peavey-who cares
Marshall-EVH
Mesa Boogie-Metallica
Soldano-Lynch
Randall- Dimebag

PS.....cool thread man!!!

[npacheco]

Gibson - scorpions

Interesting you should say this. Back in the day when I didn't know $h!t about guitars (as opposed to now I guess ), I thought that Gibson was a German made guitar because the Scorps and Accept played them.

[GodOfRhythm]

Randall - Kirk Hammett

Latest twist in his gearobsession, besides them both being total LP-addicts and James using Krank a heck of a lot lately.

[npacheco]

Well, he played alot of SG Specials and Juniors...as well as LPs.....

[jgcable]

I always associated Pete Townsend with Telecasters for some reason.

[SEEGERMANY]

GUITARS:::
Gibson - Jimmy Page
Fender - Ritchie Blackmore
Ibanez - Joe Satriani
Guild - Kim Thayil
Epiphone - John Lennon
Rickenbacker - Tom Petty
Jackson - Dave Muffstaine
Charvel - EVH
Dean - Rick Derringer
ESP - James Hetfield
BC Rich - Blackie Lawless
PRS - Carlos Santana
Carvin - Craig Chaquico
Ernie Ball/Musicman - Alvin Lee
Suhr (Pensa) - Mark Knopler
Anderson - (?)

[semagic]

Kramer... Richie Sambora
Jackson... Phil Collen
G & L... Jerry Cantrell
Silvertone... Paul Stanley
Ibanez... Paul Stanley
Hamer... Glen Tipton & K K Downing

[MetalGrasshopper]

Engl- Rammstein

[charvelguy]

GUITARS:::
Gibson - Les Paul, then Page
Fender - Hendrix
Ibanez- Vai, Satch..In the days before them.. it was Bob Weir or George Benson.
Guild -Garcia, then like Paul Simon
Epiphone-Lennon
Rickenbacker-Harrison
Jackson-RR
Charvel-EVH
Dean-Dime.. before dime was Rick Emmitt w/ a White baby V or Elliot Easton
ESP - the guy from Loudness, then Lynch
BC Rich - Derringer, Joe Perry then probably CC
PRS- definitely Santana
Carvin - Craig Chaquico
Ernie Ball/Musicman-EVH, Lukather
Suhr
Anderson

AMPS:::
Fender - Well, when I was a pup..it was Nuge
Peavey-EVH
Marshall-Hendrix, then EVH
Mesa Boogie-Santana
Soldano-Neil Schon
Carvin-Vai
Engl
Randall-hmm..I'd say Lynch then Dime
Ampeg - just about any major name bass player in the 70's
Sunn - Rod Price
Crate
Vox - May
Laney - Iommi
Bogner
Deizel
VHT

[RacerX]

VHT - Dudefuckinhellyeah

[AfterForever]

Gibson - Slash
Fender - Clapton/hendrix/Malmsteen
Ibanez - Vai
Jackson - Rhoads
ESP - Hammett
PRS - Santana

[SEEGERMANY]

"JUST SUBMIT 1 player"

Reading comprehension, embrace it.

[heartfielder]

"JUST SUBMIT 1 player"

Reading comprehension, embrace it.

Obviously this can easily mean submit one player per manufacturer. I don't believe anyone has submitted more than one player per post.

Then again, maybe we're all idiots !!

[jgcable]

HiWatt - Pete Townshend

Very good Zeeg.

The above is a great representation of manufacturer/player


How about:

Steinberger...Vito Bratta

Moog...Rick Wakeman

Heil...Peter Frampton

What player do you people feel did more for the sales and marketing of the Gibson Les Paul than anybody (Les Paul himself not included).

My pick is Ace Frehely but I wonder if Peter Frampton might be even higher up. Maybe it should be Zack Wylde or Jimmy Page?
Its an interesting question to me. .

How about the Gibson SG?? Tony Iommi? George Harrison? Eric Clapton? Frank Zappa?

Fender Stratocaster?? There are a ton of them
Fender Telecaster?? again.. a ton of them

Flying V (the body style) could it be Michael Schenker or Rudy? What about Hendrix or even earlier?

Floyd Rose? EVH I guess

Explorer body style?? You could argue that Mathias Jabs really did alot for the Explorer but what about Rick Neilsen??