Sunday, June 12, 2011
It's said 'a poor musician blames his instrument' but what about good musicians? Do they claim their accomplishments are solely the result of their own efforts? Not really. Most of them thank co-writers, band mates, friends and family.
Guitar players, however, are famous for attributing success to a unique bond with their instrument. As a result, man and machine become inseparable, and over time, the general public has trouble separating where the guitar ends and the guitarist begins. Submitted for your approval is a list of several iconic guitar(ist) combination. And yes, this one goes to eleven.
10. Rick Nielsen
Hamer 5-Neck
As a boy, Rick Nielsen quit collecting stamps because they weren't loud enough. Switching to guitars should have slowed him down, but didn't: he recently pared his vintage guitar collection down to the essentials, and it's still well north of two hundred instruments.
That's not counting the dozens of novelty guitars he uses in every Cheap Trick show: he has checkerboard guitars, Beatles guitars, album cover guitars, even a cartoon character guitar that looks exactly like him. So it's gonna take a special guitar to cement the public image of Rick Nielsen on stage.
Enter the wonderfully stupid Hamer five-neck electric guitar. It hit public consciousness hard in the 1982 'She's Tight' music video, and Nielsen has been doomed to lug the 80-lb joke on tour ever since. Possibly one of the most-recognized rock instruments ever, the guitar is completely functional, with one 12-string neck, three six-string necks, and a fretless bottom neck (if you can reach it).
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