I saw Cheap Trick once. He played a Hamer guitar 🎸 the entire new night. White and black strips on the body. 

The last guitar, the Tele, has a string bender. Ray Flake did that at a Ricky Scaggs show. I thought he was bending the body away from the neck or something. I wondered how he stayed in tune. 

I was in Nashville for a couple weeks in the 1980's and if you didn't have a Telecaster, it was like showing up at the Daytona Beach bike week on a Honda or Kawasaki!! 

I just last night discovered the bender guitars. I had never heard of it. 

BTW. MERRY CHRISTMAS MY ALLMAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!

@robertdee And Merry Christmas to you Robertdee. Bun E Carlos also has a wonderful drum collection. And maybe Dobros too if I remember correctly. 

@steved Oh thanks. I like good drummers. With the ABB I favored Jaimoe back in the 1970's because of his jazz licks. Of course Butch was the time keeper. 

I saw John Bonham twice with Led Zeppelin. Recently I sent several hours reading about him. Bonzo mentioned Joe Morello a couple of times. I had never heard of Joe. Then I found this and some of the rhythms and no sticks! This is where Bonzo got some of his ideas. There is a bass solo then check out the drums. 

You saw Cheap Trick and Rick played one guitar all night? That would probably be the only show that he ever did that. I saw them from before their 1st album came out and even in bars - Rick had at least a half dozen guitars.

Their first major tour as an opening act was with KISS and by then Rick had a dozen guitars along and used a different guitar for pretty much every tune. That pretty much became his "thing". Since the 70s, I have worked and/or been to at least 30+ shows/festivals involving Cheap Trick and he has always averaged pretty close to a guitar per tune. Extremely nice guys which is a big part of why they are still around all these years later. Rick has always been able to remove the hat and sweater and walk down the street and no one knows him. LOL

To see him play a single guitar for an entire show would have been a very rare night. Possibly they didn't have their gear and were using rental equipment? Good question for Rick as he would remember a show like that for sure.

Incredible memory that you have to remember which guitars all these various guitarists used on different tunes 40-50 years ago. I can't remember which guitars I used at a show last month. 

@canadianmule That show was a long time ago. Im probably wrong. The guitar I remember Rick playing had a shape similar to a Gibson Explorer. It had Hamer on the headstock and other than that is was very close to looking like a Gibson Explorer. 

That was probably the first time I saw someone play a Hamer. 

I have no memory of Rick playing another ax that night. But that could be wrong. 

He was an interesting player and reminded me of Art Carney on the Honeymooners Ed Norton character looks wise. 

I looked online and Hamer continues to make an Explorer type guitar and it sells for $1,300.00. 

I was really into electric guitars back then so the type of guitar I saw on stage, oddly I suppose, was often what I remember best about many shows. 

The first four or five times I saw the Allman Brothers in 1970 and got hooked and addicted like never before on a band, what I remember most about those shows other than how their sound was so addictive and moving to me is Duane Allman played a Goldtop Les Paul and Dickey played a sunburst Stratocaster. For six months I thought Dickey Betts was a Strat man but as the years went by he became more closely identified as a Goldtop Les Paul man. 

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These are the guitars I remember the ABB using the first several shows I saw in 1970 over about a 5 month stretch. 

I saw The John Butler Trio play a festival 15 - 16 years ago. Behind him and in front of the drummer were probably 15 guitars set up on stands. They would play a song, he'd grab one of the guitars, put his current one in the stand and he kept doing that. Every song. He didn't get to all of them as they only had so much time to play but that was really cool. A nice Shtick. I guess he likes guitars. And he had to bring all of that from Australia.

I met his wife that night. She was selling the t-shirts. 😀 

I've seen Cheap Trick a bunch of times and it seems like he was always changing guitars. 

Several years ago .moe was playing The Chicago Theatre and he sat in with them. Not sure what the connection was but .moe sucked. It was cool seeing him though.

That is what Rick does. I thought Robert's memory might be a bit fuzzy on that one. 😀 

Alice Cooper's guitarists are also an Evening of awesome guitars all night long.

Tommy Henriksen and Ryan Roxie both use easily over a dozen guitars each per show and all are classics, Nita Strauss has her endorsement deal with Ibanez but the other two guys - just in awe seeing their collections.