Neil Young News: Neil Young's Guitar

Monday, January 10, 2005

Neil Young's Guitar

Over on the forum Guitarramania.com (in spanish), some great photos of Neil's guitar Old Black. This Neil Photo of the Moment is amazing, with guitar tech Larry Cragg showing the extreme wear and abuse which Old Black has suffered over the years from "Hurricane", "Down by The River", and other feedback laden finales that leave him lying in shreds on the stage floor.

Visually, Neil's Gibson 1953 Gold Top Les Paul is the electrical equivalent to Willie Nelson's battered "Trigger" -- his well-worn Martin acoustic guitar.

More photos and articles on Neil's guitars, the latest Thrasher's Wheat Neil Young Page of the Moment.

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9 Comments:

At 1/10/2005 09:38:00 AM, Anonymous said...: Man, poor Ol Black sure looks like he's taken a beaten.
Or is Ol Black a she?
At 1/13/2005 01:24:00 PM, Bruce said...: I don't think I've ever seen such a worn-out electric, that was still in use as a main axe. A whole career of albums played out on that guitar! A-Mazing.
At 1/14/2005 03:47:00 PM, lbeattie820 said...: The guitar must be male, because you can't abuse a woman like that.
At 1/26/2005 05:02:00 PM, Anonymous said...: Neil Young and The Tragically Hip to Perform at The 2005 JUNO Awards, Canada’s Music Awards
http://www3.junoawards.ca/PDF/01262005.pdf
At 5/17/2005 10:52:00 AM, Anonymous said...: [QUOTE]I don't think I've ever seen such a worn-out electric, that was still in use as a main axe. A whole career of albums played out on that guitar![/QUOTE]

Haven't you seen SRV's Strat 8{}
At 7/26/2005 01:30:00 AM, Anonymous said...: SRV would abuse and beat up his guitar onstage, as well as play on it really hard.

Neil thrashed his guitar by JUST playing on it, he doesnt lpay particularly violently nor does he smash the thing into the ground or throw it off of walls like SRV did

not knocking on SRV, i am a big fan of his ;-)
At 12/30/2005 01:05:00 AM, soylent green said...: Was this clone taken from an original stem cell? This puts a whole new meaning to "When God made me". Oh, doh! That was an acoustic! But was it original? Oh,man I'm confused now....
At 7/03/2007 09:06:00 PM, Brett C said...: As far as most worn by playing, does the name Rory Gallagher mean anything?
At 1/25/2008 02:07:00 AM, gnattyice said...: I think the instrument looks Perfect.