Johnny Marr called him “a pioneer and one of the all time greats”, while Whitesnake’s David Coverdale wrote, “Oh, My Heart … RIP, Jeff … I miss you already”. While the sound of this Duo Jet was close to Gallup’s, shortly after completing the album in 1992 Jeff found another ’56 Duo Jet (pictured above) with the missing link – a factory-installed fixed-arm Bigsby identical to the one on Gallup’s guitar.

He embraced project after project with limitless energy and enthusiasm,” Robert Plant said in a statement. “He cooked up magic through all the passing eras, always up for the next, unknown, unlikely collision.” I never have to think about strumming patterns – it’s all taken care of because the motor is always going”: Cory Wong is the modern king of funk guitar – he shares his tips for tightening up your rhythm playing

Last year he made headlines when he announced a collaborative album with Johnny Depp shortly after the Hollywood actor's defamation battle with ex-wife Amber Heard drew to a close. He was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond. The publisher recommended me for the project based on the work I did on Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories, and since I had previously interviewed Jeff about half a dozen times, he was very comfortable with my input and involvement. Sometimes bad gear can give you a good idea! I’ll go with whatever’s around. There are no rules”: Code Orange’s Reba Meyers on writing “pure evil” riffs and why she’d rather play a guitar that “sounds a little sh**tier” than a studio classic

I’m an experimenter. It’s rich because every album I’ve done, except for a couple of techno-y records, are different. Really you’ve got to hand it to the Fender Strat, because there are songs in [that guitar]. It’s a tool of great inspiration and torture at the same time because it’s forever sitting there challenging you to find something else in it, but it is there if you really search.It does respond to touch and the tonal variation is unlimited really, especially with the whammy bar. I have it set up so it becomes almost like a pedal steel.” Guild’s hollowbody electric models were never quite as popular as those made by Gibson and Gretsch, even though the quality was generally comparable. The “Stuart” X-500 was Guild’s flagship archtop electric model upon its introduction in 1953, and thanks to its popularity it remained in continuous production up until 1993. The guitars have a vagueness and messiness – there’s a certain cloudiness that creates our perfect environment. That's our sound”: Blonde Redhead might not be the best of friends, but their otherworldly guitar textures are a match made in heaven First he acquired a 1963 model, which he said was “totally wrong,” but eventually he found a 1956 model that was in pieces. He rebuilt the guitar and installed a swivel-arm Bigsby on the ’56 Duo Jet, which he later used to record 1993’s Crazy Legs. The pair first met in 2016 and began recording the album in 2019 while Depp was also playing with Alice Cooper's supergroup Hollywood Vampires.

Music Lana Del Rey, meet Waffle House Lana Del Rey: Singer poses with a fan dressed as her for HalloweenFender Custom Shop master builder Todd Krause built this Stratocaster for Jeff in 2003. According to Krause, it is one of two guitars he made that were custom painted by Roy Brizio, the acclaimed street rod designer and builder who made several cars for Jeff. Now Jeff has gone, I feel like one of my band of brothers has left this world, and I’m going to dearly miss him,” Ronnie Wood tweeted. Television Travis Barker shuts down fans’ love-triangle theory built around old crush on Kim Kardashian