It is hard to believe it, but back in the ‘60s the was not considered a great . Then along came Buddy Guy, switching his Guild semihollows for a solidbody that could be thrown around and take the abuse that comes with working with the greatest showman in the blues. In this interview, he sits down with to talk about his signature Strat from the cover of the July 1991 issue, and explain just what makes the model great.
“Oh, I don’t know. I guess I woulda chosen this Stratocaster because I had used it on the record, and I liked the way it felt and sounded then. I probably just liked how it looked, and since I was using it a lot then, and it was before the polka dot Fender guitar, I went with that one.
” “The were something Fender said they couldn’t do in 1991. But finally, they got a guy who was able to do it, and I can’t remember the year, but after telling me the polka dots weren’t going to work, they figured out a way to stamp them right and finally made me one.” “Yeah, I think I used it, but I can’t tell you which ones because back then, I was using a few different ones.
Some of the things, you know, you’d have to give me a flashback, and I’d say, ‘Yeah, I used that.’” “Yeah, it was. When we did the cover, they said that back in 1965, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page didn’t think a Strat could play the blues.
But then they all went to buy Strats after they saw me because, as a matter of fact, one of ’em told me I threw the guitar, a.