Hollow body hard rock guitar players

[voggmo]

Alex Lifeson, Nugent, Alvin Lee. BTO & BOA also played em. The guy from the Cult too.

Anyone else? not too many. Harder to play at extreme volume they say. Feedbck harder to control. Good tone here & there though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2VNFpiGWo

 

[M'Sharak]

Blackmore, on the early stuff. He used mainly an ES-335 until switching to Strat during the recording sessions for In Rock. ("Child in Time" still features the Gibson.)

I believe Townshend also used one of the F-hole Rickys on occasion.

 

[voggmo]

Ah yes, the red one.

 

[voggmo]

Steve Howe. Yes could occassionally rock hard.

 

[voggmo]

Rick Emmett Triumph.

 

[Darth_Daver]

Steve Howe. Yes could occassionally rock hard.

And they did it well!

 

[J.T.B.]

(Sorry if I tread on someone's definition of "hard rock.")

ES-335's are not strictly hollow-bodied, but Clapton used to pay one with Cream (along with Pauls and SG's).

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl plays a custom Gibson semi-hollow based on the 335.

Keith Richards has been playing 355's quite a bit on recent Stones tours.

LA punk/rockabilly legend Billy Zoom always plays a late '50s Gretsch Silver Jet, which look like a solid but are actually hollow under the top. Later Jets had "chambers" in the body but were a lot more solid.

I can't think of anybody besides Steve Howe that plays a real big-bodied hollow guitar onstage in a "rock" show, unless you count rockabilly cats with their Gretsch 6120's &c.

--Justin

 

[voggmo]

George Thorogood.

 

[M'Sharak]

Mark Farner

 

[voggmo]

Jimmy Mcarty. Mitch Ryder & the Detriot Wheels, & Cactus. This is where Nuge got the idea to play the hollow body. Jimmy Mcarty was his idol.

 

[voggmo]

Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly, later Alice Cooper & Nuge do a double hollow body jam here circa 1970.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR31zEsH03E

 

[Sephiroth]

hollow body....6-string...195..7, I know that guitar

 

[M'Sharak]

^ Epiphone Zephyr, that -- or something very similar.