{"id":3593,"date":"2010-10-18T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T05:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2010-10-22T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:52:37","slug":"last-man-standing-custom-shaped-guitars-and-the-pro-guitarists-who-play-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-custom-shaped-guitars-and-the-pro-guitarists-who-play-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Custom-Shaped Guitars and the Pro Guitarists Who Play Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3594\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3594\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3594\" title=\"todd2guitarhero.l\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/todd2guitarhero.l-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/todd2guitarhero.l-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/todd2guitarhero.l.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rundgren plays his symbolic guitar.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-explain-utopia\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent discussion<\/a> of Prock futurist <strong>Todd Rundgren<\/strong> got me thinking about well-known guitarists who play custom-shaped guitars. I&#8217;m not talking about guitars like B.C. Rich models that are a variation on a well-known guitar model, like a Flying V, but <em>custom<\/em> guitars made in a shape that especially suits the player&#8217;s identity. Also, the player needs to be an established pro guitarist, not some wacky dude who designed his own penis-shaped axe.<\/p>\n<p><em>All entries must be accompanied by a link to an image of the player with his guitar. (Yes, bass guitars also count.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rundgren&#8217;s guitar, pictured above, is off the board. <em>Play on!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent discussion of Prock futurist Todd Rundgren got me thinking about well-known guitarists who play custom-shaped guitars. I&#8217;m not talking about guitars like B.C. Rich models that are a variation on a well-known guitar model, like a Flying V, but custom guitars made in a shape that especially suits the player&#8217;s identity. Also, the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-custom-shaped-guitars-and-the-pro-guitarists-who-play-them\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,66,309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}