Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it's from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed ...

Eric Clapton may have had an extensive career, but some classics are bound to stand out a lot more than others.

It's ironic that Clapton is the world's most famous living Fender Stratocaster player, since he made his name playing Gibsons and was rarely seen with a Strat until after the death of Hendrix. And ...

he didn't make the switch to his "Brownie" Strat until early 1970, when he began performing with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, who in turn supported him on Eric Clapton. As Clapton detailed in a ...

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: There are very few guitars that enjoy the status of Eric Clapton’s beloved black Strat, ‘Blackie’, and back in 1994, Guitarist magazine was offered a close encounter. It so ...

Most of us have thought about refinishing our instruments at some point – a new paint job, relic’ing, or simply caking it in stickers. Teddy McDonald feels the same way – but as an artist by ...

The list of legendary guitarists closely associated with the Strat is awe-inspiring; it includes Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, David Gilmour, Frank Zappa, Mark Knopfler ...

When you sold a Strat, people wanted to sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, or they wanted to sound like Eric Clapton.” The same is true for those at the top of the guitar-food chain. “The first ...

If this is it for Eric Clapton – if the four-night run at ... and again in every fluid solo he tore through on his Fender Stratocaster, every flourish and strum on the frets and strings of ...