The knob is a machined brass billet piece as well. Just one volume, but an elongated control cavity so you can add a tone control if you want. The SL50 is a unique guitar, with a tone, feel and sound unmatched by anything under a grand out there. Try one. We think you'll be hooked! Bowie’s Diamond Dogs/Soul tour turned out to be an ever-evolving beast. Although initially grounded in glam, it edged ever closer to R&B with every passing show, a metamorphosis that happened more by osmosis than design. He’s clearly enthused about the gigs, but he’s still an inveterate sideman. “If Buddy Guy needed a second guitarist, I’d grab it, and I’d go on my own dime. Oh, yeah. I’m very comfortable in the role of a sideman. People look at it as if you’re always second fiddle, but I don’t see it like that: it’s all about me playing music instead of trying to be something that I’m not. People say to me: ‘You’re so good at what you do, you should really be in the front.’ You know what? After all this time, if that’s what I was supposed to be doing, that’s what I would be doing.” I really enjoyed doing her album Season Of Glass, too, even though John was gone. Phil Spector was there, although that lasted about a week and a half until she got rid of the crazy bastard.

I was too young to get bit by the Elvis bug, but when The Beatles came on TV it really hit a nerve,” he says. “Screaming girls, cool clothes, weird haircuts, the whole thing. Within a few months I got my first guitar. The Beatles got me playing, but what kept me playing was the Stones.” The ‘80s were kind of void for me. It was a weird period, but I did a lot of touring, and I got Keith Richards to play on my record – it doesn’t get any better than that. You wanna talk about the guy who’s had the most influence on me than any guitarist on the planet? I mean, right down to the jeans. There was an Italian guy in the neighbourhood, Hank DeVito, who was playing with Michael Kamen, who had part of Paul Butterfield’s band with him, David Sanborn on sax. They were catching planes and playing real gigs, and I was hating playing covers. So I asked Michael if he needed another guitar player. He said no, but he did need a roadie. Then a voice came on the intercom – which I later figured out was Tony Visconti – and said: ‘Put your headphones on. I’m gonna play some things, just play along.’ So I did, and that was it. After half an hour or so, Bowie walked in the room, said hello, and we chatted and noodled around on guitars for a little while. Strange.”

Yoko’s tune Walking On Thin Ice was cut during the Double Fantasy sessions, and it's absolutely one of my top recorded moments. John and I did some really cool stuff on that record. So let’s be sure to give that one an honorable mention.

Great guitar for the price. Heavy but not excessively so, I guess around 7-8lbs. The fit and finish are very good, exceptional when considering the price. The guitar was set up perfectly upon delivery, nice action and no buzzing strings. The hardware seems to be of high quality, tuners stay in tune and the bridge is beautifully machined.

Everything functions and works fine. Our Luthier did a set up on this guitar and installed new strings. A really great playing and sounding guitar. This is a performers AXE. No frills, stripped down to basics and ready to go!