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BC Rich guitar makes 'most outrageous' list
Posted on 2 Mar 2009 11:54 to category : Instruments News
A custom BC Rich guitar featuring a body in the shape of a woman's torso and a headstock with a female face on it has placed fourth in a list of the most outrageous electric guitars.
The other was the Squier Thoroughbred Stratocaster, which has a carved wooden horse's head attached to its body.
Lou Reimuller's Teenar, a guitar made from a mannequin of a young girl, topped the list, ahead of an enormous bass guitar built in the style of a Fender Jazz.
That instrument, which is played by D-A-D's Stig Pederson, has a headstock in the shape of a guitar body and a body in the shape of a headstock.
Thunder Eagle's Villanizer, a modified Jackson Randy Rhoads, was selected by musicradar.com as the coolest steampunk guitar in the world last month.
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