Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Beck performs on stage at Karuizawa Prince Hotel Open Air, Nagano, Japan, 1986. He is playing a Fender Stratocaster guitar.

Ever since he departed Fender and joined the PRS family, John Mayer has, for the most part, been unwaveringly loyal to his Silver Sky signature guitar. Having said that, recent months have seen Mayer ...

Steve Lukather has played a loaned guitar that belonged to Jeff Beck just weeks after John Mayer appeared on stage with the same signature white Fender Stratocaster. It's easy to spot because of the ...

John McLaughlin has opened up on his guitar-collecting habits, and remembered the time he gifted Jeff Beck a vintage Fender Stratocaster that would end up starring on one of the late guitar great’s ...

This story was originally published in the May 15, 2003, issue of Rolling Stone. Read more from that issue and the 2026 American Icons package here. T he Fender Stratocaster is rock & roll’s ultimate ...

When John McLaughlin’s prized double-neck guitar split in two on tour, Jeff Beck stepped in with a loaner. By the end of the run, McLaughlin repaid him with a white Stratocaster — one that would ...