Sonically: It’s ground zero for a sound that did not previously exist, epicenter of one of the most soughtafter guitar sounds ever – its signature “woman tone.”Ĭlapton’s Fool started life as an SG.It evokes the most magical years of the mid/late ’60s, with its innocent love-and-drugs culture and the first supergroup, Cream.

Culturally: It’s one of the leading cultural icons of an age, one of the first embodiments of psychedelia, and one of its most striking realizations ever.Visually: The first picture-painted guitar in rock and roll, it radically changed the concept of guitar from instrument to art object – the first “art guitar” created by artists.At the pyramid’s apex are the rarest of rare – the unique instrument that is not only a visual and sonic signature in itself, but is readily identified with an artist of the very first rank, over a period of time, in many songs – a guitar that made anthemic songs played every day and has attained status as a cultural icon – in other words, a guitar that actually made history.Ĭlapton’s 1964 Gibson SG, commonly known as “the Fool,” is iconic in many ways: Next up the pyramid are stage-played instruments belonging to well-known artists, often accompanied by pictures to ensure there is no doubt, such as one of Jimi Hendrix’s Stratocasters. In the hierarchy of guitars, the bottom of the pyramid’s capstone is made up of guitars that are “merely” highly collectible, the best example being the 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, of which there are hundreds. What is Clapton’s Fool? Very simply, it is one of the most important and famous electric guitars in the history of the instrument. A name immediately recognizable to guitarists, yet baffling to others.

Frets on fire song pack