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Here's #7, a man married a stratocaster. You literally can't make this up...?

In 2001 a British musician, Chris Black, fell so madly in love with his red Fender Strat – known by the name ‘Brenda the Fenda’ – he married it, after 35 years of ‘dating’. The ceremony was held in a church in London and was officiated by a friend.

The guitar was technically his second ‘wife’, as Chris was also married to a human woman at the time. Never taking himself too seriously, Chris said, ‘It was only for a bit of fun, to help cheer people up.’

https://www.guitarfella.com/interesting-facts-about-guitar/

Ok, #6 is just insane! Can you imagine the hand cramping! Good grief. And - "Dave had breaks of no more than 30 seconds between songs." How????

  • V8 replied to this.

    wern101 ...SRV lent him a guitar in 2011? Spoooooky ?

    On a guitar lent to him by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dave played a total of 1,372 songs, finishing with the U2 classic, ‘With or Without You’.

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