Rob Ackroyd Guitars: Fender x Gibson

I don’t know if any of you are into guitars, but I just noticed that Rob wasn’t playing his tradicional semi-acustic Gibson on the Brit Awards performance. He was actually playing a Fender Stratocaster. Good choice but I think the semi-acoustics are better for F+TM sound. And well, they are much more charming!

 

Here is a pic of Rob with his Gibson Custom B.B. King Lucille. 

And here’s part of the Gibson Interview with Rob:

What guitars have you been gravitating toward lately?

Gibson 335s, 345s and 355s are the only guitars I feel entirely confident playing.  I love the natural warmth and bell-like tone that they produce. The shallow hollowbody provokes just the right amount of malleable, almost three-dimensional, feedback which I tend to utilize as an affected music bed for many of our songs. The body shape and weight suit my frame perfectly, too. I love Les Pauls, but I’m so tall they just don’t look right.

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I would never expect to see him with a Fender! It’s kinda cool, actually, and it fits well in this performance.

(If you want to read the full interview, click here).