Guitars
Fender Stratocaster 1982 Sonic Blue Ex Gary Moore
25000€
This historic Fender Stratocaster once belonged to one of the greatest guitarists of all time: Gary Moore. A true icon of rock and modern blues, Gary Moore played this guitar from its acquisition in the early 1980s until his passing on February 6, 2011, both on stage during international tours and in key visual productions.
Most notably, this Stratocaster appears in the iconic music video for “Out in the Fields”, where Gary Moore performs alongside his close friend and collaborator Phil Lynott, the legendary frontman of Thin Lizzy. This video has become one of the defining images of Gary Moore’s 1980s career.
Finished in a stunning Sonic Blue, now beautifully aged through years of extensive use, this guitar displays an exceptional natural patina. Its worn aesthetic tells the story of countless performances and captures the essence of Gary Moore’s intense, emotional playing style.
Always pushing sonic boundaries, Gary Moore personally modified this Stratocaster, installing EMG pickups, known for their clarity and power, along with a piezo system, greatly expanding the instrument’s tonal versatility. These modifications perfectly reflect Moore’s innovative and demanding approach to tone.
Gary Moore
(1952 - 2011)
Band: Thin Lizzy
Main guitar: Gibson Les Paul Standard 1959
Compulsory listening: Parisienne Walkways
Irish guitar hero Gary Moore is the proof that an artist can reinvent himself, even if he is a guitarist who has already experienced a fair amount of success. Gary Moore has gone through very different musical decades and has never stopped evolving in the process. His professional career started in 1968 in the band Skid Row (the Irish band of the 60s, not to be confused with the LA band of the eighties of the same name) when he was only sixteen. He then joined Thin Lizzy in 1974, the result of a lasting musical friendship with singer / bassist Phil Lynott.
Moore’s playing was already a mixture of rock and blues, under the influence of his hero Peter Green, from whom he bought the famous Fleetwood Mac Les Paul, the Burst with out-of-phase pickups that can be heard on Albatross. Green’s influence can be heard in Moore’s lyrical approach, a side of him that is particularly important when he plays ballads. That finesse made Parisienne Walkways a smash hit in 1978 on his second album Back In The Streets. A year earlier, Moore had been part of the album Electric Savage by the prog rock band Colosseum II. Eclectic indeed!
Moore left Thin Lizzy in 1979 to concentrate on his solo production, starting with the G-Force project and then a series of heavy metal albums with Dirty Fingers, Corridors Of Power and Victims Of The Future. Early on, Moore gave up on the idea of finding a singer that would correspond to his vision and took to singing himself. Wild Frontier in 1987 is the beginning of Moore’s fascination for traditional celtic music, and the real revolution came in 1990 with Still Got The Blues. The title gives it away: Moore plays long, slow songs in a blues style that he would never fully embrace before that.
The following albums further explored this new direction, until Dark Days In Paradise in 1997 that integrated techno. But as the name of the Back To Blues clearly indicated in 2001, that new musical adventure was short-lived. Since then, he kept the blues power trio formula going until his death in 2008, but his influence and heritage go way beyond that. Indeed, every period from his discography has touched thousands of musicians.
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