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Fender Stratocaster Ex Robin Le Muserier - "Gromit"
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The history of music has been built around remarkable performances, titanic stagings and live shows that challenge the limits. In this regard, Johnny Hallyday's concerts have built his legend, and at the same time the great history of French music. His entrances on stage in a helicopter at the Stade de France or splitting the crowd at the Parc des Princes are part of his unequalled sense of show.
In June 2000, it is in a deluge of pyrotechnic effects that the concert of Johnny Hallyday at the Champ de Mars begins in front of hundreds of thousands of amazed fans. This blaze of the Eiffel Tower is done to the rhythm of Allumez le feu, played on the electric guitar by the faithful righthand man of the Taulier. Dressed in a red suit, Robin Le Mesurier lets the communicative riff burst from a cream Stratocaster.
It is this guitar soberly nicknamed Gromit, seen by millions of people, that Matt's Guitar Shop offers. It is a Fender / Fernandes Stratocaster guitar with a cream body from the 1990's. Being an avid Eric Clapton fan, Robin Le Mesurier has mounted the neck of a signature Eric Clapton Fender Stratocaster in maple on a Fernandes body. The headstock features a facsimile of Clapton's signature and the name "Gromit" in place of the Fender sticker.
Robin Le Mesurier affectionately renamed each of his instruments with a label placed on the headstock. This one has the funny nickname "Gromit". The guitar is in very nice condition, with a few scratches which are marks of years of intensive playing on the biggest stages.
Robin Le Muserier
With his legendary English discretion and elegance, Robin Le Mesurier firmly established himself as the rhythmic pillar of Johnny Hallyday and Rod Stewart. Talented musician in the shadow of illustrious names, he built unifying anthems and he sporadically took the spotlight when he was presented on stage by his companions.
In 2000, he was the one who started the unleashed notes of Allumez le feu at the Champ de Mars in front of more than 500,000 people. All over these years, he was also the one who initiated the first notes of the ballads during the Taulier's concerts on his acoustic guitar - like a welcome break between a few riffs of pure rock and roll.
Robin Le Mesurier was Johnny Hallyday's most faithful sidekick. He became the right-hand man and the sincere friend of the singer in 1994. During all these years, it is more than 20 years of passionate collaboration which let millions of people enjoy the touch of the guitarist all over Europe.
Recognized and solicited for his British phlegm and for his precise and applied touch, Robin Le Mesurier was appreciated by his peers. Friend of the greatest, he had played with Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and with Rod Stewart with whom he worked for a long time in the mid-1980s. It is not less than four albums they created together. Through this collaboration, his compositions made him known throughout the world and made him a guitarist in great demand.
In 1994, his fruitful partnership with Johnny Hallyday began on the album Rough Town, for which he composed two tracks. From then on, Le Mesurier became the official musician of the famous singer. For twenty-three years, he was on all his tours and shows. He accompanied him until his death, playing in the Madeleine Church in Paris in December 2017 for his funeral. Their complicity and unfailing friendship was palpable every night on stage, especially when the time was come for Johnny Hallyday to introduce his musicians, including his "fidèle ami" Robin loyally placed at his right.
Robin Le Mesurier shared the same dreams of America Johnny Hallyday had. A few weeks before his death, he was still promoting the documentary on the last American tour of the Taulier at his home, in Los Angeles, where he died peacefully in December 2021.
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