"The main riff used in 'Headwires' is on an Explorer playing through the Memory Man and the Vox, and the harmonics were done with the same setup," mentions Foo Fighters's lead guitarist, Dave Grohl, in reference to the Gibson Explorer electric guitar.

Slash is seen using a Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar during a live performance of "Speed Parade," as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Flickr.

This guitar was used as one of James’ main guitars for the album St.Anger released in 2003, both in studio and for the tour. It was most likely brand new.

The guitar features matte black finish and tarnish metal pickguard. Rest of the specs were transferred over from his earlier guitars, including EMG pickups and Tune-o-Matic bridge.

In this photo, we can see Billie Joe with a Gibson Explorer.

Another one of these was sold in Green Day's Reverb Shop. Source

The Gibson Explorer is a type of electric guitar that made its debut in 1958. The Explorer offered a radical, "futuristic" body design, much like its siblings: the Flying V, which was released the same year, and the Moderne, which was designed in 1957 but not released until 1982. The Explorer was the final development of a prototype design that, years later, Gibson marketed under the name Futura. The Explorer's initial run was unsuccessful, and the model was discontinued in 1963. In 1976, Gibson began reissuing the Explorer after other guitar companies had success selling similar designs. The Explorer became especially popular among the hard rock and heavy metal musicians of the 1970s and 1980s.

Eric Clapton said that he bought this guitar via his manager Roger Forrester, from a fan in Austin, Texas in c.1983. He has used it on stage and is photographed playing it during the ARMS concert at The Royal Albert Hall, London, September 21, 1983.

"This was my main guitar that I practiced my countless hours on...I ruined it's sound by putting in a Kahler Tremolo bar..." says Tom Morello, about his Gibson Explorer, at 0:44 in this video.

In this video, The Edge talks about buying his Gibson Explorer guitar brand new when he was in New York at age 17 (he had originally intended to buy a Les Paul). It was the first guitar he purchased with the intention of playing it as part of a band on stage in front of an audience. At first he admits to it feeling kind of strange playing it with his band mates, and that at the time nobody else was playing with Explorers, making The Edge and U2 rather unique.

He goes on to describe how a crack occurred on the back of the headstock in the mid-1980s when he threw the guitar behind him in order to help some members of the audience.

At 2:38, Edge demonstrates some of the parts of the U2 song “Beautiful Day” on the Explorer. He recalls during the recording of “Beautiful Day”, a certain lead part did not feel right on his other guitars, so he brought out and used the Gibson Explorer through his Vox amp.

From a gibson.com interview from 2010: "Gibson Explorers are still his signature instrument. The Edge prefers the Gibson Limited Edition Explorer built in 1976. He owns several, including the one he used on Boy, which is now retired from the stage."

Jim Root is playing a Black Gibson Explorer in this video.

In an Instagram post, Jerry Cantrell shared his experience performing at Rock Im Park, where he used his Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar.

Dave has used a natural explorer during the song Trust on the metal tour of the year.

"The infamous fur guitars. So we have two rigs: A and B. The A rig... has the Gretsch Bo Diddley. The B rig Gibson guitar is a Gibson Explorer. This is a standard issue, and it's actually it's a John Bolin-made guitar, made to Gretsch's specs. It's your typical fur-covered guitar - everyone has one," says Billy Gibbons's guitar tech in reference to the Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar.

In this post made on June 28th, 2022 a Gibson Explorer is seen on a table next to Tom Delonge’s signature ES-333 guitars. It looks to have a single pickup in the bridge with a single volume knob, per usual with his guitars. The pickup looks to possibly be a Seymour Duncan Invader but I can’t really get a good view on it, but if you zoom in it looks like it has the hex pole pieces, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something like a Gibson Dirty Fingers because that’s what he usually uses nowadays.