B.B. King

BB King auctioned this guitar off and Eric Clapton purchased this guitar at a charity auction. Eric Clapton acquired it then for collecting rather than playing purposes.

BB King gave this guitar to Eric Clapton's 2004 Crossroads auction.

An autographed B.B. King 'Lucille' model Gibson guitar, used by him during the recording of the album 'B. B. King & Friends: 80', FOOTNOTES The album was a celebration of B.B. King's 80th birthday and comprised a series of duets with the signatories on the guitar. According to information supplied, the signatures were obtained in various recording studios during the sessions: Clapton, Daltrey, Knopfler and Van Morrison in Olympic Studios, London, the remainder in New York and Los Angeles. B.B.King used this guitar for the session with Mark Knopfler.

In the early days of BB Kings career and long before he got his official Gibson signature guitars he played Gibson ES-355 a lot.

In this picture, BB King is playing a Epiphone BB King Lucille electric guitar.

B.B. King is shown on this album cover for "The Modern Recordings 1950-1951" with a Fender Esquire.

http://www.gibson.com/Productos/Instrumentos-Ac%C3%BAsticos/Borde-Redondo/Gibson-Acoustic/John-Hiatt-J-45/Caracter%C3%ADsticas.aspx

List #78 http://www.earlyblues.com/blues_singers.htm

From Gibson's own website. They are talking about B.B.'s 335 and mentioned that he used to play a Gold Top.

In the picture you can see B.B. King using a 1948 Gibson L-5-P CES.

In the picture you can see B.B. King playing a Gibson ES-330.

I wonder if it was just a promo shot, but in the picture you can see B.B. king holding/playing/whatever a Gibson Little Lucille. Maybe he used it more than just in this image.

In this video we can see BB King playing a Gibson ES-345. From Gibson.com: 'King has played ES-335s and ES-345s too'... Here the full web page: http://www.gibson.com/news-lifestyle/features/en-us/lucille-the-gibson-guitars-of-bb-king-0625-2012.aspx

This 1968 Fender Twin Reverb combo amp was really important to get the typical BB King sound. In the source you can see BB King using a similar '65 Fender Twin Reverb while jamming alongside Eric Clapton who was using the same amp at the time.

This amp was often used by BB King until he gave it to Eric Clapton's 2011 Crossroads auction. BB King used it also while playing at the 2007 & 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival which Eric Clapton helds for Crossroads.

In this video you can see B.B. King playing trough a fender super reverb.

B.B. King uses a Rode NT1-A Condenser Microphone as announced.

In the video you can see B.B. King using a red heavy plectrum. In 0:51 he said that it is a hard one.

His signature model "Lucile" has 490R and 490T.

Wrote the foreword.