Paul Rodgers

In this photo, Rodgers can be seen with a Gibson EB-3.

In this live photo, Rodgers can be seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Junior.

In this live photo, Rodgers can be seen playing a Gibson J200 Don Everly.

In a 1995 performance at Rockpalast, as seen in a video by pirate61ster on YouTube, Paul Rodgers uses a Shure SM57 microphone, highlighting his preference for this dynamic mic.

In this photo, Rodgers plays a pair of RhythmTech Ergonomic Tambourine.

In this photo Rodgers can be seen playing a black Yamaha Silent Guitar Nylon String.

In this video Paul is using a sonic blue stratocaster with a maple fretboard.

“ It's Dakota Red, which is apparently a rare colour. '64. It's fantastic, it's lovely. Rosewood fingerboard. There was a collector after one of those, he had like 60 Strats, in New York, he had all those Strats, and he didn't have a Dakota Red. Cause they tell me it wasn't a popular colour.”

“I've got a two-tone sunburst Strat with a maple board, too, one of the early ones. I got that in the Bad Company days.”

“Another guitar I've got is a Les Paul that used to belong to Koss, the '58 Sunburst he had. I bought it yonks ago, just out of sentimental reasons, somebody called me and said, I've got Paul Kossoff's guitar, are you interested? I said well, I'm not really a guitar player. I rang round a few shops, and they said "The bottom's gone out of the market, you don't want to buy that". I bought it anyway, against all professional advice. And it's a wonderful instrument. In fact, on the album, Geoff said, "If you think on, you could bring that down and I'll play it on a track" and he plays it on Chasing Shadows. It used to belong to Clapton, too, prior to Koss, so it's a bit of a historic guitar. Check it out on that track. It takes a few listens, but you can hear Clapton, and you can hear Koss, and you can hear Geoff. It's quite amazing.“

Paul is on the left with Koss sitting across from him.

“I pulled out a Vox AC30 from my studio. I'm kinda happy with it, it's nice. I was using a Marshall 50-watt and a 4 x 12 before that. The funny thing is about the AC30, that was another thing I bought for sentimental reasons - when I first started out, we were in the guitar player's living room, and all of us plugged into this AC30, it was the bee's friggin' knees, you know. And to have one all to myself is just such luxury.“

A Marshall Plexi is seen behind Paul during his Free days.

Paul is seen playing a Flying V during his Free days.

Paul Rodgers is confirmed to have used a 1958 Fender Stratocaster, as detailed in an interview with Mick Ralphs on GuitarPlayer. Ralphs mentioned, "The Stratocaster was about a ’58, a horrible ice-blue. It belonged to some guy in Cleveland, a country-and-western singer. I bought the guitar because it had a lovely maple neck. As soon as I got to England I had it refinished to a light brown. I gave it to Paul Rodgers because he was into Strats and had one stolen. He ended up using it for most of the early pictures you see of Bad Company." This information affirms Rodgers' use of the guitar during his time with Bad Company.