French artist Henri Matisse was once quoted as saying, “Color helps to express light—not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain.” This is, perhaps, an unsurprising statement from a fauvist, but consider some of the iconic guitars in history: Brian May’s Red Special, Lzzy Hale’s Explorerbird, Eddie Van Halen’s Franken-strat, Brian Setzer’s brightly colored Hot Rod, the list goes on.
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