26Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's guitar from the controversial 1965 concert where he "went electric" was missing for almost 50 years. After it was found and authenticated, it was sold at an auction in 2013 for a record-setting $965,000.
27. Astronauts have to relearn how to play the guitar while on the space station because they tend to overshoot the frets due to weightless arms.
28. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) wrote 'For Emma, Forever Ago' in his father’s remote hunting cabin. He hunted deer for food, once having to trade venison to afford repair of his guitar. After months of relative solitude, he emerged, having recorded all 9 songs.
29. Cliff Burton, a bassist of Metallica from 1982 to 1986, practiced bass guitar for 6 hours a day, even after joining with Metallica.
30. Pete Buck of R.E.M. band had been playing guitar only a year before joining the band at 23 years old.
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31David Bowie
The soundtrack of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou was mostly David Bowie songs translated into Portuguese and performed by a Brazilian samba artist on an acoustic guitar.
32. Charles Darwin dedicated 40 years of his life studying earthworms. To figure out how their auditory system worked, he would play piano for them.
33. Marilyn Manson is such a big fan of "Lost" that he has "The Numbers" tattooed on his arms. Also, Naveen Andrews played guitar with him.
34. The guitarist from "Mad Max: Fury Road" was able to shoot out flames from his guitar (which weighed around 132 pounds) with the use of his whammy bar.
35. When Joan Baez sent her legendary guitar to Martin Guitars for refurbishment, they discovered a message from a previous luthier which read "Too bad you are a communist".
36Mauro Giuliani
After Beethoven heard Mauro Giuliani playing the guitar, he commented that the instrument was "a miniature orchestra in itself".
37. Garth Brooks once stopped singing "The Dance" in the middle of his concert to give his guitar to a woman with cancer in the front row. She had a sign that said "Chemo this morning, Garth tonight. Enjoy the Dance."
38. Volkswagen once had a promotion where every car came with a limited edition electric guitar that could plug into the car as an amplifier.
39. The popular steel slide guitar sound of Hawaii was taught to them by visiting Cowboys from a small town in California.
40. When John Lennon received his first guitar, his aunt Mimi (his guardian at the time) told him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it." Three years later, The Beatles formed.
41The Sounds of Silence
In the song 'The Sounds of Silence' by Simon and Garfunkle, the lyric 'Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again' was created by Paul Simon often playing guitar in the bathroom with the lights off and faucet running.
42. When guitar player Steve Vai joined Frank Zappa's band as a teenager, he was so good even then that Zappa would credit his guitar parts as "stunt guitar" or "impossible guitar parts" on the liner notes of his albums.
43. An increasingly common method for brain surgeons to ensure that a semi-conscious patient is OK during surgery is to have them play a musical instrument or sing during the procedure. Various patients have played saxophone, guitar, banjo, violin, and even sung opera while under the knife.
44. Johnny Depp has played guitar for Marilyn Manson, Oasis, and Aerosmith.
45. Jerry Garcia played a custom built guitar named 'Lightning Bolt' which was made from the recycled rosewood of a bed from an Asian opium den.
46James Taylor
James Taylor gives free online guitar lessons.
47. In the song "Misunderstood", John Petrucci wrote and played the guitar solo, and then reversed it. He then learned how to play this reversed version, and after recording it reversed it once more. This resulted in a solo like the original but with a unique twist to the way the notes sounded.
48. James Franco, a non-smoker, took up smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, learned to ride a motorcycle, play guitar, and cut himself off from his loved ones, all to prepare for his role as James Dean.
49. Jazz pianist Ryo Fukui taught himself piano when he was 22 and released his first album just 6 years later.
50. The Replacements band (who were replacing The Pointer Sisters at the last minute as the SNL musical guest) smuggled booze and drugs backstage, got drunk with Harry Dean Stanton, broke a guitar on their way to perform, swore on-air, and were banned from returning to the show.
