For his first local gigs in the early 1970s and Rush's debut album, Lee used a Fender Precision Bass.

Soon after, Geddy began using the Fender Jazz Bass which was used on Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals and the supporting tours.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

For the first few rehearsals he used Vox and Fender amplifiers.

Jennings played a 1953 Fender Telecaster, which was a used guitar purchased as a gift to him by The Waylors.

The Piano 73 would become known as the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, with an amplifier cabinet used as a base for supporting the piano keyboard.

In 1969 the 73-note Mark I Stage Piano was introduced as a one-piece alternative to the Suitcase style, featuring four detachable legs ( used in Fender steel pedal guitars ), a sustain pedal with an adjustable pushrod ( the main component in a Rogers hi-hat ) and a single output ( mislabeled INPUT ) for use with an outboard guitar cabinet or other source of amplification.

At the age of 14, Jones became choirmaster and organist at a local church and during that year, he also bought his first bass guitar, a Dallas solid body electric followed by multiple basses in which he part exchanged until he finally bought his 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which he used until 1976.

The term Tex-Mex is also used in American rock and roll for Tejano-influenced performers such as the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados ( featuring Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm ); Los Super Seven ; Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ; Los Lobos and Latin Playboys ; Sunny and the Sunliners ; Louie and the Lovers ; The Champs ; Ry Cooder ; Calexico ; Cecilia with Viva Texas ; The Mars Volta ; Los Lonely Boys ; and Selena y Los Dinos.

Since the late-1980s, Townshend has used the Fender Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster, with Lace Sensor pick-ups, both in the studio and on tour.

Townshend also used a Gibson EDS-1275 double neck very briefly circa late 1967, and both a Harmony Sovereign H1270 and a Fender Electric XII for the studio sessions for Tommy for the 12-string guitar parts.

He also occasionally used Fender Jazzmasters on stage in 1967 and 1968 and in the studio for Tommy.

Over the years, Pete Townshend has used many types of amplifiers, including Vox, Fender, Marshall, Hiwatt etc., sticking to using Hiwatt amps for most of four decades.

Around the time of Who's Next, he used a tweed Fender Bandmaster amp, which he also used for Quadrophenia and The Who by Numbers.

Vaughan used two black-face Fender Super Reverbs, which were crucial in shaping his clear overdriven sound.

He would often blend other amps with the Super Reverbs, including black-face Fender Vibroluxs, and brands such as Dumble, and Marshall, which he used for his clean sound.

He used a Fender Vibratone, designed as a Leslie speaker for electric guitars, and provided a warbling chorus effect, which can be heard on the track " Cold Shot ".

While Fender used Floyd Rose-licensed vibrato systems previously, this move allowed Fender to offer a few models with the original Floyd Rose Tremolo, such as the Richie Sambora Signature Strat in 1991, the Floyd Rose Classic Stratocaster in 1992 and the Set-Neck Floyd Rose Strat in 1993.

Fender used the Floyd Rose-designed locking vibrato system on certain humbucker-equipped American Deluxe and Showmaster models until 2007.

Prior to the use of Fender Basses, Hoppus heavily used Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray basses in various colors during the early days of Blink-182 up until the early Enema of the State period.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

Jaco Pastorius, Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, Stuart Hamm, John Myung, Les Claypool, Cliff Burton, Alex Webster, Sean Beasley and Arif Mirabdolbaghi used two-handed tapping techniques on the bass guitar.

Heavy metal bass players such as Geezer Butler ( Black Sabbath ), Alex Webster ( Cannibal Corpse ), Cliff Burton ( Metallica ), jazz fusion bassist Jaco Pastorius ( Weather Report ), and Les Claypool ( Primus, Blind Illusion ) used chime-like harmonics and rapid plucking techniques in their bass solos.

* Jaco Pastorius ( bassist for Weather Report, considered by many to be the most influential bass player of all time ) used a customized fretless Fender Jazz Bass that he modified himself.

He used a Fender Jaco Pastorius tribute bass to play the bass line for the instrumental Malignant Narcissism from 2007's Snakes & Arrows.

Gnossienne No. 3 was used in Jaco Van Dormael's 2009 film Mr. Nobody, and in a Victoria's Secret commercial for their fragrance line " Dream Angels ".

Pastorius used epoxy rather than varnish to obtain a glass-like finish suitable for the use of roundwound strings, which are otherwise much harder on the wood of the fingerboard.

Since 2008, the generators that power Tribute in Light have been fueled with biodiesel made from used cooking oil collected from local restaurants provided by Tri-State Biodiesel.

Bideford has two King George's Fields, which are memorials to King George V. One field is used primarily as the home ground of the main local rugby union club, Bideford RFC ( Chiefs ) who currently play in the Tribute Western Counties West League.

Tribute was paid by many rulers to the caliph, and these funds were used on architecture, the arts and a luxurious life at court.

* RAIN – A Tribute to The Beatles open their concerts with prerecorded footage of a man doing an intentionally poor Sullivan impression in black and white and then introducing the band, which plays the first part of the show with an exact recreation of the set the Beatles used.

Keeping with tradition, it was also used to close the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert with all the show's acts joining in behind the lead vocal of Liza Minnelli.

After the death of Freddie Mercury from AIDS-related causes in London in 1991, the remaining members of Queen and Jim Beach, their manager, organised The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, the proceeds of which were used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust.

The Tribute House is still used today for meetings of the Merion Civic Association and is supported by renting the space for parties or meetings.

In October 2005 the band released a B-side EP of songs not used on Worship and Tribute, entitled El Mark.

The single was also used in the tribute to rap Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap

Tribute G & L's were made in Korea by Cort Guitars using mostly foreign-made hardware, though some original parts were also used on select models.

In 2012 Carvin worked with Becker to design a Jason Becker Tribute guitar that is modeled after the original DC-series guitar he used toward the latter part of his career.

Tribute points can then be used to increase stats, increase resists, increase HP / mana pools or regen, or gain spell-like focus effects ( water breathing, increased damage foci, improved healing foci, etc .).

Their performance of the song at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 was used as the B-side for the single release and was also included on their Live Era: ' 87 –' 93 album, released in 1999.

*** Note: The KISS Tribute band Hotter Than Hell claims on their website to have been personally selected by Gene Simmons to double for KISS-they were used to appear as KISS in technical rehearsals.

Light beams were used to symbolize the missing towers of the World Trade Center as part of the Tribute in Light.

In 1996 the instrumental track of " No One's Gonna Love You " was used by Maxwell on a remix of his hit " Ascension ( Don't Ever Wonder )" aptly retitled " Ascension ( No One's Gonna Love You, So Don't Ever Wonder ): The Tribute ".

Swedish Thrash Metal band Hexenhaus used this painting for the cover of their album A Tribute to Insanity ( 1988 ), while American death metal group Morbid Angel used this painting also for the cover of their second album, Blessed Are the Sick ( 1991 ).