Prince played a lot of diffrent brands of guitars.

many people associate him

with hohner and cloud guitars but in my opinion

he sounded the best when

he played those strats

with whammy bars.it took his playing to another level

.some guy made a

utub comilation of Princes

best guitar solos called Prince best guitar player since Hendrix and there

is a video of Prince

playing Shhh on a golden strat ,i think its from Paris

2011.man he took

his guitar playing

somewhere else and i love what he did with his

whammy bar.its not true

that he sacrifised his finger vibrato,he was still using both .vox was a

step back after amazing job with floyd rose strats.

Is this the golden strat that Lewis Hamilton bought at auction:

https://www.formula1blog....0k-guitar/

Boydie said:

Is this the golden strat that Lewis Hamilton bought at auction: https://www.formula1blog....0k-guitar/

yes

Did Prince ever say why he switched to Vox guitars with 3EG?

rogifan said:

There's was an interview with him in Rolling Stone where it said in the text that some of James Brown's guitarists played guitars of the Vox brand (they had an endorsement deal back in the '60s) - so we can guess this connection may have appealed to Prince if he felt compelled mention it to an interviewer.

Could be the guitar just caught his eye, so he tried it out and decided he liked it. Apparently the HDC-77 is very ergonomically designed, and I read some absolutely fantastic reviews when they first came out.