Perry, Joe

No ordinary Joe. No ordinary rig. No ordinary player...

The popular perception is that Joe Perry is the proto-slash of the early 70s: shirtless, legless and elegantly wasted, requiring only a Les Paul and Marshall for his blues-box sleaze. In fact, there are many toys in Perry’s attic. In 2008, he estimated his guitar collection at 600, citing his workhorse back then as the one-off ‘Billie’ Lucille semi-hollow, while other treasures include 50s Supro Ozarks for slide, BC Rich Biches and Dan Armstrong Plexis, and the Guild T-250 that was all over Aerosmith’s late-80s comeback albums. “For me, a lot of how I write a song or riff comes from the particular guitar sound,” Perry explains.