“After mine was stolen, I didn’t have time to go to the factory, so they just handed me this 10-string”: The 10-string oddity that became one of Joe Perry’s most iconic guitars – even though he hardly played it in Aerosmith

Joe Perry plays his 10-string B.C. Rich Bich Supreme live with the Hollywood Vampires.

In the late ’70s, B.C. Rich, with all its pointy and wacky-shaped guitars, was giving out guitars like weary-eyed parents to children on Halloween. Aerosmith’s Joe Perry was given one such guitar, a bright red B.C. Rich 10 Supreme.

The guitar has become wholly associated with Perry, though by his own admission, he hardly played it with Aerosmith. Yet he was shown with the guitar slung over his shoulder on the cover of Aerosmith’s Live Bootleg record.