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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Andrew Daly

“B.C. Rich guitars were God back then. They weren’t like a Strat or a Les Paul – they were something different. They had so much power”: Lita Ford on her trailblazing guitar journey – and that time she nearly joined Led Zeppelin

Lita Ford performs live with a B.C. Rich double-neck.

Due to the breadth of her songwriting accomplishments, which date back to her days as a teenage phenomenon with The Runaways, Lita Ford’s guitar exploits are sometimes overlooked.

But a quick scan through her discography – which includes three-chord chug and some tasty solos in songs like Cherry Bomb – shows that, even at a young age, she understood guitar was an instrument of expression rather than a means to show off.

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