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“Every other Strat I picked up at the time didn’t have the same feeling to me”: Warren Haynes on why the theft of a Custom Shop Strat convinced him to change to Gibson Les Pauls

Warren Haynes.

Nothing pulls on the heartstrings of a guitarist more than the thought of a beloved axe being stolen. But when Warren Haynes lost his go-to electric guitar – a red Custom Shop Fender Strat that was by his side as he went from Dickey Betts' foil to a star of the Allman Brothers Band – it forced him to rethink his guitar of choice.

“That particular Strat, it had a really beefy and wide neck, it had the Lace Sensor pickups with the Clapton midrange boost, but there was something really special about that guitar,” he reminisces with MusicRadar.

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