
After lying about her age to get a job at a medical facility in Long Beach to save up some money, Lita Ford cemented her future when she bought her first serious electric guitar at the age of 14 – a chocolate-finished Gibson SG that accompanied her through the rollercoaster ride that was The Runaways.
Naturally, that’s not the only guitar she’s used throughout her prolific career, and over the past five decades of playing and collecting, Ford has unsurprisingly curated a rich seam of guitar-related anecdotes.