Discovering a guitar that you simply bond with like no different may be life altering – simply ask Nile Rodgers.

The Stylish co-founder has been reflecting on his relationship together with his well-known white Stratocaster, the Hitmaker. Rodgers purchased the guitar in 1973, and says he’s by no means modified it since proudly owning it. His studio in Miami sits just some blocks away from the very retailer he bought it from all these years in the past.

Talking within the new August difficulty of Guitar World, Rodgers says, “I wasn’t notably interested in it for any purpose apart from the truth that it was the most affordable guitar within the retailer. I’m being completely trustworthy. And once I traded in my jazz guitar, the man gave me again $300. I bought the Hitmaker and $300. That was the very best deal I in all probability have ever made in my life.”

Talking of his realisation that the guitar was actually one thing particular, he shares, “Shortly thereafter… our reveals bought higher instantly. We [Chic] had been opening for the Jackson 5; we solely did a few reveals for them standing in for the O’Jays, however these reveals bought higher instantly as a result of, abruptly, I used to be in a position to play with a hell of much more confidence.

“As soon as I bought the Strat, my companion Bernard Edwards mainly took me into the woodshed and simply began instructing me how one can chuck. He mentioned, ‘Man, together with your harmonic information, if you happen to get this down…’ And I simply was in there for hours and hours and hours every single day, and once we bought again on the Jackson 5 tour, we had been killing it.”

He later continues, “I had already realized to play guitar on acoustics, primarily classical and jazz, my muscle reminiscence was my arms being prolonged out over the guitar a bit due to the depth of an acoustic and the jazz field. So l needed to re-adapt, not realising that, in that re-adaptation, I used to be arising with one thing that wound up making my chucking cooler.”

Nile Rodgers and Stylish are presently out on tour.