What was Chuck Berry's most famous guitar?

There's a story I heard recently- possibly from the “Hail, Hail Rock and Roll” film about Chuck in which he arrives at an airport and watches as his guitar case comes bouncing down the chute on to the baggage carousel. read more

Chuck was famous for his hard-nosed business sense and utter lack of sentimentality. To him, a guitar was simply a tool for getting the job done. He’d happily sell his own instruments using the fact that they were Chuck Berry’s old guitars to turn a profit. read more

Today there’s a litany of great musicians who’ve employed the ES-335 and its siblings to make truly historic music — a continuum that starts with Berry and King plus T-Bone Walker and continues with such stellar six-stringers as the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson and jazz man Lee Ritenour. read more