“This was one of the greatest guitar safaris of my life.” Joe Bonamassa on the missteps and dumb luck that led him to track down Terry Reid’s 1952 Telecaster

“This was one of the greatest guitar safaris of my life.” Joe Bonamassa on the missteps and dumb luck that led him to track down Terry Reid’s 1952 Telecaster

Joe Bonamassa owns a collection of electric guitars with long, unusual histories. Among them is Terry Reid’s heavily modified 1952 Fender Telecaster, an instrument whose discovery he called “one of the greatest guitar safaris of my life.”Reid was a British singer, guitarist and songwriter who emerged in the 1960s U.K. rock scene. Widely respected by his peers, he was Jimmy Page’s first choice to sing in Led Zeppelin before he declined and recomm…