A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, MX800

On 25 November 1978, Journalist Yuichi Hirayama from Japanese magazine Rockin' visited Jeff Beck's hotel room in Osaka after the fourth show of his 1978-79 tour with Stanley Clarke. Hirayama presented Beck with a trophy honouring his number one spot in the Young Mates Music Player reader's poll of greatest guitarists, a newly published copy of Steve Rosen's The Beck Book (released only in Japan and written in Japanese), a red jacket and two Greco guitars - a white guitar with a vibrato arm and this black guitar. A photograph of the meeting captured by Hide shows Jeff Beck seated on his hotel bed, strumming the white guitar, which would briefly be put to service on this Japanese tour.