I imagine a lot of you wonder, like me,what kind of guitar Godzilla plays. As you can see in this image, it appears to be a modified three pick-up Les Paul black beauty. The guitar sports a Bigsby tremolo arm, not such an unusual addition, except that it seems to be placed unusually far from the treble pick-up. This placement may have been a concession to Godzilla's unique playing style and could have enabled the tremolo to produce deeper bends than the ordinary placement. What is more interesting is the headstock with its 6-in-line tuning keys. It's hard to imagine even the King of the Monsters having actually replaced the neck of a Les Paul, whose necks are permanently glued to the body. One has to imagine that the Big G actually special ordered this modification from the Gibson factory. Given the fact that the guitar, being at least 150 feet long (if we accept that Godzilla stands about 300 feet tall) must have been custom built by the factory, perhaps this is not so surprising. But it is highly unusual, this instrument being the only example of a Les Paul bearing a 6-in-line headstock.
NOTE: According to renowned guitar historian Dale Houston, this may be an example of "a stock late-80's giant monster scale Guild Bluesbird." If so, however, this too implies that Godzilla had some special connections as the image above first appeared in July of 1972 on the cover of a single titled "The Bride of Godzilla" backed with "Rock, Rock, Godzilla" (Toho Records). Perhaps the model was originally designed by Guild specifically for Godzilla and only later mass marketed for other gigantic monsters (reports say that Gamera was spotted with a similar instrument, but the titanic turtle could not be reached for comment). According to another guitar collector, Joe Nofziger, this could perhaps be a Fender model with the body replaced. But this seems unlikely.