Guitar Face: The act of making an unusual face while playing the guitar. The look typically resembles a look of pain, intense ecstasy, or sometimes even plain old gas.
Guitar face is a horribly disfiguring condition effecting tens of thousands of guitar players around the world.
Blues players (particularly electric blues players) seem to suffer the most horrendous effects.
Carlos Santana give us a classic here…

Carlos Santana - Guitar Face

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Guitar Face: The act of making an unusual face while playing the guitar. The look typically resembles a look of pain, intense ecstasy, or sometimes even plain old gas.
Guitar face is a horribly disfiguring condition effecting tens of thousands of guitar players around the world.
Blues players (particularly electric blues players) seem to suffer the most horrendous effects.
The late Gary Moore was always good for a “face” or two… every time he played.
RIP Gary…

Gary Moore - Guitar Face
The resurrection of the Joe Walsh Guitar Face post was trending popular yesterday so I spent some time looking for another artist being “caught in the moment”.
Here is a great one from Prince.
If you have any “Guitar Face” photos you would like to submit for future posts, email them to DJ@GuitarDaddy.com.

Prince shows his Guitar Face
Guitar Face: The act of making an unusual face while playing the guitar. The look typically resembles a look of pain, intense ecstasy, or sometimes even plain old gas.
Guitar face is a horribly disfiguring condition effecting tens of thousands of guitar players around the world.
Blues players (particularly electric blues players) seem to suffer the most horrendous effects.
Joe Walsh gave us a fantastic “guitar face” during the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival.
Note: This post originally appeared on TheGuitarBuzz a couple of years ago, but after seeing Joe on The Grammy’s, I thought it would be fun to dig it out of the archives…