Joe Perry of Aerosmith Guild X-100 Blade Runner Electric Guitar

This guitar was used by Joe Perry in the music video for Run-D.M.C.’s 1986 remake of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” a watershed crossover of rap and hard rock. The song was the first hip hop track to make the Top 10 on Billboard's singles chart and was a mainstay of MTV’s video rotation. Joe Perry recalled “[Aerosmith] were on the road at the time and cut the track a couple months before. We were told that they might not even put it on the record. It was Rick Rubin who produced the record and pushed [Run-D.M.C.] to give it a try. They sampled the drums off some of our records and a lot of other rock records. They knew they were doing something different. At the time [hip hop] was up and coming and we were all fascinated by it. We got the phone call that said it’s going on the record and that they would like a video for it. Steven and I said, 'Why not?' They sent us plane tickets and we were off to Queens!”