Editing Allen Collins (section)

== Instruments ==
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In the early days of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Collins used a black [[Gibson Flying V]]. This guitar was stolen, along with Gary Rossington's white [[Gibson SG]], when the band's van was broken into after a gig. For most of his tenure in Skynyrd, Collins used a [[Gibson Firebird]] fitted with a chrome-covered, "dog-eared" [[P-90]] pickup in the bridge position and a Gibson "teaspoon" nickel vibrato arm. In 1976 he switched to a natural-finished [[Terminalia superba|korina]] 1958 [[Gibson Explorer]] that he had bought for about $3,000, and used that guitar throughout his tenure with the Allen Collins Band.

In late 1977 Collins began occasionally playing a Gibson Les Paul Special, with a double cutaway, P-90s, a sunburst finish, and modded with a Lyre Tremolo. He continued to use this guitar in the Rossington Collins Band as well. On "[[Gimme Back My Bullets]]", "[[Sweet Home Alabama]]", and "[[Every Mother's Son]]" Collins used a Sunburst [[Fender Stratocaster]] after [[Ed King]] had left. Collins was also filmed playing an all-black [[Stratocaster]] with a [[rosewood]] fingerboard, white [[Pickup (music technology)|pickups]] and white control knobs.