Hard Rock Cafes and Hotels have a dazzling array of Prince memorabilia on display in their venues around the world. In most of them, guitars take centre stage.
Because of its iconic status the Cloud guitar is on display most, and amazingly – no Madcats, Symbol guitars or Fenders as far as I can work out. It’s not clear if any of these Clouds were ever actually used by Prince. The plaques that accompany these instruments are usually pretty vague.
I’m using this post as a “work in progress” list of where guitars are on show, and I’ll add to it as I find more. You are welcome to provide more details on any of these (or any I haven’t listed) via comments.
- USA
- Atantic City Hotel and Casino – Dark Blue Cloud
- Chicago Hotel, White Cloud and shirt (hotel now closed)
- Hollywood – Yellow Cloud
- Las Vegas Hotel and Casio – Blue Cloud
- Hotel due to close and reopen as a Virgin hotel in 2019
- May have been built by a dutch builder – to be verified
- Memphis – Yellow Cloud
- Minneapolis – White Cloud (venue is now closed)
- Sioux City – Model C
- Tulsa, USA – Blue Cloud, Purple Rain sunglasses
- Europe
- Budapest, Hungary – Blue Cloud
- Oslo, Norway – White Cloud
- Prague, Czech Republic – Bass and jacket
- Warsaw, Poland – Yellow Cloud
- Asia
- Tokyo, Japan – Yellow Cloud
- South America
- Caracas, Venezuela – White Cloud
Atlantic City Hotel & Casino, New Jersey, USA 
Hollywood, USA 
Warsaw, Poland 
Hard Rock Cafe, Minneapolis (now closed) 
Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas (posted on twitter by @whiskycast) 
Chicago, USA 
Prague, Czech Republic 
Tokyo, Japan 
Memphis, USA 
Budapest, Hungary. (photo from Tripadvisor) 
Oslo, Norway (photo from Tripadvisor) 
Caracas, Venezuela 
Sioux City, USA
Madcats & Clouds 