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Yep, some of those vintage guitars have names and that's cool. Like Eric Clapton's "Blackie". Same as Jimmy Page's #1 and SRV's #1 (and Lenny). |
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As someone who loves the playing of both Peter Green and Gary Moore, I have always been interested in the Greenie.
Mick Ronson's Les Paul is another one. And the Clarence White B-Bender Telecaster, now owned by Marty Stuart. |
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I believe Lenny was named after SRV's wife, who gifted him the guitar. SRV happened to die on my 18th birthday, just as I was getting into his music. I used to think EC sabotaged the helicopter... IIRC is was SRV, Clapton, and Robert Cray at that concert near Green Bay, WI? |
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One guy giving up a helicopter seat to another ... |
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I just watched a documentary about Terry Kath's daughter Michelle searching for his guitars - very interesting.
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Here's a great article entitled "Still at Large: 6 Famous Stolen Guitars that have Yet to be recovered". It includes Eric Clapton's '59 Gibson Les Paul and Paul McCartney's Violin Bass ... both stolen ~ 50 years ago.
https://reverb.com/news/still-at-lar...o-be-recovered |
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No where near Green Bay. It was Alpine Valley. Less than an hour over the Illinois/Wisconsin border. Mark
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Did you make it to the gig? That's some great memorabilia.
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Yes. I framed and gave those things to my son
(who is a very good player as well) a few years ago. Mark
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Here is a sort of "Boomerang" provenance story on Frampton's Black Beauty Les Paul that I always thought was pretty cool. The NPR story is here:
https://www.npr.org/2012/01/07/14479...-decades-later Here is an excerpt: In 1980, while Frampton was on tour in South America, the guitar was put on a cargo plane in Venezuela, en route to Panama. The plane crashed right after takeoff. "Basically I'm thinking, 'It's gone,'" Frampton recalls. "But the thing is, I'm also sitting in a restaurant where I can see the pilot's wife. She's waiting in the hotel for her husband, who, unfortunately, didn't make it. So we were all overcome, because people lost their lives as well as our complete stage of gear." What Frampton didn't know is that the guitar had survived, albeit with some bumps and bruises. It fell into the hands of a musician on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, who owned it for many years before a local guitar collector spotted it and contacted Frampton. After some negotiation, the guitar was returned to Frampton last month. "It's sort of a matte black now — it's not shiny so much anymore. The binding needs a little bit of work on the neck; the electronics need replacing," Frampton says. He adds, though, that he'll limit repairs on the instrument to "whatever needs to be replaced on it to make it just playable. But it must retain its battle scars." |
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I got the Wisconsin part... form NY that's pretty close! Awesome memorabilia!
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How about Bob Dylan's Strat that he played at the Newport festival? Crazy story behind that guitar...
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