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Old 04-20-2011, 05:15 AM
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I was wondering if that was the "My Guitar" guitar (from "Open All Nite")...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W3iqacvq7o

That was my introduction to Kevin's guitars. His parents went to my church and I'd heard about the gift to Steve Wiggins and the Big Tent song. I still remember the day I walked into Dave Phillips Music & Sound in Phillipsburg, NJ and saw two "Gallagher" guitars hanging on consignment, a maple MJ at somewhere between $850-900 and a florentine cutaway cedar/rosewood GC at around $1150. Marvelous guitars, but it was at a time when I could never see spending that much money on a guitar.

I've got an Omega OM with the rose inlay. IIRC correctly Kevin told me he did that on his first guitar back when he was still building for Martin - an employee custom building contest or something. I believe that's the one guitar of his that he managed to hold onto.
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Old 04-20-2011, 07:09 AM
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I was wondering if that was the "My Guitar" guitar (from "Open All Nite")...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W3iqacvq7o
That's the one!

I remember seeing him play this guitar as well. It was in 1996 he came to the town I went to college. I had just started building guitars, and I recall remembering how awesome this guitar was and had such a pretty inlay.

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Old 04-20-2011, 07:29 AM
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he didn't play the guitar on the video!
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Old 04-20-2011, 07:43 AM
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he didn't play the guitar on the video!
I know. Quite the disappointment. When I saw him live he told the story about how Kevin gave him the guitar, and then he played the song on it.
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