Zb '72 D10 $1700

Scott Sullivan · Post by **Scott Sullivan** » 9 Mar 2014 12:35 pm

The year is '72 and the serial # is 0318. Guitar is located in San Diego, CA (Carlsbad). Feel free to ask me any questions. It is currently an E9 3p/3L C6 6P/1L. E9 has been played/tested extensively but C6 hasn't. Selling because I am getting a new Williams.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 9 Mar 2014 3:42 pm

Wonder if that's Ed Black's old gtr. Can't tell if it's green or blue...or blue faded to green.
Do you know it's history?

Russ Tkac · Post by **Russ Tkac** » 9 Mar 2014 4:21 pm

Could be Skip. http://youtu.be/E-1t4-TDkIA Gary Brandin might be able to comment as he owned Ed's ZB.

Scott Sullivan · Post by **Scott Sullivan** » 9 Mar 2014 5:42 pm

I got the guitar in Sand Diego near SDSU. I bought it from Fred Gerlach's widow. He arranged a version of Gallow's Pole on a 12 string guitar that Led Zeppelin later covered. I was told he also did a lot of studio work for a variety of people. I got some help rebuilding since it was not really operating when I got it. The apron is a dark brown lacquer from what I can tell. Not blue or green.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 9 Mar 2014 5:52 pm

Scott Sullivan wrote:I got the guitar in Sand Diego near SDSU. I bought it from Fred Gerlach's widow. He arranged a version of Gallow's Pole on a 12 string guitar that Led Zeppelin later covered. I was told he also did a lot of studio work for a variety of people. I got some help rebuilding since it was not really operating when I got it. The apron is a dark brown lacquer from what I can tell. Not blue or green.

Not to hijack the thread, but the mention of Fred Gerlach knocked me over. When I was first learning guitar, around 1960 and in Los Angeles, Fred Gerlach was famous as a 12-string playing folksinger who was a friend of Woody's and Leadbelly's. I went to high school with his nephew Quentin Gerlach, and his older nephew Nicholas G. also became a folkisinger under the name Jesse Lee Kincaid.

Sorry for the hijack, back to your original programming.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 10 Mar 2014 5:06 pm

Ed Black's guitar was in a flood and is long gone.