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Bill R. Baker
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Noel Boggs guitar

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Watching Pawn Stars last Sat (April 21) the daughter
of Noel Boggs brought in his Fender with 4 necks. She
wanted $50,000 but they did not respond and recommended
that she place it up for auction. This should be
interesting to the Boggs fans.
Bill
Jamie Danter
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Vintage Gtr Mag on Noel's Quad

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Good article in Vintage Guitar mag, Nov 2014, on Noel's playing background, pics of his Quad, and his daughter Sandra's search and recovery of his Fender.

Boggs’ Quad - Four-neck Fender From a Friend
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Chris Templeton
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What a player!
Excel 3/4 Pedal With An 8 String Hawaiian Neck, Tapper (10 string with a raised fretboard to fret with fingers), Single neck Fessenden 3/5
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Jeff Mead
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Are there any pics of Noel playing the guitar?
Pete Burak
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Jeff Mead wrote:Are there any pics of Noel playing the guitar?
Here is the vid from the article:
https://youtu.be/ANdaxop0QzI
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Jeff Mead
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Pete Burak wrote:
Jeff Mead wrote:Are there any pics of Noel playing the guitar?
Here is the vid from the article:
https://youtu.be/ANdaxop0QzI
I don't think that's the guitar though. The one in the video looks more likely to be this one...


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tom anderson
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Great example of how early steel players thought outside the box and used the guitar as a sound effects instrument. I just got a great record “ Swinging Fling”
By Alveno Ray that does some of the same
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Fred Treece
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Ah, the good ol days when all you needed to sell a record was a pretty girl on the cover.... And a genius on the inside 8)
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Michael Johnstone
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In the mid 1970s I was hanging out in a used guitar shop on Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood just a mile or so from the Palomino club and someone walked in with that guitar trying to sell it. I could have bought it for $250 but I wasn't that interested because the guitar didn't have any legs or case at that point. It just said "Noel Boggs" across the front. Who knew?
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