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Topic: The son of No Comment returns again. |
Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 4:01 am |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 6:41 am
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Eric Clapton's"Blackie"went for about$975,000,I think...and it was a parts guitar...EC put it together from parts of three Strats he bought at Sho~Bud.
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 7:18 am
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Fender is offering a reissue of Blackie, complete with cigarette burns on the headstock. Last time I checked their site they didn't have a price, but I suspect it's considerably more than my MIM.
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 7:23 am
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Cal-the"Blackie" reissues were 20 grand each...all 185 have been sold.
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 7:51 am
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| I've played "Blackie" when I was 2nd engineer on Eric's "Behind The Sun" LP in 1985 and it is singularly unremarkable.Taken on it's own without the pedigree,I'd probably have given no more than $200 for it - then or now. The Jimi guitar has a bit more mojo but you have to ask the question: "What would Jimi do?" And of course the answer is he would have smashed and burned it and bought a brand new one for $399 down at Guitar Center. |
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Steinar Gregertsen
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Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 8:23 am
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| "What would Jimi do?" And of course the answer is he would have smashed and burned it and bought a brand new one for $399 down at Guitar Center. |
Good one!! 
Steinar
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 8:25 am
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Right on, Mike.
What happened to all those guitars that Townshend and Hendrix smashed up, and why don't we see the broken pieces on Ebay for $100,000? |
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Dan Beller-McKenna
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Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 9:10 am
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What happened to all those guitars that Townshend and Hendrix smashed up, and why don't we see the broken pieces on Ebay for $100,000?
. . . . yet!
Dan
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Dan Beller-McKenna
Big Red
Blue TrainDurham, NH
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Stephen Gambrell
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Over there
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 6:09 pm
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I think somebody DID get ahold of a piece of one of Hendrix's busted Strats, and sold it for a ton of money.
Incidentally, Maverick aslo owns the '59 Les Paul that Peter Green played with Fleetwood Mac, then sold to Gary Moore. I think the price is well over a mil! Maverick also has the Jerry Garcia Christmas Tree amp.
But NOBODY's gonna buy this stuff to use at the local Moose lodge, VFW, or any other arena. Kinda like "the Blade." Wasn't there a thread awhile back about it's extrinsic value? |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 10 Dec 2006 9:32 pm
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Yeah, Frank Zappa had one of Hendrix's burned up Strats. Dweezil was trying to sell it for stupid money a while back. Don't know if he did or not.
Maverick did have Gary Moore's '59 LP Standard at the Philly Guitar Show last summer. Got a good close up view on it, but they didn't want anybody touching it. I suppose if I was waving around millions of dollars, they might have relented. 
I understand why someone might pay stupid money for Blackie or one of the "holy grail" Les Pauls, like Page's or Green's, or the missing LPs of Clapton and Bloomfield. But I really don't understand $20,000 for a replica of Blackie. But I guess it doesn't matter what any of us understand, does it? |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2006 5:16 am
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| There was actually an article floating around the web about how to "relic" a guitar - in other words, how to take a new guitar and age it, change out the decals and caps and such so that you could sell it as vintage. I remember it involved beating on it with housekeys, ball-peen hammers, and chains, freezing it to 'check' the finish and using a blowtorch, but I lost the link before I could get rich... sigh... what a wierd career choice. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 15 Dec 2006 6:52 pm
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With old relics going for 5 and 6-digit sums, it would be far easier to procure the equipment, make a relic from scratch, and sell it for a princely price. It's far simpler to make your own shell-pink Strat body than it is to turn a 'burst body into a shell-pink body that would fool an expert.
"Finish forging" was a science in the furniture industry before electric guitars were even invented![This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 15 December 2006 at 06:53 PM.] |
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