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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:18 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:14 pm
Hmm. Not bad!
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:16 pm
Can't wait to see how this turns out!
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:55 am
It's got to be BS, hasn't it...?
100% true story.
In 1975 in Bristol UK I bought a 6 string Gibson guitar/banjo (The Gibson Guitar & Banjo Co) label inside for 100 UKP. The banjo was in the Arcade in Bristol and they sold a few musical instruments and some other more junky stuff. This was quite a lot of money in 1975 but the guy would not move on his price.
I paid the 100 on Thursday and took it to London on Saturday. I shlepped around the shops in Shaftesbury Avenue, got a lot of interest but no takers. I ended up at Orange. The guy there looked very impressed by it and phoned a chap called Claude, he turned out to be Steve Howe's personal tec and within an hour both Claude and Steve Howe, and me, were in Orange doing a deal. I walked away without the Banjo but with 450 UKP in my pocket. At the time a new 4001 was about 300 UKP.
From time to time I see one of those photos of Steve Howe with gazillions of guitars around him, but have never spotted this banjo?
100% true story.
In 1975 in Bristol UK I bought a 6 string Gibson guitar/banjo (The Gibson Guitar & Banjo Co) label inside for 100 UKP. The banjo was in the Arcade in Bristol and they sold a few musical instruments and some other more junky stuff. This was quite a lot of money in 1975 but the guy would not move on his price.
I paid the 100 on Thursday and took it to London on Saturday. I shlepped around the shops in Shaftesbury Avenue, got a lot of interest but no takers. I ended up at Orange. The guy there looked very impressed by it and phoned a chap called Claude, he turned out to be Steve Howe's personal tec and within an hour both Claude and Steve Howe, and me, were in Orange doing a deal. I walked away without the Banjo but with 450 UKP in my pocket. At the time a new 4001 was about 300 UKP.
From time to time I see one of those photos of Steve Howe with gazillions of guitars around him, but have never spotted this banjo?
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:48 am
these things happen quite often. I've personally witnessed the "old classic car in the shed" story occur--right around the corner from me, my wife and I spotted a '66ish Tbird with weeds growing through it under a lean-to. Last thing I needed was another money draining hobby, but sure enough, about a month later I saw the car in a resto bodyshop lot--someone found their jewel.
Hope this one works out for all concerned....
Bill
Hope this one works out for all concerned....
Bill
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:17 am
Sounds like it's a Gretsch of some kind--single cutaway. Still sounds like a pretty darn good $100 spent...
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:23 am
Sounds like BS the has gold knobs...read Les Paul..sounds a bit manufactured. Things do happen though, As Paul W will attest to, I recently found a mint '64 blonde Bandmaster piggyback with covers and a road case for $300! It's good to be alive...
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:04 am
Did I see a Gibson mk III in the avatar of one of the members there?
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:16 am
That could be true ... but it sounds like a classic urban legend story ...
I usually see the opposite ... somebody has an 80s strat and tries to pass it off as a 60s or 70s instrument ...
I usually see the opposite ... somebody has an 80s strat and tries to pass it off as a 60s or 70s instrument ...
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:22 am
It's a Nashville!