It’s quite heavy, though – it surprised me – and it’s got a very wide fingerboard on it.” Someone next to me said, ‘Have you plugged that in?’ I said, ‘I was just going to ask you that! Where’s this volume coming from?’ It doesn’t sound real. I’ve played these before, but I didn’t know where the sound was coming from – and that’s with old strings. “You strum a chord and it’s a shock, to be honest with you. So what did Steve think of what must surely be the centrepiece guitar of the sale? Imbued with shovelfuls of mojo and evidently played hard for decades, the guitar embodies so much blues history, not least Peter’s own contributions.
One of the most exciting is the 1931 National Duolian that Peter was photographed with around the time of his 1997 Peter Green Splinter Group album. It might be an okay beater, but it could equally be a massively overpriced plank.Peter Green's Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion III (Image credit: Future / Olly Curtis) I would urge caution if you don't know exactly what it is you're buying. Rickenbacker is notorious for pressuring sellers and distributors not to sell copies, so they're probably a little less common in the USA.
a Chinese Tokai 'Rockinbetter' or a Wilkinson 'Indie' it could even be a Gear4Music Dogsdinnerbacker, gawd forbid).ģ30 copies were very common around the Britpop era and came under a variety of brand names including Tanglewood and Jim Deacon in Europe. guess it might be from the '80s then?Ĭan't see the picture, but unless there's some provenance regarding it being from the '80s it could be from any time including the tail end end of the '80s (but more likely the '90s), when budget guitars were mostly made by Samick in Korea, or it could even be even more recent (i.e. It's the curly tailpiece, so post-lawsuit if it's original, the pic doesn't show the marks/wear on the sides. UlricvonCatalyst wrote:Without pictures and knowing what the original brand name was, not a chance.īut if it has one of those curly tailpieces, chances are it's more recent than the so-called Lawsuit Era.
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