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Location: Midland, MI | Looks like he donated it to the Crossroads Centre charity auction (there are some really impressive lots in there). Now, how to explain to SWMBO what I need that 5k for.
Pink Floyds 12-string O
Watch that GAS...
(Oh, and by the way, which one is Pink?)
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Looks to be in great condition. There are also some other very interesting guitars in this auction collection. Price of course is the biggest problem. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I couldn't get it to work either.
Nice guitar though. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail.asp?sid=&intObjectID=4303112&SE=CMWCAT04+83099+%2D1026109406+&QR=M+1+1+Aqc0000900+74556++Aqc0000900+&entry=roger+waters&SU=1&RQ= False&AN=2]
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Location: Upper Left USA | Youdaman TRboy. I never could cipher Boolian phrasology. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I think the link is just tooo long... :( bit it works. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Standingovation:
Looks to be in great condition. There are also some other very interesting guitars in this auction collection. Price of course is the biggest problem.
Yes, there are quite a few that I wouldn't mind having, but I'd never be able to do them justice. :) I saw Clapton in concert back in the early 90s. Must have been pre-93, because he was still doing the cigarette in the headstock thing. It was a very, very good concert, but seemed way too short. I suppose that's just because it was good. Contrast with the atrocious Jethro Tull concert I went to in the same time frame, which seemed to drag on forever. :D |
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Location: SoCal | In these kinds of auctions, things go for a lot more than anticipated. It's for charity, and people who bid tend to have bucks.
In the first auction, back in 1999, Clapton's first Strat, went for almost half a mil. |
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Location: Vernon, CT | It's just another brick in "The Wall"! :) Play On!
John L.
Std. Balladeer
Legend LX
Celebrity C026
Tornado
Martin D16GT
Takamine 12 string
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Location: Scotland | These guitars currently fetch anwhere between $600 & $1200 and are worth every cent. The buyer will need to be one hell of a Roger Water's fan to pay anywhere near the estimate. |
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Location: SoCal | Several years ago I bought a magazine on Eric Clapton and it detailed a number of the guitars that were sold in the first Christie's auction for Crossroads. You'd be absolutely amazed at what some things sold for. Guitars thatwere estimated to sell at $3-$4000 went for $15000 or more. This is not going to be based on reality. I would guess that Blackie will go for $500K to $750K. |
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Location: Scotland | Yeah maybe, but this guitar belongs to Roger Waters, who is not a "guitarist" as such and in terms of celebrity has a way to go before he reaches Clapton's stature. Celebrity ownership is not always a guarantee. Dweezil Zappa had a hard time unloading a Hendrix-owned Strat (slighltly fire-damaged) The other consideration with the Water's guitar is - "it's an Ovation and we all know how crap they are"
"Blackie" will get 6 figures, no problem, the Preacher 12 will struggle, betcha. Or maybe a Clapton-endorsed auction is just like a mink-coated, high-heeled, be-jewelled, Armani-suited version of the "ebay phenomenom" i.e. the ability to sell junk at top-dollar. |
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Location: SoCal | ...version of the "ebay phenomenom" i.e. the ability to sell junk at top-dollar.
It is. The Preacher 12 will go for $5-$7000. |
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Location: Scotland | Great!!!!!!!! Then I should be able to get at least $3K for my Deacon 12!!!!!!!!!. Imagine if Clapton had played a GP for maybe a few seconds. I don't think there'd be a word for a figure with that many zero's. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Has to be the most expensive Preecheur in the world! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | You would be amazed what a signature is worth to a fan. Make it a signed item with proceeds going to some charity and the sky is the limit. How about $2,500 for an Epiphone SG signed by Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom. The guitar brand spanking new from MF is only $200.00. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | About 6 months ago I bought a '62 Telecaster. It was a nicely worn guitar and would have fetched a pretty high price on ebay. Except that it was autographed on the front by some dill-weed nobody had ever heard of. So the bids were very low. I grabbed it for a fraction of what it was worth. Five seconds with a rag and citrus cleaner took the sharpie autograph right off.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Dave, are you sure that's a '62? Rosewood fingerboards became the almost exclusive norm in '59 replacing the one-piece maple necks, unless it has a maple cap fingerboard, which would make it ultra-rare for that period. I love that weathered old Phender stuff.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Wayne, I don't know much at all about fenders. The serial number is 211620. The ebay posting just said something like "Vintage Autographed Telecaster". I was told by someone who "seemed to know" that it was either '62 or '68. '62 sounds so much "cooler" so that's what I say it is. But who knows. It's a killer guitar. Actually I just put a black pickguard on it and it even looks better still. |
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Location: SoCal | With Fenders, you can't always go by the serial number. They used to just toss 5000 plates into a bin and grab one as needed. You might be more accurate going with guitar features. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | I once saw one of Canada's top jazz guitarists, Ed Bickert, at a club in Toronto. Great smooth, warm jazz tone from his guitar. A big f-hole Gibson? Nope - a beat-up old Tele. |
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Location: SoCal | When a player is really good, it's him you're hearing, not the guitar. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That explains why nobody notices my guitars. |
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Location: SoCal | Well, I didn't mean to imply that, but..... |
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | "When a player is really good, it's him you're hearing, not the guitar"
Paul.....I completely concur.
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Roger Waters' 12-string O on the block
