I bet he wouldn't even sell it to this day, but if he did he would want an outrageous amount of money for it, IMO. Flip it over and you have a right handed Hendrix style guitar. He bitched and moaned about paying $1750 for the guitar.and even though it was a CBS guitar, it was exactly like Hendrix played but left handed. I once sold a '68 white left handed strat to Ingwie Malmsteen, I am sure he still has this guitar today. White strats.yet another perfect example.(i.e., Hendrix) Those were not high end guitars, people buy them because the Beatles played them.I won't go into the story about them getting their equipment stolen and ending up with a mixup of instruments they could get quickly.but they were not the best instruments in their classes. The Ventures was the 1st rock bands to go to Japan, even before the Beatles.Īnd there is another good example, the Beatles, Hofner basses, Casinos, Country Gents, Rikenbachers, et al. I was selling those for as much or more than 50's maple neck strats in the 80s. Why you ask? Because the Ventures played them, Nookie Edwards played a sunburt with binding. Mosrites were some of the worst playing guitars (not to mention what a thief Semi Moseley was), but at the time one of the most expensive in Japan. So many people buy guitars because someone famous played them, or that it is rarer than other guitars.but I like to use Mosrites as one of the best examples. I have a saying about vintage guitars.I like to say."It's all about the smegma". My old partner is not involved in music anymore either. Not in the business at all anymore, but still friends with a couple that are. We closed our shop and I shipped everything to Japan.
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I moved to Japan in '82, that was when my partner was managing Poison. I used to trade vintage guitars for light music equipment when I lived in Japan, ship vintage guitars over, ship equipment back. That was after I closed my store and lived in Japan. We sold mostly everything vintage.guitars, amps, parts, new parts, I lived off selling DX7s for about 4 years of my life.(first of what they called "digital keyboard"). The guitar player used to hang out at our shop frequently.his name was Bruce, but he went by the name of cc DeVille.Steve Hunter worked for us, he's kind of famous.he played with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, et al.but this is to say, I had a very unusual was pretty small and it was so packed with vintage guitars you can barely get into the shop, we had to move amps out in the morning.but guys would come around and play.Howie Epstein (R.I.P.), Bernie Larson, Brian Ray, Phil Chen, David Lindley, Glenn Cornik (R.I.P.), et al.and a host of others.There was often famous people because that is mainly who we sold to, and other vintage dealers. Although music was going through some strange "hair band" era, my partner got more involved in managing and producing bands, and when I moved to Japan he was the original manager for Poison. Of course I sold hundreds of Fenders, Gibsons and Martins.but we carried all vintage and everything, amps, parts, etc.Ĭlick to expand.It was indeed. This was when most vintage dealers laughed at us for even carrying Supro, National, Airline, Valco, Danelectro, Silvertone, et al We sold a lot of lap steels and pedal steels occasionally, but we had everything from Rickenbacker frypans to Dobros, old Ukes.tenor guitars, we had it all. My store was called WeBe Guitar, and was named Image Guitar for a bit.I have a lot of funny stories, but once Little Richard parked in front of our store and looked in the door, he said, "Oh my, lookie at all those guitars.what's the name of this place?", "WeBe Guitar", I said."WeBe Guitar, what kinda name is that?" Little Richard replied.I said, "It's a store name." and he laughed."You got me there." When the Sunset Grill was around the corner, and 'ol Joe hobbled around slapping burgers with velveta on 'em.and slop some chili on it.I'm wearing the Supro t-shirt, and looks like I'm playing a Gmaj7.
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My vintage guitar store was on Sierra Bonita, 1 door off Sunset. My partner and me in the early 80s in Hollywood.