Dig it! Play it Loud - total guitar pr0n!

frunobulax

frunobulax

Gak Pernah Cukup!
Went to NYC last weekend.

Saw the 'Play it Loud' exhibit at the Met. (I also saw the Camp exhibit, but that's another thread)

Chuck Berry's 1957 ES350T - used on Johnny B Goode
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John Lennon's 1964 Rick 325/12 (plus Ringo's kit) probably heard on Ticket to Ride
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Elvis' 1942 D-18 (used during the 1955 Sun Session)
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Jeff Beck's 1954 Esquire, his Yardbirds guitar
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EVH 1975 Frankenstein (they had his rig and original pedal board, too)
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SRV 1963 Number One (63 body, 62 neck, 59 pickups) the gouge above the pickguard is probably 1/4" deep
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Duane Allman's 62 SG
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Jimmy Page's 59 LP Number One (used on everything)
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Page's Double Neck (with Dragon Suit) (you can see Moon's drums in the back)
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Page's 59 Tele (Dazed and Confused)
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Pages' full classic rig (including Theremin)
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Keith Richard's 59 LP (played on the Stones' Ed Sullivan appearance)
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The Fool (67 SG)
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Jimi's 67 V
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Jimi's 68 white Strat (Woodstock)
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Plus loads and loads of others.

The exhibit is at the Met in NYC until October. It took me 90 minutes to get through and I went back the next day for another 20.
 
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My wife is going to NYC next week. I’ll let her know about this, but she won’t go. She’s going to be tied up with a conference. And I think she’s got tickets to see King Lear the one night she’s free. But maybe she can loot the place late late at night. Dibs on Keith’s LP.
 
Are these all originals or copies? I thought The Fool was lost and Jimi destroyed the Woodstock guitar.

Page's number 1 needs a dusting :embarrassed:
 
Originals. Curated by Met and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Fool was from a private collection, Hendrix guitar from Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle
 
If I ever buy another vintage hollow bodied electric it will be an ES-350.


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Jimmy Page's 59 LP was not used on the first album at all. That was all his Telecaster except for one song where he used a Flying V. And he used a Strat on Presence. So LP not on everything.


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frunobulax said:
Page's 59 Tele (Dazed and Confused)
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I thought that got painted over years ago. Did they restore it somehow?

"I still have it,” he told Guitar World in 1998. “But it’s a tragic story. I went on tour with [a] ’59 Les Paul that I bought from Joe Walsh, and when I got back, a friend of mine had kindly painted over my paint job. He said, ‘I’ve got a present for you.’ He thought he had done me a real favor. As you can guess, I wasn't real happy about that. His paint job totally screwed up the sound and the wiring, so only the neck pickup worked. I salvaged the neck and put it on my brown Tele string bender that I used in the Firm [in 1985 and 1986]. As for the body, it will never be seen again!"​
 
rickenvox said:
Jimmy Page's 59 LP was not used on the first album at all. That was all his Telecaster except for one song where he used a Flying V. And he used a Strat on Presence. So LP not on everything.


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The tedious vampire sucks again!

Anyway, deal is off. My wife is not attending and is not willing to burgle the Met next week.
 
shoeless said:
I thought that got painted over years ago. Did they restore it somehow?

"I still have it,” he told Guitar World in 1998. “But it’s a tragic story. I went on tour with [a] ’59 Les Paul that I bought from Joe Walsh, and when I got back, a friend of mine had kindly painted over my paint job. He said, ‘I’ve got a present for you.’ He thought he had done me a real favor. As you can guess, I wasn't real happy about that. His paint job totally screwed up the sound and the wiring, so only the neck pickup worked. I salvaged the neck and put it on my brown Tele string bender that I used in the Firm [in 1985 and 1986]. As for the body, it will never be seen again!"​
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Page had it restored in 2018. This guitar was from his own collection.
 
Here are some more.

Glen Campbell's famous wangcaster he played on "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"

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Old Greenie that Eric Clapton played one time and then returned it to the store for a refund.

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BB King's BC Rich Warlock "Tammy Sue" that got stolen by goths

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