Maybe it's been Floyded in the 80s..
The HORROR!!!
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Maybe it's been Floyded in the 80s..
The HORROR!!!
I'm still rolling the dice and saying it's in Gibsons possession and this will be some kind of grand unveiling/rediscovering.
Hey, it could happen!
That guitar could be absolutely anywhere now... but there is a member who believes he knew where it once was and I have no reason to doubt him.
Regardless, even if Gibson had the original to use for reference, the signature reissues will only ever be in the ballpark.
That guitar could be absolutely anywhere now... but there is a member who believes he knew where it once was and I have no reason to doubt him.
There's the truth right there. You look at the neck measurements for the Green/Moore/Franks axes and no two are the same. It's a joke. Whether the Franks or the Beano, I'd just get the one that had the best neck and the lightest weight I could find.
The rumor I've heard on the interwebs is it is in the hands of a Londoner who once had access to Cream's first rehearsal space. He tried to unload it in the 70s, but suspicious collectors asked him questions and he cut out the sales effort.
He has supposedly shown it to a few friends who are sworn to secrecy. Somewhere along the line, a refin to black may have occurred.
Okay Chris,so can this be divulged.....where it once was?
And I suppose he knows it's Beano. Did he do the black refin?In London Steve, and as 57GoldTopAztec mentioned, there are supposedly a number of people who know of its whereabouts. I heard that the person who stole the guitar sold it and the person who bought it has had it in his possession ever since.
Hey, it could happen!
I know of one extremely strong candidate for being the Beano, but there was no way to actually confirm it. There will never be a way to say, with 100% certainty, that a given guitar is THE Beano. No owner is going to publicly claim that their guitar is the one, because the possibility of forfeiture is too high. We've all heard rumors of this and that, but it's never come to light, and never will, simply because there's no way to prove it, and no one with that guitar would want it proven.
In the UK, if someone handles stolen goods they are guilty even if they are ignorant of the fact that the goods were stolen. As in any case the circumstances would be taken into account, but ignorance is no defence.