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1959 in 1979 Photo at a club!

Vic DaPra

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There's a cool story on 9 0850 in BURST BELIEVERS IV from the owner pictured here in this thread . He tells where he found it and about the sale to California Guitar.
 

agogetr

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Paging Mr Lucido.... Mr Lucidio.... ????
Killer top and there's only one in the world like that. :salude
Joe B
i used to get franks flyers from red bank when i was a yungun. so much cool stuff! prices seemed great as well, however at that time i could barely keep gas in my AMC hornet and was playin 2 weeks between $4.50 string changes.... if i didnt drink to much hienekens.
 

Chip's Music

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i used to get franks flyers from red bank when i was a yungun. so much cool stuff! prices seemed great as well, however at that time i could barely keep gas in my AMC hornet and was playin 2 weeks between $4.50 string changes.... if i didnt drink to much hienekens.

How 'bout that Eckerplex !!!
 

Doc Sausage

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The guitar is nice but I think I long for 1959 more than ‘a’ ‘59. Simpler times...:dang
 

agogetr

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How 'bout that Eckerplex !!!
lol. naw we upgraded. i found an old musician dude livin in a 12 foot travel trailer and bought his roland space echo! it was unused. heck it was so awesome i think we wound up running most of the band through it ha ha. then i thought i better change the tape after a year with a new one and it never worked again.
camelot is lost. i loved what that thing did for my guitar. they made one with chorus too, just killer. i bought one but it doesnt work either.
my old eckerplex still works! (beer stains and all) the old greenbox is the cool one, it has a longer throw on the heads if i remember right.
sorry to hijack but what else can be said for that burst! its a stunner
i wonder how he tuned with the conn facing the stagelights? prolly used the old towel over the head trick. then the chicks knew super important stuff was happening
 

DEVILBAT

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i used to get franks flyers from red bank when i was a yungun. so much cool stuff! prices seemed great as well, however at that time i could barely keep gas in my AMC hornet and was playin 2 weeks between $4.50 string changes.... if i didnt drink to much hienekens.

Pretty sure you are thinking about Dave DeForest at Guitar Trader in Red Bank. I bought my first '59 Les Paul (Jr.) there when Timm Kummer worked there...great guy...even gave me a case for my Junior after Dave wouldn't include it in the purchase price of the Jr. I still have it. (the guitar)...

Frank Lucido owned California Guitars in Santa Barbara, Ca, I believe. Never did any biz with him but....


I still buy guitars from Timm Kummer....see what being nice to a 19 year old kid buying his first vintage guitar does? It makes that same 19 year old kid still a customer 40 years later when that same customer (me) is now a 60 year old man.

Actually, my first vintage guitar was a '59 melody maker that I also bought at Guitar Trader....they must have had 5 or 10 bursts on the wall every time I walked in there...
 

JPP-1

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The guitar player kinda reminds me of this guy




the file size is quite small - when you paste make sure you untick the box - so here it is and a lovely top

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