2002standardmat
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Ill bring it with me to Stockport on the 20th ...
If you would, that’d be Dandy.......
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Ill bring it with me to Stockport on the 20th ...
Didn't Joe B state in 2016 that he knew where it was but obviously couldn't say?
What is a "top end collector"? :hmm
Didn't Joe B state in 2016 that he knew where it was but obviously couldn't say?
What is a "top end collector"? :hmm
An interesting side note to all this:
Clapton was was paid a flat fee of £35 a week in 1966 for playing with the Bluesbreakers .. in todays money that is over £450 ...
in a previous "Beano" thread someone said that E.C probably couldnt afford to insure the Beano LP at the time.
Well .. on that kinda money i am sure he could ..he didnt own Hurtwood yet .he was dossing at Mayall's place ..and i also read that he was a millionaire by the age of 20 .. if that was the case then that was 1965 ...
It was a, if you will, a "tool" in the basic sense. It provided a needed sound/tone that we wanted. Eric bought a Les Paul because Freddy King had one and I'm sure Freddy bought it because he like the sound and the playability. Freddy was a very tall guy, I know as I met him and he was very nice to this small kid..(I was 18)... He was playing his ES-345 and he had to sling it over his right shoulder because the strap was at the end of it's length adjustment and would not fit over his neck and left shoulder. It basically looked like a toy on him with his size.Back then this was just a used guitar. To my knowledge, people, especially recording artists, weren't obsessed with gear photos and documentation back then.
It was a, if you will, a "tool" in the basic sense. It provided a needed sound/tone that we wanted. Eric bought a Les Paul because Freddy King had one and I'm sure Freddy bought it because he like the sound and the playability. Freddy was a very tall guy, I know as I met him and he was very nice to this small kid..(I was 18)... He was playing his ES-345 and he had to sling it over his right shoulder because the strap was at the end of it's length adjustment and would not fit over his neck and left shoulder. It basically looked like a toy on him with his size.
but in the Sixties nobody really had the obsession over who was playing what guitars like has developed since. There was obviously some, but not to the degree it's been taken to in the last 25-30 years.
I'd bet money that when Eric saw that Les Paul at Lew Davis's shop in 1965 that he was thinking that if he had that guitar he could get the sounds that Freddy got and not the thinner ones that the Tele had(although that Tele sounded pretty good!).
In a tortured path of thread relevance, I was in Las Vegas last week and saw that John Mayall is playing at a Station Casino there (Henderson) in March. I had to look it up - he is 85 years old! Perhaps more enduring than the Beano mystery itself. :salude
An interesting side note to all this:
Clapton was was paid a flat fee of £35 a week in 1966 for playing with the Bluesbreakers .. in todays money that is over £450 ...
in a previous "Beano" thread someone said that E.C probably couldnt afford to insure the Beano LP at the time.
Well .. on that kinda money i am sure he could ..he didnt own Hurtwood yet .he was dossing at Mayall's place ..and i also read that he was a millionaire by the age of 20 .. if that was the case then that was 1965 ...