madformac
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Get well soon Ed! :salude:salude
That's a hell of a good toy to recuperate with! :dude:
That's a hell of a good toy to recuperate with! :dude:
How is this not called the “Starburst”. Seriously what a cool looking burst! Love the dark finish with the double white.
I hopw Ed is well and back playing that beauty.
Great looking guitar and I love the star! Enjoy it, Ed!! :hank
:salude
He’s doing very well.
Ed was very nice to me when I owned The Voxmobile (now owned by Jeff Dunham). Pictures of Strawberry Alarm Clock were taken with The Voxmobile on several occasions and I think they performed with it once or twice. When I asked Ed what he remembered I believe his response was "Nothing"! LOL! Hope you are well Ed!
..And an early 50's catalogue binder with the solid star.
A 1959 Catalogue...
Interesting find right here... Very ironic positioning of that star. It kind of makes the lifton case theory questionable..
Not necessarily.
Lifton might have produced that tag to match Gibson logos already using the star.
[or maybe Gibson made the tag and shipped it to Lifton]
That 'burst used to belong to jazz/fusion/rocker Ray Gomez in the early from the late 1970's until the early 1990's. Ray played it in Stanley Clarke's band and, although he usually plays 64/65 stratocasters, this burst was in his arsenal for quite a while. The star on the headstock and the dark burst stood out back then when I played the guitar when I used to work at Outlaw Guitars in Green Brook, New Jersey in the 90s. I believe we helped broker the guitar for Ray. Glad to see it turn up again. You can see it sitting onstage when Ray and Stanley did School Days at Montreaux in '77 (Ray is playing his strat but the burst is clearly visible on a stand). That video is on on you tube. Anyway...
Here's two videos of Ray playing the darkburst Les Paul with the star inlay in '86, as I remember it with a double black exposed pickup and a covered lead pickup. The second video really smokes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGT4D8WBJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5IJmPsa9tA