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McCartney with 1950's leftty goldtop

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From Ross Halfin's site, shot during the "Flowers In The Dirt Tour" @ Wembly Arena. Not totally sure if this is authentic but was advised go ahead and post.

I saw that tour and remember him playing a lefty burst. The tour program also has a bunch of pictures of him with that guitar (sorry, too big to scan) but none with this goldtop.


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The GT is authentic if that's what you mean? It's in Tony Bacon's Les Paul book and 50years of the Les Paul.
 
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They look like modern Grovers to me. Does he still own this one? Usually see him with his Burst.
 
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He got his Goldtop yrs ago with HB pups from Linda a 57 also he has an early 50's lh strat and an early 60's rosewood strat both sunbusrt and original. he also has an original 68 Everly Black with Marlo Thomas Guards, plus a couple of reissues
 
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I remember reading that the guitar came fm Route 66 Guitars and had been previously owned by Cesar Rosas, anybody know for sure?
 
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nickster said:
He got his Goldtop yrs ago with HB pups from Linda a 57 also he has an early 50's lh strat and an early 60's rosewood strat both sunbusrt and original. he also has an original 68 Everly Black with Marlo Thomas Guards, plus a couple of reissues
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The `60 Burst was the gift from Linda. It's in the tour program.
 
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gmann said:
I remember reading that the guitar came fm Route 66 Guitars and had been previously owned by Cesar Rosas, anybody know for sure?
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This rare 57 with P 90s, is the guitar that used to belong to Cesar Rojas, and it was sold by Scott Jennings of Route 66 Guitars of Hollywood, around 1992.
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gmann said:
I remember reading that the guitar came fm Route 66 Guitars and had been previously owned by Cesar Rosas, anybody know for sure?
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I have another story:

In December 1982 I visited a friend of mine in PA. We drove south to Florida. On our way we visited Washington DC, the White House and so on. Not far away from Washington you find the town Springfield VA. From an ad in the Guitar Player Magazine I knew that there was a guitar shop for lefties. I asked my friend to bring me there and to look at the inventory.
In the shop I did not find something for me but I had an interesting talk to the owner. He told me that I just missed a lefthanded 1957 LP Goldtop. He showed me an album with pics of that guitar and said: Not long ago he had sold the guitar to Linda McCartney.
I have forgotten many details, but as far as I remember the price was about 10.000 US$ and Linda had told him, it was a birthday gift for Paul.
Since Paul was born on June 18, 1942, there is a good chance that Linda bought the guitar some days or weeks prior to June 18, 1982 - perfect for the 40th birthday of her husband.

Yes, I came too late. But Paul deserves the guitar more than me. It is in the best lefthanded hands I know. The same year I found my 1960 TV; it is also not a bad guitar and it was ten times cheaper...

Fred

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Here is the logo of that shop, the owner sent me ad-letters in the following years.


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gmann said:
I remember reading that the guitar came fm Route 66 Guitars and had been previously owned by Cesar Rosas, anybody know for sure?
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Yup!! I've known Scott Jennings @ Route 66/ Guitar Gallery(as it was called then) for a number of years. I remember when that deal went thru. Scott being a lefty catered to alot of lefties.
 
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O.K the guitar was sold to Linda in the late seventies by M Boulware for $2500.00. About what they went for back then. Its funny just last week I talked to him about that very guitar. The humbucker one of course.
 
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Fred Hullerum said:
I have another story:

In December 1982 I visited a friend of mine in PA. We drove south to Florida. On our way we visited Washington DC, the White House and so on. Not far away from Washington you find the town Springfield VA. From an ad in the Guitar Player Magazine I knew that there was a guitar shop for lefties. I asked my friend to bring me there and to look at the inventory.
In the shop I did not find something for me but I had an interesting talk to the owner. He told me that I just missed a lefthanded 1957 LP Goldtop. He showed me an album with pics of that guitar and said: Not long ago he had sold the guitar to Linda McCartney.
I have forgotten many details, but as far as I remember the price was about 10.000 US$ and Linda had told him, it was a birthday gift for Paul.
Since Paul was born on June 18, 1942, there is a good chance that Linda bought the guitar some days or weeks prior to June 18, 1982 - perfect for the 40th birthday of her husband.

Yes, I came too late. But Paul deserves the guitar more than me. It is in the best lefthanded hands I know. The same year I found my 1960 TV; it is also not a bad guitar and it was ten times cheaper...

Fred

p.s.
Here is the logo of that shop, the owner sent me ad-letters in the following years.


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That's right around the corner from me, but no longer exist.
 
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O.K the guitar was sold to Linda in the late seventies by M Boulware for $2500.00. About what they went for back then. Its funny just last week I talked to him about that very guitar. The humbucker one of course.
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to correct myself it was 1975 near his B-day.
 
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