1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard Burst owned by Gary Moore for sale on Ebay

[GAR]

The feel, the sound, the weight, the look, the smell, the setup, the wear aging and patina of all the metals of hardware oxidizing.. how it makes you think differently, and how you play differently.

The respect you give to it due its age, and how that changes the way you just don't go throwing around the room dancing to Red Barchetta playing air guitar with it in front of an audience of 40,000 lice vermin and bedbugs in your mom's dusty basement.. there are lots of reasons to excuse yourself of a paid off mortgage to go scorin' one of these things..

[Coyote]

Other than being collecters' items, what's so great about the ancient 'Paul's?

The feel, the sound, the weight, the look, the smell, the setup, the wear aging and patina of all the metals of hardware oxidizing.. how it makes you think differently, and how you play differently.

The respect you give to it due its age, and how that changes the way you just don't go throwing around the room dancing to Red Barchetta playing air guitar with it in front of an audience of 40,000 lice vermin and bedbugs in your mom's dusty basement.. there are lots of reasons to excuse yourself of a paid off mortgage to go scorin' one of these things..

In other words... not much.



:p

[Panamark]

Listing ended.. No sucker took the bait ?

[hideyoursheep]

didnt they post a video of anyone playing it so bidders could here it?

Here My Train A' Comin....

[Panamark]

I bid $1500 and Gary Moore is now in my house ???
How do I get rid of him ???

[Coyote]

I bid $1500 and Gary Moore is now in my house ???
How do I get rid of him ???

Tell him to play "Victims Of The Future" with a Charvel & a dimed Marshall-stack.

[hideyoursheep]

I bid $1500 and Gary Moore is now in my house ???
How do I get rid of him ???

That's $5000.

[GAR]

In other words... not much.



:p

In other words, vintage guitars hold their value better than real estate, and personally I'd rather have one quarter mil vintage guitar than a hundred 25 thousand dollar guitars.

See? Now it makes sense.. concentrated collateral that will fit in your trunk "cya bitch" and yer out the door with basically more equity than most people's life insurance. No joke!

[Coyote]

In other words, vintage guitars hold their value better than real estate, and personally I'd rather have one quarter mil vintage guitar than a hundred 25 thousand dollar guitars.

See? Now it makes sense.. concentrated collateral that will fit in your trunk "cya bitch" and yer out the door with basically more equity than most people's life insurance. No joke!

Sure, if you fancy such slabs of wood...

Oh, and one quarter mil vintage equals ten 25K guitars... assuming you'd pay 25K for a slab of wood.

[GAR]

HAHAHAA~!! Now you know why I failed Algebra 3 years running!

[Diamondjimi]

In other words, vintage guitars hold their value better than real estate, and personally I'd rather have one quarter mil vintage guitar than a hundred 25 thousand dollar guitars.

Or like you someone could have a hundred $200 Charvette's in storage.. Don't you already have 6 of these in your imaginary guitar collection!

See? Now it makes sense.. concentrated collateral that will fit in your trunk "cya bitch" and yer out the door with basically more equity than most people's life insurance. No joke!

Wouldn't put it past you to thieve someone's prized possessions, Scumbag.

[Diamondjimi]

There are cooler flametops out there, but this is the only one supposedly that Peter Green owned, and with provenance.

Nowhere does it say Peter Green owned this guitar. It says 1965-1990 owned by a well known guitarist from Athens Georgia.

Green was born in Bethnal Green, London.

This guitar ,I believe, isn't the LP being challenged by Montrose...

[Kristy]

Uh...

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/gear-street/55217-ronnie-monrose-suing-gary-moore-get-back-59-les-paul.html

Other than being collectors' items, what's so great about the ancient 'Paul's?

Seems this guitar is more about myth giving it value than being sold for that price on its merit alone.

Anyhoo, what's so great about old guitars - mainly because they are old which, by the same token, doesn't make them any better than a new guitar. Back when I worked in a music store re-stringing many a guitar (to pay for college) not too mention mandolins, violins, even a cello once I run into a collector or two who would come in wanting to have the neck, bridge or saddles of their 1965 Telecaster, 1972 Les Paul or whatever adjusted and apart from certain discrepancies in weight, wood stain/color, pick-ups rarely did they play or sound better than models we had hanging from the wall.

For a guitar to be a collector item (as with anything that is a collector item) it had to worth a shit from the beginning. That is to say it had to have had a unique feature or style in the way it played or sounded along with playing reliability that made it to be sought out by many. For example, my boss had a rare 1970 Martin D-35 that was a beautiful guitar, spruce top, mahogany fretboard and it delivered a big, booming sound that filled up the room when played but you know what, the new D-28's sounded and played much better In fact, so much so he sold his D-35 for a 28.

The '59 Les Pauls (even the ones with the P-90's) are claimed by many to have a unique sound that production Les Pauls manufactured after never seemed to have matched. That could be due to a number of reasons - the aging of the wood at the time, where it came from, how it was grown, the soil of the tree farm it came from, how it was cut - even down to the staining process. This guitar was sort of the Stradivarius of its day. The most expensive guitar I ever seen was a late 1950's Flying V made from a rare Koa (if I remember right) wood that was selling for @$150.000. So you see, it was the wood, not the guitar's playability alone that gave it value.

Plus, the 1958-59 Les Paul's developed a reputation on its own by those who played them from rock's biggest plagiarist Jimmy Page to the Reverend Billy Gibbons. With all that gizmo's and amps out there today it's hard to say if the '59 Les Paul still has a sustain that can't be surpassed but they remain to be legendary which is why they are sought out by collectors and players alike.

[Diamondjimi]

Agreed,excellent post Kristy!