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

[Diamondjimi]

Fawkin garjus!!!

This Les Paul was used for all of Gary Moore's "After Hours" CD photo shoot. It was used for Gary's 8X10 B&W glossy photos. It was used in two Gary Moore videos: "Cold Day in Hell." and Since I Met You Baby." This guitar has been featured in NUMEROUS books and magazines. (ie: "The Electric Guitar, an illustrated history." Pages 93 and 147.)

Notable Provenance

circa 1965-1990 owned by a well known guitarist from Athens Georgia.
1990-1991 owned by English author Richard Chapman.
1991-1994 owned by guitarist Gary Moore of Thin Lizzy.

Condition

Guitar is in exceptional condition with exception to the following issues.
1. Replacement correct era (formerly gold) pickup covers.
2. Replacement switchring.
3. Refret. (In 1992 by Chandlers of London.)
4. Grovers removed and original tuners reinstalled.
5. Small headstock tip repair and headstock over-sprayed. (Circa 1978.)
6. Guitar is in a flight case.

Delivery options available.

Addendum: Two more photos will be added on Tuesday or Wednesday.





1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard Burst owned by Gary Moore - eBay (item 120451623134 end time Jul-30-09 18:50:04 PDT)

[ELVIS]

Don't get me wrong, nice guitar, but i'm not impresed...

[Panamark]

$295,000 US Dollars ?????

You could buy Gary Moore himself these days with
that sort of money...

I like the description of the first owner, is that meant to
impress potential buyers ???

[Panamark]

I bet Gary Moore flogged it for $3000.....

[Diamondjimi]

$295,000 US Dollars ?????

You could buy Gary Moore himself these days with
that sort of money...

I like the description of the first owner, is that meant to
impress potential buyers ???

No shit, why the fuck didn't he just say the guys name?

[ZahZoo]

Nice guitar...

[GAR]

I had this guitar in my hands 3 years ago and can verify that the red has been touched up and not original but has left some of the original faded parts, like near the lower bout low e side, and near the switch by the neck upper bout.

I'd also like to see how they handled the extreme top gouges beneath the pickguard that was there from an owner who played with those clawhammer metal fingertip picks.. the former owner of that Paul also owned my Warlock which has the same gouging and the repairs the he had done to that is quite visible even with the factory BC refinish,

[GAR]

I like the description of the first owner, is that meant to
impress potential buyers ???

One thing in the antiques business you provide in a highdollar sale like this is called "provenance," or a list of former known owners.

When the list is small, as seems to be the case with this guitar, the desirability you'd assume would be higher from more personal care. However I can think of at least two former owners not listed which is quite fair since they're not known artists so it wouldn't really matter especially since one of them wouldn't want to be connected with it at all.

But wtf its not like guitars are like truck tires and it is what it is, one of around 1000 survivors of the greatest production built guitar in the world and as the survivor group dwindles due to theft, fire, car and plane crashes and natural disasters such as floods even at 200K it has quite a ways to go yet to top out its final hi dollar value

[Panamark]

GAR, with your infinite knowledge of guitars, and trading of guitars, I have now realized
you have obviously made a motza and just hang here for fun !

Good Onya !

[letsrock]

Love the way it looks, didnt they post a video of anyone playing it so bidders could here it? Heck even some cheapy listings do that.

[Coyote]

Nice, but even if I had the do-re-mi for it... I'd leave that for the vintage-nuts.

[letsrock]

That thing could buy a nice house somewhere.

[jhale667]

In this case you're paying more for the pedigree than the piece. There's far cooler bursts from that era out there...

[GAR]

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

With so many unverified reproductions and reissues, the importance of its' provenance can't be underestimated. I think the value is in the proof that its a real-deal fifties Paul and not much at all to do with the fact Gary Moore used it - he's not really the type of artist people go gaga over buying all his stuff at hi dollar.

[hideyoursheep]

Uh...

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

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