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-...-les-paul.html

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

[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-...-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!