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Stones62Really? I did not know that. I'm fairly familiar with Neils guitar arsenal and I have never seen him play one. I recently read an interview with Larry Cragg, Neil's guitar tech, in Guitar World and he talked about Neil's guitars but made no metnion tof the Black Beauty. May I ask how came by this information? I'm curious!Quote
Naturalust
[I know Neil Young has a 3 pickup Black Beauty Les Paul from the 50's. It is rarely played. They are worth a small fortune these days. peace.
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gwen
Was there really a Gibson Custom Shop L5S? I was googling for the L5S while watching the Hollywood Palladium and came across this picture:
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Gibson L5S Keith Richards NAMM Prototype Custom Shop
Location: Washington, Indiana, USA
Date Posted: January, 2010
Price: Free
This is the 2004 NAMM Show Prototype Keith Richards L5S which was never put into production. According to George Gruhn, Gibson made between 10 and 20 of these. The story when I bought this was Prototype #1 went to Keith and #2 went to Ron Wood and #3 went to Summer NAMM in Nashville 2004. The guitar was purchased by a MEGA Gibson dealer who qualified to buy it from Gibson after the show. I purchased it about 3 years ago and it rarely left my house.
at this address: [indiana.inetgiant.com]
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shakeydeal
Neil played Old Black, an alleged '53 LP Goldtop with a bad, black DIY paint job, during one of the jams that ended The Last Waltz (it's not in the film, but I think the original LP had a pic of him with it). It's his "beyond heavily" favored electric since the end of Springfield days. It's a real Frankenstein of a guitar- he, his guitar tech (who runs a long established vintage instrument business on the side) and others have disagreed on the exact year of body.
I'm not aware of him ever using a Black Beauty to record or play live, and if you google Neil it's hard to avoid images of Old Black in his hands It's possible he had one laying around that he bought or was gifted to him, but I think under hypnosis you'd remember you saw OB in all her glory, mind is just playing tricks.
The Last Waltz jams are available on DVD and via the usual online video sources.
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MidnightRambler1990
Bringing back a dead thread here, but does anyone have the index of all the Stones guitar gear, with Ronnie's, Jagger's, Taylor's, Jones' and Richards' guitars?
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with sssoul
Treaclefingers dear, that's not a Gibson - the guitar's a Bolin-made Tele-alike, and the cat who gave it to him is Billy Gibbons.
You can check the guitar out in the thread about Keith's customs jobs and other oddballs: [www.iorr.org]