THe mother of all Guitar Sales

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:29 pm

Clapton is putting Blackie up for sale. Brave man or still drunk.

He has over ten pages ouf guitars for sales including a SRV strat. Considering he had an auction 5 years ago he must have over 200 guitars at home.

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/sear ... ID=4303146

Click on the link on the right to see the complete list. I best get my Amex out then

Post by Bg » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:50 pm

must be skint again, back in the old days he was forever hocking them to get the price of a bottle of brandy and something to dust his nose with

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:56 pm

I think it is all for his Drug rehab clinic.

I see There is even a Ibanez Jem in there and a range of other weird and wonderful guitars.

Richy11 · Post by **Richy11** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:14 am

Apparently he sold about 500 of his collection about 5 years ago.

Do you see the price estimate on Blackie?

Post by Bg » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:11 am

thats only an estimate, it should go for much more than that....

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:44 am

if i had 10,000 i'd buy the jazzmaster.. but then again.. that would be equivalent to buying a couple of other guitars from somewhere else..

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:03 am

Surprisingly few Les Pauls considering what he's known for - also I wonder if he just got fed up changing the strings??

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:09 pm

He sold most of his gibsons last time. THere is Historic les paul for sale this time around. Read the piece on it.

Really interesting on how he describes them compared to strats.

goldtop0 · Post by **goldtop0** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:25 pm

I really want to hear him play a LP again on recordings.

Post by **GrantB** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:35 pm

Am I reading right? 959K US dollars for Blackie?

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:58 pm

*UNIQUE* wrote:Am I reading right? 959K US dollars for Blackie?

Correct. Sold to a guitar chain in the US. Guitar Center picked up all the expensive stuff.

goldtop0 · Post by **goldtop0** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:01 pm

TMG 03 wrote:
*UNIQUE* wrote:Am I reading right? 959K US dollars for Blackie?
Correct. Sold to a guitar chain in the US. Guitar Center picked up all the expensive stuff.

I can see it now in 2024(50 yrs after EC started using 'Blackie')

AUCTION OF CLAPTONS GUITARS AT GUITAR CENTRE LA(owners retiring after many years of hard work).

Lot 1. BLACKIE...........RESERVE (US$5 MILLION)
sold to a Japanese collector for 7.5 million who said, quote 'Elic Crapton is brest guitarlist een na whurl, so I bry eet, okray!!