According to the Sunday Mirror, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has about 3,000 guitars in his collection. He told the paper, “I’ve probably got too many guitars … I’ve only got one pair of hands.” Richards is thinking about giving away some of his collection or opening his own museum.
Mike Slubowski is the king of guitar collectors. He owns about 170 different guitars, mostly Gibson models ranging from vintage Les Pauls to collectors series signature models. Check out this poster featuring 114 of his guitars. Simply amazing.
What’s great is Slubowski is just a regular guy, not some rich bastard who can plunk down six [...]
The Gibson Melody Maker was one of the company’s most popular guitars in the 1960s. It was introduced in 1959 and marketed as a budget guitar for the beginner, but the solid body axe gained a reputation among experience players for its light weight and great tone.
On eBay someone is selling a 1962 Melody Maker [...]
Huey Long was an original member of the Ink Spots and is now 103-years old. He’s also in poor health these days and recently fractured his hip bone. But at least now he has his guitar back.
Long had his custom-made D’Angelico acoustic guitar returned to him after a court order this week in a lawsuit [...]
Spotted a pretty unique auction on eBay today for a 1966 Standel Custom Deluxe guitar. Standel was better known as an amplifier maker that started back in the 1950s, but the company branched out into the guitar business through a collaboration with Mosrite Guitars’ Semie Moseley.
The Standel Custom, introduced in 1966, does bear a [...]
I spend a fair amount of time looking at vintage guitar listings on eBay and Craigslist hoping to find that rare gem that goes unnoticed. But what really makes a guitar a “vintage” guitar? I bet no one would have guessed that Danelectro and Teisco guitars sold through department stores in the 1950s and [...]
I came across this pair of items from the same seller on eBay and it’s driving me a little bit nuts trying to identify the guitar. It is a Silvertone guitar but I’m not sure of the model, I can’t find anything exactly like it anywhere. It might be a Kay or Harmony, looks a [...]
You might not be able to afford Mick Jagger’s vintage Danelectro Silvertone that was up for auction recently, but if you’ve got a couple shekels you can get one very much like it. Spotted on eBay a vintage 1963 Danelectro Silvertone 1457 in red finish with white trim that comes with the original amp in [...]
If you’re looking for a vintage cheap guitar, you can’t do much better than an authentic Teisco from the 1960s. The Japanese brand was imported mainly in the 1950s and 1960s and sold through catalogs and department stores.
At auction on eBay is a 1969 Teisco E-110 which the seller claims is in good working condition [...]
Today we celebrate the birthday of the late John Entwistle, who was born in 1944. Known to friends and acquaintances as “The Ox,” Entwistle set the standard for rock bass guitar during his decades as a member of The Who. He was also a perfectionist and amassed a collection of more than 200 guitars during [...]
