Just thought i'd have a quick look on Reverb, see what CS Esquires were kicking about for sale....
...and stumbled on a guitar that I have coveted since I was 14.....Mick Ralphs' '54 Esquire that he used on 'Mott' and the first Bad Company album (2 of my favourite all time albums - first dance at my wedding was Can't Get Enough)....
but it's £25k....
....and 'Hanks' are selling it.... (and it's not 'all original'...theres a massive filled humbucker route in it for a start...)
https://reverb.com/item/7708721-fender-esquire-mick-ralphs-bad-company-mot-the-hoople-owned-used-1953-blonde***BIG SIGH****
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"Just do them on the fucking lawn."
"Yeah, cool"
It does give me chance to use my favourite Music Ground related .gif though....
(formerly miserneil)
While I would ABSOLUTELY be 100% behind this statement 100% of the time, unfortunately, this time, it's not.
I have coveted this guitar since I was young, it's been played on some on my favourite records of all time and that's the guitar. I even have a folder full of detailed pics of it from 10 years ago - including internal cavities etc - not taken on someones front lawn either - which document every scratch.
So straight away their description of it being "Externally/Internally Original" is bollocks. For starters there is a filled 'swimming pool' route under the pick guard where a PAF humbucker was originally (near the bridge, not the neck interestingly) that was filled a long time ago and the pick guard is obviously not original/a repro.
F*cking typical isn't it, the ONE guitar I would literally sell every other I have to own and those two crooks are involved....
I am genuinely upset it’s currently in their hands.
(formerly miserneil)
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
is it that it’s Hanks and you don’t want to sell a kidney and give them the money because of who they are.
Or their pricing is way off even for a celebrity guitar.
i have no idea what sort of price it should be.
If it meant as much to me as it does to you and I could raise the money and the price was fair for a celeb guitar with that history. I would just suck it and buy the thing fuck the moral high ground.
i might be way off here
(formerly miserneil)
....although, I’m not sure if Mr Harrison will be quite as open to a Hondo Strat, a Bad Monkey pedal and £500....but everyone loves a trier...
(formerly miserneil)
You have a lot of knowledge and info on the guitar, you clearly want it. No harm in sending them an email to query the pricing
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The one thing the vintage market seems to have done consistently is confound predictions of a crash - so if you ever did get another chance it would no doubt be at an even higher price.
(formerly miserneil)
Also - if you did buy it, for 18k say, what would you do with it? Gig it? Hide it in a locked cupboard?
Some things are best enjoyed from afar, I feel.
I certainly would gig it....in fact, id HAVE to as i’d need to sell everything else I own!!
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