Marc Bolan's Les Paul resurfaces on MLP forum

57Deluxe

/\ so you lay on a Birthday parties for your guitars??

koneguitarist

57Deluxe said:

/\ so you lay on a Birthday parties for your guitars??

Doesn't everyone?

mudslide73

WezV;856255" said:

Nah, still haven't got anything the right size for that.... But I could fake a Norlin pancake with the stock I have.

Unfortunately the thick stuff I have is only 4" wide

If you ever do matey..

matone

The original thread on the other forum reads like smoke & mirrors to me ! Given the names connected to it ,someone knows exactly what it is (or isn`t) !

Bogwhoppit

Slightly off topic. But my mate's sister was married to, or in a relationship with Bill Legend (T-Rex Drummer) at the height of their success in the 70s. We'd  use him [Bill] to get all sorts of tat signed by Marc Bolan and then sell it to the girls at school.

ICBM

matone said:

The original thread on the other forum reads like smoke & mirrors to me ! Given the names connected to it ,someone knows exactly what it is (or isn`t) !

Exactly - and if it really was Bolan's guitar they would be coming to an agreement with Bolan's estate in private and not hawking it around an Internet forum with hints (then partially withdrawn) about what it is in order to try to con someone into thinking they've unearthed the Holy Grail.

The wood grain is not remotely close enough anyway - take the AC/DC L6-S that was discovered recently... even in one low-res pic of the original the wood obviously matches exactly. With this one, you have to struggle to convince yourself it's not too different or impossible for it to be the same, in *any* photo of the original.

ICBM

Something interesting... I was just watching one of those slightly contrived BBC music documentaries on iplayer, about 'Girls in Bands', and there was a girl band in the very late 60s-early 70s called Fanny - I'm really not making this up - whose guitarist played a faded sunburst Les Paul Standard. Given this was before the Standard was reintroduced and it was already quite beaten-up with Bigsby scars etc, it can only have been a '58-'59.

She was interviewed in the present day and still has it - now even more battered and with the binding missing on the treble side of the neck and what looks like more trem damage... I assume she knows what she's got!

jd0272

ICBM said:

Something interesting... I was just watching one of those slightly contrived BBC music documentaries on iplayer, about 'Girls in Bands', and there was a girl band in the very late 60s-early 70s called Fanny - I'm really not making this up - whose guitarist played a faded sunburst Les Paul Standard. Given this was before the Standard was reintroduced and it was already quite beaten-up with Bigsby scars etc, it can only have been a '58-'59.

She was interviewed in the present day and still has it - now even more battered and with the binding missing on the treble side of the neck and what looks like more trem damage... I assume she knows what she's got!

Is that the title too? I'll look that up at work morra as IT system will be down thus minimal graft will be done.

jd0272

Found it.

ICBM

A bit of research this morning seems to indicate it's a '56, so the sunburst and the humbuckers will be a conversion. Assuming Wikipedia is right of course.

EricTheWeary

Fanny are great in that doc, I'd seen that OGWT clip before but didn't know anything else about them.

brownovich

ICBM;857602" said:

[quote=matone]
The original thread on the other forum reads like smoke & mirrors to me ! Given the names connected to it ,someone knows exactly what it is (or isn`t) !

Exactly - and if it really was Bolan's guitar they would be coming to an agreement with Bolan's estate in private and not hawking it around an Internet forum with hints (then partially withdrawn) about what it is in order to try to con someone into thinking they've unearthed the Holy Grail.

The wood grain is not remotely close enough anyway - take the AC/DC L6-S that was discovered recently... even in one low-res pic of the original the wood obviously matches exactly. With this one, you have to struggle to convince yourself it's not too different or impossible for it to be the same, in *any* photo of the original.[/quote]

Absolutely. Ive just been looking closely at the gif that overlays the two. If you look really closely you can see that the grains just don't look the same. What it looks like is a top that's been made to look like another. Some of the bigger marks are in similar locations but the grain isn't. If you look at the crack by the volume pot it goes in 2 slightly different directions in the 2 pictures. How anyone can claim beyond all doubt from those pictures that it is the same guitar is beyond me!