Well, I finally found some photos of the 1954 Fender Strat. The early one is from 1979, when I first brought the guitar back to Australia at a KEW HIGH school gig that I was invited to play at. At this stage nobody knew it was Buddy Holly's missing guitar. I knew that he had played it, but I had no idea that it was THE guitar that he played on "Peggy Sue" and "That'll be the day" etc. etc. The other photo is of myself and the guitar, on the day that photos were done on a forensic level to prove that it was actually Buddy's guitar. Note the missing pieces from the white pickup covers, under the strings. This is because BUddy played with all downstrokes and broke away pieces from the pickup covers. These match identically to photos of the guitar he had at Festival Hall Melbourne in 1958. Also the wear on the neck has distinct markings as well that match the 1958 photos. Has nothing to do with Ferrari's Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I was down at Mt Martha for a few days,nightmare in the shopping centre,where the beach box is along Safety beach,an old take away shop has been turned into a Chemist warehouse,I think this could be one that fails.
Very nice piece of music history/memorabilia to have Gil, looks like you dont want to let go of it though
Thanks so much for the pics Gil!! You truely are a lucky man to own such a piece of music history! What's the plans for it?? Pass it onto the daughter? Does she have any interest in your music memorabilia and or instruments? As much as I would love to see your Ferrari collection...................I think I am more interested in seeing your musical instrument collection. I am a HUGE music fan, if you didn't know. And perhaps we can kick out a few drum solos. This is my drumming style. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avgd-i9QGU[/ame]
Pap, that is just ****ing awful, noise for the sake of noise. My favorite drummer is Stewart Copeland, syncopated drumming at its best
Thanks Gil, I appreciate you showing some pictures of the guitar. Before I had read the MG thread, I was looking at my guitar trying to work out its age. I bought mine in Adelaide 20 odd years ago, and what I thought was a high serial number (just over 100000) turns out to be a 63 SG Gibson. Then I read your posts. Wow, what do you do with that guitar once you know?
I guess I have collecting in my blood for some strange reason. When I started playing guitar at around 16 y'o, I always wanted to, one day have a '54 strat, because that's the holly grail of guitars for me. The beginning of the stratocaster's. Leo fenders iconic start of the Fender guitars. Albeit that he started before that date with telecasters and the infamous "broadcaster" (which I had a chance to buy one in the US but it's not the same).This is a bit like a ferrari argument what's better. The broadcaster was sort of like a proto type of the stratocaster (like that 288 gto evoluzionio) was to the F40. But the strat is just a better guitar. Especially to play. SO what happens to my strat. Well I have it and enjoy owning it. I don't enjoy playing it, because my "63 red strat is just a way better guitar to play. But to own one is to love one. Sort of like the F40, to own one is to love one. I'll probably leave it to my son who's 36 y/o (by the way just got his drivers licence and bought an AUDI A4 diesel ........first licence at 36. Not like his old man on that one. '63 Gibson SG is a great guitar. I have a 63 gibson SG special 3 pickups with a bigsby. Probably played it once or twice since I've owned it (40 years). Bought it in London for 100 pounds in 1972.
It disappeared in 1959 when Buddy died. I bought it in 1979 so as far as I know, his cousin had it for 20 years.
took my son (16) for his first driving lesson yesterday, in the QV, he loved it, stalled it twice but got the hang of the manual operation very quickly, bad habit of looking behind him ..... wished I could have said my first lesson in a car was a Ferrari or is it a FIAT ? thanks to KIAI
Interesting stuff in regards to the Broadcaster. I have never heard of that one before, but I have never done Fender research either. I hope your son takes REAL good care of it Gil. Why did he take so long to get licence? That SG sounds pretty cool too. Angus Young would be proud of you. Good to hear and my kids will be just as lucky to have the same opportunity.
http://www.buddyhollyandthecrickets.com/guitar.html Have you read this? How does yours fit into all of this? What is your serial # and neck date? Very interesting. thanks (not to nitpick, but the Broadcaster was the precursor to the Tele, not the Strat as in your post 19 first paragraph, last sentence. But I have no doubt it was just a typo on your part. They had to change the name due to copyright problems, then went briefly to the "no names"..... Lets not confuse Pap more than he is already is)
