How'dya like to buy AL's AL?!?!?

[PurpleSport]

Lookit what I just found!

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4303115

Proceeds benefit Eric Clapton's drug rehab charity.

You may not be able to afford Blackie, but with the estimate on this one at just $1-2k, ya might get lucky if ya don't get in a bidding war with someone!

 

[KungFu Grip]

Oh...

my...

God....


....


Al's Albert Lee....


(falls over)

 

[SGMan88]

Albert Lee's Albert Lee...doesn't get much better than that

 

[spkirby]

He has played it live on numerous occasions including: on tour with the Everly Brothers during their reunion tour in the mid-1980s

Not bad for a 1997 AL....time travel device included!

 

[koogie2k]

I saw that too.....thought it was my vision...I am getting older....hehehehe

 

[Jimi D]

besides Al's AL, there's a Schecter from Knopfler, a Tom Anderson from Carlos Santana (?!?), a Valley Arts from Larry Carlton, Ibanez's from Satch and Vai... oh ya, and a Strat formerly owned and graffiti'd by SRV... Very, very cool... I wish I was in New York for the auction... and had any money...

 

[ex3.8]

OH Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. Forget about money. We are talking body parts or first born child or 25 year old virgins here

 

[PurpleSport]

Well....apparently a bidding war of some kind took place....AL's AL went for $11,950!

(of course, that's the gavel price, not counting the additonal 20% fee that Christies tacks on afterwards for themselves...)

A bargain compared to Blackie, who went for $959,000!

You'd be surprised at some of the prices on the other stuff, esp. on the stock stuff from the other artists who donated their instruments to the cause:

Santana's '91 Tom Anderson: $16,730
Mark Knopfler's '80 Schecter Strat: $50,190
Steve Vai's 2002 JEM7D: $5,378
Joe Satriani's 2003 JS1000: $16,730 (the last two were used on the 2003 G3 tour, and Joe's offering was just a warmup guitar)

Wow!

 

[Hookpunch]

Wow is right!

Odd that Satch's guitar went for so much more than Steve's. I would figure they would have been about the same, given the relative positions of the two in guitar god pantheon.

In any case all for a good cause. Is Satch in that guitar god festival that Clapton is holding?

 

[Jimi D]

Odd that Satch's guitar went for so much more than Steve's. I would figure they would have been about the same, given the relative positions of the two in guitar god pantheon.

Satch's axe came with letters and documentation and pictures from Satch himself demonstrating ownership and use... Steve's didn't...