Make your bands cover of Sweet Home Alabama more authentic...

IvisonGuitars

...By buying the very Strat it was written and recorded on:

https://cartervintage.com/collections/ed-king-collection/products/fender-stratocaster-2041

Just a cool $450,000.

Funkfingers

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Pity. The guitar will now remain shrouded in mystery. I was hoping to take a look under the hood.

IvisonGuitars

That's interesting....they seem to have taken down all the Ed King Collection from their site, they only emailed out a link 2 hours ago...

merlin

miserneil said:

That's interesting....they seem to have taken down all the Ed King Collection from their site, they only emailed out a link 2 hours ago...

That's because I bought them all. 

IvisonGuitars

I was only thinking when I was looking through them that if i'd have been the latest EuroMillions winner, i'd have been on a plane tomorrow morning to scoop up the lot!

ICBM

miserneil said:

That's interesting....they seem to have taken down all the Ed King Collection from their site, they only emailed out a link 2 hours ago...

They've probably received a temporary injunction from someone to hold the sale until they can advertise the key it was written in correctly.

guitars4you

I bet it's nuthin' fancy anyway

Voxman

guitars4you said:

I bet it's nuthin' fancy anyway

You got that right

Voxman

merlin said:

miserneil said:

That's interesting....they seem to have taken down all the Ed King Collection from their site, they only emailed out a link 2 hours ago...

That's because I bought them all. 

Well, I know that I ain't the one who bought them!

robgilmo

guitars4you said:

I bet it's nuthin' fancy anyway

Even so, I am a Simple Man with simple needs.

hotpickups

miserneil said:

I was only thinking when I was looking through them that if i'd have been the latest EuroMillions winner, i'd have been on a plane tomorrow morning to scoop up the lot!

I've always asked myself that question @miserneil I.e. what would I spend some of it on if I won etc. You've just answered that for me now

Mind you I'll have to actually do the lottery to win I guess

57Deluxe

dress like this??

IvisonGuitars

57Deluxe said:

dress like this??

I pretty much do....minus the hair (got more hair on my toes than I have on my head these days...)

IvisonGuitars

ICBM said:

miserneil said:

That's interesting....they seem to have taken down all the Ed King Collection from their site, they only emailed out a link 2 hours ago...

They've probably received a temporary injunction from someone to hold the sale until they can advertise the key it was written in correctly.

Am I being dense? I don’t get the gag here??

ICBM

miserneil said:

Am I being dense? I don’t get the gag here??

The gag is that there's a perpetual dispute about what key Sweet Home Alabama is in - some say G, some say D.

For some it's in G major because it's a V-IV-I chord progression with G as the I - but the melody line is a D major scale, so some people think it's that, and want it to end on the D... which can make stopping the song quite hard if one or more members of the band want it to go round again .

I think the answer is that it's in G with the melody in a different mode (I forget what it's called), but I don't know enough about music theory to know if that's correct - for me it's in G because it seems to want to end on that, as Skynyrd did, and because Ed King said it was in G... and he wrote it!

IvisonGuitars

ICBM said:

miserneil said:

Am I being dense? I don’t get the gag here??

The gag is that there's a perpetual dispute about what key Sweet Home Alabama is in - some say G, some say D.

For some it's in G major because it's a V-IV-I chord progression with G as the I - but the melody line is a D major scale, so some people think it's that, and want it to end on the D... which can make stopping the song quite hard if one or more members of the band want it to go round again .

I think the answer is that it's in G with the melody in a different mode (I forget what it's called), but I don't know enough about music theory to know if that's correct - for me it's in G because it seems to want to end on that, as Skynyrd did, and because Ed King said it was in G... and he wrote it!

Riiiiight! That went over my head but perfectly plausible and certainly a point!

Finishing on the G has always worked for me

Funkfingers

Perhaps, Bernard Shakey bought ‘em as a job lot?

IvisonGuitars

And Jason Isbell has just posted on Instagram that he’s bought Red Eye!

Jez6345789

See on Instagram think Charles Daughtey got that lovely SG with the Bigsby which was a lovely guitar. 
Who got the Strat Sweet Home was written on that must of gone for some wedge. 

Strat54

There's still some left.....

https://cartervintage.com/collections/ed-king-collection

Jason Isbell bought his '59 'Redeye'.....Seems only yesterday I saw him play a half full uni venue with the DBT's and now he's splashing a few hundred grand on a LP!  Collector Kris Blakely aka Fried Okra bought his '55 all gold LP.
People on forums question vintage guitar prices yet here they are selling like hot cakes. Isbell already gigs his immaculate '60 Strat and last year he bought a lovely '54 Tele. Seems like the well healed players are still snapping them up. Jason has promised to gig 'Redeye' He might not want to bring it to the Uni gigs again....

stickyfiddle

miserneil said:

And Jason Isbell has just posted on Instagram that he’s bought Red Eye!

Thai makes me really really happy. Hope he tours with it