Jeff Buckley, Rolling Stones and er, Rod?

Deijavoo

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1982-Fender-Usa-Telecaster-Top-Loader-/200960062672?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2eca2734d0

Not sure if I trust this sales pitch....

[Deleted User]

The seller may deny it is an '83 but the hole for the tilt adjustment clearly visible on neck-plate and top-loading bridge were all part of Fender's short-lived 'post-Smith' designs; the final US guitars before CBS sold the company. The black scratch plate is likely to be after-market - white was standard - and has the neck pick-up suspended from it, again, an '83 feature, as were cast machines.

Whether its provenance checks out is anyone's guess. Without a story, one of these is probably a £500-£700 guitar, depending on whether it is a private sale or from a dealer...

ICBM

That's an '83 even if the serial number and the pot codes say '82 - they'll be left-over parts. That model was only made in 1983 and 1984.

Deijavoo

You guys! I knew you'd come good.

octatonic

I've asked him if he is providing any evidence of its history, or is he expecting us to trust him.

(Not that having had a couple of famous people playing it adds to its value in any way).

Lixarto

octatonic said:

(Not that having had a couple of famous people playing it adds to its value in any way)

If we're defining worth as "what an idividual would be willing to pay", then it certainly does.

octatonic

Lixarto said:

octatonic said:

(Not that having had a couple of famous people playing it adds to its value in any way)

If we're defining worth as "what an idividual would be willing to pay", then it certainly does.

I knew some pedant would say this.

It really doesn't though.

Lixarto

It demonstrably does.

octatonic

Lixarto said:

It demonstrably does.

No it doesn't.

Sorry- did you pay for the full hour?

[Deleted User]

This isn't an argument; its contradiction....

octatonic

No it isn't.

[Deleted User]

Yes it is....

Lixarto

I know what you mean - it doesn't make the guitar "better" in any real sense, but if you think it doesn't increase the price it will sell for, you are mistaken.

octatonic

Lixarto said:

I know what you mean - it doesn't make the guitar "better" in any real sense, but if you think it doesn't increase the price it will sell for, you are mistaken.

Nope.

randomhandclaps

  :-O  Jeff Buckley and The Stone played a six saddle Tele?????  I sense a record burning a coming!

ICBM

randomhandclaps said:

  :-O  Jeff Buckley and The Stone played a six saddle Tele?????  I sense a record burning a coming!

Jeff Buckley *owned* a six-saddle Tele of this exact era.

Even worse, he changed the bridge pickup to a Duncan Hot Tele Stack, which is one of the most toneless pickups ever made...

JayGee

Never mind this Jeff Buckley bloke, *I've* got one... :-)

historyisjunk

Given this description- " there is more dna, sweat, and skin cells from rock royalty on this giitar than can be measured. " I think a guitar burning might be necessary, or at least a blast with a pressure washer.*







*this is of course not advisable....

chrisj1602

If the guitar was knocking about in a studio, I can see that people would pick up a guitar and have a strum, as you do.  But the likelihood of the Rolling Stones needing to borrow an 80s Telecaster for a tour...? No.

Adam_MD

Maybe it was a tour from the studio to get cigs and back again. They'd need something to play on a 10 minute car journey. :-)

DrBob

ICBM;30466" said:

randomhandclaps said:

  :-O  Jeff Buckley and The Stone played a six saddle Tele?????  I sense a record burning a coming!





Jeff Buckley *owned* a six-saddle Tele of this exact era.

Even worse, he changed the bridge pickup to a Duncan Hot Tele Stack, which is one of the most toneless pickups ever made...

I think I read somewhere that the blonde 6 saddle Tele that Buckley played was borrowed from a friend