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1996 Custom Shop Cunetto finished, 1956 RI Mary Kay masterbuilt by J. W. Black.
It's pretty much as I got it, save for it has a 'real' 1954 backplate on the trem cavity (I just found it somewhere, honestly can't recall where) and it has a replacement SSL1C bridge pup and a shorter trem.
It's been gigged, abused and used. I played the Le Mans 24 hour race once and we played for as long as we could. At the end I knew every scratch in the neck!
One interesting feature is they 'aged' the tweed case, which was the original intention for the relics but never happened due to cost.
it's let me down once- severing a b string in twain during the opening bends to the CNumb outro solo......
You can hear it here:
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Learned 40 'driving type' songs (about 20 of them Eagles fucking songs as our drummer was Don Henley's number one fan- being absolute renegades we even changed the words to Take It Easy to "It's a girl my lord, In a flat six Porsche" and other such cliched tomfoolery) and played them almost on a revolving basis. I think we did 3 hours straight x 2 with a 30 min ciggie break!!
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
These were made by the South African luthier Kerry Callaghan. He became very well known in South Africa's guitar-playing community in the 80s and 90s and was renowned for his meticulous workmanship and perfectionism. He spent 6 months on each guitar and rarely had more than 2 or 3 on the go at any time.
He made 27 guitars of which quite a few were bought by notable players. The one on the right is number 27, the last one he made before his workshop was destroyed and he packed it in. He originally made it in 1993 for Mike de Jager with whom I played in a duo called Double-Whammy in various dangerous lesbian and gun-totin' bars. I didn't have a guitar with me out in South Africa so I used his Callaghan 27. I absolutely fell in love with it and after 18 months of me imploring him, Mike sold it to me.
I brought it back to England and decided to hunt down all 27 guitars and make a fb page devoted to them. I managed to track down the elusive Kerry who helped me. Many guitars had been stolen, destroyed, burned or traded, so it took a while. After a year, we'd found 26 of them, but we just couldn't locate number 23. Then after another year or so, I found it. It was under a bed in spain, waterlogged and ruined. I was utterly delighted. I bought it off the guy for the cost of shipping, had it brought over and restored it. Now it's as good as new and will last longer than me. It's the one on the left.
Kerry still owns number 26, and his son David owns number 25. Interesting story about David. When he was 16, there was a competition/event held in Durban called 'Guitars for Africa'. All the best jazz and rock guitarists performed, including at least 2 Callaghan owners. Kerry pleaded with the organisers to let his son have a spot, telling them that David was simply the best guitarist they were likely to see, ever. And they said yes he could play a song even though he wasn't officially on the list. But as the event went on, it got later and later and more and more behind schedule, and David was sitting in the corner backstage looking more and more dejected. Kerry pleaded with the organisers but they said there'd be no time. Kerry asked if he could at least play in the interval. So they let him, and he played Paganini's Caprice number 24. Everyone had gone to the bar but they rushed back to the auditorium to watch this kid with a bright yellow guitar playing this solo piece, note perfect at breakneck speed. And when the voting happened at the end, he won the first prize even though he wasn't officially part of it. And so they asked him to play it again as an encore to finish the night off. So he did, but this time he played it with his left hand over the top of the fretboard.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Ah I see said the blind man !
Because it's an intense time, we got a few people come and see us and said we were OK (until the drummer, as was his custom, murdered Desperado time after time in tearful dedication to his missus).
the only bad thing was a guy called Henry, who is a tool of the highest order and owns 911Virgin.com a used specialist, getting very pissed in front of us and getting a little lary and being removed from the 'venue'.
I'm still in touch with Suzie as she's a great singer and a lovely lady. She sells airport security systems and is minted.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Phiri from the cannibals? Might well have bought one - I don't think Kerry made one for him specifically.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
He's pretty much hated in the Porsche world for his bullshit sales antics and basically illegal pricing methods (selling without statutory 3 month warranty.) Cridfords are a much safer bet.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.