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Less than half the going rate for one. If 1200 Euro, best you can hope for is 600. That's the best. There are too many guitars that aren't broken for someone to spend too much on one that is broken. My advice to anyone looking to buy that would be "Pass". So you are up against a pretty big hill there buddy. Good luck with it. You might find exactly the right buyer that needs that exact guitar to fill a whole in their collection, and you could move it along. But it will take time and effort. rct

Good deal Tman. rct

Gibson? Not kosher? I'm glad I was sitting down for even the suggestion! rct

Pot shafts and everything else used to be different, or people would just make Epiphones into Gibsons. Everything on an Epi is a pain in the ***, to my recollection. rct

Old Guitar Player magazines. I can't tell you which one, but that's where those nuggets come from. Dave Stewart was getting big as the Annie Lennox guitar player, and along with a feature on him was a small sidebar about how the US guitar went from Epi to Gibson in a blink. I don't remember where the Spirit story was, but it was for sure. Gibson saved a ton by not developing a double cut sorta super strat thingy and just re-branding an Epiphone and seeing how it did. rct

Yup. As was the United States Gibson. rct

You want to play out, so... The other people you play with. The audience you play for. The host of the place that holds the audience you play for. If the bar owner/jam host/band audition/sit in folks tell you you are fabulous and they want you back, that's a great thing. If they tell you you were fabulous but they don't have any openings for the foreseeable well, could be they don't have any nights open, could be they don't like you and don't want to tell you. Time will tell with that one, call them, ask for any cancels, that sort of thing. If they have you back then good! The audience is easy. Silence after a song isn't always bad, but can be awful. Might not want to do that one again. Enthusiasm speaks for itself. Compliments after are usually delivered by someone with a bunch of liquor in them so take it with a few grains of salt. Not much else to it. If you are going out there, out there is where you'll get your most valuable feedback. If you don't think you are ready, you probably aren't and no friend or relative or neighbor feedback is going to change that. Recording helps, as others have said. You'll know when you are ready, you'll go out, and then you'll find out! Good luck. rct

Have a nice trip! I don't remember our 30th. rct

John Lennon bequeathed the rights to his music to someone that doesn't agree with you or anyone else. It is the owner of the rights that gets to decide, not the dead guy. This is where all the vitriol is all wrong. If you own the rights, you do whatever you want with those rights. Another thing to consider is something along the lines of Van Halen allowing their Right Now to be used in a Pepsi commercial. As he said at the time, why let them pay standard usage and have some bunch of hacks like rct and his band cover it? Just use ours was his answer. rct

Never played one. Does the surface of the guitar feel like it looks? I was banned from the TDPRI. In the 90's. lolz rct

I'm sorry my friend, but I am wrong, and in your agreement with me you too are wrong. I know I am right about this. rct

I disagree and quite frankly, I find your posturing about the internet without any data disturbing. rct

Nobody on the internet has ever changed the mind of someone else on the internet. Put your facts up and be done with it. If everyone stopped posting on the internet because other people didn't agree with them, factual or not, there'd be no internet. rct

They didn't pay the bill, so they lost very very little. The t00ner company lost lots. Just sayin. rct

How can a Historic, more accurately historically accurater than ever before, as they get every single year since they started doing them, not sound like a 58? The actual guitars that these are supposed to be so incredibly accurate reproductions of weren't too bright, at least, not the ones I played. rct

I cropped myself out: rct

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One of the -s was from me. [laugh] [laugh] rct

I admit it, I own it, I was wrong. You have a guitar that might, could, possibly, potentially, almost, nearly, definitely maybe is something else. I am wrong to believe the serial number and the people that made it. In fact, from now on, I won't even look at the serial numbers on guitars and I won't bother asking the people that made them, I'll just go online and ask a bunch of complete strangers what it is and look at pictures of very similar guitars and draw my own conclusions. Good luck with your guitar, I hope it is a good one no matter the pedigree. rct

Aqualung, again. And Double Vision. We added them this month and it's been tonnes of funne. We are hanging with our original drummer this week, might even get original other guitar player out for a night, so the original Boys might be Back In Town. So I'm going over all the really old ones we used to regularly romp through. Maybe I'm a Leo and Hush, Thank You and Houses of The Holy by that fairly successful English band, Crossroads and Sunshine of yer Love by them other english guys, PuRpLe HaZe. Man. Stuff like that. Buncha GFR too, we still do I'm yer Captain and we'll do another bunch of theirs. Good times I hope. rct

There was always a "Custom Shop". You called or wrote, threw down a lot of money, got what you wanted. Then came "Custom Shop", which was a way for the proletariat to argue over which was best. Seriously, how many times can the company that made 1959 Les Pauls make 1959 Les Pauls that are more accurate than last years? So there it is, 93, 95, somewhere in there was a "Custom Shop" for the rest of us. rc

It takes about two minutes to lift the pickups and see what is penciled under them. If it says "LPC" you have an answer. If it says "CS 68 RI" you have an answer. If is says nothing you pretty much have to go with what the people that made it say it is. rct

Why do people call up a company, get about as definitive a pedigree as you can get directly from the source, and then go on a forum and ask people to help them convince themselves that the guitar is different, more specialer than the people that made it say it is? Really. "CALL GIBSON" is the first thing anyone is told that asks "HOW SPECIAL IS MY SPECIAL?". I really just don't get it is all, it isn't an attack, it isn't personal, not slagging the OP or anyone in particular, just truly wonder why a call to the people that made it just...isn't...enough. rct

The courteous, polite, well spoken non-political super geniuses in The Acoustic Forum haven't been able to provide you with every single detail, including who's DNA has been spilled on your Bozeman Masterpiece? lolz rct

It started life as a free guitar to somebody. Radio give away, NAMM or other Guitar Show give away, raffle donation, that sort of thing. It's there to tell the buyer that every dollar they give for it is pure profit for somebody. rct