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    The 85 guitars seized at Dulles International Airport

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    They could have fetched nearly $260,000 if they weren’t fakes!

    Unbelievable,  

    The Les Paul ax autographed by Guns and Roses guitarist Slash would have been worth at least $8,000 — if only it was real.

    Instead it was a clever fake, part of a shipment of 85 guitars seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this month.

     

    The collection included 72 Gibsons, but also models from C.F. Martin, Fender, Kramer and Taylor. Also included were 13 acoustic guitars. The Les Paul ax wasn’t the only one purportedly with a celebrity signature — other guitars included fake “autographs” by Les Paul and AC/DC’s Angus Young.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/06/21/these-guitars-struck-wrong-note-with-us-customs-border-protection-officers/

    Sunday blues on the Forum?

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    3 hours ago, jdgm said:

    Jesse Ed Davis deserves a nod .

     

    He certainly does!  

    People think it's Cooder playing slide on that track but - it's Jesse. 

    Beautiful guitar playing through a Leslie on Taj's "Giant Step" LP, too.

    Agreed,  Jesse Ed Davis  was a great player,  some people think he copied Duane Allman  on Statesboro Blues,  it was the other way around,  Allman admitted it, he was a big fan of Jesse's. 

    Jesse also played the lead guitar on Jackson Brown's hit Doctor My Eyes. 

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    Sunday blues on the Forum?

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    12 hours ago, Whitefang said:

    Wow, JAXSON----

    You could have put most of those in ONE POST!  :rolleyes:   Regardless...

    I once saw this guy at Detroit's GRANDE BALLROOM during the late '60's "resurgence" in American blues......   A week after the latter was brought in for a show.  

     

     

    Great shows, both of 'em! 

    Whitefang

    That must have been an awesome show, I really dig  both of these cuts,  

    That Saturday fIsh fry  cracks me up, 

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    Sunday blues on the Forum?

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    blues artist influenced as many future blues, folk, and rock artist as did the Rev. Gary Davis. The names of his students are literally the who's who of the 50's and 60's folk community and those who went on to create the folk-rock and blues infused rock of the 70's, many continue to carry on live performances today. As he often said, "I have no children, but I have many sons".  He was more than a music teacher, or guitar teacher, he saved people.
    Born in North Carolina in 1896, one of eight children, he was one of the only two to survive, his father was shot dead by a sheriff, his mother abandoned him, his grandparents raised him, music saved him. He first learned to play rag time on banjos and guitars, by the 1920's he was playing blues on street corners for tips. In the 1930's he became an ordained Baptist minister, moved to NYC, and started his musical ministry.
    Here is a partial list of his students.
    Phil Allen (Mr. Muck)
    Roy Bookbinder
    Danny Birch
    Rick Block
    Rory Block
    David Bromberg
    Ian Buchanan, (An especially talented student, Davis and Buchanan grew very close, with the Reverend later introducing him to his black church congregations as "my white son." Buchanan taught the Davis guitar style to some of his fellow students at Antioch College including Jorma Kaukonen (later of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) and John P. Hammond, son of the famed Columbia Records producer.)
    Brother's Harry and Tom Chapin,
    Ry Cooder
    Bruce Conforth, (First curator of the Rock and Roll HoF)
    Dion
    Blind Boy Fuller
    John Gibbon
    Stefan Grossman,
    Ernie Hawkins
    Janis Ian
    Steve Katz, (The Blues Project and co-founder of Blood Sweat and Tears)
    John Mankiewicz (Screenwriter and producer, the Davis's took him in and raised him)
    Woody Mann
    Alexander McEwen
    Rory McEwen
    Alan Smithline
    Dave Von Ronk
    Bob Weir
    Tom Winslow

    https://youtu.be/4fpPgo4Deo4 

     

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    Sunday blues on the Forum?

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    13 minutes ago, Whitefang said:

    Never much cared for Wolf.  And I wonder if THIS is where the inspiration for his pro name came from---- (and dig that AXE!)

    Whitefang

    I think it's a Regal, I have a old Regal tenor guitar that has the same shape.

    I always liked Josh,  thanks for posting 

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