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Friday 9 April 2010

Little Stevens guitar i found at a youth recreation center!

Hi all!
I am using left hand only so this takes a while. Damn that Tendinitis. And damn the Impingement syndrome that i suffer from.
Google it and you´ll see.
Anyway, from out of nowhere i bring you my Guild X-88 Crue Star.
Custom made for Little Steven of the E Street Band in the eighties.
It was brought to Sweden in the hands of Jean Beauvoir from the Plasmatics.
It once had a Kahler tremolo but that was changed in the nineties somewhere.
I first got my eyes on this guitar when i was about 18 years old. It was hanging in the local music store, MUG. Back then it had the original Kahler still mounted. But it was many parts missing on the tremolo and back then Kahler´s was already out of fashion so there was no spare parts to be found. The Shop manager decided to remove it and make it more for the common people? (what were they thinking)
So it has some paint added where the Kahler once was. Pretty ok job after all..
Years went and it got sold to a youth recreation center (fritidsgård).
And another couple of years go by. And finally one day not to long ago i found it on the internet for sale. The guy worked at the recreation center and when all things stopped there and they put the place down, he bought the guitar from them. And now it was for sale.
It took me around 2 min to own this guitar. I will never sell it. Well, maybe if Steven wants it back!

3 comments:

  1. How much you like "leopardskinned" guitars dont'you? I remember I saw you playin' one during the dreaming in a casket session right?
    Anyway this guitar is such a piece of rock n'roll history.

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  2. Fuck - that's a pointy guitar...

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  3. always cool when a GG has a jackanory!

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