The "The Joker" guitar is literally a joke, if you read into the description they're asking some eclectic millionaire somewhere to buy it just so that the number one most expensive guitar ever sold will be some random guitar and they can try and spark up some mystery about it.
Synthaxe definitely gets an 11/10. That's how you make a synth guitar. The idea of a guitar, controlling synths, plus a famous jazz guitarist made it his signature thing for a while.
That negative series Epiphone Flying V is definitely a money laundering scheme. I found a Reverb listing using the same exact image and the same exact condition at $460
@3:36 speaking of hockey stick guitars, there is a luthier in metro south St. Louis, MO area that is currently building what looks to be a telecaster-esque hollow body with the neck made from modern carbon fibre hockey sticks. Apparently, it is supposed to be a custom made for the St. Louis Blues.
The John Cale guitar's block of text seems like it might be algorithmically generated to have reverb recommend it to a lot of people. From search terms or whatever.
The Futurama actually looks like a modded Soviet Borisov Futurama-2, refinished and with a different pick guard. Maybe the original horrible Soviet pickups have been swapped for P90s. The body shape, headstock and bridge/trem look identical. I would advise caution when buying early Soviet electric guitars because those did not have truss rods and their necks tend to get warped over time.
I saw kid rock out in the wild one time. How i know it was kid rock is because i saw a big lifted white truck with "Kid Rock" written across the windshield and he was walking towards it. It was in a wealthy touristy coastal town near some of the hotels on the bayfront, it was actually a place you might see someone like that. Im not the type to recognize celebrities, and i live in the american south so even someone looking like kid rock wouldn;t stand out all that much to me. But the truck was a bit of a give away lol i saw it first and was like "wtf? who likes kid rock THAT much?" And then i saw him and was like oh thats ACTUALLY kid rock. Is it more weird or less weird for him to drive a vehicle with his name in big letters on it?
Here's my take: If you're considering spending thousands on a guitar (or other instrument) because it's weird, wonky and eccentric: Go for it, have fun! If you're considering spending thousands on a guitar (or other instrument) because of it's history and "How much it's seen", here's my suggestion: Step 1: Don't buy the expensive guitar. Step 2: Go outside. Step 3: Pick up a rock. Any ol' rock. Step 4: Realize that this random rock has existed for, at minumum, tens of thousands of years and has seen way more history than just about any man-made object in existence. Step 5: You just saved thousands. And you now have a pet rock. Profit. ... but seriously, i get nostalgia and collector's value, but things do get rather silly, sometimes.
My formula for the perfect axe: 1 used Mexi Strat - $300 1 Wilkinson trem upgrade - $60 1 set Fender graded locking tuners : $60 2 Fender pups: $120 (N-M) 1 Humbucker $140 (B) 1 newly wired pick guard plus setup: $275 You end up with an amazing asskicker axe for $1G people are constantly asking about if it’s vintage, or old pups.. it’s a lousy 2009 Mexi with a lot of love :)
When Jim Irsay was questioned why he paid so much for the Black Strat his response was "Because I really fucking love Pink Floyd". He is also a mass collector who offers guitars to be recorded with, so it may find itself in good playing hands.
The Futurama is a Guyatone model from Japan, during the guitar boom of the 60's. It's not a one off, I would know, I own one. Also I'm fairly sure the one in the vid was a refin.
I immediately had my doubts, when he had a photo of a '70K' guitar, just resting on the wall on it's neck... Even the cheapest standard is what i would use at least
I don't remember what my first guitar cost, but it was too big for me and uncomfortable to play (no idea what the music store was thinking not telling me to go for something smaller). So when I picked up the guitar again after college, I traded it in for something I could play without my shoulder and arm hurting and my hand not being able to grip the neck very well. It was a better deal for them than me, but I couldn't really play it and I didn't want to try to sell it myself for a better price. I just wanted something I could play right then 😂
You need to pass by Martin Guitars in Nazareth, PA. When you take the tour, the end of the tour puts you in a room full of classic guitars that you are welcome to play.
Do they have one of those guitars that had Gretsch pickups and knobs integrated into them? Like the one Kurt Cobain played at the now-legendary MTV Unplugged show? I'd love that!
I'd like to visit a guitar factory tour I love guitars and i loved woodshop I made a coffin case in highschool I always wanted to be a luithier and make guitars but I'm not wealthy enough to start making guitars becuase car payments rent payments food ect but soon hopefully I will have enough financial stability to make a cool guitar but and eventually get good at it and make some real cool guitar creations
This just reminded me of this auction site that had a Kramer Baretta that was supposed signed by John Lennon, and if you know anything about Kramer, the Baretta was created in 1983.......John Lennon died in 1980.....
I spent a lot of time in radio, this was more than likely a radio promo where an artist would sign a CHEAP guitar and it would be auctioned off for charity or gven to a listener. Stations dont want to spend money on a guitar and would literally have someone in the office go to a store and get the cheapest thing they culd get. We did it with I think Ace Frehley, John Melloncamo, and others
Back in the 80s I used to watch a PBS TV show that appeared to be from Great Britain where the people were explaining how to play that synth axe and all the things they were doing with it. I wasn't even a guitar player back then but that thing was fascinating. When I became a bass player in 1997 I would go to music stores and wonder, hey whatever happened to that guitar I was learning about in the '80s? I thought it was going to be the 21st century guitar. Thanks for giving me the name. Now I can research it. 😁
I'm pretty sure someone from Cannibal Corpse (or any typical brutal DM band) would "kill" to get their hands on that "flesh" guitar. Hey; you want bloody chunks? YOU GOT IT!!!
Ren Ferguson is a legendary guitar builder and was the master luthier at Gibson until a few years ago when he left for Guild. Legendary acoustic/hollowbody guitar builder.
Back in the early '90s ... I played a venue and got BB King's dressing room that he occupied the night before. When I settled in there was a half a glass of whiskey and I said what is this? The attendant said, "oh, I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to clean up. That was BB ' s. He went to take it away and I quickly snatched it up and drank it! I truly believe that now I have BB King's DNA coursing through my body! I know it's gross, but I had to do it!
Man that is so awesome. You did the right thing. This is kind of stupid but about 25 years ago me and my best friend were on Beale street and got seperated. I finally ran back into him at like 2am and I was 9 kinds of f'ed up and he kept screaming to me "BB!!!!" "I met BB!!!!!" and he was holding this shirt up with his picture and BB King. I didnt realize it was a cheap souvenerire from a statue and for the rest of the night listened to this total bs story of him jamming with bb and i believed it. To this day I here about that.
That Ed Dean guitar needs to not be sold to but rather presented in some crazed hellspawn intergalactic and interdimensional ceremony to one of the guitar players of Gwar
"Biz zit"? I think that is the name of a business that makes pimple cream. Perhaps "Bizay"? I don't understand complex English Major phonetic symbols. I have heard of a few classical composers. I love it. Thank you for that pronunciation. I add that to my repertoire of things like "sauvignion' being pronounced at a wine store as "saw vig non" and a "molybdenum" alloy tool being sold at a tool store as "Molly beat 'um".
I quite like the homemade Alembic. Looks very well done. It might be $2k+ worth if it plays and sounds good. Knew about the Dylan Fender XII sale. I'm blown away Synthaxes now fetch that much. The L-7 is really very pretty. My guess is $40-50k on the Gibson Skylark. Here in Indy, it's pronounced "Err-say". It's a small point of local pride that Gilmour's guitar is in town.
This awesome. So many times I've seen gear listings on Kijiji where I've had to resist messaging the seller "Are you crazy asking that much? Did you even research what you're selling?" Thankfully I know better to resist that urge though I often wonder if these sellers are truly perplexed why no one is making any serious offers.
I paid $6,000US for a 12-string Chapman Stick, and i flew to America and picked it up from him at his home, it had his signature both engraved and in Sharpie pen. Since Mr Chapman has now passed away last year, I’m accepting offers over $25,000. Really.
If memory serves me well, I think that the Futurama was one of the strange Strat copies that George Harrison played in the very early Liverpool days of the Beatles... not that any of those (other then hispersonal one) would now be worth anywhere near $70k. But it wasn't that much of an oddity.
I always get a kick out of the memorabilia stores in Las Vegas that have framed autographed guitars by famous musicians selling for crazy money. The funny thing is the guitars themselves are always crap. They’re pawn shop no name guitars or at the absolute best, squires. They never sell framed autographed American made guitars.
They should come up with a rock group,,,, with Ronald mc Donald as front man,,, the hamburgler play lead and rhythm guitar,,, mayor mc cheese on bass and grimes on drums ,,, but have them make up serious songs and music and give them a cool stage act! I’d pay to see something like that!
Why not? You ever see Kiss,,, or bucket head! Alice cooper,,, twisted sister,,,it’s time for a new one-- system of the clown!🤣Hungry clown posse! They could throw cheese burgers and condiment packets into audience! If any body has the chicken mc nugget’s to carry this out !,,, don’t forget where you got the idea from! Gotta go now for some reason I got a hankerin for a cheeseburger 🍔🎸😂!
I'll never forget a Reverb listing for a used Fender Pro Jr, the 15 watt 10" speaker tube combo from the late 2000's that was once Noel Gallagher's. On a good day, a used one is about $350 USD. The asking price was something like $3000! I'm a huge Noel fan, but a generic Mexican made Fender tube combo does not magically increase in value just because it was his home practice amp. Maybe a $500 premium on top of the normal used price because of that novelty, but certainly not boutique amp price, that's for damn sure!
I kind of agree, but the strat owned by Dave Gilmour magically increased to just shy of 4 million, solely because he played it, so maybe an Oasis fan might like it. Or Liam may want to buy it so he can smash it up. Who knows?
@@castleanthrax1833 I say this as a massive Noel fan, but comparing his playing and home practice amp that as far as I know, that was never recorded on any legendary Oasis(or NGHFB) songs, or toured with, to David Gilmour, his legendary playing and guitar that has recorded many iconic Floyd songs and been played and toured around the world on many a stage, is beyond apples to oranges. Still having said that, I too think $4 million is an insane price to pay for that "mystique"!
@@msmoniz I wasn't comparing them. I was just pointing out that items do "magically" increase in value, depending on who has owned and played them in the past.
When you make a chariry buy like that Gilmour guitar, how much money goes toward the purchase and how much is considered tax deductible? It's essentially a donation right?
The guitar (or whatever) is donated by the previous owner, so aside from whatever fees the auction house takes, it all goes to the charity. My guess is that the previous owner and not the new owner gets the tax credit for the donation, though, since nominally the new owner bought it for "fair market value".
THANK GOD I’m so glad you said “you probably wouldn’t have to spend more than $3000k on a guitar” I was thinking thee exact same thing to myself throughout the entire video. The thing is under $1k you have so many decent guitars to buy and play and $3k well that should be anyones line because a guitar as such should look and play like a pretty prestigious guitar.
10:50 Hey, the Epiphone Negative series! I have the SG myself, bought it for a much more reasonable price of £260 (kinda suprised one of those Long & McQuade exclusive models made it over to England). A friend has the Explorer version too (hi Jen!)
Trogly has a Les Paul with an explorer headstock for a 100grand. Like even if I was rich you could buy custom shop guitars from all the big guitar makers and still have some cash leftover. I just don’t see spending the money a house costs on a guitar.
The Bolin french fry guitar is made by John Bolin He makes all of ZZs custom touring guitars like the fur guitar the peelers etc he's a highly sought after builder
My Les Paul is the most expensive guitar I own. Paid just under $6000.00 for it over 15 years ago. It's worth at least double that today I'm this market. But my favorite most customized guitar is my '89 Fender Stratocaster. Has two invaders with a Mightymite Motherbucker in-between them. Wired with a Killswitch similar to Tom Morello's guitars. Routed for a Floyd Rose tremolo with green noiseless springs with a solid brass block. I'm wiring green LED lights into the fretboard for the dot inlays. The parts alone cost 5 X's the price of the guitar brand new... But it was my first electric. I'll never get rid of it! Had it since I was 6 years old! I'm now 33.
There are suckers born every minute. My brother once sold a grilled cheese sandwich on EBay for $200 because he said it had the image of Jesus on it after he grilled it. It sort of did, if you squinted and used your imagination; but it was enough to sell it to some sucker who was absolutely thrilled to get it. Go figure.
The Joker guitar was actually made for J. J. Cale. Also known as John Cale to people personally. Not the Welsh John Cale OBE from Velvet Underground, as mentioned in the video. If you look at photos of J. J.’s guitars, you can clearly see this is his control setup, and was specifically made for his needs. Edit: Also, the craftsmanship on that guitar is insane. The swappable pickups were ahead of it’s time.
Fun video, funnier pronunciation of names. 3:14 The "Bizet" from 'The Joker' guitar is the French Romantic-era composer Georges Bizet -- so silent 'T'. 11:11 Jim Irsay = 'Ear' + 'Say' -- I grew just outside of Indianapolis.
Had an opportunity to purchase a Jackson Zoraxe guitar around 10-15 years ago on Ebay. Completely hand carved and painted. Custom case. Never played. Just a gorgeous instrument! Looked like a skeletonized mutant fish creature...very cool. Had to have it!! The seller didn't play so I guess he was just trying to get what he could out of it...he had won it in some raffle. He was only asking US$3,500.This was a fantastic deal as there were only 6 ever made. But I could only come up with $2,500. Got him down to $3,000 eventually, but still $500 short. I'm a huge fan of Jackson guitars anyway...broke my heart that it got away. It sold for the $3,00 that day. He prolly could've gotten a good bit more than that... I actually saw one of them for sale at Ed Roman Guitars a while ago for like $12,500.
"Big Mac Gobbler"🤣😂 LOL... BTW: Ren Ferguson was a Master Builder in Bozeman, Montana, at the Gibson Acoustic Shop. He moved to California to work at Guild Guitars.
I would not have been surprised, if the French Fries Axe was owned (and played) by Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick. (I never was too interested in their music, but I'd sure like to see his collection of weird guitars...)
New to this channel, so i have no idea if you've covered it or not. But about 10 years back, i believe it was on andertons website. It was a fender jaguar, but made from wood from an actual jaguar car (cant remember which one) and it was up for sale for £40,000. Always just remember it being absolutrly ludicrous money
I read this comment before getting to that point in the video and when I read "Flesh Guitar" I was somehow hoping that it would be the "Man Guitar"-prop from "From Dusk Till Dawn".
Last year, I blew more than my monthly salary on a guitar that I saw on TV in 1993 and which made me wanna play the instrument in the first place. My 14 years old self would be ecstatic.
I think the "expected to sell soon" is just something reverb adds regardless. Saw that on a "custom steampunk Jackson neck" which was just a neck where the headstock broke in half and was fixed with a strip of metal and 2 screws and then someone held a lighter to it to add burn marks bc i guess that's steam punk?
Here’s a great guitar story. In 1982 mybrother in law was working as a service and installation tech for Southwestern Bell telephone (now AT&T) one summer day in he was given a work order
I just bought an Abasi Concepts Space Tele....I'm kinda freaking out how much it was. Next to my car and computer, it's the most expensive things I've ever purchased.
Great vid, you should make a video on people trying to get ridiculous prices on squires. For some reason there is not a difference between MIMS ,American Fenders and off brands, as long as it has a Stratocaster style body. .
You definitely need to invest in a hollowbody jazzbox... I recommend Godin, for bang for the buck... they made me a believe in laminate tops... great acoustic sound and volume, and a choice of P90s, or humbuckers...
The Joker.THE Guitar! is still available. And still predicted to sell soon. Also I am sure whoever bought the steel lap guitar on Ebay was prob in the UK (Price shows as British Pounds) And thus did not pay stupid amounts for shipping.
It's important to remember that when the historical guitars (those super rare or owned by legend players) get sold, it's best that they go to people with the means to preserve them. It's kind of like, would you like some priceless art pieces hung in an art museum or would you like Bob from down the street to put it in his basement next to the sump pump? Jim Irsay, for example, is a big rock n roll guy, plenty of money, and takes the preservation of music history very seriously. I trust him to maintain that guitar.
I just bought 3 of the guitars in this video, as well as a SammyG tee
Of course you did because you can afford it. Everyday I see your guitars and wish for all of them
If you need to waste a million or two I can help. Just an FYI 👍🏽
we love you bro
Dude! I watch all of your videos and now you are following me to other channels! I guess that just means your awesomeness is unavoidable! LOL
Why am I not surprised
-10/10 I assume means: "I would sell my house just so I don't have to own this guitar."
This is the most bandkid joke ive seen idk why
Didn’t the David Gilmore Strat get beat out by the unplugged Kurt Cobain acoustic? Didn’t that thing sell for 6 million or something like that?
Exactly, I just thought the same thing.
@UCKK_GmlIlTFoKgNt9r5Gd_w that’s what I thought.
It did
Good call! An Aussie bought the Martin D-18 for 6 mil last june. Tot forgot!
9 million actually
You know a guitar is weird when it makes even Sammy G say “What the shit?”
No joke
He even left it uncensored!!! He was so willing to let the viewer know how he felt that he wouldn’t let community guidelines take his dignity.
The "The Joker" guitar is literally a joke, if you read into the description they're asking some eclectic millionaire somewhere to buy it just so that the number one most expensive guitar ever sold will be some random guitar and they can try and spark up some mystery about it.
Yeah, a joke... or rather a very long shot to make a million bucks if it actually works.
He even has T-Shirts with the first picture on it!
I bet you someone will buy it, *cough* *cough* Tyler *cough*.
Its hideous and looks like it has butt cheeks. Now the French Fry guitar id rock it at a lower price.
A million isn't the most ever paid for a guitar.
My only aspiration in life is becoming a rich guitar collecting big mac gobbler
A noble goal
If I had the money, I'd gift it to Mac sabbath,
Synthaxe definitely gets an 11/10. That's how you make a synth guitar. The idea of a guitar, controlling synths, plus a famous jazz guitarist made it his signature thing for a while.
That negative series Epiphone Flying V is definitely a money laundering scheme. I found a Reverb listing using the same exact image and the same exact condition at $460
@3:36 speaking of hockey stick guitars, there is a luthier in metro south St. Louis, MO area that is currently building what looks to be a telecaster-esque hollow body with the neck made from modern carbon fibre hockey sticks. Apparently, it is supposed to be a custom made for the St. Louis Blues.
The John Cale guitar's block of text seems like it might be algorithmically generated to have reverb recommend it to a lot of people. From search terms or whatever.
Yeah that's what I thought too
Now that you mention it, that does make sense. The punctuation and sentence structure were garbage.
The Futurama actually looks like a modded Soviet Borisov Futurama-2, refinished and with a different pick guard. Maybe the original horrible Soviet pickups have been swapped for P90s.
The body shape, headstock and bridge/trem look identical.
I would advise caution when buying early Soviet electric guitars because those did not have truss rods and their necks tend to get warped over time.
Honestly never thought I'd see an Ed Gein signature guitar.
Finally, someone who got it! I was like, where is the human skin lamp shade that comes with it?? 🤷♂️
good ol Ed
Id buy it for my grandpa. He worked in a factory with him shortly before he got caught lol
I saw kid rock out in the wild one time. How i know it was kid rock is because i saw a big lifted white truck with "Kid Rock" written across the windshield and he was walking towards it.
It was in a wealthy touristy coastal town near some of the hotels on the bayfront, it was actually a place you might see someone like that. Im not the type to recognize celebrities, and i live in the american south so even someone looking like kid rock wouldn;t stand out all that much to me. But the truck was a bit of a give away lol i saw it first and was like "wtf? who likes kid rock THAT much?" And then i saw him and was like oh thats ACTUALLY kid rock. Is it more weird or less weird for him to drive a vehicle with his name in big letters on it?
Here's my take:
If you're considering spending thousands on a guitar (or other instrument) because it's weird, wonky and eccentric: Go for it, have fun!
If you're considering spending thousands on a guitar (or other instrument) because of it's history and "How much it's seen", here's my suggestion:
Step 1: Don't buy the expensive guitar.
Step 2: Go outside.
Step 3: Pick up a rock. Any ol' rock.
Step 4: Realize that this random rock has existed for, at minumum, tens of thousands of years and has seen way more history than just about any man-made object in existence.
Step 5: You just saved thousands. And you now have a pet rock. Profit.
... but seriously, i get nostalgia and collector's value, but things do get rather silly, sometimes.
You lost me at go outside
My formula for the perfect axe:
1 used Mexi Strat - $300
1 Wilkinson trem upgrade - $60
1 set Fender graded locking tuners : $60
2 Fender pups: $120 (N-M)
1 Humbucker $140 (B)
1 newly wired pick guard plus setup: $275
You end up with an amazing asskicker axe for $1G people are constantly asking about if it’s vintage, or old pups.. it’s a lousy 2009 Mexi with a lot of love :)
That was Edges less famous and more pudgy cousin, Cliff.
That was his second cousin "Steep embankment"
Nah, it was his long lost half brother, inclined plane
While that looks like Cliff it's actually his 1/2 brother "The Ledge".
The Fringe,
@@SlyHikari03 The Floor
When Jim Irsay was questioned why he paid so much for the Black Strat his response was "Because I really fucking love Pink Floyd".
He is also a mass collector who offers guitars to be recorded with, so it may find itself in good playing hands.
If Jim Irsay really loved Pink Floyd, he'd give Mr Gilmour his guitar back. 😀
Jim Irsay also really fucking loves cocaine
@MARQUIS de QUEENSBURY 5.0 He said "give", not loan.
Edit: I'm not trying to start a fistfight either. 😁
The sammy g high school shirt really screams "dealing through tough times"
I love this video concept!
Respectful shade
You should do it. Call it "ridiculous reverb listings" or something along those lines. I don't know? I'm not too good at this.
Ayy.
It’s the rate/roast rig,/reverb listings guy
Oh hey Fluff.
Not sure if it’s just a friendly joke or if you really are bitchin, but he’s been doing these videos on reverb well before you made your first one.
If you're the guitarist in Mac Sabbath, then yeah, that fries axe!
The Futurama is a Guyatone model from Japan, during the guitar boom of the 60's. It's not a one off, I would know, I own one. Also I'm fairly sure the one in the vid was a refin.
I immediately had my doubts, when he had a photo of a '70K' guitar, just resting on the wall on it's neck... Even the cheapest standard is what i would use at least
I don't remember what my first guitar cost, but it was too big for me and uncomfortable to play (no idea what the music store was thinking not telling me to go for something smaller). So when I picked up the guitar again after college, I traded it in for something I could play without my shoulder and arm hurting and my hand not being able to grip the neck very well. It was a better deal for them than me, but I couldn't really play it and I didn't want to try to sell it myself for a better price. I just wanted something I could play right then 😂
My first guitar cost me $650 in the mid 80s, and was more than a fortnights salary.
Imagine making 50 grand off a teisco guitar though
It's overpriced cause when some players hear Futurama they think of George Harrison
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💔❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝✝️Jesus Christ died for your sins please repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
but isn’t kurt cobain’s martin the new record holder?
It is ig he got confused cuz its like $6 mil dollars
You need to pass by Martin Guitars in Nazareth, PA. When you take the tour, the end of the tour puts you in a room full of classic guitars that you are welcome to play.
Do they have one of those guitars that had Gretsch pickups and knobs integrated into them? Like the one Kurt Cobain played at the now-legendary MTV Unplugged show? I'd love that!
Just acoustic guitars
@@er5406 Welp. I'm not complaining!
@@tahirmukic5460 he modified the guitar himself if you notice it was also a lefty strung as a right hand
I'd like to visit a guitar factory tour I love guitars and i loved woodshop I made a coffin case in highschool I always wanted to be a luithier and make guitars but I'm not wealthy enough to start making guitars becuase car payments rent payments food ect but soon hopefully I will have enough financial stability to make a cool guitar but and eventually get good at it and make some real cool guitar creations
All those are signed pickguards NOT signed guitars. People get the pickgaurds signed and the put them on first act guitars and Tamara them up 100x
This just reminded me of this auction site that had a Kramer Baretta that was supposed signed by John Lennon, and if you know anything about Kramer, the Baretta was created in 1983.......John Lennon died in 1980.....
I spent a lot of time in radio, this was more than likely a radio promo where an artist would sign a CHEAP guitar and it would be auctioned off for charity or gven to a listener. Stations dont want to spend money on a guitar and would literally have someone in the office go to a store and get the cheapest thing they culd get. We did it with I think Ace Frehley, John Melloncamo, and others
Back in the 80s I used to watch a PBS TV show that appeared to be from Great Britain where the people were explaining how to play that synth axe and all the things they were doing with it. I wasn't even a guitar player back then but that thing was fascinating. When I became a bass player in 1997 I would go to music stores and wonder, hey whatever happened to that guitar I was learning about in the '80s? I thought it was going to be the 21st century guitar.
Thanks for giving me the name. Now I can research it. 😁
I'm pretty sure someone from Cannibal Corpse (or any typical brutal DM band) would "kill" to get their hands on that "flesh" guitar. Hey; you want bloody chunks? YOU GOT IT!!!
Ren Ferguson is a legendary guitar builder and was the master luthier at Gibson until a few years ago when he left for Guild. Legendary acoustic/hollowbody guitar builder.
Back in the early '90s ... I played a venue and got BB King's dressing room that he occupied the night before. When I settled in there was a half a glass of whiskey and I said what is this? The attendant said, "oh, I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to clean up. That was BB ' s. He went to take it away and I quickly snatched it up and drank it! I truly believe that now I have BB King's DNA coursing through my body! I know it's gross, but I had to do it!
what
@@emet0526 lkr?!
Dang. Lol
Man that is so awesome. You did the right thing. This is kind of stupid but about 25 years ago me and my best friend were on Beale street and got seperated. I finally ran back into him at like 2am and I was 9 kinds of f'ed up and he kept screaming to me "BB!!!!" "I met BB!!!!!" and he was holding this shirt up with his picture and BB King. I didnt realize it was a cheap souvenerire from a statue and for the rest of the night listened to this total bs story of him jamming with bb and i believed it. To this day I here about that.
lmaoo
2:49 is it just me or does this guitar have an absolute dumpy
Did Sammy G really just call Bizet "Bizz-it"?
I'm afraid so. Lol!
Canadians smh
Just for that, I'm calling him suh-moo-ray.
Bee-zay
Yo yo, MC Bizet in-da-house err'body say ay-oh!
That Ed Dean guitar needs to not be sold to but rather presented in some crazed hellspawn intergalactic and interdimensional ceremony to one of the guitar players of Gwar
Selmer actually makes the best woodwinds in the world, usually selling for about 10,000$. I had no idea they tried to make guitars.
@5:45 I remember seeing that concert on PBS. I have it on tape somewhere.
I always thought that instrument was entirely custom/homemade.
"Biz zit"? I think that is the name of a business that makes pimple cream. Perhaps "Bizay"? I don't understand complex English Major phonetic symbols. I have heard of a few classical composers. I love it. Thank you for that pronunciation. I add that to my repertoire of things like "sauvignion' being pronounced at a wine store as "saw vig non" and a "molybdenum" alloy tool being sold at a tool store as "Molly beat 'um".
I have a gilmour strat replica. Everything minus the scratches and wear from him. Passion project that I finished early this year.
My fav guitar: A body made of dollar bill micarta, diamond fret board inlays, platinum frets, gold strings
"The time I ate 37 pierogies at the Sticks wedding" lmao 😂. This is why I always come back to old Sammy Gs channel
I quite like the homemade Alembic. Looks very well done. It might be $2k+ worth if it plays and sounds good.
Knew about the Dylan Fender XII sale. I'm blown away Synthaxes now fetch that much. The L-7 is really very pretty. My guess is $40-50k on the Gibson Skylark. Here in Indy, it's pronounced "Err-say". It's a small point of local pride that Gilmour's guitar is in town.
This awesome. So many times I've seen gear listings on Kijiji where I've had to resist messaging the seller "Are you crazy asking that much? Did you even research what you're selling?" Thankfully I know better to resist that urge though I often wonder if these sellers are truly perplexed why no one is making any serious offers.
I paid $6,000US for a 12-string Chapman Stick, and i flew to America and picked it up from him at his home, it had his signature both engraved and in Sharpie pen. Since Mr Chapman has now passed away last year, I’m accepting offers over $25,000.
Really.
Beautiful instrument, Tony Levins work with King Crimson introduced me to that. Good luck with your sale.
If memory serves me well, I think that the Futurama was one of the strange Strat copies that George Harrison played in the very early Liverpool days of the Beatles... not that any of those (other then hispersonal one) would now be worth anywhere near $70k. But it wasn't that much of an oddity.
Nice shout-out to Roy "Future man" Wooten! The Wooten brothers are iconic.
Isnt Cobains Unplugged Acoustic the most expensive?
It is lmao it sold for $6 million
I always get a kick out of the memorabilia stores in Las Vegas that have framed autographed guitars by famous musicians selling for crazy money. The funny thing is the guitars themselves are always crap. They’re pawn shop no name guitars or at the absolute best, squires. They never sell framed autographed American made guitars.
They should come up with a rock group,,,, with Ronald mc Donald as front man,,, the hamburgler play lead and rhythm guitar,,, mayor mc cheese on bass and grimes on drums ,,, but have them make up serious songs and music and give them a cool stage act! I’d pay to see something like that!
Why not? You ever see Kiss,,, or bucket head! Alice cooper,,, twisted sister,,,it’s time for a new one-- system of the clown!🤣Hungry clown posse! They could throw cheese burgers and condiment packets into audience! If any body has the chicken mc nugget’s to carry this out !,,, don’t forget where you got the idea from! Gotta go now for some reason I got a hankerin for a cheeseburger 🍔🎸😂!
I'll never forget a Reverb listing for a used Fender Pro Jr, the 15 watt 10" speaker tube combo from the late 2000's that was once Noel Gallagher's. On a good day, a used one is about $350 USD. The asking price was something like $3000! I'm a huge Noel fan, but a generic Mexican made Fender tube combo does not magically increase in value just because it was his home practice amp. Maybe a $500 premium on top of the normal used price because of that novelty, but certainly not boutique amp price, that's for damn sure!
I kind of agree, but the strat owned by Dave Gilmour magically increased to just shy of 4 million, solely because he played it, so maybe an Oasis fan might like it. Or Liam may want to buy it so he can smash it up. Who knows?
@@castleanthrax1833 I say this as a massive Noel fan, but comparing his playing and home practice amp that as far as I know, that was never recorded on any legendary Oasis(or NGHFB) songs, or toured with, to David Gilmour, his legendary playing and guitar that has recorded many iconic Floyd songs and been played and toured around the world on many a stage, is beyond apples to oranges. Still having said that, I too think $4 million is an insane price to pay for that "mystique"!
@@msmoniz I wasn't comparing them. I was just pointing out that items do "magically" increase in value, depending on who has owned and played them in the past.
"Predicted to sell soon." Predicted to be mocked til the end of dhogg dhoo itself. Ha Ha Ha.
When you make a chariry buy like that Gilmour guitar, how much money goes toward the purchase and how much is considered tax deductible? It's essentially a donation right?
The guitar (or whatever) is donated by the previous owner, so aside from whatever fees the auction house takes, it all goes to the charity. My guess is that the previous owner and not the new owner gets the tax credit for the donation, though, since nominally the new owner bought it for "fair market value".
THANK GOD I’m so glad you said “you probably wouldn’t have to spend more than $3000k on a guitar” I was thinking thee exact same thing to myself throughout the entire video. The thing is under $1k you have so many decent guitars to buy and play and $3k well that should be anyones line because a guitar as such should look and play like a pretty prestigious guitar.
Three thousand thousand
The only stupidity is when somebody buys something like one of these thinking they are going to sound better playing it.
Have you ever heard the Black Sabbath cover band Mac Sabbath? Without giving too much away... they might be interested in the french fry guitar....
10:50 Hey, the Epiphone Negative series! I have the SG myself, bought it for a much more reasonable price of £260 (kinda suprised one of those Long & McQuade exclusive models made it over to England). A friend has the Explorer version too (hi Jen!)
Trogly has a Les Paul with an explorer headstock for a 100grand. Like even if I was rich you could buy custom shop guitars from all the big guitar makers and still have some cash leftover. I just don’t see spending the money a house costs on a guitar.
Ren Ferguson was the master luthier for Gibson that started the acoustic line in Bozeman Mt. A Ren Ferguson guitar is the highest tier custom shop.
9:07 As they say "If you have to ask for the price, you can't afford it!"
When I saw the first one I immediately thought "When the wife tells you to sell the guitar but you want to keep it."
The Bolin french fry guitar is made by John Bolin He makes all of ZZs custom touring guitars like the fur guitar the peelers etc he's a highly sought after builder
Dylan played that 12 string for the recording sessions of blonde on blonde, but I’m not sure any track where he’s playing it made it onto the record
My Les Paul is the most expensive guitar I own. Paid just under $6000.00 for it over 15 years ago. It's worth at least double that today I'm this market. But my favorite most customized guitar is my '89 Fender Stratocaster. Has two invaders with a Mightymite Motherbucker in-between them. Wired with a Killswitch similar to Tom Morello's guitars. Routed for a Floyd Rose tremolo with green noiseless springs with a solid brass block. I'm wiring green LED lights into the fretboard for the dot inlays. The parts alone cost 5 X's the price of the guitar brand new... But it was my first electric. I'll never get rid of it! Had it since I was 6 years old! I'm now 33.
There are suckers born every minute. My brother once sold a grilled cheese sandwich on EBay for $200 because he said it had the image of Jesus on it after he grilled it. It sort of did, if you squinted and used your imagination; but it was enough to sell it to some sucker who was absolutely thrilled to get it. Go figure.
The Joker guitar was actually made for J. J. Cale. Also known as John Cale to people personally. Not the Welsh John Cale OBE from Velvet Underground, as mentioned in the video.
If you look at photos of J. J.’s guitars, you can clearly see this is his control setup, and was specifically made for his needs.
Edit: Also, the craftsmanship on that guitar is insane. The swappable pickups were ahead of it’s time.
Fun video, funnier pronunciation of names.
3:14 The "Bizet" from 'The Joker' guitar is the French Romantic-era composer Georges Bizet -- so silent 'T'.
11:11 Jim Irsay = 'Ear' + 'Say' -- I grew just outside of Indianapolis.
Blonde on Blonde is a masterpiece!!!
That joker guitar actually looked like quite a nice instrument
I love that the first video in recommendations for this is "Musician? Here's 13 ways to avoid crushing debt"
Had an opportunity to purchase a Jackson Zoraxe guitar around 10-15 years ago on Ebay. Completely hand carved and painted. Custom case. Never played. Just a gorgeous instrument! Looked like a skeletonized mutant fish creature...very cool. Had to have it!!
The seller didn't play so I guess he was just trying to get what he could out of it...he had won it in some raffle. He was only asking US$3,500.This was a fantastic deal as there were only 6 ever made. But I could only come up with $2,500. Got him down to $3,000 eventually, but still $500 short. I'm a huge fan of Jackson guitars anyway...broke my heart that it got away. It sold for the $3,00 that day. He prolly could've gotten a good bit more than that...
I actually saw one of them for sale at Ed Roman Guitars a while ago for like $12,500.
"Big Mac Gobbler"🤣😂 LOL... BTW: Ren Ferguson was a Master Builder in Bozeman, Montana, at the Gibson Acoustic Shop. He moved to California to work at Guild Guitars.
I would not have been surprised, if the French Fries Axe was owned (and played) by Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick. (I never was too interested in their music, but I'd sure like to see his collection of weird guitars...)
Wait.
Kid Rock has a guitar?
Maybe my dog also needs a signature guitar.
Both ideas equally useless.
New to this channel, so i have no idea if you've covered it or not. But about 10 years back, i believe it was on andertons website. It was a fender jaguar, but made from wood from an actual jaguar car (cant remember which one) and it was up for sale for £40,000. Always just remember it being absolutrly ludicrous money
Didn’t know how much I needed Sammy G playing the lick on a clarinet until this moment ❤
Mac sabbath needs that French fry guitar lol
That flesh guitar was actually sick, I'd love to have that on my shelf!
I read this comment before getting to that point in the video and when I read "Flesh Guitar" I was somehow hoping that it would be the "Man Guitar"-prop from "From Dusk Till Dawn".
Last year, I blew more than my monthly salary on a guitar that I saw on TV in 1993 and which made me wanna play the instrument in the first place. My 14 years old self would be ecstatic.
Which guitar?
@@ettat.3806 This one. A Blade RH 4. ua-cam.com/video/0rc0PwPTCx4/v-deo.html
Futur-am-ah is the first time I've really seen your Canadian come through
Edit: also Joe bona-mass-ah
I think the "expected to sell soon" is just something reverb adds regardless. Saw that on a "custom steampunk Jackson neck" which was just a neck where the headstock broke in half and was fixed with a strip of metal and 2 screws and then someone held a lighter to it to add burn marks bc i guess that's steam punk?
"we got a block of text that is as long as Homer's Odyssey" why is this such a good joke
Here’s a great guitar story. In 1982 mybrother in law was working as a service and installation tech for Southwestern Bell telephone (now AT&T) one summer day in he was given a work order
You have the best merch. Aesthetic is on point, and fits your branding super well.
I just bought an Abasi Concepts Space Tele....I'm kinda freaking out how much it was. Next to my car and computer, it's the most expensive things I've ever purchased.
So what’s the best Guitar kit for a beginner I want to play but do I have to learn how to read music
Great vid, you should make a video on people trying to get ridiculous prices on squires. For some reason there is not a difference between MIMS ,American Fenders and off brands, as long as it has a Stratocaster style body. .
I’m happy with any guitar that stays in tune...
Re most of these... the phrase "A fool and his money are soon parted" springs readily to mind
Henri Selmer immortal God of woodwinds and patron Saint of mythbusters is maybe the coolest thing to come out of this video.
Jump on Amazon, there’s a pick guard with pickups and volume knobs for $25,000…. I can’t figure out why🤔
I still need you to review New Complexity for your weird guitars series!!
10:08 That thing reminds me of the claymation art style of The Neverhood
You definitely need to invest in a hollowbody jazzbox... I recommend Godin, for bang for the buck... they made me a believe in laminate tops... great acoustic sound and volume, and a choice of P90s, or humbuckers...
The Joker.THE Guitar! is still available. And still predicted to sell soon.
Also I am sure whoever bought the steel lap guitar on Ebay was prob in the UK (Price shows as British Pounds) And thus did not pay stupid amounts for shipping.
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1:54 that must be one of the saddest licks I've ever heard
1:41 I thought it would result in an assassin weapon of some sort. And it kinda did
Wasn't Cobain's Martin sold at an auction for $6m?
NO joke. Hearing those dry ass cork connections on the Clarinet gave me chills.
It's important to remember that when the historical guitars (those super rare or owned by legend players) get sold, it's best that they go to people with the means to preserve them. It's kind of like, would you like some priceless art pieces hung in an art museum or would you like Bob from down the street to put it in his basement next to the sump pump?
Jim Irsay, for example, is a big rock n roll guy, plenty of money, and takes the preservation of music history very seriously. I trust him to maintain that guitar.
I think that beautiful description alone is worth 1.3 mil lol