Claptons 1954 strat on the auction block $1.5M est

[judson]

 

[JTM45]

That’s a cool guitar but man, thats a big number

 

[Guy Named Sue]

Well gee, won't you just give me a few months? I need to set up shop and sell loads of cheesesteak sammiches here so I can buy that thang!

 

[BDW60]

I’ll take a plain ole Strat and 1.4999999999999 million bucks

 

[DavGrape]

Hilarious with a wah.
Does sound especially strat-like.

 

[fleahead]

Christ, I had a friend in the'80s who bought one of Hendrix's Strats for a mere $13K... wonder what THAT would go for now?

 

[judson]

Christ, I had a friend in the'80s who bought one of Hendrix's Strats for a mere $13K... wonder what THAT would go for now?

they advertise on their first page a Guild Starfire of Hendrix sold for $250k and they have a Melody Maker of his up in the same clapton auction now....min bid on that is $10k....they got alot of stuff ....

but i will be surprised if the clapton 54 gets the starting min bid of $1M, the first sucker paid $1M that owns it now and is trying to unload it.....well maybe he needed a big tax write off ....which is good and the charity got the cash but now....it probably wont hit that......i believe it was when clapton gave a bunch of guitars away to raise money for some charity...i think they mentioned that

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[pmonk]

Is it me or does the video show Clapton playing large headstock 70's era Strat?

 

[GySgtFTL]

And I could make it sound as bad as the cheapest squire.

 

[strayedstrater]

Is it me or does the video show Clapton playing large headstock 70's era Strat?

Yep, there is a brief clip showing Clapton playing a post '72 Strat. I have no idea when or why he was playing that, but the big head bullet truss rod wasn't a guitar he regularly used.

Just a screw up by whoever produced the vid.

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

Didn't GC make a few "Brownie" reissues?

This is the Layla guitar, right?

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

Yep, there is a brief clip showing Clapton playing a post '72 Strat. I have no idea when or why he was playing that, but the big head bullet truss rod wasn't a guitar he regularly used.

Just a screw up by whoever produced the vid.

Maybe at G. Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, or something with Harrison? After going solo Harrison played contemporary 3-bolt, large head Strats. Maybe Clapton played one of Harrison's for shits and giggles.

 

[strayedstrater]

Didn't GC make a few "Brownie" reissues?

This is the Layla guitar, right?

Brownie was the Layla guitar. Clapton auctioned it off in '99. Paul Allen bought it and it's on display at his Experience Music Project museum in Seattle.

GC bought Blackie at the Crossroads '04 Auction and has it on display at their Times Square store. They also bought his red 335 and Stevie Ray's Lenny Strat at that auction, and commissioned Fender and Gibson to build limited batches of all three.

Brownie and then Blackie were his main Strats. He had the guitar in this auction at the same time. It toured with his main guitars so it saw significant use, but only for slide in open G for the songs Tulsa Time and Early In The Morning. So, "significant" but not really "legendary".

The auction house calling it the "Slowhand Strat" is a little misleading. It wasn't used on his "Slowhand" album -- Tulsa Time and Early In The Morning were on his next album, "Backless". And Blackie was the main Strat on both those albums (and he posed with Blackie for the cover photos on both albums).

 

[strayedstrater]

Maybe at G. Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, or something with Harrison? After going solo Harrison played contemporary 3-bolt, large head Strats. Maybe Clapton played one of Harrison's for shits and giggles.

Concert for Bangladesh was August '71, so before Fender switched to bullet truss rods on Strats. And Clapton still had very long hair and no beard for Bangladesh.

His coiffure in the clip with the post'72 Strat suggests late '70s early '80s.

 

[strayedstrater]

Maybe at G. Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, or something with Harrison? After going solo Harrison played contemporary 3-bolt, large head Strats. Maybe Clapton played one of Harrison's for shits and giggles.

George only did two solo tours. Dark Horse in '74 were all pre-CBS Strats, and the small Japanese tour in '91 was post-CBS FMIC small head Strats (and Teles).

 

[Peter777]

George only used Strat 91. He did not use Tele.
What he used was in electric guitars:
Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Edition 1987 ( red)
Gisbson Les Paul 1960
A 12 String Fender that looks like a Strat.
Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster no 6 From Fritz Brothers.
The RoyBuchanan Bluesmaster no 6 Looks a Little bit like a tele but is as far from it as possible. It has 3 single coils, 7 Switches ( Strat 5) and on the tone control you could push it outwards and put it in the guitar sound you wanted. You could have Stratocaster sound, Gibson Les Paul sound or any kind of guitar sound. This was a very very special guitar. The Fritz Brothers who make this guitar do all guitars on request. Fritz Brothers are completely independent.
Sad to say on a Gibson Les Paul page but George Harrison favourite guitar from 1958 till he died was the Fender Stratocaster.

 

[strayedstrater]

BTW, bidding ended 12/5/20 and as several of us predicted it was overpriced at its $1,000,000 opening price and went unsold with zero bids.

Lot Detail - Eric Clapton’s Historic Owned, Stage and Studio Used “Slowhand” 1954 Fender Stratocaster Guitar

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