Mary Ford's SG on Pawn Stars!

BoringPostcards · Post by **BoringPostcards** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:56 pm

pumpkin wrote:

ha haha

Such a beautiful Les Paul SG. How in the hell does that vibrato work??

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:08 pm

pumpkin wrote: I have told this story before, an ex of mine was a the restaurant manager at the Hard Rock in New Orleans. We had just moved in together and I went to pick her up, this is late 1999, I see on the wall above the bar a green comp Fender Mustang. I asked her about it and she said "oh that was Kurt Cobain's". I immediately lost my shit. She got it down for me and I held it, the strings were like cheese wire. It had a mount drilled into the back of it so they could hang it on the wall. To me that was just sad. I mean this WAS the Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar, it was in the video.

A week later, it was my birthday as a surprise she brought it home for me to play for the evening. She made some excuse at work and brought it back to out apartment. I am a righty, it was a lefty but I felt it deserved better care than how it was being treated. I re-strung it, set it up as a lefty, I played it a bit trying to reverse the chords and recored some stuff on it on my four track. I invited a lefty guitar play I knew over to jam and let him play it, only after telling him who it belonged to. We both geeked out on it and the next day it went back to the Hard Rock Cafe.

This same guitar is now behind glass at the Seattle's Experience Music Project, not being played. It is silent and aging. I found out years later that Kurt recorded Nevermind on that guitar, and I got to play it. it is a story I will tell my grand children.

Yun?

I do remember reading this before. Ya kept the strings too.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:09 pm

Who was it that used to exchange email with Dave Grohl? Was it Robert?

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:19 am

ZenJenga wrote:
pumpkin wrote:
ha haha

Such a beautiful Les Paul SG. How in the hell does that vibrato work??

You pull on it right to left, not up and down, I ntried one once, kinda akward but maybe it was because i was used to pulling up and down?

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:20 am

I did, I still have them somewhere... must find them

Joey wrote:
pumpkin wrote: I have told this story before, an ex of mine was a the restaurant manager at the Hard Rock in New Orleans. We had just moved in together and I went to pick her up, this is late 1999, I see on the wall above the bar a green comp Fender Mustang. I asked her about it and she said "oh that was Kurt Cobain's". I immediately lost my shit. She got it down for me and I held it, the strings were like cheese wire. It had a mount drilled into the back of it so they could hang it on the wall. To me that was just sad. I mean this WAS the Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar, it was in the video.

A week later, it was my birthday as a surprise she brought it home for me to play for the evening. She made some excuse at work and brought it back to out apartment. I am a righty, it was a lefty but I felt it deserved better care than how it was being treated. I re-strung it, set it up as a lefty, I played it a bit trying to reverse the chords and recored some stuff on it on my four track. I invited a lefty guitar play I knew over to jam and let him play it, only after telling him who it belonged to. We both geeked out on it and the next day it went back to the Hard Rock Cafe.

This same guitar is now behind glass at the Seattle's Experience Music Project, not being played. It is silent and aging. I found out years later that Kurt recorded Nevermind on that guitar, and I got to play it. it is a story I will tell my grand children.
Yun?

I do remember reading this before. Ya kept the strings too.