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Technically it's a Les Paul, they didn't start calling them SGs until the year after I think... when Les took his name off it and decided to call it the SG. No Les Pauls were made between 1963 and 1968.

Apparently it comes with a lot of paperwork detailing Les Paul's tumultuous relationship with Gibson, love to read that.

As I understand it your man, her nephew, brought it in and Pawn Stars were all like “Mary Ford?�. So he took it to Cow Town guitars and they had it for sale at $60,000. A few people played it and then your man from Cow Town called up those Pawn Stars monkeys and they shot the segment with them buying it.

I use to shop at Cowtown guitars all the time (but they were then based in Columbus Ohio). The owner is the rhyhtym guitar player in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band. Eventually sometime after I left Columbus he picked up and moved the shop to Vegas.

I watched the episode .. Pretty cool stuff... Kind of a bummer though that guitar is now in a pawn shop and will soon be bought by some schlep with a shit load of money and never to be seen again.. That thing should be in the Rock and Roll Museum or somewhere it can be on display. To me the episode was kinda bittersweet ..
I actually met Les Paul back in 2001 . He was from Mahwah , NJ and still lived there . He used to go to the local supermarket and buy a 1/2 rotisserie chicken and eat at one of the benches once in a while . You would of never knew who he was at a glance until you chatted with him ( and he was a pleasant old guy I may add ) . Very modest guy .. Seemed like he didn't have a cocky bone in his body for a guy that contributed so much to the music world .

Haha....duanesworld at TGP said:

"deal was semi real. Actually the nephew brought it into the pawn shop ad they said they had no interest. Kinda like Mary who? well he took the guitar over to jesse at cowtown who was more then happy to consign it. He was figuring bout 60k. He then called up the producers of the show and said he had a great piece for the show. So back to pawn stars with the guitar. I was able to play the guitar as was alot of friends down at cow. It was fun to look thru the paper work. and from what Jesse told me, the old man at pawn stars was a huge les paul and Mary Ford fan and thats why they bought it. "

Here is a photo from Cowtown

She's the Mother of Metal?!?!

MERRY FJORD

No, Les Pauls were not made for a few years because of their divorce, not because of issues with Gibson. She was entitled to 50% of his sales... it was to spite his X, not Gibson. But yeh, Les did not take shit from Gibson at all (paperwork to prove it).

I saw this last night and googled it, I haven't watched cable tv in over a year so I thought this was a rerun... I was gonna post this last night but didn't wanna get "that's so last year".

The jack and wood was ripped out the guitar... obvious repair. The back of the guitar was covered with tape, she used to tape the set list to the back of the guitar. The neck had been refretted... everyone believes it was Paul who did the refret.

The guitar appraiser, "acted" surprised. He grabs an amp and does an riff in the middle of the pawn shop. Sucks that the whole thing was "staged".

Every project guitar forum is gonna lite up with these.......

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Sucks it's basically unplayable due to the middle pickup...

Rox wrote:I watched the episode .. Pretty cool stuff... Kind of a bummer though that guitar is now in a pawn shop and will soon be bought by some schlep with a shit load of money and never to be seen again.. That thing should be in the Rock and Roll Museum or somewhere it can be on display. To me the episode was kinda bittersweet.

Les Paul modded the shit out of his guitars. He knew guitars are meant to be played. At least no someone will be playing it

and how do you know that?

Mages wrote:and how do you know that?

because he said it himself, have you seen Chasing Sound!

cobascis wrote:Sucks it's basically unplayable due to the middle pickup...

Whhhhhy?

pumpkin wrote:

Mages wrote:and how do you know that?

because he said it himself, have you seen Chasing Sound!

no, why do you think, "At least no someone will be playing it". I think what rox is trying to say is that it's just going to vanish into some rich asshole's private collection never to be seen again. it's unlikely that it will be bought by a guitar player.

Wow,they really did buy it! It's on Ebay (Link)











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I like this one better.

Mages wrote:

pumpkin wrote:

Mages wrote:and how do you know that?

because he said it himself, have you seen Chasing Sound!

no, why do you think, "At least no someone will be playing it". I think what rox is trying to say is that it's just going to vanish into some rich asshole's private collection never to be seen again. it's unlikely that it will be bought by a guitar player.

I don't see why that is unlikely. You can be wealthy and enjoy playing guitar. Many guitar players are wealthy, maybe Jack Black will buy it, or the Edge. If it's in a museum no one will play it, that's certain.

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.

So yeah, if some rich guy buys Mary's Les Paul custom and the only thing he does is play Thunderstruck on it at least it gets played. It least it's not stuck behnd glass.