Thanks fagan. Itâs an interesting and sad in most ways tale, the rise and fall of the Catholic church in Ireland.
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Didnât age well
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I love reading about guitars. I knew this already, but itâs cool.in a way. The greatest guitar of all time was a broken second hand gretsch hand me down.
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Mark Knopfler has a sale of guitars in Christies soon I think. Some are pretty reasonable at reserve (low 4 figures) but that may change once bidding opens. But as a long term investment there has been serious appreciation in price of vintage instruments.
David Gilmourâs Black Strat sold for 4 million at auction back a few years ago
Among his many Pensa-Suhr guitars, Knopfler has a blue custom model that Iâd give my right ball for. A beautiful creation.
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Knopflers sale is done. Guess who by a million miles owned the top two selling guitars of all time without googling.
Jimmy Page?
Kim Thayil tells a story of when Soundgarden came off tour all their gear was dropped into a lock up somewhere. Wanting to pick up some of his guitars he followed the truck and when they were unloaded he realised he couldnât tell which was his or which were belonging to Chris. So he toddled off and said heâs come back in a week or two and let Chris figure which was which.
He came back anyway and all the guitars were gone. What the fuck happened he asked me man working in the warehouse.
Oh Chris was in yesterday and couldnât figure out which was his so he took them all.
I heard this before so I wonât jump in but safe to say he doesnât own them anymore
I was always fascinated by this
Do you play the guitar flatty?
I googled and would never have guessed the answerâŚ
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No, nowhere hear, nor Hendrix
I do, badly, I love them though. I have a few. I mostly play a Patrick James Eggle cream T bangers and mash now.
I dont really like Stratocasters and I donât like whammy bars mainly because Iâm not good enough to use them.
Guitars are like hurls, they are works of art when made well. They donât need to be that expensive anymore.
If I could own one guitar ever, it would be Malcolm Youngâs Gretsch. It is absolutely iconic. I wouldnât play it though, itâd be on the wall in a case.
The other bit of rock memorabilia I would love is this, which is apparently on the wall in a record studio down in London somewhere
That, and something signed by Ian Curtis
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Are electric guitars not just planks of wood with electrical coils?
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Isnât the roof of the Sistine chapel only plaster with a bit of colouring in?
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