Re: (TV) Verlaine's Guitar

["Michael Carlucci" <michael@recordsnyc.com>]

    I need comment on this sad fate of guitars hanging on the "Halls Of
Shame". When Patti and her family first moved here she was just starting to
feel her way around old familiar territory. Jackson comes in one day to work
and announces that his mom was going to be giving Fred "Sonic" Smith's
infamous Mosrite guitar to either the Hard Rock Cafe or some other bogus
Hall of Shame mogul. Jackson still had not found the respect for his dad's
playing, so Alex and I pleaded with him to tell his mom that he wanted the
guitar for himself even if he didn't really. If he didn't ask for it he
would one day regret it. So he did and now can enjoy it. Can you imagine if
she had done that? Patti wanted to keep his name alive and thought that this
might be one way to insure that.

    On another story, Mick Taylor of Stones fame use tolive next door to our
shop. In the late 80's Gibson offered him 2 guitars. One was free of charge
with the stipulation that he use it on one performance and then turn it over
to the Hard Rock Cafe, the 2nd guitar he could have @ 60% of cost. Needless
to say he was insulted and didn't follow thru. Not to mention that at that
time Gibson was making the worst guitars of their entire history. One good
smack on the neck and it would literally crack in half. It seemed as though
they were made out of balsa wood.

    What a poor excuse for a museum the H R C is. As if they could care less
about the artists and their integrity. I have yet to step foot into one, God
forgive me if ever I should. M T C

    

> From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:26:37 -0500 (EST)
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Cc: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: RE: (TV) Verlaine's Guitar
> 
> Howard Webb <howard@lasercomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> My dear father, seeing my obvious distress about wanting the Verlaine
>> guitar, actually offered to lend me the money from his savings to buy this
>> guitar!
>> After some thought I declined.
> 
> Please have your dad call me :)
> 
> I'd actually be a bit sad if this guitar ended up on the wall of a
> museum or even worse, something like the Hard Rock Cafe.  The best
> guitars are tools first and works of art second.
> 
> For years and years, Buddy Holly's family kept his room the way it was
> when he died.  His guitar was there, and anyone who visited and asked to
> play it was allowed to.  I love that story...
> 
> 
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