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And they find the guitar in the attic of this guitar shop on like 32nd Street or something, and then John says to Rory: ‘Look man, they’ll try to pull something here because you’re foreign… I’ll take the guitar over – how much do you want to pay for it?’ And Rory says: ‘I don’t know, $50?’ ‘Right, we’ll get it for $50’. “So he met up with him, and John tells this lovely story about how they met for the first time and then went guitar shopping in New York in 1969. And he asked Clapton if he knew anywhere in New York where he could one of these guitars, and Clapton tells him to speak to this guy, John Hammond Jr, the blues player. “I remember hearing the story of how he was on the Blind Faith tour in New York, and he wanted a particular guitar, an old Kay I think, because he’d seen Lonnie Johnson playing one on an album cover. And so he would say: ‘Well I’ve got to get that, because that makes a great blues sound,’ rather than a luxury Les Paul or whatever. “And they would play cheaper guitars, because that’s what they could afford. “Rory loved collecting blues memorabilia – vinyl, posters, photographs – and he was fascinated by what the old blues guys would play,” Daniel explains. So much of Rory’s collection is taken up with these unusual guitars that weren’t exactly trendy at the time, and a lot of it comes back to his deep love of blues and blues history. “He’d be looking at the Nationals, the Teiscos, the Silvertones, asking ‘What’s that? What does it sound like? Can I break the tremolo arm off it?’” “If he was here now, he’d be ignoring all that,” he continues, gesturing to the wall of old Gibsons and Fenders in New King’s Road Vintage Guitar Emporium. He wouldn’t be interested in buying that year’s new Strat or whatever. “When he was on the road, especially in America, he would just go into pawn shops and buy loads of Kays, Harmonys, Tokais and Teiscos. “I feel like this is another one of those guitars where he saw it and thought, ‘That’s mad, nobody else is playing one, I’ll take it!’ And it probably only cost him a couple of hundred dollars, if that! “This is such a mad thing! It’s so cool – it’s got a handle, nobody needs a handle!” Daniel Gallagher – Rory’s nephew – laughs. The Japanese budget brand might have been recently reborn as a maker of oddball effects, but during the mid 1960s, it was bringing its eccentric design approach to guitars such as this offset. Vintage Teisco Del Rey EP-200B Short Scale Hollow-Body Bass MIJ - $500 (Pocatello)Our final leftfield electric comes from Teisco.
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Made in Japan.This is in great condition and plays well but does show signs of its age - including some paint blemishes and buckle rash as shown in the pictures.Everything is original with th. This is a rare Teisco DelRey EP-200B short scale (29.5") hollow body bass guitar from 1966.
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Springville Music Center 56 East Main St. VINTAGE TEISCO DEL REY ET-460 K4L SHARKFIN GUITAR YELLOW REFIN - $499 (SPRINGVILLE MUSIC CENTER).It has both a new pickguard with four modern single coil pickups and new controls and the original pickguard, pickups and controls. This is a restored Teisco Del Rey ET 440 from the 1960s as best as I can tell. Vintage Teisco Del Rey ET 440 - $149 (Downtown Anchorage).These cool old Teiscos are fun little collector's items these days. Really nice condition for its age (probably produced circa 1967 or so). Vintage Teisco Del Rey with Case - electric guitar - $350 (Stevens Point)įor Sale: Vintage Teisco Del Rey ET 200 with case - the classic "tulip" - sunburst pattern, floral pick guard, and the harder to find stock whammy bar.