[kj] Geordies guitar?

[Tabazan]

I'm pretty sure that this isn't knocked off as they're a pretty big name in
the UK vintage guitar scene
On May 14, 2012 10:15 PM, "TB" <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:


> Carlos Fandango wrote:

>

>

> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GIBSON-ES295-EX-GEORDIE-WALKER-KILLING-JOKE-YES-REALLY-1953-/390419342209?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitar

> s_CV&hash=item5ae6ce6381

>

> +++++++++++++++++++

>

> Love the obligatory "RIP - PVR" in the description as if a shout out to

> Raven gives the auction more legitimacy.

>

> My gut feeling is either the guitar never belonged to Geordie and is being

> paired with a "Killing Joke" road case to pad the

> believability factor or it is indeed *one* of Geordie's ES295's but this

> one has deteriorated to such a state it's no longer

> playable to a reliable degree and he's just unloading it. Or it could be

> stolen.

>

> I remember finding Brian James old Vox amp (verified through the amp's

> serial number) that he used to record the first Lords Of The

> New Church album in '82 at a local Guitar Center around 2004 in their used

> section.  Brian told me through his manager (at the time)

> that it had been stolen in LA around '83 but he couldn't afford to go

> through the US/UK legal hoops to reclaim it and have it

> shipped back to the UK so someone wound up buying it.

>

> T.B.

>

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