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Have not seen an R9 with top or back grain that matches this one. No idea how the seller settled on this price, BUT….. https://reverb.com/item/101546592-2001-gibson-historic-reissue-lp-r9-coa-custom-shop-aaaaa-monster-top

@donner thanks for sharing these. I think that the tone Bernie gets in the first video makes for the best 2 humbuckers Gibson tone I’ve heard up close. Joe Bona’s LP tone on his Gibson TV episode is similar. It’s just a perfect combination of body, bark, brawn, and bite. I want it.

Congration?

Incredible top and love the crown inlays but not the gold hodware.

I just finished listening to Joe Bona-Mastuh’s Live From Nerdsville podcast interview with Bernie Marsden and have to admit to knowing very little about the guy beforehand. I like to say “I run the risk of learning something every day “. I thought I knew something about most of the late ‘60’s/ early ‘70’s British guitar players, but not Bernie. Consider: In 1974 Bernie bought his esteemed ‘59 Burst (The Beast) from Free’s Paul Kossoff, who got it in a prior trade with Eric Clapton. Bernie was a guitarist for UFO from Nov. ‘72 to June ‘73. When Bernie forgot his passport and couldn’t enter the country for a 1973 UFO gig in Germany in support of the Scorpions, UFO tapped then-Scorpion Michael Schenker to play the gig with them that night. And the rest, as they say, is History! When Deep Purple disintegrated in 1976, Bernie cofounded “PAL” with Ian Paige, Jon Lord and Tony Ashton (I need to check them out). In 1978 Bernie cofounded Whitesnake with David Coverdale. Together they co-wrote the global Whitesnake hit “Here I Go”. Two versions of the song were released on separate Whitesnake albums. The first version (That Bernie played on) appears on the ‘82 album “Saints and Sinners”, but at David Geffen’s urging, Coverdale recorded a second version (the HIT version for the ‘87 album “1987”. This version ( the MTV version) Features Adrian Vadenterd on lead guitar. see below for photos of THE BEAST and a very happy Bernie (guess I’d be happy too if I had a burst and #1 hit! Bernie wrote a biography (Where’s my guitar).which I’ve just received but haven’t started. There were some inexpensive like-new copies are available on eBay for @ $15- delivered. But they now appear to be sold out. You’re welcome.

HO-LY shit. They’re both gorgeous, enjoy them in good health you lucky bastid!

If a shady tree in a forest makes a sound……. Does anyone hear it?

Good lawd @Kerry Marchman, tell us about your Les Paul, IMO the perfect hue of brown sugar. Is it a ‘60 RI ( reflector knobs?). Double dibs.

LZ III got it for XMAS IN ‘69

Surprised this hasn’t sold. Hoping to have a $$ windfall 😂Just curious — this instrument's finish seems too nice to have VOS on it , but I don’t know VOS FROM VO5, so I thought I’d ask. Thanks

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Hamer/?Ns=pHL ‘82 checkerboard Special ( is that a Kahler? $2400 1982 prototype *12 String *! $2300 1988 Cali STD? 2000 1985 SS1, $1800 : finish removed from back of the neck but no funny business at the nut/ peghead kind of an odd, off white Diablo? TJ sez: GO GET EM team!

I’d tap that (and then run away with the Jr.)

It’s raining Cali’s, a standard and an elite, mind blowing flame https://reverb.com/marketplace?product_type=electric-guitars&make=hamer&sort=price_with_sale|desc @Bennyboy-UK: you awake? Whahappen