Philadelphia guitar show, it's packed! Everybody's looking for cool gear. There's everything you can name.

Vintage acoustic, electric, Gibson, Fender... everything! You've got to be [Music] here. You never know what you can find.

Here, right? You could just walk in and find the coolest guitar you could ever [Music] imagine.

Best guitars! We've got a new edition. We're here at the Philly show, fall 2024. Mike, my good buddy Luigi over here, man, been with us for a long time. Good

buddy. Anyway, we just got this. It's a '64-'65 wide neck, wide neck, nickel parts, Lyre tailpiece.

335. We've got the tuners. Just got it. This came in at the show. Got the booklet, got the

tags, humbucker adjustment... and I don't know what this is... the chemically treated instrument polishing cloth. Oh, you know, it's

good. Then yeah, that's why it's nice and clean. You know, it's pristine, but typically, you know, it's not the clamping model, but

it's close. It's pretty close. Like you can put the stud in there and not use this, and you know, it's a great playing

guitar. Very cool. Still has its nylon saddles. Yeah, a lot of cool features on that guitar. Nickel hardware because

right at the end of '65, the nut changes to the thin nut, and we don't like

that. Not with these hands. Yeah, it doesn't fit my hands. What else we got?

Mike, '54 Strat. All original, nice.  At the game center pocket, tweed case with all the fixings in

it. So this is the first year for the Strat. This is like late '54, mint, but yeah, still really cool. All

the bakelite intact. Just call up Eric Johnson. Yeah, Eric Johnson. Then here, this... this talked about this one before. Yeah, we've talked about

It's a Nocaster, Blackguard Tele. Hold on, these are really cool. One, yeah, this is the Nocaster. We've talked

about this guitar before. It was a Broadcaster until he got sued; they made him change and take the Broadcaster off the

Nocaster. We didn't show the case last [Music] time. Should we show the new edition? You

know, we love the conversions. This is a '55 conversion. Look at how cool that is. Okay, gold top. I mean, got the PAFs, right?

Dad, yeah. This is a '55 that PAFs were put in, and uh, it's an old refin, but it

started to check. If you could see the check, that's a good carve, too. Yeah, and man, I I've been playing this one and

it smokes. Yeah, I mean, unbelievable sound, right? Amazing. What a, with a real PAF in there. Five-latch case in good condition

too. All right, we got a '58. Yeah, this is refinished, right? This has just been refinished by Historic Makeovers, Kim

Lefour, who just passed away. And he was a good buddy, known him many years. He refinished that for me. I I

didn't know he was ill, and our hearts go out to him. We're going to really miss him. Nobody can do a refin like him; he was

fast. Yeah, look at the old tuners. Look at that. Yeah, they're all shrunk. Yeah, those 'mummy tuners.' Yeah, and it only happened

on one side. Weird, strange, but happens. Very wild. Look at that old case. Smoked out. All right, this blonde's what we call 'blonde blonde'.

Extremely rare. They, I don't know how few they made. You know, these are always sunburst, and they make some in blonde.

Pretty guitar. Very pretty, very sought after. Again, it's 1960. Two PAFs. No bigsby. A lot of them had a mix

and the mix ones aren't as desirable as the all-PAF pieces. Very rare guitar, very expensive guitar. A '61.

L5, the one-of-a-kind super Citation. They made it; it's a prototype, and I don't

even know when. In the 70s... a '71 Super 400 custom-made guitar. Yeah, custom-ordered. They have a completely different

configuration than this. So somebody ordered it with, like, the Les Paul switch and a master volume. This is cool, too. Yeah, that was a

1954 F-210 Epiphone. Yeah, all right. We go home on Monday. This is the Humble Pie guitar,

the Steve Marriott one. One of my all-time heroes. I think one of the best singers in the world, and uh, he played one of these and

it... it's... I love the sound. Power chords, man! It's got a nice, loud Marshall stack.

It's nothing like the Coronet. The Coronet came out black in '59 or '58, thick solid body. Then they went to the red double

cut only in '61. This is the Steve Marriott model. Then in late '61, it changes again to have a long and a short horn. So this

is the... the really cool, rare version of the Coronet. It was a student guitar, but it's a rock and

roll guitar. Thank you all so much for watching. That was an awesome show, let me tell you. It is a very unique opportunity to be in

a room with thousands of guitars. Okay, vintage gear. They only come a couple times a year, these

events. You could compare different years, find really rare stuff, and sometimes stuff just walks in. There's guitars that come in from

original owners that are like, 'Hey, what is this?' And it's the first time that anybody's ever seen it, you know,

other than maybe a few close family members of the person that owned that guitar. And you get to see history and people talk

about the history of the guitars. It's really one of the very few opportunities to enjoy something like

This so I hope to see at some more guitar shows instead of going online and looking at them, you get to pick them up.

Hold them and play them. All right. Well, if you want to see more vintage gear, subscribe to Mike Men and Music. Catch

Philadelphia Guitar Show - November 2024

Philadelphia Guitar Show - November 2024