Bloomfield, who was the guitar player in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at that time, and also recorded that band’s debut in ’65 with the same Tele, was a gifted disciple of Chicago blues.
Ms Walker also said that Christie’s auctioneers are “honoured” to be doing the sale, and called it “really important”. There is also a Tele-Gib custom guitar ... used on the Jeff Beck ...
Now the instruments he used to create his iconic sound are going up for auction. Christie’s, the famous auction house in London that is handling the sale, first is putting 90 of the guitars up ...
The guitar, which is featured on the cover of Beck’s Grammy-winning 1975 jazz-fusion album “Blow by Blow,” is expected to sell for between 350,000 pounds and 500,000 pounds ($425,000 and $610,000).
Prince used this teal model from the late 1980s to 1994 when he donated the handmade Cloud guitar to a benefit auction for the Los Angeles Earthquake Relief. Julien’s Auctions estimated the sale price ...