I find this part of the article *interesting*:

@MikeG60 wrote:

I find this part of the article *interesting*:

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The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan plugged in …at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold Friday for nearly $1 million — [em]the highest price ever paid for a guitar at auction.[/em] A buyer …[em]agreed to pay [strong]$965,000,[/strong] including the auction house’s fees,[/em] for the sunburst-finish guitar, Christie’s said. ~~snip~~ [em]The previous record for a guitar sold at auction was held by Eric Clapton’s Fender, nicknamed “Blackie,” which sold at Christie’s for[strong] $959,500 in 2004[/strong].[/em]

Not to get technical, but I will, Dylan’s Strat only fetched $5,500 Dollars more than Eric’s. BUT — that $5,500 is in ‘today’s’ US Dollars and in the last few years the FED Reserve has DEVALUED the dollar – aka: Quantitative Easing – at least Three Times, that I can recall. And ‘we’ have LOST at least 20% – 30% in value thanks to that boneheaded Monetary Policy of Ben Bernake. Which btw, last week he admitted doing it was wrong (Financial Times iirc) — Gee, Thanks for sharing that now Benny baby.

Ergo Claptons’ Srat ‘Blackie’ is still worth more, and would go for than Dylan’s did — or just take 30% off that ‘record’ $959,500 to get $671,650 in 2004 dollars of Clapton’s Strat. And as I recall Blackie was subsequently sold to Guitar Center and then to Fender. The final selling price after all was said and done was [strong]$2,000,000 Dollars[/strong] No one’s guitar will top Blackie in ‘real money’. (IMHO)

NOTE: Not that I have anything against Robert Zimmerman, oops..I mean ‘Bob Dylan’. I actually started liking him when he went Electric and rather enjoyed all the ‘Folksies’ (stinkin’ Hippes) going apoplectic over him ‘plugging in’. And he Rocked with the Traveling Willburys.(dang, I miss them. RIP Roy & George)
thanks so much for the economic lesson i hated yours even more then when i was in school
as for the stinkin hippes eat me!

l

It was the Folkies not the Hippies that turned on him

Bob is easily one of the best song smiths ever. Tunes like “All along the watchtower” and even “Lay Lady Lay” are genius.

try playing as barre chords A, C#m, G, Bm, then A in the open position. What a beautiful chord progression.

Gordon

Too much money for a guitar. I’d buy a fancy car.