'68 SG STANDARD Maestro Lira Vibrola, Cherry Red No Volute. EXC OHC code GI117

Rosewood fingerboard, mahogany body and in late 1968 a three piece mahogany neck production begins like this SG to become a definitive feature in the 1969 catalog. This SG Standard has the numbering, pots, dot on the Gibson "i" which confirms its dating still a late 68', Trapazoid Inlays, Kluson Keystone Deluxe Gears, Large Guard, Dual Patent Number Black Sticker Humbuckers. 80% original frets ready to play with a  low action, Chrome Hardware, Long Maestro Lyre Vibrato Tailpiece, 3 Way Toggle Selector Switch, Witch Hat Knobs. Very little ding&dong, some light and not annoying signs of wear of the fingers on the fingerboard as you see in photo. Comes in Original Gibson yellow hard case.

19 dicembre 2004, Domenica (articolo di RENATO TORTAROLO)

At Christie's, the ex Beatle's Gibson beats Presley, Britney Spears and Rolling Stones Harrison, auction follies. His guitar sold for $500,000

The Gibson S-G played by Harrison on "Revolver"

The Gibson S-G was used by Harrison in '66 to record "Revolver" and three years later by John Lennon for "White Album". An unsold guitar by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones: too much for the 400,000 dollars asked for If rock heaven comes at a price, George Harrison has to fly in first class clouds. His Gibson S-G guitar, played in 1966 for the recording of the album "Revolver", was sold last Friday at Christie's, in New York, for 567,000 dollars, at the exchange rate, 426,000 euros. No one had ever paid that much for a rock relic. But that flash of red, with tips resembling a devil's horns, wasn't just used by the mystic George. The fraternity devoted to the Beatles, as a documentary recalls, knows very well that the Gibson was also used by John Lennon to record another historic record: "White Album". There was enough to go crazy. And so it was. Now fans of the mystic George and the Hamlet-like John are celebrating twice: not only has that red Gibson become the Van Gogh of rock auctions, but he's also beaten two hated enemies. such as Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley. Richards' guitar, a Gibson played in '64, remained unsold. The 400,000 dollars asked to enter his sulphurous and diabolical world was too much. draft in Germany. Just on the day Presley's memory was sold by his daughter Lisa Marie for 100,000 dollars, no one deigned to shell out, only 15,000 to keep the precious overcoat. However, the king made up for it with a beaten cream jacket for 35,000 dollars. Not much stuff for Britney Spears: only 1,928 dollars for her English class assignment, branded at the time by the teacher as "chaotic". And the Jimi Hendrix icon fails to break into the souvenir market: only $598 for a 1961 student photo of him. While an Elton Jobn jacket, estimated at 4,000 dollars, only earned 1,016. But why does music go to auction? "Rock & Roll and Entertainment Memorabilia", in truth, was not dedicated only to popular music, but also to cinema: from Orson Welles to the contracts signed by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jn and the other Stars of "Ocean's 11”, then remade by the pair George Clooney-Brad Pitt. Not to mention clips from Marilyn Monroe films and Francio Ford Coppola's “Apocalypse Now”. But when you enter the world of rock, often indecipherable mechanisms are triggered. Paradoxically, in the digital age that everything reproduces the sign of the past can trigger emotion or burn it into nothingness. In the case of the $500,000 guitar, the passion was even burning. It wasn't the only Beatles memorabilia, indeed a Grammy given to Lennon for "Michelle" was sold for 35 thousand dollars But, that guitar was irrefutable proof, the source, of the Beatles' music. It was simply born from those strings. Not only was it played by Harrison in the recording of an album like "Revolver", which contains classics like "Taxman" and "Eleanor Rigby", but it was also used in the promotional films of "Paperback Writer" and "Rain". Three years later, in '69, Lennon used it to record the songs of the "White Album", the Beatles' most complex and mysterious work. Thus, while dvd and i.pod multiply the frontier of popular music, with an infinite geometric capacity to understand. all that can be heard, the past hangs on an autograph, a coat, a guitar. And mystic George has done it again.