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Originally Posted by chiliD
That looks like a '56 Gold Top with P-90 pickups. (I've seen a couple of other photos from that session & that's what he's playing in those)
BTW...somebody wake up B.B. !  |
I think the guitar in the picture is Duster Bennett's famous '52 Gibson Les Paul Gold top. According to Martin Celmins book abour Duster Bennett, the Gold Top was a gift from Peter Green to Duster, who had previously had been given it by Eric Clapton: "
It was half busted" Peter recalls,
"when I got it from Eric. I went to his house in the forest a few times and noticed it there. I think ne of the pick-ups were missing and I said something like ' I could use that to smash up on stage like Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townsend'. So Eric said I could have it. When Duster saw it he said it looked just right for his one-man band act. He liked it so much that I gave it to him and he had it fixed" (Celmins, Jumping at Shadows, 2007, p.193).
So it's a guitar with a lot of history.
Ms Moose