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RITCHIE BLACKMORE A 'Distressed' Strat Body (I'm not quite sure
where to start on this, but I'll have a go. It is well known that the
ex-Deep Purple guitarist had a fondness for Strat abuse and then
attempting to brain a member of the public by throwing the remains of
the poor unfortunate guitar out to be ravenously devoured by the
audience. I suppose you had two choices, a lump on the head & coma
or catch the damn thing as it whizzed towards you. One such piece is
this, caught beautifully & without personal injury by a member of the
audience at the aptly named Rainbow Theatre in London on the
'Rainbow Rising' tour, after Ritchie destroyed the guitar he was playing
during the encore & threw the bits into the crowd. I'm kind of
surprised that it's a wobbly three bolt microtilt, but then I don't
suppose you really want to demolish that pre-CBS Strat, do you ? This
piece of volcanic ejectamenta is approximately half of the cream body
of a seventies three bolt neck Strat. By some miracle, the tailpiece,
tremolo arm and the ends of the strings have survived, along with the
ENTIRE leather strap that is bolted to the back & the horn very
securely. Naturally enough, the guitar has split along its weakest
points, these being the routing areas for the pickups [missing],
volume & tone pots [missing] and the neck [missing]. What's kind of
cool is that the entire strap is still attached, all the string tails are still
in the block & the Fender plate with serial number 677923 is still on
the back. This comes with a letter of provenance from the agile
person who actually caught this flying lump of Strat debris, signed and
dated, stating what it is & a copy of the Christies catalogue from 1997
where it was previously marketed, along with the 'Lot 23' tag dated
4th Sept 1997. As a piece of memorabilia, it doesn't come much better
than this. YOU could actually own a piece of the guitar destroyed by
Ritchie Blackmore himself, onstage with Rainbow at The Rainbow, still
fitted with the strings he played during the encore, the tremolo arm he
used and the strap that kept it on his body until such time as he
decided to break it. A fantastic item. A one of a kind, never to be
repeated, offer as this is one of one!)
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