A cannon of an acoustic guitar is this vintage 1968 Gibson J-200 in tobacco sunburst. The opening bid is set at $10,000, but I suspect it may go for more than that so you’d better start saving your pennies. Such guitars were played by Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and many others. This Gibson J-200 is going to be auctioned off on Februby Heritage Auctions. SJ-200 Standard Acoustic-Electric Guitar Specifications: Body type: Super Jumbo Cutaway: No Top wood: Sitka spruce Back and sides: Maple Bracing pattern. Neither pickguard is original and I suspect the guitar has been refinished.
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The guitar body itself looks like it has seen better days, but that is to be expected from an instrument that has spent a lot of its life in a honky-tonk.
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I like the way that Bigsby used both his name and the Gibson inlay from the original headstock. (Here’s a great clip of Deke Dickerson playing Lefty Frizzell’s Bigsby-necked J-200.) Like most of the other renecked acoustics, this J-200 this neck is made of maple, very fancy maple in this case, topped with the distinctive Bigsby headstock. The guitar, (bought in Scotty Moore’s name in early October of 1956), was the one Elvis relied on for his legendary ’69 Comeback shows in Las Vegas. Under its more familiar name, the J-200 or SJ-200, it remains today a badge. Elvis Presley’s strikingly customized 1956 Gibson J-200 was among the oldest guitars in permanent residence at Graceland and regularly acknowledged as one of the King’s extreme favorites. Like many of his more famous country music friends, Dewey Groom had Paul Bigsby make a new neck for his acoustic guitar. As I said I cannot think of any Gibson guitar that has increased since the 80s. By all accounts the show was a mess but you can judge for yourself, The entire 37-minute set was filmed for posterity.Īnyway, back to the guitar. Yep, the Sex Pistols played the Longhorn during their brief tour of America. On January 10, 1978, the Longhorn entered rock history when Groom booked a certain band from England. Groom’ and his band The Longhorns were regular performers there as were stars like Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Ray Price, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Dewey Groom then bought the dance hall, which had been renamed the Longhorn Ballroom some time in the past. The current J-200 includes modern electronics to complement the classic shape and style that has earned this guitar a reputation as 'the King of the Flattops.
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In the later 1950s, after Bob Wills had moved to California, the club was leased to Jack Ruby, the man who later shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. The Longhorn Ballroom started its life in the early 1950s as Bob Wills’ Ranch House, the Texas headquarters of the famed western swing pioneer.