Almost brings me to tears to see Stevie's guitars encased in glass. It's like seeing a 700lb lion at the zoo. It's cool to be that close to it, but you know it just wants to get out and roar.
Are you stoned, stupid or both? What does Jimi Hendrix have to do with this? As I stated, JIMMIE VAUGHAN is alive. Jimmie is Stevie's brother and gave him the guitar that is featured in this video.
Jason Horne are u stoned, who do u think sold the guitar in the first place u idiot lol, jimmy got all of srv,s guitars when he died along with his money u moron, that's why his strat will never be sold as jimmy owns that too
He said that but where did the ark end up? In a warehouse where nobody got to look at it because there were so many crates around. So let Norm fuck around with a million dollar guitar
Norm, this is a guitar that belongs rightfully to Jimmie Vaughan. He has expressed the desire to have it back so the decent thing would be to offer it to the family as a kindness and out of respect for the memory of his late brother. It feels ghoulish that you would exploit the death of Stevie Ray to line your pockets.
The family sold the guitars so they obviously didn't care about anything more than money. If you own a guitar worth that much money your not just gonna gift it because jimi wants the guitar back. If he wants it back he should buy it back. Why should he get it for free?Use your head, if you even have one. 🙄
If it is on display at a museum so that die hard fans of Stevie get to see the legendary guitars live, then I don't have a problem with. The real problem is that this guitar is most likely ending in bloody millionaire's office who doesn't even know how to play a D chord...
I think it would be cool to have people play these relics on special occasions. Why not, we might as well, like Luis 77 said, these rich fucks that own everything anyways just want to hoard all kinds of things.
I wish I was wealthy enough to buy that friggin guitar so I could turn around and hand it to Jimmy Vaughn. He lost his brother and these leeches use that to make themselves a big payday..
Stevie has been my favorite guitar for years and years . When I was living in Costa Rica I met a guy sitting in a bar who told me he played bass with SRV in Paul Ray and the Cobras 🐍. I went back to the states a week later went into a book store picked up a book on SRV opened it and there was a photo of Alex next to a young Stevie Vaughn . I went back to Costa Rica a week later and Alex was still in my hometown . He stuck around for about a year. We would sit around drink and smoke while he told us stories about growing up with the Vaughn brothers in Dallas and migrating to Austin and playing in the Cobras with SRV . I miss Alex but I’m sure he is now playing with SRV in heaven . RIP SRV and Alex Napier
NO SALE !!! : The instrument was one of several celebrity-owned guitars and pieces of memorabilia included in Juliens’ Music Icons auction, presented on May 21. The 1951 Fender Broadcast, a rarity in itself, was handed down to Vaughan from his older brother, Jimmie in 1966, when Stevie was just 12 years old. It was the young Vaughan’s first pro-quality guitar. Stevie subsequently used it when he began playing dates in Dallas bars and clubs as a teenager. He moved to Austin in the Seventies, where the Broadcaster was his main instrument in the years during which he rose to local fame. The Vaughan guitar was expected to be the auction’s big-ticket instrument. It received an opening bid of $300,000, and Juliens anticipated a selling price of $400,000 to $600,000. In the end, it received a top bid of just $325,000 and didn’t sell.
I love your channel Norm and love watching your videos, but as you said Jimmy would love to have the telecaster. Life is not about making a million dollars on a guitar. You and me both know that guitar is worth more to Jimmy than anyone else. Not because the guitar but the memories that were made and what he saw his brother become through that guitar. I understand you want your business to prosper, but what do you think is the right thing to do? I don't think you understand the power of giving. Having that guitar would mean a lot to Jimmy. Yah I understand a million dollars would be nice, but don't you think giving that guitar is worth more than that money ever will be?
alright yeah one of the most important guitars in guitar history, but fuck man 1 mill?? they should just be respectful and give it back to jimmie at a fair price i think its safe to say thats what stevie would've wanted
dude lol um okay.its not so much as jimmy didn't want it, more so that he passed it on to a brother or he like you said he didn;t want it but ya cant say it as a fact. yeah jimmy coudlve bought it anytime when stevie traded it (maybe).just in case you havn't figured it out srv has passed away,Now i know your not calling jimmy an idiot for wanting to go travel to get back a personal item that brings back memories stevie sold way back when, cuz that sir/mam/kid would clearly be idiotic and i quote "that is moron logic".idk but seems to me you got some personal family issues and hold grudges. not to get into this anymore, good day and good luck.
Devin Webb I for one agree with ya... I know I place a lot of sentimental value on my guitars and I hope my kids would want to hang on to them when I pass on... someday...
Every time SRV comes up , I feel guilty. He played the CA state fair Cal Expo. Mid summer 1982. The first concert my girlfriend (now my wife) attended together. Y&T, SRV, and Sammy Hagar. We actually booed SRV to hurry up so Sammy could play. 2 years later he was gone.
"Stevie said he'd like to get the guitar back." "Jimmie said he'd like to have the guitar back." "BUT it's an important piece of memorabilia..." In other words, "I'm to f-ing greedy to give it back to its rightful owner." This guy should be ashamed.
I wish I had the money. I would buy the damn thing and give it back to his brother where it belongs. Some things, actually most, are far more important than money.
Stevie was an alltime Greatest - I heard him and Double Trouble play at Midtfyns Festialen and I was hooked after he had stroken the Strings after only a few minures a+ the Stage - Man he had his own unique sound REALLY rest in Peace Stevie !!!!
This guitar should be left with Jimmy not put in the hands of some hack collector who just wants the trophy value..Call me sentimental or whatever but this guys more into the 1 million bucks than he is respecting Stevie..Also,even though its SRV's Tele, its not worth a million bucks though it is priceless in its intrinsic value..His #1 strat would fetch a million plus easily but i feel the same way about it...If it had been up to me it would have been buried along with Stevie as without him its like an artificial leg useless to anyone other than Stevie..Maybe its just me i don't know but there's guitars & there's lifelong partners..I've got a bakers dozen guitars & basses myself but i only have 1 #1 & yeah,when i go its coming with me.
Respect died the day OJ Simpson was ALLOWED to be in a police chase, interrupting the NY Knicks semifinal game. I look back for a specific moment, the moment the precipice became a broken back on a Camel. It was around 8pm EST during game 3 if what's left of moi memory serves me right. I was watched Patrick Ewing pass to John Starks for 3 ...... Respect flew out the window. Im as serious as I can be. Im 42 now, my daughter is 13 and this world is spinning out of control, no one says please, thank you. No one helps older ladies cross the street or men, no one helps pregnant women load their cars with groceries, hold doors, carry bags, smile, simply say to strangers "isn't it beautiful out today". That evening shit got of kilter & the inmates ran the asylum, the code to the matrix was cracked for a simple couple minutes, creating a future of endless selfishness pictures even called selfies. The day the future died. Bye bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy . . . . .
I agree that the guitar should be left with the family. Look at Jimmy Hendrix guitar, Frank Zappa gave the guitar to his son and his son putted it back together. He is playing the guitar at live shows. That is where Steve's guitar belong. In the hands of his brother at a live concert. For retirement, than the guitar could be placed in a show case for all of the music lovers to enjoy. Peace, Flood!
I agree with you 100% why is it in the hands of speculators, this is disrespect for a great blues man. Did Brother Jimmy sell it or was it snatched by grave robbers. Jimmy should have it back a curse on the buyer!
Stevie himself sold Jimbo and later wanted to buy it back but I think the buyer refused to sell it back so now it is that big old fish story the big one that got away only in this case it is true and not some fish tale .Jimmy himself doesn't have a million to buy it .
Makes me cry to watch this. Stevie's Strat just sitting there behind that glass. When I listen closely, I can hear Stevie's Strat screaming "PLAY ME". I'm sure Stevie would have wanted his Strat to be in someone's hands making music. Not sitting in a display case for gawkers to stare at. So sad RIP Stevie.
My neighbor is an auto mechanic who told me he never gets rid of old tools that still work. They can sometimes work when something made for newer cars doesn't fit...you never know.
a very important piece of rock memorabilia! .... so take out of the museum where everyone can see it and sell it to some rich f*%k that will keep it in his den, that makes sense!
That is a very personal level. That is not the 'market place' which is what my comment is refererring to. I of couse admit freely that if two parties have a bidding war at auction then that is another abberation from the usual market place.
Many items change hands without ever leaving a museum. Also, these items are generally investments... I refuse to call them guitars because they're not going to be used a musical instrument anytime soon. Like most things that increase in value (art, memorabelia etc.) guitars have already been introduced to an entirely different market: investments. I'm not happy with it, but that's the way economics work....
The same thing happened to Ferrari's and old Vincent Motorcycles in the investment boom of the late 1980's. The Ferrari and other marques like house prices in the UK soon sold at multiples of just a few years earlier they were being sold as part shares! ..and then the market collapsed. This guitar cannot be considered an investment as A the guitar is too expensive and B it is not an important guitar as much as Norm would like to think. The best investments are guitars with a well documented history and the right association.
Wow, That guitar is a piece of history! Definitely worth more then a million - This guitar is priceless Stevie Ray Vaughan would never die, His music would keep on for generations to come ! Thank you for this amazing video
Wow, the comments. I feel like it’s a guitar, therefore a piece of property. If the owner wants to sell it, it’s his business. If Norm can bring a buyer and a seller together, he has earned his commission. Jimmie gave up any claim when he gifted it to his brother. But I don’t think it’s worth $1000000.
Stevie was an alltime Greatest - I heard him and Double Trouble play at Midtfyns Festialeb an I was hooked after he had stroken the Strings after only a few minures ar´+ the Stage - Man he had his own unique sound REALLY rest in Peace Stevie !!!!
I went to a SRV museum by appointment only in Dallas a few years ago and it was nice to see lots of his personal stuff. For someone like me that didn't even know about him until after his death, it gives you a sense of closeness to him. The neatest thing I remember seeing is a polaroid picture of Jimi Hendrix. I don't know where he got it but I think Tommy Shannon played at Woodstock and maybe that's where it came from. Looking at his hats and stage clothes it was also saddening to think about his family. He was somebody's brother and son long before he was a famous musician. God bless them. RIP-SRV.
Norman, if you really respect Vaughan brothers you will not ever try to break the price. If you are a real man, if you are able to buy it, you will buy it and give to Jimmy. This guitar belongs to Vaughan family!
Watching this video just made me think, What a disgusting world we live in, and a line from an Elvis Costello song came to mind: "Gets caught up in the mechanism of swindlers, who act like Kings, and brokers who, break everything".
I agree with the majority, This Guitar is Not worth 1 million, just like concert tickets are not worth $600 to over a Thousand bucks. But as long as there are people Stupid enough to pay, The price will only go UP
exactly! there are so many guitars I want, but they are not on the market because of collectors who cannot play a single damn note! and if they are on the market they are priced out the ass!!
I agree Jimmy should have the guitar back! Oh well when it comes to a million bucks, who’s going to win that one? Stevie was a great man and what can I say about his guitar work! R.I.P Stevie Ray Vaughan! Thanks for the blues you played!
Men making money out of the hard work of a legend. This guitar is part of human history. It belongs to Stevie’s family as a gift for what they gave to this world. Not in some rich old man’s closet
***** some rich Japanese guy who can't even play 'Smoke on the Water' will buy it and put it in his bathroom where NOBODY will see it. Fuck money-grubbing NRG.
I wonder if that studio was Ritchie Podlor's American Studio in Calabasas. Ritchie had a bunch of very old teles in a closet including the "Wipeout" guitar.
I know the guy that Norm is talking about. I was the guy who photographed it in B&W for the owner. I can tell you as a not so good guitar player I sounded great when I played this on the owners porch. A piece of history!
Piece of rock history right there, much like Hendrix's Montery guitar. I have played it and it's a treasure indeed. I hope it goes to the right person.
memories of what people leave behind when they go now that's priceless what happened to the microphone that he use because the man could sing the Blues
I would suggest that this blacktop telecaster is not a "very very very very etc" important piece of rock memorabilia (that's the word btw that she give you all a clue ) Unless it is in the kind of place that it is now, or - even better- given back to the Vaughan family to be played by members of the family such as ooh let me think... Jimmy ?
I got to see this exhibit. There's nothing like seeing that #1 up close. It's amazing to see the wear on the frets, fretboard, and that big scoop cut out over the years over the pickguard. It was crazy how deep the wood was worn away on that! You can't do justice in most pictures. Someone should take a macro lens camera and just slowly circle that thing for an hour, filming it. I'd watch it over and over again.
It should go to Jimmy. This guys has no soul to create so he makes his living from those of us who do. All the Awesome guitars and memorabilia this prick has and he holds none of it sacred.
Man I would have appreciated you showing SRV's rig setup and explaining a bit about that... And maybe you could have explained a little about Stevie's #1 Strat, just educate the public a bit about one of my favorite guitarist of all time.
What a slick salesman. He's just going to be the middle man and make a ton of money. Jimmie can't expect to just have it given back if Stevie sold it. If you sell something and it goes up in value, you don't get it back just because you carved your initials into it.
While I certainly believe the guitars need to be out and being played you have to take into account that pieces of historical significance such as this simply need to be in a museum for longevity and protection as well as being seen by as many fans as possible. RIP SRV!!!
Almost brings me to tears to see Stevie's guitars encased in glass. It's like seeing a 700lb lion at the zoo. It's cool to be that close to it, but you know it just wants to get out and roar.
eric pigg, That's a perfect way to put it.
Leah Sampson Dude it’s a guitar get over it I love Stevie to
Lions don't get 700lbs silly
@@ClickClan100 You got me there. The largest lion in captivity only weighs 660 lbs...
Yeah that's what I thought too kind of creepy
Give that guitar back to Jimmie Vaughan!
Yeah exactly
+Sick Gamer JImmie Vaughan is not dead.
Are you stoned, stupid or both? What does Jimi Hendrix have to do with this? As I stated, JIMMIE VAUGHAN is alive. Jimmie is Stevie's brother and gave him the guitar that is featured in this video.
Jason Horne are u stoned, who do u think sold the guitar in the first place u idiot lol, jimmy got all of srv,s guitars when he died along with his money u moron, that's why his strat will never be sold as jimmy owns that too
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That needs to be returned to Jimmie Vaughan.
That guitar should go back to Jimmie, selling is just wrong.
Not to sound like Indiana Jones here, But it belongs in a museum. Not in the hands of a wealthy collector.
Right! Not where some rich ass hole is going to give it to his six year old for his birthday.
Or back in Jimmy’s hands again!
NOT if the museum is just Owned " by a wealthy collector " ?
He said that but where did the ark end up? In a warehouse where nobody got to look at it because there were so many crates around. So let Norm fuck around with a million dollar guitar
Give the guitar back to Jimmie Vaughan!
A million bucks? Not happening. Jimmie should have it.
Who would pay a million for that..????
A guy who owns rode microphones payed 6.1 MILLION DOLLARS for Kurt Cobains 59 Martin d-18e
Long live Stevie Ray Vaughan. I miss you brother. Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole new horizon of music
Norm, this is a guitar that belongs rightfully to Jimmie Vaughan. He has expressed the desire to have it back so the decent thing would be to offer it to the family as a kindness and out of respect for the memory of his late brother. It feels ghoulish that you would exploit the death of Stevie Ray to line your pockets.
How did Stevie’s number one and jimbo leave jimmies possession
Norm is a greedy piece of shit.
@@ladeseddy5994 well its not stevies or Jimmy's guitar anymore so they can sell it for as much as they want....its called capitalism baby
The family sold the guitars so they obviously didn't care about anything more than money. If you own a guitar worth that much money your not just gonna gift it because jimi wants the guitar back. If he wants it back he should buy it back. Why should he get it for free?Use your head, if you even have one. 🙄
@@ladeseddy5994 and your a moron.
Frankly this does stink from greed.
its a sin on the highest degree to buy and never play an instrument
agreed
yup. it's just wrong.
Instrument abuse punishable by DEATH
If it is on display at a museum so that die hard fans of Stevie get to see the legendary guitars live, then I don't have a problem with.
The real problem is that this guitar is most likely ending in bloody millionaire's office who doesn't even know how to play a D chord...
I think it would be cool to have people play these relics on special occasions. Why not, we might as well, like Luis 77 said, these rich fucks that own everything anyways just want to hoard all kinds of things.
Never, ever...ever...trust a man....who wears sunglasses indoors. Ever.
Agreed
Blues brothers
Looks like he sells used cars
J S : yep, he looks exactly like a used car salesman
Cheap sunglasses 24/7
I wish I was wealthy enough to buy that friggin guitar so I could turn around and hand it to Jimmy Vaughn.
He lost his brother and these leeches use that to make themselves a big payday..
Best response I've seen all day.
My guy is talking normally while having SRV’s Number One in front of him, I’d be crying and pissing myself.
Loool
Lol samd
Stevie has been my favorite guitar for years and years . When I was living in Costa Rica I met a guy sitting in a bar who told me he played bass with SRV in Paul Ray and the Cobras 🐍. I went back to the states a week later went into a book store picked up a book on SRV opened it and there was a photo of Alex next to a young Stevie Vaughn . I went back to Costa Rica a week later and Alex was still in my hometown . He stuck around for about a year. We would sit around drink and smoke while he told us stories about growing up with the Vaughn brothers in Dallas and migrating to Austin and playing in the Cobras with SRV . I miss Alex but I’m sure he is now playing with SRV in heaven . RIP SRV and Alex Napier
Give it back to Jimmy!
NO SALE !!! : The instrument was one of several celebrity-owned guitars and pieces of memorabilia included in Juliens’ Music Icons auction, presented on May 21.
The 1951 Fender Broadcast, a rarity in itself, was handed down to Vaughan from his older brother, Jimmie in 1966, when Stevie was just 12 years old. It was the young Vaughan’s first pro-quality guitar.
Stevie subsequently used it when he began playing dates in Dallas bars and clubs as a teenager. He moved to Austin in the Seventies, where the Broadcaster was his main instrument in the years during which he rose to local fame.
The Vaughan guitar was expected to be the auction’s big-ticket instrument. It received an opening bid of $300,000, and Juliens anticipated a selling price of $400,000 to $600,000. In the end, it received a top bid of just $325,000 and didn’t sell.
I love your channel Norm and love watching your videos, but as you said Jimmy would love to have the telecaster. Life is not about making a million dollars on a guitar. You and me both know that guitar is worth more to Jimmy than anyone else. Not because the guitar but the memories that were made and what he saw his brother become through that guitar. I understand you want your business to prosper, but what do you think is the right thing to do? I don't think you understand the power of giving. Having that guitar would mean a lot to Jimmy. Yah I understand a million dollars would be nice, but don't you think giving that guitar is worth more than that money ever will be?
***** he is in the process of brokering and sell it to someone
It’s not his guitar… What’s he supposed to do? He’s selling it for someone else
alright yeah one of the most important guitars in guitar history, but fuck man 1 mill?? they should just be respectful and give it back to jimmie at a fair price i think its safe to say thats what stevie would've wanted
dude lol um okay.its not so much as jimmy didn't want it, more so that he passed it on to a brother or he like you said he didn;t want it but ya cant say it as a fact. yeah jimmy coudlve bought it anytime when stevie traded it (maybe).just in case you havn't figured it out srv has passed away,Now i know your not calling jimmy an idiot for wanting to go travel to get back a personal item that brings back memories stevie sold way back when, cuz that sir/mam/kid would clearly be idiotic and i quote "that is moron logic".idk but seems to me you got some personal family issues and hold grudges. not to get into this anymore, good day and good luck.
lol im not arguing over a youtube video and wasting my time cuz that would be i quote "pure stupidity", so good day and good luck buddy ;)
lol
Devin Webb I for one agree with ya... I know I place a lot of sentimental value on my guitars and I hope my kids would want to hang on to them when I pass on... someday...
"Broker" SRV's guitar??!!! WTF! What a disgrace..
amen bro give jimmy that guitar back its such a memory of his lil bro
Norm sure is a big money grabber, give that guitar back to Jimmie.
I'm amazed at how generous people are with other people's stuff....
Every time SRV comes up , I feel guilty. He played the CA state fair Cal Expo. Mid summer 1982. The first concert my girlfriend (now my wife) attended together. Y&T, SRV, and Sammy Hagar. We actually booed SRV to hurry up so Sammy could play. 2 years later he was gone.
Wish I'd have been there! What a line up. I was in college in 82
He didn’t die 2 yrs later
"Stevie said he'd like to get the guitar back."
"Jimmie said he'd like to have the guitar back."
"BUT it's an important piece of memorabilia..."
In other words, "I'm to f-ing greedy to give it back to its rightful owner."
This guy should be ashamed.
Literally looking at stevies number one gave me goosebumps.
I wish I had the money. I would buy the damn thing and give it back to his brother where it belongs. Some things, actually most, are far more important than money.
Stevie was an alltime Greatest - I heard him and Double Trouble play at Midtfyns Festialen and I was hooked after he had stroken the Strings after only a few minures a+ the Stage - Man he had his own unique sound REALLY rest in Peace Stevie !!!!
These guys are all about the money. Jimmy deserves to have it, these guys make me sick. 1 million dollars, pathetic. Long live Stevie
Stevie is worth it. He's away but still valued. That guitar been touched son.
This guitar should be left with Jimmy not put in the hands of some hack collector who just wants the trophy value..Call me sentimental or whatever but this guys more into the 1 million bucks than he is respecting Stevie..Also,even though its SRV's Tele, its not worth a million bucks though it is priceless in its intrinsic value..His #1 strat would fetch a million plus easily but i feel the same way about it...If it had been up to me it would have been buried along with Stevie as without him its like an artificial leg useless to anyone other than Stevie..Maybe its just me i don't know but there's guitars & there's lifelong partners..I've got a bakers dozen guitars & basses myself but i only have 1 #1 & yeah,when i go its coming with me.
Respect died the day OJ Simpson was ALLOWED to be in a police chase, interrupting the NY Knicks semifinal game. I look back for a specific moment, the moment the precipice became a broken back on a Camel.
It was around 8pm EST during game 3 if what's left of moi memory serves me right. I was watched Patrick Ewing pass to John Starks for 3 ...... Respect flew out the window. Im as serious as I can be. Im 42 now, my daughter is 13 and this world is spinning out of control, no one says please, thank you. No one helps older ladies cross the street or men, no one helps pregnant women load their cars with groceries, hold doors, carry bags, smile, simply say to strangers "isn't it beautiful out today".
That evening shit got of kilter & the inmates ran the asylum, the code to the matrix was cracked for a simple couple minutes, creating a future of endless selfishness pictures even called selfies. The day the future died. Bye bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy . . . . .
I agree that the guitar should be left with the family. Look at Jimmy Hendrix guitar, Frank Zappa gave the guitar to his son and his son putted it back together. He is playing the guitar at live shows. That is where Steve's guitar belong. In the hands of his brother at a live concert. For retirement, than the guitar could be placed in a show case for all of the music lovers to enjoy. Peace, Flood!
***** Damn straight! One million clams? FUCK NRG! They've got enough $. GIVE IT BACK TO JIMMIE WHO RIGHTFULLY DESERVES TO KEEP IT!
I agree with you 100% why is it in the hands of speculators, this is disrespect
for a great blues man. Did Brother Jimmy sell it or was it snatched by grave robbers. Jimmy should have it back a curse on the buyer!
Stevie himself sold Jimbo and later wanted to buy it back but I think the buyer refused to sell it back so now it is that big old fish story the big one that got away only in this case it is true and not some fish tale .Jimmy himself doesn't have a million to buy it .
1 mil Thumbs up for Norm the sleaze bucket vulture
Makes me cry to watch this. Stevie's Strat just sitting there behind that glass. When I listen closely, I can hear Stevie's Strat screaming "PLAY ME". I'm sure Stevie would have wanted his Strat to be in someone's hands making music. Not sitting in a display case for gawkers to stare at. So sad RIP Stevie.
My neighbor is an auto mechanic who told me he never gets rid of old tools that still work. They can sometimes work when something made for newer cars doesn't fit...you never know.
I can see why Jimmy Vaughan in the shape he's in he lost his dad,mom,and brother and a piece of memory is in the glass case
a very important piece of rock memorabilia! .... so take out of the museum where everyone can see it and sell it to some rich f*%k that will keep it in his den, that makes sense!
YEAH! THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NATIONALIZE IT FOR THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
It is an unimportant piece of memorabilia. It is not worth the money for this is merely hype.
That is a very personal level. That is not the 'market place' which is what my comment is refererring to. I of couse admit freely that if two parties have a bidding war at auction then that is another abberation from the usual market place.
Many items change hands without ever leaving a museum. Also, these items are generally investments... I refuse to call them guitars because they're not going to be used a musical instrument anytime soon.
Like most things that increase in value (art, memorabelia etc.) guitars have already been introduced to an entirely different market: investments. I'm not happy with it, but that's the way economics work....
The same thing happened to Ferrari's and old Vincent Motorcycles in the investment boom of the late 1980's. The Ferrari and other marques like house prices in the UK soon sold at multiples of just a few years earlier they were being sold as part shares! ..and then the market collapsed. This guitar cannot be considered an investment as A the guitar is too expensive and B it is not an important guitar as much as Norm would like to think. The best investments are guitars with a well documented history and the right association.
the vintage market itself has become obscenely expensive, if I had the cash I'd buy it back for Jimmie vahn
one of the most naturally gifted guitar players
@ nobody, Amen, Stevie was a BEAST!
They belong in Texas, where Srevie would want, it's a Texas Thang!
Nothing In A Museum Can Ever Be As Awesome As Stevie LIVE....He Is Horribly Missed! Return That Guitar To Jimbo!! Soul💞Soul, Stevie,💗😘
how many times can you reiterate that you will be "brokering" this guitar?
Wow, That guitar is a piece of history!
Definitely worth more then a million - This guitar is priceless
Stevie Ray Vaughan would never die, His music would keep on for generations to come !
Thank you for this amazing video
I agree that guitar should go to his brother Jimmy
Wow, the comments. I feel like it’s a guitar, therefore a piece of property. If the owner wants to sell it, it’s his business. If Norm can bring a buyer and a seller together, he has earned his commission. Jimmie gave up any claim when he gifted it to his brother.
But I don’t think it’s worth $1000000.
"Jimmy wants it but [I like money more than Stevie's brother]"
Stevie was an alltime Greatest - I heard him and Double Trouble play at Midtfyns Festialeb an I was hooked after he had stroken the Strings after only a few minures ar´+ the Stage - Man he had his own unique sound REALLY rest in Peace Stevie !!!!
Wow, someone's "really proud to be involved with the brokering of this guitar"...
I went to a SRV museum by appointment only in Dallas a few years ago and it was nice to see lots of his personal stuff. For someone like me that didn't even know about him until after his death, it gives you a sense of closeness to him. The neatest thing I remember seeing is a polaroid picture of Jimi Hendrix. I don't know where he got it but I think Tommy Shannon played at Woodstock and maybe that's where it came from. Looking at his hats and stage clothes it was also saddening to think about his family. He was somebody's brother and son long before he was a famous musician. God bless them. RIP-SRV.
Norman, if you really respect Vaughan brothers you will not ever try to break the price.
If you are a real man, if you are able to buy it, you will buy it and give to Jimmy.
This guitar belongs to Vaughan family!
On a non-outraged point, Stevie's pedalboard is to die for.
I really with I could buy that and somehow find Jimmy and give it back to him.
Thank you very much for sharing, love hearing about the history that one might not hear otherwise. Detail! 🇺🇸
I hope Jimmie ended up getting this guitar back.
Blackie didn't even fetch 1,000,000. I can see how #1 could bring in that money but the prominence of that Tele isn't there.
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Watching this video just made me think, What a disgusting world we live in, and a line from an Elvis Costello song came to mind: "Gets caught up in the mechanism of swindlers, who act like Kings, and brokers who, break everything".
I agree with the majority, This Guitar is Not worth 1 million, just like concert tickets are not worth $600 to over a Thousand bucks. But as long as there are people Stupid enough to pay, The price will only go UP
Yes only players i hate moneygrabbers
Guitars are meant to be played not in a safe of some rich collector greetz Johnny
exactly! there are so many guitars I want, but they are not on the market because of collectors who cannot play a single damn note! and if they are on the market they are priced out the ass!!
Without Stevie it's just a piece of wood with strings on it
I had no idea you needed to "know a guy" to walk through a museum...
I agree Jimmy should have the guitar back! Oh well when it comes to a million bucks, who’s going to win that one? Stevie was a great man and what can I say about his guitar work! R.I.P Stevie Ray Vaughan! Thanks for the blues you played!
If i had a dollar for every time he said something about "proud to be involved with brokering this guitar" I would be able to afford it
Men making money out of the hard work of a legend.
This guitar is part of human history. It belongs to Stevie’s family as a gift for what they gave to this world. Not in some rich old man’s closet
one million dollars for a guitar? my god what are we coming to?
Right smack in the middle of Hollyweird. Don't worry, it will go fast. lol
A better economy HA HA
Yup right into my vault ok i can dream can i not
***** some rich Japanese guy who can't even play 'Smoke on the Water' will buy it and put it in his bathroom where NOBODY will see it. Fuck money-grubbing NRG.
It's a damn shame!
I wonder if that studio was Ritchie Podlor's American Studio in Calabasas. Ritchie had a bunch of very old teles in a closet including the "Wipeout" guitar.
If Jimmy bought the guitar for Stevie, you should give it back to its rightful owner. It's not right that you're keeping it
Jimmy purchased it and gave it to his little brother Stevie. It naturally should go back to Jimmy since he is the first owner of the Fender guitar.
Norm's already thinking about how he's going to spend his 100K brokers fee! Totally crazy!
Like Norm needs more money And it's not even a significant guitar of his career What a shame My whole opinion of Norm has changed
That Copperburst double neck Dano ain't too shabby either...Sweet.
Stevie dug it so much he traded it for an Epiphone? Im sure this guitar is never heard on any crucial recordings. $1mil?? Yeah, right.
RIP SRV......................!
Stevie ALWAYS WANTED THAT GUITAR BACK!
Shame on you for not GIVING that guitar to Jimmie! It belongs in the family!
I know the guy that Norm is talking about. I was the guy who photographed it in B&W for the owner. I can tell you as a not so good guitar player I sounded great when I played this on the owners porch. A piece of history!
It has to be Stevie !! Because it say's Jimbo"
at the back..Lol
Piece of rock history right there, much like Hendrix's Montery guitar. I have played it and it's a treasure indeed. I hope it goes to the right person.
memories of what people leave behind when they go now that's priceless what happened to the microphone that he use because the man could sing the Blues
I agree, give the guitar back to his brother Jimmie. That guitar with SRV in mother of pearl is my favorite guitar of Stevie's.
This guitar should go to Jimmie Vaughan, not some collector!!
Give it back to its rightful owner!
BLUE'S memorabilia! 👊💨
I bet I can make it sound like a $90 guitar.
Give it back to Jimmie your reward will be 10 fold in heaven
I would suggest that this blacktop telecaster is not a "very very very very etc" important piece of rock memorabilia (that's the word btw that she give you all a clue ) Unless it is in the kind of place that it is now, or - even better- given back to the Vaughan family to be played by members of the family such as ooh let me think... Jimmy ?
I got to see this exhibit. There's nothing like seeing that #1 up close. It's amazing to see the wear on the frets, fretboard, and that big scoop cut out over the years over the pickguard. It was crazy how deep the wood was worn away on that! You can't do justice in most pictures. Someone should take a macro lens camera and just slowly circle that thing for an hour, filming it. I'd watch it over and over again.
monetize EVERYTHING!...your souls were sold first
Great story! Thank you for this video.
I would never buy anything from this man.... all he’s about is the money....
think they tried selling it last year for under 350k not sure if it has sold yet..what a thing of beauty
It's jimmies guitar
So much greats from t bone walker to Roy Orbison , lighting Hopkins and more are from Texas
It should go to Jimmy. This guys has no soul to create so he makes his living from those of us who do. All the Awesome guitars and memorabilia this prick has and he holds none of it sacred.
Man I would have appreciated you showing SRV's rig setup and explaining a bit about that... And maybe you could have explained a little about Stevie's #1 Strat, just educate the public a bit about one of my favorite guitarist of all time.
That guitar should go back to Jimmie.
I saw it at MoPOP in Seattle last year. Very cool guitar!
no way the Tele is worth a million. But, SRV's #1 strat would sell for 1.5 Million easily.
Its a broadcaster.. Might want to look them up.
motokev lol... it's worth maybe 100k .. it's not what made him a star.
A nocaster would be up there
Original Broadcasters are very expensive even the ones not owned by famous guiatists
What a slick salesman. He's just going to be the middle man and make a ton of money. Jimmie can't expect to just have it given back if Stevie sold it. If you sell something and it goes up in value, you don't get it back just because you carved your initials into it.
🤑 best emoji for Norm ?
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While I certainly believe the guitars need to be out and being played you have to take into account that pieces of historical significance such as this simply need to be in a museum for longevity and protection as well as being seen by as many fans as possible. RIP SRV!!!
Does norm ever shut up?
The Man , The Guitars & The Blues
How much for the shirt, Norm?
I'll give you 20 bucks if you give me a b****** Norm it's all profit plus you get a good amount of protein free can't beat that Norm you scumbag
What I wouldn't give to plug in Stevie's guitars with his amps and play with Double Trouble for just one evening...