Jeff Libby pink floyd in the 80s went to dogshit, I honestly think their best music was with syd barret on the first album it’s totally a genre of its own
@@jefflibby4784 Even the 90's. I think the Division Bell was pure artwork. Listen to the riffs on "Take It Back" or the best one in "Coming Back To Life" The 80's also had "Learning To Fly"
Lol he did indeed change the color. When gilmour first purchased the strat it was three color sunburst. You can even see the original orange under the black in particular spots
j2010 This strat was sunburst when David got it. He painted it black himself. It even got a respray when he removed the floyd rose bridge, when he glued in the piece of wood
Actually I think it had already been painted before he bought it. All I can find for specifics is that "it was repainted at Manny's" but it doesn't say Gilmour had them do it.
bigj2637 “The guitar auction raised a total of $21,490,750. Proceeds will go to the ClientEarth charity, which donates money to famine relief and homelessness.” Do your research dude. It took about 5 seconds to find that along with thousands of other articles
@@connormcinerney7503 Yeah that famine relief is working wonders in Africa. How many trillions of dollars in aid and donations thru the decades have been thrown and nothing has changed.
bigj2637 You missed my point. Their goal is to implement greener energy means as opposed to fossil fuels. Less global warming = less failed harvests = financial stability for farmers and their dependents. The extent of which they have succeeded thus far however, I cannot affirmatively say Hans Grueber They’re working specifically in Europe, not Africa.
I've been waiting for months to see what it goes for. Making hints to my friends that they could get it for me for my birthday :P. I figured a million easy, but I was shocked when it was almost 4. Despite him wanting the buyer, or someone else to continue to play it, I doubt they will. It will be put in a display case somewhere. Hopefully in a place the public can see it.
@Ray Fabris Jim Irsay started studying violin from age 7-11, and then picked up the guitar. He still plays guitar to this day. His guitar collection is rather iconic in itself. Not only does he play them, but he also loans them out to museums, as well as to other musicians. It will be seeing more action.
I saw David in 2006, he was playing the black strat. Always wanted to see him again, but admittedly if that DOES happen, it just wont be the same seeing him without it.
I seen the auction when I put the TV on seen it taped on the phone I was shocked then i sent it on Facebook the other phone i had David Gilmore and the crew are unbelievable they will never be forgotten 😊
god damn, they have no idea how much i want to play that instrument. i wish i could play the 4 amazing notes on THAT instrument. you know the notes i'm talking about. 8-6-0-0
Its ACTUALLY Bb on the D string, F on the B string, open G, open E Like THIS: e----------------0---- B------6-------------- G-----------0--------- D--8------------------ That is how to play the 4 notes correctly, so they ring properly. Period. I've been playing this song for 20 years.
And here it is getting played just last week. Best part is, it isn't locked up in someones house where no one can see or hear it. I was at the concert/collection display and it sounded so much better live than any recording could convey. th-cam.com/video/bEkr2SgNy4g/w-d-xo.html
He has given us over five Decades of Music - I would EXPECT he will spend time with his Family now... You may note he is Sharing Re-Edits of older Videos - Obviously he can make no new ones - I fully appreciate all he has done, and all he may yet give us, but I also wish him and his Family some well-deserved 'Personal Time'
Wait you telling me Fender didn't have 4 way switch back then? And David needed to do something about it. Wow that's just amazing how these guys were that experimental.
@Daniel Johnson It is a custom made "Bill Lewis guitar". He can be seen using this during the Dark Side of the Moon footage in Live at Pompeii. He used this for the Echoes solo supposedly and definitely used it for the solo on Money because his strat only had 21 frets and couldn't reach that really high note he plays on Money. (The Bill Lewis has 24 frets).
"the bridge and the neck pickup" while pointing to the neck and middle pickup.... "only he didnt change is the color" it was a sunburst guitar that he made black. it had a white pickguard for a bit too. god....
I've built a replica, of all the mods and tweaks. The original is a beautiful piece, David giving it way and wanting someone to continue playing it, is bittersweet especially now that he is retiring from the music industry. Hopefully his guitar can spark another great musician.
jimi hendrix his son gabe isn't much into guitars, he's more of a pianist, and Roman wants to be an actress. Watch the David gilmour wider horizons documentary, he says that in it...
They had and have some. Trust me. They will each have some relics. Not only that, they have their dad and his memories. But yes. I would want it. Hahahahahahaha
If I had this, I'd just play those four notes from Shine on You Crazy Diamond through a boutique valve amp and a chorus pedal for ever and ever and ever (and maybe that solo too)....please just go on making that sound ! Mind you, if I could have afforded that guitar, then I would gladly pay David Gilmour to come and play them for me.
Idk if anybody is aware, a book was written on just this Stratocaster by Guilmor's guitar tech of many years. It is all the documentation of changes made etc. Title of book was "The Black Strat" I think. It was a limited run of books, maybe 5-10 yrs ago.
God bless Mr. GILMORE! it's pretty hard for us guitarist to sometimes give up "The One guitar" especially some I own for tour... there is stores and memories and sound and tone that inspired songwriting. Good thing hes using the profit for something important that helps needy people
He literally gave away the tool with which he left his most iconic mark in the world in an attempt to save it. If that is not Greatness, then I don't know what is.
Indianapolis Colts owner Bob Irsay bought this guitar, and now it is a life goal of mine to get him to let me hold it some day, here in Indianapolis where I also live.
No, Dave's alternation switch allowed all 3 pickups to be played at the same time once the 5 way switch was invented in the mid 70s. to get the 3rd and 2nd pickups to be played at the same time with the 3 way switch, guitarists would wedge a match stick in to hold that position.
So crazy that this sold for almost $4 million dollars... I am sure that the money going to a good cause helped fuel the sale (being a huge tax deduction) but still a credit to Gilmour and his legacy of amazing work!
Experts huh ? 3.3 million $ for a partscaster not even with the case ? The buyer had to line up additional 140 grand for the flight case :)) Wow ! Expert investment !!
La guitarra mas cara del universo y dono los 24 millones en Savar el Planeta esto solo lo hace el mejor musico y grandisima persona Sir "David Gilmour"121 guitarras subasto.
Gilmoure used a variety of different brands and models of guitars when recording. Especially comfortably numb that had 2 or 3 different guitars each recorded different sections of track. His black and even the red strat were the guitars he toured/traveled with. and
fender guitars usually come stock with a 5 way switch. every* fender stratocaster style guitar can play both the neck and middle or the middle and the bridge. maybe, at the time fender was producing 3 ways.
Yea, your correct. At the time they only offered 3 way switching. The 5 way mod became popular among Strat players. In fact it didnt even require a mod per se... you could just wedge the switch in the "in between positon" to get both pickups on. It also gave a different sound than the current 5 way switch, as the middle pick ups were not "reverse wound" as they are today. This gave an "out of phase" sound unique to the 3 way switch guitars not achieved by the modern reverse wound configuration (that's why position 2 and 4 are now humbucking), so fender added 5 way later due to the popular mod (tho with the added reverse wound middle pickup)!
For those who want to see one of the very first times Gilmour used that stratocaster live on film, look up "live in Pompeï" You'll also see the guitar when it was still stock.
Clearly this gentleman doesn’t know enough about this iconic Guitar. Got the Manny’s bit right though. Thank god Phil Taylor, Gilmours tech wrote a book about the Black Strat.
That guitar is a mere shadow of it's former self. 'Floyd at Pompeii' shows what it looked like brand-new. The only original parts on that guitar are (probably) the trem system....input jack....and the body. The body was routed for a locking trem, and years later Dave had a tech remove it and fill-in the cavity. Rather than butcher that axe, he could have had an entirely different body routed and mangled. God-knows where the original neck is.
To that point apparently a lot of the hardware was stolen from it when it was on display in a Hard Rock Cafe since it wasn't behind glass or anything. So apparently a lot of hardware and maybe even pickup(s) were replaced in 2005 or whenever he got it back.
@@jackgoff4859 Yes, I'd read that the knobs & pickup switch-tip had been stolen while at the Hard Rock. Again.........you're David Gilmour.....you've got a fat bank account. Why butcher a perfectly good axe when you can have a custom axe built? Grab a duplicate black body and have at it. ...*sigh*....
some info on Gilmour and his charity donations.....Back in the 80s he bought a london house for £3.5m he later sold it for £6.7m......he said something on these lines.....i only paid 3.5 thats all i want back the rest can go to charity...................
Just think. There was nothing special about that guitar. It was just another Strat that came off the Fender line on a Thursday afternoon. Nobody could have ever known a guitar like that would have such a pivotal roll in rock history.
It should have went for far more given its legacy and historical value. 3.9-million isn't even a fraction of the money that guitar generated from 1970 up until 2018.
@@wizardof6 Ah wait. Lol. Yes. He did use all three...Not always. But the mod yes was to allow the bridge and or neck to be played like a tele using both and AND AND the ability to use all three ....Now again. This is just what I've been told all these years and if I'm not mistaken his tech says this. But I always give benefit of the doubt. I'd really like to know.
my local radio news spoke of guitar solos played by the black strat, like another brick in the wall. Dave said it was a gibson les paul on that track. Hey who needs accuracy. Anyway its sold now, so I can't have it boo hooo hooooooooo
You are correct that the track and the first tour for the Wall was played on a Gibson les Paul, and but I have seen him play the song live on both black and red strat. And by live I'm not saying I was there, but via video.
Pawn Stars, “It’s got some chips in the paint and that really lowers the value, I’ll give you $100.00.”
Best comment on here!
Ok, I’ll give you $125.00 but I’m taking all the risk!
"$125 is top of the mark, Son..." -Old man in pawnstars
Let me just call my buddy who's an expert on Strats
'Hey Chumlee - where's that black strat gone?"... That old thing? I just sold it to a guy for $20..
"best known albums of the 70s,80s and 80s"......
Yeah! You forgot the 80s though.
Except in the 80s it sounded mostly generic. Which can be said about most 80s songs
80’s so nice you have to say it twice.
@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 The only 80s Albums done by Pink Floyd were The Wall and Momentary Lapse of Reason.
But what about the 80s. And we really cant forget the 80s.
I’m actually depressed about the fact that this guitar is leaving David. I think I would buy it and present it back to David. That’s a win, win.
he doesn't want it!
He's said he has replicas that sound better 😁
It belongs in a museum
@@joeyvitale3241 true...the beast is what i call it 😁
@@brycenpace agreeew
Floyd in the 80s was alright, but Floyd in the EIGHTIES?? Amazing
Couldn't disagree with you more. Floyd was the best in the eightees!!! 🎸
Jeff Libby pink floyd in the 80s went to dogshit, I honestly think their best music was with syd barret on the first album it’s totally a genre of its own
@@jefflibby4784 Even the 90's. I think the Division Bell was pure artwork. Listen to the riffs on "Take It Back" or the best one in "Coming Back To Life" The 80's also had "Learning To Fly"
Shmooless aren’t you special you arent like everybody else you like unique things
@@shmooless3699 said no one ever
Predicts 100k-900k
*sells for $4,000,000*
I have a friend that tried for weeks to tell me "it wasn't that well known and would never top the prices Clapton's guitars brought".
nineball26 well yeah but they said they predicted it to be about the same
Is sold for 3 million 300,000
Lol he did indeed change the color.
When gilmour first purchased the strat it was three color sunburst. You can even see the original orange under the black in particular spots
You should know Fender did that for custom colors. They would paint over the sunburst.
j2010 This strat was sunburst when David got it. He painted it black himself. It even got a respray when he removed the floyd rose bridge, when he glued in the piece of wood
It was a Kahler, not a Floyd Rose.
Actually I think it had already been painted before he bought it. All I can find for specifics is that "it was repainted at Manny's" but it doesn't say Gilmour had them do it.
@@jackgoff4859 i think you're right.
I do know for certain the pick guard started off as white and was later changed over for the custom black one.
"Oh my God! What a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?"
gpaRocks1 😂
"Can I get a glass of water?"
One of my turns
Cheers to all the people who recognized this, Wish you were all here
Wanna take a BAAAAATH
Bless Gilmour for being so generous for charity....if only others would follow his and Clapton's example.
Most celebrities give or do things for charity, there's very few who do not.
bigj2637
“The guitar auction raised a total of $21,490,750. Proceeds will go to the ClientEarth charity, which donates money to famine relief and homelessness.”
Do your research dude. It took about 5 seconds to find that along with thousands of other articles
@@connormcinerney7503 Yeah that famine relief is working wonders in Africa. How many trillions of dollars in aid and donations thru the decades have been thrown and nothing has changed.
@@bigj2637 Exactly!! ClientEarth are pedaling a bunch of bs for profit. Gilmour wasted that $$.
bigj2637
You missed my point. Their goal is to implement greener energy means as opposed to fossil fuels. Less global warming = less failed harvests = financial stability for farmers and their dependents. The extent of which they have succeeded thus far however, I cannot affirmatively say
Hans Grueber
They’re working specifically in Europe, not Africa.
Feeling so lucky to live at the same era of this legendary man. Long live David, still getting goose bumps whenever i listen to your incredible songs
Long live Dave! I can only imagine how many times he picked that beauty up and poured his soul out in sound.
Amen, although there is something quite sad about the fact that he's selling most of his instruments. His legacy will live on, nevertheless.
God bless you, Mr. David Gilmour !
In June of 1972 i tuned this guitar for David 🤗
Where did It happen?
@@josemiguelcarrizo7373 we were in the UK lining up the Dominoes
They didn't have tuners?
I guess It happened in Brighton. Am I right?
In June of 1972 I wasn't even born until 10 years and a few months later!
It fetched $3.975 million dollars. Amazing!!!
I've been waiting for months to see what it goes for. Making hints to my friends that they could get it for me for my birthday :P. I figured a million easy, but I was shocked when it was almost 4. Despite him wanting the buyer, or someone else to continue to play it, I doubt they will. It will be put in a display case somewhere. Hopefully in a place the public can see it.
@Ray Fabris Jim Irsay started studying violin from age 7-11, and then picked up the guitar. He still plays guitar to this day. His guitar collection is rather iconic in itself. Not only does he play them, but he also loans them out to museums, as well as to other musicians. It will be seeing more action.
@@DrumWild I just looked him up and he sounds like he is a decent guy, so I hope he enjoys his new Strat.
That money will go to good use. Gilmore is not only one of the greatest musicians ever, he has a good soul.
@@DrumWild I don't know who thought of the Idea to loan out famous guitars to places, and get paid to do it, but that was a genius Idea though
I saw David in 2006, he was playing the black strat. Always wanted to see him again, but admittedly if that DOES happen, it just wont be the same seeing him without it.
I seen the auction when I put the TV on seen it taped on the phone I was shocked then i sent it on Facebook the other phone i had David Gilmore and the crew are unbelievable they will never be forgotten 😊
god damn, they have no idea how much i want to play that instrument. i wish i could play the 4 amazing notes on THAT instrument. you know the notes i'm talking about. 8-6-0-0
Mustafa Can Kaya I would play 0-3-5 but to each their own
Show me HOW you make Shine work with that???? Its Bb F G E like Mustafa said
@@rickfeith6372 it's actually x-x-8-6-0-0 in order, from the lowest to highest.
Its ACTUALLY Bb on the D string, F on the B string, open G, open E
Like THIS:
e----------------0----
B------6--------------
G-----------0---------
D--8------------------
That is how to play the 4 notes correctly, so they ring properly. Period. I've been playing this song for 20 years.
Didn´t change the color...as the camera swoops over the overpainted sunburst finish...experts.
It was painted black before he purchased it
Hearing this just makes me respect David Gilmour even more. Just like the title of a Neil Young song the man has a heart of gold
All Hail Fender, All Hail David Gilmour! Master of Guitarists!
I’ve got my own version of the black Strat… Thanks for all the great music and inspiration, David!🎸
I imagine the guitar being given to a kid and him becoming the savior of rock n roll. Ah a boy Can dream 😔
Someone better play this. It just doesn’t sit right with me knowing that David is no longer connected with it
Gilmour had fender make 3 more to the same spec. The original had been chopped and stuck together so often it was on the point of collapse
And here it is getting played just last week. Best part is, it isn't locked up in someones house where no one can see or hear it. I was at the concert/collection display and it sounded so much better live than any recording could convey. th-cam.com/video/bEkr2SgNy4g/w-d-xo.html
70s, 80s and 80s. Lol
A black strat with a maple fretboard is the coolest combo Fender makes
He has given us over five Decades of Music - I would EXPECT he will spend time with his Family now... You may note he is Sharing Re-Edits of older Videos - Obviously he can make no new ones - I fully appreciate all he has done, and all he may yet give us, but I also wish him and his Family some well-deserved 'Personal Time'
I just found it on reverb for 200, it's mine now
David Gilmour is moust greatest guitarist of all time, there is no question!!!
Wait you telling me Fender didn't have 4 way switch back then? And David needed to do something about it. Wow that's just amazing how these guys were that experimental.
lol the first picture at 0:24 is not even a stratocaster. Great job CBS\
Haha ...first thing I noticed, too!
@Daniel Johnson I think its a Gibson semi hollow 335 etc. or some odd model from the 70s Norlin era.
@Daniel Johnson I think it's a Burns guitar? A custom 24-fret model that he recorded the "Money" solo with.
@Daniel Johnson It is a custom made "Bill Lewis guitar". He can be seen using this during the Dark Side of the Moon footage in Live at Pompeii. He used this for the Echoes solo supposedly and definitely used it for the solo on Money because his strat only had 21 frets and couldn't reach that really high note he plays on Money. (The Bill Lewis has 24 frets).
i was waiting for this comment!
"the bridge and the neck pickup" while pointing to the neck and middle pickup.... "only he didnt change is the color" it was a sunburst guitar that he made black. it had a white pickguard for a bit too. god....
Only thing, lol.. several necks, pickups. Only thing original is the body
David didn’t change the color. Fender painted over sunburst as a custom color back then
The mod switch lets you play the bridge and neck together
I've built a replica, of all the mods and tweaks. The original is a beautiful piece, David giving it way and wanting someone to continue playing it, is bittersweet especially now that he is retiring from the music industry. Hopefully his guitar can spark another great musician.
If it were me, I couldn't part with it - I still have my first real acoustic from 45 years ago.
But it was for charity so its kind of easy for him
3.3 Mil . so crazy!
2022, baby!
This guitar recorded "shine on you crazy diamond "
You'd think his children would want it. If David was my father, I'd want my famous father's guitar.
jimi hendrix his son gabe isn't much into guitars, he's more of a pianist, and Roman wants to be an actress. Watch the David gilmour wider horizons documentary, he says that in it...
Childrens doesn't deserve what their father achieved. David knows that n that's y he sold it.
They had and have some. Trust me. They will each have some relics. Not only that, they have their dad and his memories. But yes. I would want it. Hahahahahahaha
Jimi.. I thought you were dead man? Where you living now.. what you up to?
@@corporalclegg5057 Funny you mention Hendrix, since Gilmour's famous guitar strap belonged to Hendrix.
Spoiler: It sold for $3.975 million USD making it the most expensive six-string ever sold.
God bless him
If I had this, I'd just play those four notes from Shine on You Crazy Diamond through a boutique valve amp and a chorus pedal for ever and ever and ever (and maybe that solo too)....please just go on making that sound ! Mind you, if I could have afforded that guitar, then I would gladly pay David Gilmour to come and play them for me.
Idk if anybody is aware, a book was written on just this Stratocaster by Guilmor's guitar tech of many years. It is all the documentation of changes made etc. Title of book was "The Black Strat" I think. It was a limited run of books, maybe 5-10 yrs ago.
God bless Mr. GILMORE! it's pretty hard for us guitarist to sometimes give up "The One guitar" especially some I own for tour... there is stores and memories and sound and tone that inspired songwriting. Good thing hes using the profit for something important that helps needy people
He literally gave away the tool with which he left his most iconic mark in the world in an attempt to save it.
If that is not Greatness, then I don't know what is.
CBS rocking it with discussing David Gilmour's Strat and the FIRE Movement in the same week!
Indianapolis Colts owner Bob Irsay bought this guitar, and now it is a life goal of mine to get him to let me hold it some day, here in Indianapolis where I also live.
0:24 “from the 70’s, 80’s, and 80’s”
I love the 70s 80s and 80s
I mean he and the guitar are well known together but nothing like SRV and his number 1, EVH and the frankenstrat, and willie nelson and trigger.
god they are such squares. I'd melt in that guitars presence. but I wouldn't be a square about it.
I certainly did yesterday when I saw it thought about touching it but didn’t want to be booted out lol
the perfect stratocaster
Epic legend....!!!!
No, Dave's alternation switch allowed all 3 pickups to be played at the same time once the 5 way switch was invented in the mid 70s. to get the 3rd and 2nd pickups to be played at the same time with the 3 way switch, guitarists would wedge a match stick in to hold that position.
Most iconic guitar of all time! It sold for close to 4 MILLION dollars!
Yeah,nutts!
FFFFFFFFF I live in NYC and I totally missed the Christie's pre-auction display show.
Not quite correct - David Gilmour did change the colour, at least a bit. He exchanged the original white pick guard (seen at 0:45) for a black one.
@Cash Watkins Thank for this interesting info, I didn't know this. I personally like the look with the white pick guard better.
@Cash Watkins Thanks
00:23 The first picture is not the black stratocaster btw
“Don’t wash that hand!”😂🤟🎸
He did change the color. You can see the original burst on the left contour.
Good observation. It was painted before he bought it by the guitar stop Manny's.
0:22 bought it and played it in the 70s, 80s and 80s😂😂
So crazy that this sold for almost $4 million dollars... I am sure that the money going to a good cause helped fuel the sale (being a huge tax deduction) but still a credit to Gilmour and his legacy of amazing work!
Experts huh ? 3.3 million $ for a partscaster not even with the case ? The buyer had to line up additional 140 grand for the flight case :)) Wow ! Expert investment !!
3.975
@@pumpalBo Have a look at the original footage (starts at 4:38) th-cam.com/video/XQXjaZuz31Y/w-d-xo.html
La guitarra mas cara del universo y dono los 24 millones en Savar el Planeta esto solo lo hace el mejor musico y grandisima persona Sir "David Gilmour"121 guitarras subasto.
So does anyone know who owns this black strat to this day???
Jim Irsay the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. Paid close to 3 million for it..
@@ironking76 yeah I heard it the cost. lol but not who owns it now
@@ironking76 i heard it was 6 milion
Gilmoure used a variety of different brands and models of guitars when recording. Especially comfortably numb that had 2 or 3 different guitars each recorded different sections of track. His black and even the red strat were the guitars he toured/traveled with. and
fender guitars usually come stock with a 5 way switch. every* fender stratocaster style guitar can play both the neck and middle or the middle and the bridge. maybe, at the time fender was producing 3 ways.
Yea, your correct. At the time they only offered 3 way switching. The 5 way mod became popular among Strat players. In fact it didnt even require a mod per se... you could just wedge the switch in the "in between positon" to get both pickups on. It also gave a different sound than the current 5 way switch, as the middle pick ups were not "reverse wound" as they are today. This gave an "out of phase" sound unique to the 3 way switch guitars not achieved by the modern reverse wound configuration (that's why position 2 and 4 are now humbucking), so fender added 5 way later due to the popular mod (tho with the added reverse wound middle pickup)!
@@frankiephenom5781 Yes. Either way... this is for a good cause so all is forgiven. I'm just being a guitar nerd hehe
What's the song at 1:07?
"What do you want from me"
th-cam.com/video/bKJqJt5RLrs/w-d-xo.html
@@Tjoppy thanks
david gilmour is the #GOAT
For those who want to see one of the very first times Gilmour used that stratocaster live on film, look up "live in Pompeï"
You'll also see the guitar when it was still stock.
I WANT IT! 😢
Gilmore CLASS ACT
Clearly this gentleman doesn’t know enough about this iconic Guitar. Got the Manny’s bit right though. Thank god Phil Taylor, Gilmours tech wrote a book about the Black Strat.
Did that black strat start out with a rosewood neck ?
Yes it has had like 7 different necks on it
i will refinish my sunburst squire strat into that black strat
I NEED IT!
I think he kept the original and sold them the Custom Shop replica and no one knows the wiser.
That would be hilarious honestly, obviously these people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, lol.
He did indeed change the color, he switched out the pick guard in order to make it fully black, how could those guys not have known
70s, 80s, and 80s
4:40
wrong
he changed the colour, it is an original sunburst underneath
.
It also had a rosewood fingerboard originally. He swapped necks on it at some point.
I'm curious about how much it will go for.
MT Rich 3.975 million
That guitar is a mere shadow of it's former self.
'Floyd at Pompeii' shows what it looked like brand-new.
The only original parts on that guitar are (probably) the trem system....input jack....and the body.
The body was routed for a locking trem, and years later Dave had a tech remove it and fill-in the cavity.
Rather than butcher that axe, he could have had an entirely different body routed and mangled.
God-knows where the original neck is.
guitarguy382 my thoughts exactly
To that point apparently a lot of the hardware was stolen from it when it was on display in a Hard Rock Cafe since it wasn't behind glass or anything. So apparently a lot of hardware and maybe even pickup(s) were replaced in 2005 or whenever he got it back.
John Smith legendary tone wood... strat-o- castre. Lollll
@@jackgoff4859 Yes, I'd read that the knobs & pickup switch-tip had been stolen while at the Hard Rock.
Again.........you're David Gilmour.....you've got a fat bank account.
Why butcher a perfectly good axe when you can have a custom axe built?
Grab a duplicate black body and have at it.
...*sigh*....
:28 shows the Bill Lewis guitar
Fender Stratocaster 00001
who bought it?
@@lyles32386
Off topic.
David Gilmour customized this black Strat and that’s where he got these highly iconic sounds out of it 🎶♥️
Nobody:
Rick: Yeah I'll give you 1500
Uhhhh I mean it’s cool man and David Gilmour is a legend… but I still gotta make money on this. I’ll do $1750 not a penny more.
Gilmour is doing a better job than the studio dudes
Man.. if only I had bought a football team, I mightve owned that guitar.. darn it
One sounds most like ones self, on ones stratocaster - thats an actual dave gilmour quote lol
some info on Gilmour and his charity donations.....Back in the 80s he bought a london house for £3.5m he later sold it for £6.7m......he said something on these lines.....i only paid 3.5 thats all i want back the rest can go to charity...................
Here is a video of me playing The Black Strat, details in the description and comments: th-cam.com/video/sV1Pgex-vZo/w-d-xo.html
Just think. There was nothing special about that guitar. It was just another Strat that came off the Fender line on a Thursday afternoon. Nobody could have ever known a guitar like that would have such a pivotal roll in rock history.
3 Million !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone know what song starts at 1:07?
“What do you want from me?” Live at Pompeii
It set a record. 3,975,000. The best is always valued. You wont find anything like this ever again. Nope. Today would be Mic and a damn PC. Hahahaha
It should have went for far more given its legacy and historical value. 3.9-million isn't even a fraction of the money that guitar generated from 1970 up until 2018.
@@NXSProductions I would agree as well.
Sold for 3.3mil. Wowzers!
Nobody believed me when I said it would break 1 million, and here we are at 3.4/5 mil. Estimating it at 150,000 was so wrong
His switch was to use ALL 3 man. You missed that.
Nope, just bridge and neck.
@@wizardof6 Well I'm wrong in front of the world. Hahaha Wow I was always told all 3 ..I apologize for the lack of facts good man.
@@wizardof6 Ah wait. Lol. Yes. He did use all three...Not always. But the mod yes was to allow the bridge and or neck to be played like a tele using both and AND AND the ability to use all three ....Now again. This is just what I've been told all these years and if I'm not mistaken his tech says this. But I always give benefit of the doubt. I'd really like to know.
No need for apologies mate, just putting it out there for ya. Never mind the fact that the he points to middle p/u and says "bridge." Cheers!
@@wizardof6 haha saw that too. Cheers man. From one gilmour fan to another. 2😎😎
Anyone else feel nervous for how its sitting up there? Like its gon fall
That's probably a replica one
Big deal, Paul Newmans" Rolex Daytona, SOLD for $18 MILLION, he hardly wore it and gave it to an associate.......
Musicians are constantly looking for that tone sound.....no not today's popstars
my local radio news spoke of guitar solos played by the black strat, like another brick in the wall. Dave said it was a gibson les paul on that track. Hey who needs accuracy. Anyway its sold now, so I can't have it boo hooo hooooooooo
You are correct that the track and the first tour for the Wall was played on a Gibson les Paul, and but I have seen him play the song live on both black and red strat. And by live I'm not saying I was there, but via video.
3:42 That a normal number for a artist like this? And how many shoes do you have honey?
I bet if she heard how many Steve Howe from Yes had she'd start hyperventilating