Buy a piece of music heritage from Reverb.com
Guitars on sale owned and played by Elvis, Courtney Love and Radiohead.- plus many more.
Reverb.com is the online global marketplace for buying and selling preloved and new musical instruments and pro-audio gear, When you shop with Reverb, not only are you giving an instrument a new lease of life and helping musicians earn some extra cash, but you might also be able to own a piece of music history.
For collectors whose budget is limitless, Reverb is currently listing a 1968 Fender Rosewood Telecaster that was built as a prototype guitar for Elvis Presley for £252,747.
This listing comes along with a letter from Fender's Nashville rep at the time, Eddie Miller, dated September 16, 1969 that verifies its provenance. According to the listing, the King himself used his one-of-six Rosewood Telecaster prototype intermittently over the months after he got it before ultimately deciding that it was too heavy for him. He sent it back to Eddie Miller, and the Rosewood Tele then made its way to Nashville producer Scotty Turner.
(View the listing here https://reverb.com/uk/item/63343417-fender-rosewood-telecaster-1968-1st-ever-prototype-built-for-elvis-presley-includes-documentation)
Also for sale this week Courtney Love's 1994 Fender Venus for £53,967 (https://reverb.com/news/find-of-the-week-courtney-loves-fender-venus)
According to the Germany-based seller, Courtney kept this guitar at the famous home overlooking Lake Washington in Seattle that she shared with Kurt Cobain. It's supposedly still strung with the last strings she used, pick scratches and all. The headstock was carefully repaired by her guitar tech after suffering a partial face split when it was dropped during a concert, making this as unique as it gets.
Or how about Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien’s White Fender Sustainer Stratocaster Guitar Used On the 'A Moon Shaped Pool' Tour From 2016-2018 for £80.953
This unique US Signature guitar was hand-built at the Custom Shop for O'Brien by Alex Perez, with a contoured body, maple neck, maple fingerboard, body applied with a small piece of white tape with a handwritten '3' on the side,
There are studio gear finds within the Official Daptone Records Reverb store (https://reverb.com/uk/shop/the-official-daptone-records-reverb-shop) including kit that was used to record Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, Sharon Jones and more.
Since the early 2000s, Daptone Records has been championing classic sound and recording techniques. As true analogue lovers, the label has amassed a collection of gear that’s been on dozens of records. “Most of what I know about gear and sounds and recording, I learned at Daptone watching Gabe Roth,” said seven-time Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson. “From the Orban Spring Reverb to the RCA DX 77 to the Ampeg Gemini Amps, anything I could afford to buy that I saw there, I would get it. I would recommend you do the same."
For fans on a more modest budget, there are thousands of price drops and deals all year round on Reverb, including custom-made, one-of-a-kind pieces. Go to www.reverb.com and have a browse.