Table of Contents
Foreword Jonathan Kellerman 6
Introduction: Guitarchaeology 8
Hubert and the Tele Under the Bed 14
It Had an Aura Around It! 18
Don't Do This to Your Guitar 20
Guitarchaeology at Work: The Chicago Store, Tucson, Arizona 24
The Gibson-Made Grinnell Acoustic 29
Bob Dylan's Newport Stratocaster 33
"I Smell a Tweed Deluxe!" 39
Tough Old Men and Bird's-Eye Maple 41
The 12-string Gibson SG and the Mythical 12-String 'Burst 62
Boyd Heath and the Hillbilly D'Angelico 63
The 1864 Antonio de Torres Guitar 67
A Gypsy Guitar (and a Tele) in Wisconsin 71
Unwanted in Wichita 74
Duane Eddy's Howard Doubleneck: The Luckiest Guitar Alive 76
A Tweed Bassman Story 81
Terry McArthur and the TNM Custom Doubleneck 83
Gretsch White Falcon 89
586 Guitars and a Trailer Full of Parts 91
Broadcaster #0213 93
Rick Vito and the Del Vecchio 95
Finding Gold 100
Knowledge Is Power 102
Finding Charlie Christian's Guitar 105
The First Cherry ES-335 Dot-Neck 109
One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure 111
Billy F Gibbons' Mistress, Pearly Gates 114
Silvertone in a Gretsch Case 116
Johnny Paycheck's Bunker Guitar and the Near-Death Experience 118
Right Place at the Right Time 126
Gage Brewer's Estate Sale 130
The 1956 Gold Stratocaster Known as Louise 136
Pirates of the Weissenborn 137
The Joe Maphis Model Mosrite 139
Jimi Hendrix and the Left-Handed Coral Sitar 141
Espionage and Intrigue and a Blonde J-200 144
Scotty Moore's EchoSonic Amp 145
The Amazing Discovery of the Vibro Brand 151
Gino King 160
You Got Anything Else? 164
Curly Boyd and the Author's Tale of Madness 165
Hallmark Swept-Wing on a Bicycle 173
The Weird World of Joe Barrick 176
Les Paul and the Les Paul 184
Letritia Kandle and the Grand Letar 187
Where Do You Find These Guitars? 196
Link Wray's Danelectro 198
On the Trail of the Moderne 217
Bigsby Hunting 228
