A 1956 Gibson ES-350TN

细节

A 1956 Gibson ES-350TN
Serial No. A 23700, Factory Order No. V5305 2, in natural finish, with gold-plated metal parts, thinline body with single round cutaway, top with bound f-holes, maple neck, twenty-two fret bound rosewood fingerboard with double parallelogram inlays, headstock face with crown motif inlay, two P-90 pickups, four rotary controls, selector switch, wooden bridge, metal tailpiece and black pickguard; and a brown hardshell contour case with pink plush lining and Lee Dickson's handwritten swing label '56 E.S. 350.T 23700 and adhesive paper label similarly inscribed

The ES-350T was introduced in 1955. Chuck Berry regularly recorded and performed with one of these models during the 1950s.

Clapton describes this guitar as "Beautiful". He said that he bought this particular instrument as a tribute to one of his heroes, Chuck Berry, and played it in concert with him in 1986. Clapton recalled that he had hoped to impress Berry when he appeared on stage with the model of guitar that Berry is largely associated with and laughingly recounted how Berry didn't even notice! Clapton also said that he had done quite a lot of recording with this guitar.
Gibson ES-350TN/Natural

出版

FORTE, Dan The Interview - Eric Clapton in Guitar Player, GPI Collectors Edition, Summer, 1986, p.22

拍品专文

Clapton referred to this model of guitar in an interview with Dan Forte as the "Holy Grail":
"...There are still guitars that I want: they're like the Holy Grail for me. There's the fat-bodied guitar that Chuck Berry played in all the publicity photographs of him duck-walking; a Gibson ES-350. It's got those black [P-90] pickups. I'm always on the look out for a good one of those..."

Clapton played this guitar with Chuck Berry at the latter's two 60th Birthday Party concerts at Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Mo. October 16th, 1986. He sang and played on Wee Wee Hours, Rock'N'Roll Music and Hail! Hail! Rock'N'Roll. The performance was filmed and subsequently released as the 1986 Delilah film Hail! Hail! Rock'N'Roll.