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Friday, October 15, 2010

Most Expensive Guitar and Guitar Pick in the World?!



To this day, many guitarists know the big names out there. Eric Clapton, Eddie "Van" Halen, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Kirk Hammett, and so many others. But could you guess how old the most expensive guitar is? I guarantee you can't, because it is not that old! The 2004 Standard Series Stratocaster, named "Blackie"(which is Eric Clapton's favorite mid-career custom Stratocaster) has netted over $3.7 million dollars(although it's worth is estimated about $5 million at least). But why is such a newer brand guitar worth so much? Well, after the tsunami hit, Eric Clapton wanted to help fundraise money to give away to the tsunami survivors. But how did he do it? He mostly likely thought, wow what would interest guitar players? It was decided to create(well, sign) this guitar. But his signature was not enough. So he called many famous guitarists, such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus and Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams!
But not only is this price expensive, so is the most expensive guitar pick in the world! Made of meteorite(yeah, you read that right) it is worth approximately $4,674 and the meteorite used for the maerial is about 4 billion years old!

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