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Duane Allman played this 1957 Les Paul Goldtop in the
studio and live performances for the first 18 months in The Allman
Brothers Band including recording the first two albums, which feature
the original versions of Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Midnight Rider and Revival. Duane also used it on numerous sessions with other artists, including Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
While recording Layla
he’d seen Eric Clapton’s cherry sunburst and now he wanted one of his
own. Duane didn’t have long to wait as a few weeks later The Allman
Brothers Band played a show in Daytona, Florida, where he saw another
guitarist playing a 1959 cherry sunburst Gibson Les Paul. Duane offered a
swap but the deal was only done when he threw in an extra $200 and one
of his Marshall 50 heads, but Duane insisted on keeping the pickups from
his Goldtop to put into his new cherry sunburst. So the electronics
were swapped and the deal was done. Meanwhile, Duane’s original Goldtop
passed through several owners and some years later the instrument was
restored to its original condition and placed on display at The Allman
Brothers Band Museum at the Big House, Macon, Georgia.
The illustration on this card was hand drawn by George Morgan and is not a photograph.
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Size 210mm x 99mm (8.3" x 3.7")
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