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Julien’s Auctions Presents ‘Icons & Idols Trilogy Rock N’ Roll’ Auction
December 1 & 2, 2020
Online and in Beverly Hills, CA
How could we not publish these guitars from iconic late musicians that are up for auction? They are just so cool with a hot price tag to match. We all need something fun to look at and peruse during this time and this auction has some guitar eye candy. Jump in and enjoy.
Julien’s Auctions ‘Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock N’ Roll is an auction taking place in Beverly Hills, CA and online. The event will include nearly 900 historic artifacts featuring some of the most iconic memorabilia and important artifacts ever assembled, representing legendary music artists crossing over every genre, including Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Prince, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Queen, David Bowie, The Police, Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Elton John, and many more.
We featured only three guitars here but there is much more to look through. See the link for the flip book below.
Jimi Hendrix owned and played left-handed Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. A guitar with Olympic White finish, serial number 273639 to the neckplate, indicating a build date of 1969, alder body, maple neck with no skunk stripe, stamped in red “22JUN 68B,” maple cap fingerboard with dot inlays, three correct original pickups inscribed “L/H,” three controls, potentiometers stamped “137 7002,” dated to the second week of 1970. In black hard case. Accompanied by: – A notarized letter from Jimi Hendrix’s close friend TaharQa Z. Aleem (aka Albert Allen) of the Ghetto Fighters, dated 2006, stating that the guitar once belonged to Hendrix. – A notarized letter dated 2005 from friend Paul Caruso confirming the guitar was Hendrix’s and that he saw it at the Record Plant Studios in New York in March 1970. – A photograph of Caruso with the guitar and seven photos of Emmaretta Marks holding the guitar. Marks sang backing vocals on several Hendrix recordings. Hendrix is known to have owned and played several left-handed Fender Stratocasters. See here for more information
Albert King owned and played Gibson Flying V Guitar with CDs. Serial number 380460, circa 1966, mahogany body with cherry red finish, mahogany neck with short tenon, 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, chrome plated Humbucking pickups, Vibrola Tremolo, twin volume controls, single tone control. The body is signed “Love/ you/ Albert King”. In shaped red plush-lined Gibson hard case. Accompanied by a notarized letter from the Executrix of the Albert King Estate confirming that this guitar was “owned by Albert King for many years and that he played the guitar a number of times on recordings and at many of his personal live concert performances.” The guitar shows signs of an expert repair to the neck that “was badly damaged when, in 1985, a tornado tore the roof off the hotel in West Memphis, AR where Albert was staying.” The serial number and short neck tenon indicate that this guitar was built in 1966.
Two Eddie Van Halen guitars, stage played Charvel Electric Guitar and owned and stage played Kramer Electric Guitars. 2004 EVH Charvel Art Series electric guitar, with maple neck and fingerboard, Fender Stratocaster-style headstock numbered on the back #54 with evidence of a cigarette burn to the front. The body features a black pickguard and a unique white and black abstract design hand-striped by Eddie Van Halen in the style of his 1978 Van Halen I guitar. The front of the body is signed in black marker pen Eddie Van Halen, initialed VH 04 and inscribed in Van Halen’s hand San Antonio Texas / 9-28-04.This guitar also includes an EVH humbucking pickup, Original Floyd Rose tremolo fitted with an EVH D-Tuna Drop D tuning system and one white volume knob inscribed TONE. There is a Genuine /EVH 00054sticker to the tremolo cavity. In black EVHhardshell case with a partly-smoked cigarette in a plastic vial, presumed to be EVH’s. The guitar is accompanied by a COA signed by Edward Van Halen and John Walker of Charvel Guitars, four 8 x 10 in. color photos of Eddie applying the striping with tape to the body and five 8 x 10 in. color photos of him playing the guitar on stage at the San Antonio show. Guitar: length 38 7/8 inches, Case: 41 1/4 inches by 14 inches.
View the entire Flip Book for ‘Icons & Idols Trilogy’ Rock N’ Roll with amazing photos of these guitars!
Julien’s Auctions
Public Exhibition and Auction Location
257 N. Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
*Rock and Blues Muse, LLC, does not have any connection to Julien’s Auctions and featured this only for viewing pleasure.
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