Based on this, the guitar was made likely sometime in 1964, or at least a couple of months after the model was officially renamed from Les Paul to “SG”, which stood for “Solid Guitar”. This can be deducted from two clues – the guitar is equipped with a Maestro tremolo which was first introduced in 1963, and the pickguard featured six screws that were fitted on SGs from the beginning of 1964. Second – the guitar is not a Les Paul but an SG. ![]() Clapton: The Autobiography p.167įew things to point out in the quote above – John Lennon’s Rolls Royce was not painted by the same artists, but by Steve Weaver The Fool collective did however work on many of the Beatles’ stuff, including George Harrison’s Mini Cooper, and the facade of the Beatles’ Apple Boutique in London’s Baker Street I asked them to decorate one of my guitars, a Gibson Les Paul, which they turned into a psychedelic fantasy, painting not just the front and back of the body, but the neck and fretboard, too. They had also painted John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce in lurid psychedelic colors. By that time the guitar already featured the custom body paint done by Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger, who later went on to form a design collective called The Fool. ![]() It first appeared at Cream’s debut US concert on March 25th, 1967 at the RKO theater on 58th Street, Manhattan, New York. ![]() Clapton acquired this guitar presumably sometime in 1967.
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