On the subject of Gibsons, way back
around 1985, when I lived in Hammersmith, I was walking along Chiswick High
Road one day when I passed a newly opened guitar & amp shop called Gigstop
and in its window a Gibson Dove priced at £200. Thinking this was a bargain I
went in and tried it out; nothing wrong with it, not warped, intonation OK,
heads don’t slip, no scratches. So I put down £20 deposit which was all I had
on me and went back the next day with the remaining £180.
I kept that guitar for a year or two and
eventually decided I didn’t need two Gibson acoustics and I preferred the old
one, so I advertised it in the back pages of Melody Maker for £500 ono, and got
£480. It’s probably worth £3K now, maybe more.
Gigstop went out of business within a year.
Wonder why…
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