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Craig Evans Offline




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Posted: Jan. 02 2005, 05:22

I have come to the conclussion that at one point Mike Oldfield had 4 Gibson Ls-6 electric guitars.  Below are hyperlinks to each of the pictures:-

https://web.archive.org/web....ado.jpg

(This guitar is a blonde Gibson Ls-6 deluxe that was used on Crises.)

http://users.bigpond.net.au/punkadiddle/guitar.jpg
Edit - This link is now dead.  Here is a better one:-
https://images.reverb.com/image....rhq.jpg

(This guitar is a black Gibson Ls-6 custom that was used on Platinum and was sold at the sale of the century at Abbey Road Studios.)

http://www.angelstown.de/markota/Live/Knebworth_1980/mike05-2.jpg
Edit - This link is now dead.  Here is a better one:-
https://tubular.net/instruments/photos/Gibson_L6-S_custom_live.jpg

(This guitar is a blonde Gibson Ls-6 that was customised by Tony Zemaitis and was used on the 1980 Knebworth concert.)

http://www.angelstown.de/markota/Live/Munich_1980/MO_1980f.jpg
Edit - This link is now dead.  Here is a better one:-
https://elitevintageguitars.files.wordpress.com/2017....7&h=441

(This guitar is a Gibson L6-s that has a wine red finish on the North Point video.)


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Posted: Jan. 02 2005, 12:05

Your link to the wine red one seems to point to the blonde one.

Anyway, I think it was probably two, or just possibly three. The blonde one with the black scratchplate (as seen in the Exposed pictures) is the one which Tony Zemaitis customised. The black one, I'm not sure about - a wine red finish could look black under certain lighting conditions.

I'm not convinced it's an L6-S in the North Point video - the body looks way too small, the upper bout in particular looks quite narrow. One thing that's distinctive about the L6-S is that although it looks at first glance like a variant on the Les Paul design, the body is much larger.
I will take a look at the video again, though - if it is indeed an L6-S there, it would mean there were three (one having been sold before the video was made).
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Posted: Jan. 02 2005, 18:18

Quote (Korgscrew @ Jan. 02 2005, 12:05)
Your link to the wine red one seems to point to the blonde one.
I am sorry about Korgscrew.  I guess I must have given you the wrong link.

P.s.  Thankyou Korgscrew for your advice is this topic.  :)  :)


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Posted: Feb. 03 2005, 13:24

There are indeed only two of the L-6S models Mike used.

The black one, which was auctioned off and the blonde one, which later became a customised scratchplate by Tony Zemaitis.

Chris
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