Got $6 million? Buy Robert Johnson's guitar

[Reggie Dunlop]

Buy Robert Johnson's guitar!

I dunno, man. Seems they're making the case that it's guitar pictured in the only existing photograph of the feller (as opposed to the one he might of played).

There's a beat-up version of the same model from the same vintage on Ebay right now going for about a thousand bucks. They're not as rare as you'd think.

Anyway, this is the same auction house that is hawking John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman's autographed Double Fantasy album.

Eric Clapton, Morgan Freeman, and Keith Richards are rumoured to be interested.

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[icarus]

Whoever buys that guitar will probably die under unusual circumstances.

[Displaced Flames fan]

The way I've heard Clapton talke about Robert Johnson, my money is on him.

[jolinar of malkshor]

What a waste of money

[habernac]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

What a waste of money

what a waste of a post

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by habernac

what a waste of a post

And yours is so much better.

It just shows how pathetic we have become when someone may spend 6 million on a guitar while children cannot get enough food, education, or health care.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

What a waste of money

Without positive verification, it might seem so. There's really no paper trail on this instrument (or the auctioneers choose to withhold it for some strange reason).

Paul McCartney's first guitar (actually his fathers originally) just went for about $600,000. Roger McGuinn's stolen fabled 12 string Rickenbacker turned up and went for around $400,000.

So far, the claim with this auctioned guitar is that it resembles the guitar Johnson was holding in the picture.

Had the guitar passed on to Johnson's son, or a contemporary like Son House or Robert Lockwood, there might be a case for the pricetag, ludicrous as it may seem.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

And yours is so much better.

It just shows how pathetic we have become when someone may spend 6 million on a guitar while children cannot get enough food, education, or health care.

Ah yes, the old "starving children" arguement.

Why does anyone own anything of value?

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

And yours is so much better.

It just shows how pathetic we have become when someone may spend 6 million on a guitar while children cannot get enough food, education, or health care.

Yes, the preservation of history and culture is a total waste of time.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

And yours is so much better.

It just shows how pathetic we have become when someone may spend 6 million on a guitar while children cannot get enough food, education, or health care.

If that six million dollars would go towards buying food for the starving children or giving books to the starving uneducated children or providing hospitals for the starving uneducated sick children - then yes you might have a point.

Furthermore unless you can honestly say that you own nothing of value or have never made a purchase of something that was not a necessity then you would be a hypocrite. Heck if you own a computer that you typed your message with - you would be contradicting yourself. Personally I think it is an amazing piece of musical history which you might not understand.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Yes, the preservation of history and culture is a total waste of time.

Oh is that what it is....

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

If that six million dollars would go towards buying food for the starving children or giving books to the starving uneducated children or providing hospitals for the starving uneducated sick children - then yes you might have a point.

Furthermore unless you can honestly say that you own nothing of value or have never made a purchase of something that was not a necessity then you would be a hypocrite. Heck if you own a computer that you typed your message with - you would be contradicting yourself. Personally I think it is an amazing piece of musical history which you might not understand.

There is a BIG difference in owning day to day goods that most people have and a 6 million dollar guitar.

You have money......go ahead and buy what you want, I am simple stating how our society relies so much on commercialism and the waste that we make, including myself. However, I have never spent 6 million on anything and to compare that to a computer is quite bogus. If I have that kind of money, I would guarantee you I wouldn't spend it on stupid **** like that.

But as typical fashion wih CP it's all about trying to bach the other person and twist there posts around to make it seem like they mean something other than what they wanted.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Oh is that what it is....

Are you saying that you think that Rock & Roll and all of it's derivatives is not a huge piece of history and culture? Because all of it was born of THAT guitar if it is indeed the one in the picture.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Are you saying that you think that Rock & Roll and all of it's derivatives is not a huge piece of history and culture? Because all of it was born of THAT guitar if it is indeed the one in the picture.

No, not saying that at all.

I just think that it's all about the money, maybe it should be donate to a museum?

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

No, not saying that at all.

I just think that it's all about the money, maybe it should be donate to a museum?

Eric Clapton's collection IS a museum.

Maybe your anger should be directed at those who are trying to sell it. The potential buyers' intentions and motivations probaly have little to do with money and 'commercialism'.

[Patek23]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

And yours is so much better.

It just shows how pathetic we have become when someone may spend 6 million on a guitar while children cannot get enough food, education, or health care.

Yet you won't spend an extra 10 dollars tax to save innocent lives right now


nice job hypocrite

[Reggie Dunlop]

I'd make a pretty accurate guess that the purported purchasers (such as Clapton) have donated more of their time and money to charity than you could even fathom.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Flaming Homer

Yet you won't spend an extra 10 dollars tax to save innocent lives right now


nice job hypocrite

Again, exactly what looger was talking about. This thread is much different than the one about paying for everyone to come here. I actually said that if the spending was done within the current foreign aid then go ahead, but twist it around..........

I disagree with spending 6 million on a fricken guitar so it validates my point. All I was saying was that IMO it is a WASTE of money, plain in simple, but if you want to some how make it the same as ME spending my TAX dollars on brining in foreigners than go ahead and twist the facts.

I actually said that I have no problem with people spending THEIR money just simply stated the fact that it was, IMO, a waste of money.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Eric Clapton's collection IS a museum.

Maybe your anger should be directed at those who are trying to sell it. The potential buyers' intentions and motivations probaly have little to do with money and 'commercialism'.

Fair enough, but I have no anger here, I was simply pointing out that we are now spending 6 million on a guitar, no different then paintings, old cars or what ever else.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

But as typical fashion wih CP it's all about trying to bach the other person and twist there posts around to make it seem like they mean something other than what they wanted.

LOL.

You take a post way off tangent and then you complain when you're called on it.:baby: