Sunburst LP with Yardbirds

[mickey g]

Don't recall seeing Jimmy ever playing this LP. I assume it was one of Jeff Beck's ?

 

h/t Michael Lazarus Scott 

[sixpense]

Yes, it is Jeff's. I believe this around late 66 when left the Yardbirds. Here is another pic earlier in the year with Clapton at the Marquee.

 

Marquee Club, Soho, Central London. May 3, 1966

 

 

[mickey g]

Thanks, man. I wonder where that axe is these days ?

 

ETA: https://www.lespaulforum.com/index.php?threads/jeff-becks-yardbird-burst.177135/

Edited September 28, 2021 by mickey g

[thozil]

On 9/28/2021 at 8:36 AM, mickey g said:

Thanks, man. I wonder where that axe is these days ?

He destroyed it then quit the band (...actually, he was fired). Oct 30, 1966, Corpus Christi, Texas

Jeff Beck: "I've smashed my Les Paul, and what's more, it wasn't an accident. I picked it up, swung it by the neck above my head and smashed it on the floor. The neck came away and the pickups flew in two directions. Jimmy Page was horrified, but so was I when I realized what I'd done a bit later." 

Edited September 30, 2021 by thozil

[BobDobbs]

I wonder if that was the original pick guard? The shape of it looks much more cut with sharp angles compared to the typical rounded angles. I have never seen a pick guard like that on a LP.

[mickey g]

19 hours ago, thozil said:

Jeff Beck: "I've smashed my Les Paul, and what's more, it wasn't an accident. I picked it up, swung it by the neck above my head and smashed it on the floor. The neck came away and the pickups flew in two directions. Jimmy Page was horrified, but so was I when I realized what I'd done a bit later." 

Was reading that Les Paul Forum thread & someone said he then brought it to a luthier & when he got it back & played it, the same thing happened, he was so dissatisfied with how it played.

[Mikelangelo]

Does this guitar-smashing incident bear resemblance to the scene in "Blow Up" or what?! Beck smashed a guitar there too 😆