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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:38 am
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That's EC Grey :D


Can we please stop the EC color tombola? I'm starting to get dizzy. :wink:
Doc's dizzy too, he didn't get the :D

Agreed :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:52 am
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alainlafrance wrote:
Bobby1 wrote:
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That's EC Grey :D


Can we please stop the EC color tombola? I'm starting to get dizzy. :wink:
Doc's dizzy too, he didn't get the :D

Agreed :wink:

Nothing like a little vertigo to liven up the day. Hmmmm....great title for a motion picture...Ya think?!?!?!

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:32 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
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That's EC Grey :D

Look closely at the pickups mon ami. Those look like Laces to me. There's also a cigarette in that headstock,[remember that he stopped smoking long before 2010] the amps and the Ernie Ball strap date the photo as well. All things taken together, that's the pewter prototype which was sold at the first auction. :wink:



It's one of the prototypes. Clapton owned three prototypes in total.

The Torino Red prototype he played during the August tour in 1986/87 is actually owned by cricketer Ian Botham.

In 1988 the Pewter prototypes received each a 22-fret neck made from flame and birdseye maple handcrafted by Mike Stevens. The boost was increased to 25dB and the active/passive toggle switch has been deleted.

One of the prototypes became Black in 1990 after being refinished in Candy Green in 1989 (Night Music). This guitar would became the basis for the final product and Clapton's favorite stage and studio axe until 1993.


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:41 am
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We need those little refreshers from time to time, with all the new members coming aboard. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:40 am
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I saw Brownie :D at the Nashville GC and totally lusting for Brownie. Only in my dreams, would I be able to afford that beautiful guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:13 am
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I saw Brownie :D at the Nashville GC and totally lusting for Brownie. Only in my dreams, would I be able to afford that beautiful guitar.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you see a star. Wait until tonight and get busy :idea: You never know. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:26 pm
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Hey UffBoy, did you get a DVD on the making of the guitar when you get your message? or could somebody from FMI could solve this mystery for me cause the GC website stated it was supposed to come with one...
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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:51 am
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Stipe-mills returns! wrote:
Hey UffBoy, did you get a DVD on the making of the guitar when you get your message? or could somebody from FMI could solve this mystery for me cause the GC website stated it was supposed to come with one...
THANKS GUYS!

Why does this question NOT surprise me?!?!?!?. The first 500 Gilmour's were supposed to come with a copy of Phil Taylor's book. Yet the luck may have depended on who you purchased your guitar from.

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:51 am
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Yes Doc, but in that case... you still got the book, maybe not signed, but you still got it... in this case what puzzles me is that one company I.e., GC says one thing and Fender does another... So I just want to know if there in fact ever was a DVD or not...


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:58 am
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Another interesting fact that Clapton fails to mention in the interview regarding Brownie, but which is covered in the book that comes with the guitar is that before he used Brownie with Derek and the Dominoes he used Brownie's neck which was fitted into a Telecaster and appears in the Hyde Park concert of Blind Faith... of course maybe you already knew that, but just thought I mentioned it...
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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:21 am
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Stipe-mills returns! wrote:
Yes Doc, but in that case... you still got the book, maybe not signed, but you still got it... in this case what puzzles me is that one company I.e., GC says one thing and Fender does another... So I just want to know if there in fact ever was a DVD or not...

In keeping with that thought, I had actually purchased the second edition of the book about two weeks before I purchased the guitar. The second edition was far more up to date and expanded to cover the guitar project. Wildwood had, on it's website, and inordinately large stock of both NOS and Relic copies and, even though I had ordered my guitar from GC, I still did not have a signed copy. I have no way to substantiate that each of the guitars in Wildwood's stock contained a signed copy, but I would bet on it. One wonders, how ,in such a short period of time, 500 signed copies could be disseminated to the four winds such that one of FMIC's largest vendors GC, would not have been able to supply a customer with the premium. :?

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:02 pm
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M, apologies ive been offline for a while.

i actually have not registered for my goodies yet so i do not know if ill be getting the dvd - doesnt the fender ad for it also say dvd included (ie not just on the guitar center site)? i think i may be seeing some of the fendr marketing people this week, so ill ask if i get the chance.

i knew anout the brownie neck at hyde park...what i just stumbled across lately is it seems that he also used brownie at the concert for bangladesh (he clearly is using a sunburst strat that looks a lot like brownie in some footage i saw), which would date it being used at least as late as 1971.


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:35 pm
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Thanks man, please let me know, cause if it DOES include one, then I have a bone to pick with Fender and GC...

I'm not completely sure about Brownie on Bangladesh because if you look at the footage of Clapton's Rolling Hotel, he is using a sunburst also which sports a maple neck with a larger headstock, which could be either a 68 or a 69 one... Thoughts?

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:45 pm
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I just reviewed a video of that concert. Both the Brownie, hollowbody Gibson are on stage with him, the Lucy Les Paul, I believe, along with a round hole acoustic.

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:20 pm
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Check out Tulsa Time in that Video... that guitar is a sunburst strat with a large headstock and it IS NOT BROWNIE....


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