I realize this is a PRS forum, but I also know from my short time being here that the majority of you guys/gals are just like me and enjoy guitars regardless of makes and models. Well, this past Saturday I went to the Amigo's Guitar Show in Nashville/Franklin. It's the first show held there since 2019 so, needless to say I was pretty excited to go. I've probably been going for 15 years or so, but I very eager to go this year since it had been 3 years.
Now, I'm sure that anyone that has been to these shows can tell you that's it's not uncommon to run across various guitars/amps of different vintages ranging in price from little to nothing to the absolutely absurd. I mean, it's nothing to see 50's Teles and Strats, Dumble Amps, or even a 'Burst. However, I was really taken aback by what I ran across this time.
It was Paul Kossoff's '59 Burst. And believe it or not they actually let me play the thing. Granted, I didn't get to plug it in or anything, but I got to pluck around on it a little and talk to the owners about it. I just thought that was very cool of them to let me do so because they didn't know me from Adam. I've never had the opportunity to play a real Burst and the first one I ever got my hands on was Kossoff's!!!! I couldn't believe it. Pretty cool I thought.
Note the "legendary" neck break:
To add to it the same folks had this 1959 Flying V too. Now, I've seen a few 'Bursts over the years, but I've never seen a V in person. This thing was actually found in a landfill in Virginia. And it was incredible how straight the neck was!!! I figured it would be all jacked up, but it wasn't. Other than the wear it had it was all there. They had changed the tuners, but they still had the originals in the case. You can kind of make out in the pictures laying on the table that Mike Hickey and the owner sort of put it back together and got it playing great. Oh, and they let me pick on this one for a minute also. It rang like a bell acoustically.
Now, I'm sure that anyone that has been to these shows can tell you that's it's not uncommon to run across various guitars/amps of different vintages ranging in price from little to nothing to the absolutely absurd. I mean, it's nothing to see 50's Teles and Strats, Dumble Amps, or even a 'Burst. However, I was really taken aback by what I ran across this time.
It was Paul Kossoff's '59 Burst. And believe it or not they actually let me play the thing. Granted, I didn't get to plug it in or anything, but I got to pluck around on it a little and talk to the owners about it. I just thought that was very cool of them to let me do so because they didn't know me from Adam. I've never had the opportunity to play a real Burst and the first one I ever got my hands on was Kossoff's!!!! I couldn't believe it. Pretty cool I thought.
Note the "legendary" neck break:
To add to it the same folks had this 1959 Flying V too. Now, I've seen a few 'Bursts over the years, but I've never seen a V in person. This thing was actually found in a landfill in Virginia. And it was incredible how straight the neck was!!! I figured it would be all jacked up, but it wasn't. Other than the wear it had it was all there. They had changed the tuners, but they still had the originals in the case. You can kind of make out in the pictures laying on the table that Mike Hickey and the owner sort of put it back together and got it playing great. Oh, and they let me pick on this one for a minute also. It rang like a bell acoustically.
