RE: What are Jimmy's LP Guitars worth?

["John Bindon" <john_bindon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I heard an interesting story on NPR about three weeks ago discussing how the 
"baby-boomer" generation is driving up these prices since they now have the 
money to purchase the equipment of their idols.  The story had a great audio 
segue from Les Paul playing "Caravan" to BOOM!  The guitar assualt we all 
know from Jimmy's solo in Heartbreaker from LZ II.  The story gave almost 
all the credit of the popularity of the LP to Page for which I was grateful.


> From: "john tyra" <green_acres1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <zeppelin-digest@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: What are Jimmy's LP Guitars worth?
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:24:47 -0400
>
> I have always been interested in vintage guitars and have a fascination 
> with the escalating prices the classic 1958-60 Les Pauls have been pulling 
> in.
>
> I thought the trend had been that all original, very good condition, 
> examples were fetching $100K+ on the today's market but this latest auction 
> on ebay blew me away
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7415462296&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
>
> The bidding reached $222K and did not hit the reserve...seems to me the 
> seller was just fishing to see what someone would pay but imagine what 
> Jimmy's #1 or #2 would pull in at auction!!!!