A Historical Visit to Gruhn's Guitars

[Dennisthe Menace]

When the Wife and I took a little mini vacation on the 3rd week of December, I made it a point to stop by Gruhn's Guitars so that I
could finally place some faces with names of sales people that I have chatted with over the years, especially one Keith Gregory.
I have talked to him on the phone numerous times when I was at Sam's Trash for 7 years. I also had the good fortune of meeting
Wes Langlois and Billy Jackson. Keith was tied up with a customer at the moment, so he had Billy take the wife and i up to
'the Vault' by elevator. When the doors opened, it was a Museum up on that floor!

Veronica and I got to see an old 1957-58 Magnatone amp owned by Charlie Hardin. It was one of the first amps by Magnatone
to have built in Tremelo, which is not a big deal now days. The amp is going for $175,000, and oh, BTW, Charlie Hardin had a
last name too.....Holley . He changed the spelling of his last name, and decided to go with what everyone else called him
by his first name....Buddy.
This amp never made it on the Beechcraft Bonanza of "the Day the Music Died"....

[JimPage]

Hey, Dennis--

Wow. What an artifact of rock'n'roll history! I can't believe that you didn't buy that amp.

Thanks for sharing those great photos.

--Jim

[ElTwang]

Excellent Dennis. Did you play it?

[dubtrub]

Fantastic. And to go with his amp is his 1958 Stratocaster. Here's the story. http://www.buddyhollyandthecrickets.com/guitar.html

[TimR]

Hey Dennis, that was really cool! I'd seen the article on Buddy's Strat before, but that Magnatone amp was awesome....... What other forum would have such cool stuff???!!!

[Veenture]

Thanks Dennis for taking us into the 'museum' with you! You peresented it in a very nice way!

[dubtrub]

Here's a little more of the amp story. Very interesting. Gonna have to dig out the Buddy Holly Story DVD and watch it tonight.

http://www.gruhn.com/

[Sarah93003]

This stuff is just too cool! Thanks for posting it!