Richard Gere has a huge collection and selling for charity!

[mikeluke]

I'm sure that he would not mind us 'ferreting' around his collection...

[Philly Q]

All rodent jokes apart, who would've guessed Richard Gere, of all people, would have a guitar collection like that?

I like the way they're not all collector's pieces - there are quite a few replacement tuners and bridges on display there, a couple of modern custom guitars.  He could do with a few more Juniors though.

[Keven]

now this is an auction i'd buy the catalogue for! nice book to have around for idle reading

[Afghan Dave]

That's the thing... I'd just like to own the catalogue.

[Keven]

paper or wood?

[hunter]

All rodent jokes apart, who would've guessed Richard Gere, of all people, would have a guitar collection like that?

I like the way they're not all collector's pieces - there are quite a few replacement tuners and bridges on display there, a couple of modern custom guitars.  He could do with a few more Juniors though.

Obviously, as a man of great taste, he will sell most of his stuff but keep all the good juniors.

[Ian Price]

now this is an auction i'd buy the catalogue for! nice book to have around for idle reading

£22 on the Christies website. I'm considering buying it. Such a great collection!

[Philly Q]

Obviously, as a man of great taste, he will sell most of his stuff but keep all the good juniors.

You could be right!

[Loomer]

Oh man, if only the resolution when viewing the main page would go up a little, so this topic would list as "Richard Gere has a huge co..." instead of "Richard Gere has a h..."

I know, I am easily amused.

Anyway, on topic: Glad to see the lad spent all the money from those films wisely!

[Frank]

Is he selling any EQ or distortion pedals? My bottom end is a little loose and I could use a Rat.

[ToneMonkey]

Makes me wonder what he decided to keep.

[Ian Price]

Looks like most of the lot sold:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/11/bloomberg_articlesLSX0T307SXKX.DTL

Steve Miller sounds like a right barrel of laughs:

Miller, who sat in the back of the room wearing sunglasses, kept his paddle idle. His appearance at Christie's was being filmed for a documentary titled "Burst: In Search of a Perfect Guitar," about his quest to find a pristine 1959 Les Paul Standard Sunburst.

"I wasn't tempted by anything," he said. "I have 450 guitars."


Well why go then you total tw@t.

[FernandoDuarte]

Well why go then you total tw@t.

Exactly...

[Philly Q]

Steve Miller sounds like a right barrel of laughs:

Miller, who sat in the back of the room wearing sunglasses, kept his paddle idle. His appearance at Christie's was being filmed for a documentary titled "Burst: In Search of a Perfect Guitar," about his quest to find a pristine 1959 Les Paul Standard Sunburst.

"I wasn't tempted by anything," he said. "I have 450 guitars."


Well why go then you total tw@t.

 :lol: :lol:

To be fair, it's an isolated comment that they may have quoted out of context.  But he does sound a total tw@t.

450 guitars?  I'm less than 10% of the way to that....!

[Ian Price]

Yeah - probably edited and taken out of context although still not a great thing to be quoted as saying - particularly when the proceeds of the sale are all going to charity.

What I don't understand is why he was there in the first place. If he was/is looking for a 'perfect '59' he could have saved himself the bother of going if he had just taken a few minutes to look at the auction guide!