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Gibson L5CESN
"The guitar is in wonderfully mint condition and has a sound quite all of its own. I rehearsed with this guitar with the Yes line-up for TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS about 1973 so I must have bought it in 1972 on the first tour I was on since I had it for TALES. It must have been the FRAGILE tour. So there you are. Muddled? Confused? So am I. "This is a guitar I always dreamed I could play jazz on so the first thing I did when I got it was plug in the Revox and record Wes Montgomery's tune "Four On Six" through my Gibson Explorer amp which I still use today - well, not actually "today," but recently. "The guitar has this tremendously complete and tidy feel to it. A sort of sumptuous and 'ultimate' feeling as L-5s can. This is in the original case, two owners, thousands of miles, not for sale - a bit of Wes in your hands. After all, it was Wes who asserted this as one of the leading jazz guitars. I saw him play on one of his last trips to England. I sat very close and watched him play. He played very lightly on the guitar, had it turned up loud, but played very gently. He used the dynamics well. He played more in the blues vein then you would have thought from his studio recordings. He smiled from the minute he walked out of his dressing room until he went back to his dressing room. A radiant smile. I'll never, ever forget seeing Wes and an L-5 is as close as you can get to him now." |
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"This guitar was made when I was ten. I was born in April 1947 and
this guitar was made April, 1957 and, at that time, I was fascinated with the sound of the
guitar. I bought this guitar in Miami in the mid-seventies from a guitar dealer and it
cost me $650 which was a lovely price then but not as lovely as it seems now.