Musikmesse 2010: International Vintage Show highlights gallery
Amongst the shiny new guitars, and the beaten up new guitars masquerading as old guitars at Frankfurt Musikmesse 2010, the International Vintage Show was the place to go to see instruments you’d have to sell your house to afford.
We’ve already featured the Burst Brothers exhibiting Eric Clapton’s Blackie and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Lenny Stratocasters. Now, here’s the best of the rest in our gallery of hardcore guitar porn of the highest order...
Alongside the iconic Clapton and SRV Strats, the Burst Brothers also had a couple of bona fide 'Bursts...
1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard
...and this one is well worth a second look. Check out that lacquer checking!
Les Paul Standard detail
Candy apple red to be precise. Jaguars, Jazzmasters, Stratocasters, Jazz and Precision basses and more
And in the red corner...
Paying homage to The Beatles' formative years on the Reeperbahn, Hamburg Star Club memorabilia was plentiful, and this recreation of their pre-fame live set-up made us want to get up and rock 'n' roll
Ja, ja, ja!
A couple of rare-as-hens-teeth doublers, one bound and one with a mandolin neck in place of the usual 12-string
Gibson doublenecks
Our favourite '50s Fender exhibited at the International Vintage Show. Now, if only there was an amp to play it through...
Blackguard Telecaster
Oh, go on then. Rarely has backline looked so sexy
Blackface Fender Tremolux
The ES-335TD's (right) long pickguard betrays its pre-1961 manufacture. A beautiful example
Vintage Gibson and Epiphone semis
When Goldtops go green. This model's wrapover bridge denotes it as a '55. It would originally have been fitted with soapbar P-90s but they've been swapped for humbuckers
1955 Les Paul Goldtop
Let's just hope the owner didn't lose the vibrato arm...
Early '60s SG with Maestro vibrola
For another hit of hardcore vintage guitar porn from the International Vintage Show at Frankfurt Musikmesse 2010, check out Stevie Ray Vaughan's Lenny and Eric Clapton's Blackie in pictures.