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I got this list from Christie’s Official site. This is the comprehensive list of all the instruments Clapton auctioned in Mar ’04 to support Crossroads - A rehabilitation he has set up center for the chemically addicted. Among the instruments, I was lucky to see Clapton playing the Cherry Red Gibson ES 335 at the Yokohama Sports Arena in Nov’ 2003. He had played “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on this guitar in that show. If I am not wrong this is the same guitar upon which he achieved that Fat Heavy Bluesy Tone of “Reconsider Baby”. Last in the list is the famous “Blackie”- Clapton himself assembled this by taking the components from four Fender Strats, eventually in this auction it became the most csotly guitar history has ever recorded. Also it became the template for the Clapton Signature Strat. I tried a signature Strat in a shop in Tokyo, the action and the sustain are amazing plus that extra boost that it gets from the tone control, costs a whooping 6,50,000 yens + 5% Tax :-(





[Fender have the same repute in guitars as Mercedes in Cars]
[Stratocaster aka Strat is one of the most celebrated electric guitars]
[Action - Distance from the strings and the board of the guitar]
[Sustain - The time for which a note persists when played]
[Boost - You can only feel if you play :p]