Ginger's Guitar Auctioned For Charity

Ginger's trademark, one-of-a-kind stickered Gibson Les Paul is being auctioned to raise money in aid of the British Red Cross. Say's Ginger: "Released in 1978 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Gibson Les Paul, I bought this guitar around 1987 when I was asked to join New York rockers The Throbs. After a short term in NYC the guitar came back to England with me to form The Wildhearts. I formed the band and recorded every Wildhearts album with this guitar (also Silver Ginger 5 'Black Leather Mojo', Super$hit 666 and multiple solo projects). This fine guitar acted as my main guitar on every tour The Wildhearts ever did, including the AC/DC 'Ballbreaker' tour, as well as appearances with Sex Pistols, Manic Street Preachers, and many more. And it rarely needed tuning onstage. Basically if you ever saw The Wildhearts I was playing this guitar and if you ever heard The Wildhearts then you were listening this guitar. Every song was written, played and recorded with this instrument. THIS is history.

The guitar is currently in New York City, and delivery/collection will be arranged with the winning bidder at cost.

If you have any questions, please ask Ginger directly through his Formspring account here: http://www.formspring.me/gingernyc, and answers will be added to the auction listing.

This is a fantastic opportunity to bid for a piece of musical history, while also helping a very worthwhile cause in the British Red Cross.

You can find the auction listing on eBay here.

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