Most Expensive Electric Guitar

There s not all that many of them still in existence and even for one not owned by anybody particularly famous you re going to pay six figures for one.

Most expensive electric guitar.

Keith richards 1959 les paul standard the 1959 les paul standard is on its own known as the holy grail of electric guitars. To help the disaster stricken countries recuperate and rebuild there was an auction held to raise money. This 56 strat was with clapton during cream briefly and derek the dominoes and now resides at paul allen s experience music project in. The only acoustic guitar to make it on our list of the most expensive guitars in the world had to be something special and boy is it special.

It was signed by a who s who of the world s greatest guitar exponents and. It s the layla guitar. Formerly the most expensive guitar was the reach out to asia guitar sold at a charity auction on 16 november 2005. Marking his shift from acoustic to electric this guitar was played by bob dylan at 1965 newport folk festival.

At number nine on the list of most expensive guitars in the world is bob dylan s 1964 sunburst fender stratocaster. John lennon s 1962 gibson j 160 e electric acoustic was one of a pair of almost identical acoustic guitars. 10 how a fender strat had asia s back. Keith richards gibson 1959 les.

5 most expensive guitar. We ve compiled a list of the top 10 most expensive guitars sold at auction let s get started. Brownie stratocaster eric clapton 450 000. Back in 2004 a devastating tsunami slammed a handful of asian countries many of which are already the poorest in the world.

So it s no surprise that we ve got two of these beauties in the top 5 of. Need we say more.