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CUSTOM GUITAR TO GO UP FOR AUCTION


Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)

LOS ANGELES (AP) A bright yellow, uniquely shaped guitar used by Prince
to perform such tunes as "Cream" and "Gett Off" is going up for auction.

Heritage Auctions is selling one of the late artist’s "yellow cloud" electric
guitars beginning June 24 with an opening bid of $30,000. The guitar was
one of several custom guitars Prince used in the 1980s and 1990s.

posted by Bob Karm in Auction,CURRENT EVENTS,Guitar,MUSIC,Musician and have No Comments

BORN IN ITALY ON THIS DAY IN 1452


Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, (more commonly Leonardo da Vinci)
(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)   

Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and
architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic
Vitruvian Man. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. He
also devised such futuristic technology as tanks, concentrated solar power, and
adding machines, and spearheaded some vital breakthroughs in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

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The Last Supper


Mona Lisa

               Firma de Leonardo Da Vinci.svg

posted by Bob Karm in ART,BIRTHDAY,HISTORY,INVENTION,Medical,Musician,Science and have No Comments

THE MUSIC OF STEVE ALLEN ~


Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen
(December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000).

posted by Bob Karm in Comedian,Composer,HISTORY,MUSIC,Musician,Recording,Talk Show,TV series and have No Comments