The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11786 Message #89571
Posted By: Rick Fielding
25-Jun-99 - 01:06 AM
Thread Name: Just bought a guitar for 450,000 bucks!
Subject: RE: Just bought a guitar for 450,000 bucks!
You know folks, I used to get all funny when I'd visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. I'd look at Honus Wagner's glove, and start dreaming about being there when he played. Now I always knew that 'ol Doubleday didn't invent the game (hell it was played in Canada years before, and I'm sure many times in the States) and I know that the Babe didn't point, and that Charlie Comiskey was in part responsible for the Black sox, but I love the myths, the heroes, the villains - the whole shmear. If I were rich, I'd buy anything that the 27 Yankees had touched.
I'd forgotten the good cause that the Clapton money was going to and truth to tell I sure would pay anything I could afford to hold Leadbelly's guitar. But only if it was one that he had loved as well.
Catspaw: re: the "Barnum" remark. That's why I love you!
rick