G612EC Eddie Cochran Tribute Custom Shop guitar

G612EC Eddie Cochran Tribute Custom Shop guitar

Price: $12,000.00
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Frozen in time for more than 40 years after the tragic car crash that took his life, the one-and-only modified Gretsch G6120 guitar owned by the late, great rock-n-roll pioneer, Eddie Cochran, is now available in limited quantities from the Gretsch Custom Shop. Built by Gretsch master luthier, Stephen Stern, and his team, and replicated from Eddie's original guitar that resides at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Only 50 Cocharan Tribute guitars will be produced worldwide. During his all-too brief life and career, Eddie Cochran (1938-1960) only ever owned and played one main electric guitar, an orange Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow-body he bought brand-new in 1955 at age 16 from the Bell Gardens Music Center in his hometown, Bell Gardens, Calif. The guitar bore the serial number 16942, and his parents helped him buy it. A sharp young guitarist who was particular about his sound and knowledgeable about guitar design and modification, Cochran hot-rodded his Gretsch with a warmer-sounding "dog ear" neck pickup. It was this guitar that accompanied Cochran on his rise to stardom. It was this guitar that Cochran played on hits such as "Summertime Blues," "Twenty Flight Rock," "C'mon Everybody," "Somethin' Else" "Nervous Breakdown" and "Sittin' in the Balcony," which influenced generation of guitarists-and guitar royalty-to come. And it was this guitar that was in the trunk of the car on the April 1960 night that Cochran met his tragic and untimely fate on a winding rural road in Chippenham, England. Virtually indistinguishable from the original, the Gretsch Custom Shop G6120EC Eddie Cochran Tribute model is authentic in every detail, from the aluminum nut and bridge to the famous "dog ear" neck pickup; from the distressed vintage orange nitrocellulose lacquer finish to the relic gold-plated hardware and Bigsby B6GPVF vibrato tailpiece.