And when Johnny Marr plays, he can just go to a store and get a brand new Johnny Marr guitar, and the guitar is right. “One of my best friends in the world is Johnny Marr. That just happened only a few weeks ago, believe it or not, and we've been trying for at least 15 years.
“You can go to the custom shop and they can take all these measurements and they think they have it right. “It shows you the diligence of Fender to try and replicate something that they didn't really have a model for,” Rodgers says about the prototypes. The original Hitmaker has been played by him on numerous hit records: among them, Chic’s “Le Freak” Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” Duran Duran’s “Notorious” David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” Several custom-made prototypes of the Hitmaker from the 2000s are also up for bidding at the Christie’s auction. Give me that one for this thing.'”Īs a performer, Rodgers is also best known for his 1960 Fender Stratocaster guitar, nicknamed t he Hitmaker, which accounts for his distinct and trademark sound. And it was like, 'Wow, man, I remember doing this.' 'I remember doing that.' And then I realized that there are so many stories that I actually forgot to talk about-because when you're dealing with instruments many a day, you just say, 'Oh, I know what. “When I started to look at the instruments individually, all of a sudden there was that magical one-on-one connection. Rodgers describes his guitar collection as “a snapshot into the soul of me.” credit: Christie'sĪmong the unique guitars featured in the auction include a 1957 solid body Fender Stratocaster (estimated value at $30,000-$40,000) a 1950 arch-top John D'Angelico ($30,000-$40,000) a 1959 semi-hollow body Gibson Kalamazoo ($25,000-$30,000) and a 1940 acoustic Henri Selmer Django Reinhardt model ($20,000-$30,000).
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Not only because they were important to me spiritually, but it'd be nice to have real documentation.”įENDER Telecaster, Serial number 6619, from Nile Rodgers' collection.
So I was on this Raiders of the Lost Ark kind of thing with these guitars that I have. Then I looked around and I had another 200 guitars that needed that kind of backup. Some I bought because of the mythology that was attached. “So that's what made me think about it, because I kept thinking about how excited I was when I purchased each one of those guitars. He and I became friends and I asked him years later, ‘Hey man, you remember pawning that guitar on 57th Street?’ And he looked at me like I was out of my mind.
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I didn't even know how to talk to him, and I hadn't had a professional recording career yet.
I almost wanted to say, ‘Let me buy that guitar.’ But of course, he was pawning it, so you couldn't claim it right there on the spot. I'm going, ‘Damn.’ He was pawning a guitar. John!’ I'm a kid, and Gris-Gris had just come out.