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Note from Robert Plant
'To Mary, Rock On Robert Plant'
'To Mary, Rock On Robert Plant'
Judas Priest stickers
Described by 'Hard Rock' organization as the single most important piece of music history through out their humongous dazzling collection of memorabilia , this historic beautiful cherry red Gibson SG was bought by Tony Iommi sometime around 1966-1967 , Tony Iommi was originally using a white fender strat professionally as viewed on his very short stunt with Jethro Tull on the rolling stone film ‘The Rock N Roll circus’ , during the recording sessions of Black Sabbath’s debut album and after tracking ‘Wicked World’ , the bridge pickup failed and since it was really difficult to get any guitar treatment at time Tony Iommi used this spare Gibson SG 1965 special guitar to finish up recording the rest of the album and ever since became his main instrument on the majority of Sabbath’s early albums and tours. The guitar was used on the Black Sabbath albums ‘Black Sabbath’ , ‘Paranoid’ ,’Master Of Reality’,’Vol.4’ and ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ , it can easily be seen on all early 70’s Sabbath videos specifically on Sabbath’s memorable show at ‘California Jam’ 1974.The guitar which was nicked ‘The Monkey’ guitar due to the distinctive and instantly recognizable monkey guitar on front of the guitar was heavily edited by legendary guitar lutheir Martin Birch , he replaced the neck positioned pickup with a Simplux ( a P90 like single coil pickup) and custom wounded the P90 pick up at the bridge position as well.The guitar was donated by Tony Iommi to ‘Hard Rock Café’ organization as seen on ‘Hard Rock Treasures’ DVD and viewed in the picture gallery of this post .The guitar is currently at New York Times Square Hard Rock.
Black Sabbath photos from Glasgow gig (1970s)
Acquired from Les Dunning 18 photos taken by Les at a Led Zeppelin concert, one of which was later signed by Robert Plant
Black Sabbath matchbook
Didn’t know which existing category to use for this one!
A collection of photographs taken at Henry's Blues House. The artists include: Brewers Droop (photos 1 through 4), Champion Jack Dupree (photos 5-6), Earth (or a very early Black Sabbath) (photos 7-8), Reverend Gary Davis (photos 9-13), Simon Prager & Steve Rye (photos 14-16).
Glenn Tipton joined Judas Priest as guitarist in 1974. Here he is on stage at Henry’s Blueshouse with his band of the time: The Flying Hat Band.
Two early Black Sabbath promotional photographs (1970)
Homemade scrapbook featuring newspaper cuttings of Judas Priest & Led Zeppelin
This 7" lovingly sits alongside my collection of European picture sleeve 45s.
Glen Tipton with The Flying Hat Band.
Henry's Blues House advert
From my 62 years old mate shirts collection. The senile fool can't remenber when he purchased it ;) I would think it's from the late seventies. Iron on transfer as they use to do back then. Quite faded but nice one though.