Not eBay of the day: Peter Tosh's M-16 Guitar

YardFlex reports on the strange story of Peter Tosh's M-16 shaped guitar (which I wrote about here and here). The guitar was due to be sold (for charity) on eBay on Dec 3rd. News of the auction stirred up some legal claims in Jamaica (Peter had 10 children and his mother is still alive), and the auction has been cancelled. In this wonderful post, Peter's former manager Copeland Forbes tells the full story of the M-16 guitar, how it was made by a young fan, how buying a case for it was a pain, how it was lost in Germany, then found after an appeal in Der Spiegel, and how it was played a the biggest concert ever in Swaziland.
Anyway, if you're a disappointed potential bidder, there's always item 120062795791, which is still 99p (plus £35 shipping) with only a day to go.

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

At the 2003 NAMM Show I saw a similar guitar in the ESP Booth.

But the best one I've seen while scouring the show for Oddities was the one by RB Guitar Sculpture. It had a working laser in the scope that used the trigger as a switch.

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Anonymous : 12:47 am

Roger Troutman plays a similar one here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kotlo5du_Q

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Anonymous : 2:42 am