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More astounding stories of rare guitar finds and the music legends who owned them.

Do you dream of finding a 1954 Stratocaster or 1952 Gibson Les Paul online, at a garage sale, or in the local penny saver? How about virtually rubbing elbows with one of your favorite rock legends? Following up his first-of-its-kind The Strat in the Attic, musician, journalist, and guitarchaeologist Deke Dickerson shares the stories behind dozens of more astounding finds including:

A rarer-than-hens-teeth 1966 Hallmark Swept-Wing that originally belonged to Robbie Krieger of the Doors, stashed away in an attic in Alaska for forty years!

A crazy-valuable 1958 Gibson Flying V belonging to a Chicago bluesmanwho, it turns out, also happens to have an equally rare 1958 Gibson Explorer!

An out-of-the-blue, a to whom it may concern email leads the author to a trailer park in Salem, Oregon, where one of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys original 1940s Epiphone Emperor archtops is waiting to be purchased for a song!

Luthier R.C. Allen relates the tales of buying Nat King Cole Trio guitarist Oscar Moores Stromberg Master 400 archtop and of being gifted a 1953 Standel amp from Merle Travis!

Buddy Merrill, the amazingly talented guitarist from the Lawrence Welk show, gives his 1970 Micro-Frets Huntington to the author, but only if he promises to PRACTICE.

Photos of the guitars and other exciting memorabilia round out a package that no vintage-guitar aficionado will want to be without!

Deke Dickersons love for guitars and his genius for finding some of the rarest birds in the musical aviary is matched by his not-inconsiderable writing chops. The man knows how to tell a great story.

Jonathan Kellerman

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THE
STRAT
IN THE
ATTIC 2

More Thrilling Stories of Guitar Archaeology

Deke Dickerson

First published in 2014 by Voyageur Press an imprint of Quarto Publishing - photo 3

First published in 2014 by Voyageur Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.,

400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

2014 Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.

Text 2014 Deke Dickerson

All rights reserved. With the exception of quoting brief passages for the purposes of review, no part of this publication may be reproduced without prior written permission from the Publisher.

The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. All recommendations are made without any guarantee on the part of the author or Publisher, who also disclaims any liability incurred in connection with the use of this data or specific details.

We recognize, further, that some words, model names, and designations mentioned herein are the property of the trademark holder. We use them for identification purposes only. This is not an official publication.

Voyageur Press titles are also available at discounts in bulk quantity for industrial or sales-promotional use. For details write to Special Sales Manager at Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA.

To find out more about our books, visit us online at www.VoyageurPress.com.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014946789

Digital edition: 978-1-62788-556-0
Softcover edition: 978-0-76034-687-7

Acquisitions Editor: Dennis Pernu

Project Manager: Elizabeth Noll

Art Director: Cindy Samargia Laun

Cover Design: James Kegley

Design and Layout: Helena Shimizu

Cover Photography: Rick Gould

I dedicated my first book to my lovely daughter, Evelyn Marie Dickerson. Since the book was published, she still calls me her crazy Daddy and wonders why Im nocturnal like a bat. Recently, I went to pick her up at her preschool and the teacher said she was out in the playground. I went in the playground area and saw some of her schoolmates kicking a ball around. I searched in vain for my daughter until I saw her, in the corner of the yard, sitting on a stump, strumming and figuring out notes on a kid-sized guitar the preschool owns. At that moment, I knew she was my kid, and that she was going to be just fine. I love you, Evelyn, and keep doing what makes you happy, throughout this life.

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Smokey Edwards and his Trio clowning around while the lead guitarist holds a classic (and insanely valuable) Fender blackguard Broadcaster. Wonder where that guitar is now? Thomas Sims Archives

Introduction

When The Strat in the Attic was published last year, it was my first book, and I had no clue how it would be received. After all, finding old guitars out in the wild was something that I found very interesting, exciting, and entertaining, but I had no idea if it would have any sort of mass acceptance.

Luckily, there were lots of guitar geeks out there who bought the book and obviously found something worthwhile in it. The book sold well enough that Voyageur Press signed me up to do a sequel, which you now hold in your hands. In a day and age where print media is supposedly dying, I considered this a great achievement!

Having a book out was fun, but for a musician used to playing live shows and selling albums and CDs and T-shirts, this book thing was a whole new experience. My dad would email me and let me know your book is #1 on the Amazon music books chart! In fact, The Strat in the Attic was in the Top Ten charts for guitar books, music books, country-western books, rock and roll books, and several other categories for months on end. I told him that was great, but it must not take that many books to reach No. 1 on these subgenres of the book charts. I mean, Ive seen the Beverly Hills compound that my friend Jonathan Kellerman and his wife, Faye, live in thanks to their bestselling suspense and crime novels. The Strat in the Attic might have sold well, but I was still driving around my twenty-year-old car and struggling to make my monthly house payments.

One of the other things they dont prepare you for when you write your first book is the Amazon reviews. I mean, you pour your heart into writing the thing, you do your best to make it a good read, and then some of your friends give it five stars and say its the greatest book ever. All good, right?

Deke Dickerson Then the negative reviews start popping up and you better get - photo 5

Deke Dickerson

Then the negative reviews start popping up, and you better get a thick skin, and quick. Some guy complains because THIS BOOK IS NOT JUST ABOUT STRATOCASTERS! IT IS ABOUT OTHER TYPES OF GUITARS, AS WELL! Well, er, yesand Im guessing this same serious gentleman was probably disappointed when he read Of Mice and Men and discovered that it too was about other subjects besides mice and men! Then another reviewer quipped the book always seems to come back to the author and his quest to own everything, and then gloat. Boy, does that guy miss the point. Half of the crazy guitars that wound up in my collection would probably have been thrown into the trash if I hadnt said: Wait a minute, theres something really cool going on here. This is something that should be preserved, a piece of history.

I dont need to own everythingmy collection is somewhat less than a hundred guitars. While that may sound like a lot, many of the collectors Ive interviewed have hundreds of instruments, and my friend Rob Lurvey in Springfield, Missouri, has over three thousand! Gloating? Anyone who reads these stories as gloating completely misses the point. Many of the instruments in my collection are so homely and valueless that only a mother could love themor a hopeless guitar geek like myself. Thats love, sirnot gloating!

My book was all about the love I have for old guitars, and wanting to share that love through funny and entertaining stories. For the most part, people got where I was coming from, and it stirred something inside them. Other than a few sour apples out there, a lot of people thought the book was engaging, fun, and worth taking homewhich pleased me to no end.

The absolute best thing that came out of writing the first book were all the emails, coming from all corners of the globe. I was super happy to get every one of these, from teenagers who were excited about finding a $200 Danelectro at a garage sale, to retirees who had rekindled a lost love with old guitars through the stories in the book, to people who had exceptional stories that wound up as chapters in this second book. People were excited about guitarsand that made me happy!

It seems like the thing that were all fighting the most in this day and age is apathypeople just not caring about anything anymore. As a guy who finds this life on earth genuinely entertaining, that makes me sad. After all, what could be more boring than people just sitting around checking their smartphones all day long? The emails that I received were full of passion, and that made me feel like I had actually achieved something. A typical email would read: Im going to start hitting the garage sales on Saturday morningthis book has got me motivated! That, by far, was the greatest thrill from seeing my first book publishedthe feeling of genuine excitement I received from so many people who read it.

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