Mick Mars’ customized Women, Women, Women Kramer KM-1 is to be bought at public sale as a part of Julien’s mammoth Music Icons assortment.
The guitar, which featured closely in the course of the glam metaller’s heyday is a part of a dizzying assortment of historic devices.
That features Prince’s yellow Cloud 3, John Lennon’s Framus 12-string thought to have been “gone ceaselessly”, a ‘65 Bob Dylan Telecaster, and 200 guitars from Randy Bachman’s private assortment.
The 1987 Kramer, which bears the serial quantity #E10670, was used extensively throughout Motley Crüe’s 1987-88 Women, Women, Women world tour. It was additionally immortalized within the music video for You’re All I Want.
Its visible aesthetic locks into the four-times-platinum promoting file’s cowl, with its purple neon font, painted by Dennis Kline, throughout its metal gray end.
Its Telecaster-style physique additionally sports activities a portray of, erm, “disembodied breasts” on its rear – keep stylish, guys.
Mick Mars’ signature may be noticed close to the bridge, together with the word “Preserve Impolite Dude, Mick Mars -91-”.
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The six-string provides a 25.5” scale size, with 22 frets making up its rosewood and dot inlay pocked fretboard. It additionally has two humbucker pickups (not specified), a black Floyd Rose for divebomb bombast, and black Schaller tuners.
There are three black management knobs – two volumes and one tone – and a three-way pickup swap, with its potentiometer resistors courting to the ultimate weeks of 1986.
The guitar’s modesty is bolstered with a black hardshell case with a black inside.
At an estimated $60,000-80,000, it represents one of many extra modest guitars within the Music Icons assortment. The haul features a plaque and a Creem Guitar Heroes of Metallic Collector Sequence journal. Mars options in that situation and may be seen ripping a unique Women, Women, Women guitar.
The guitar might be displayed at an exhibition on the Musicians Corridor of Fame and Museum in Nashville between Might 15 and 18.
It then strikes to Instances Sq.’s Laborious Rock Cafe between Might 22 and 28, earlier than the public sale, which might be held at Laborious Rock Cafe New York on Might 29 and 30.
Head to Julien’s to be taught extra about this iconic glam steel guitar.
