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Guitar Hero: Tweedy
Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters have one. So does Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen. And soon, thanks to Oregon's Breedlove Guitar company, Jeff Tweedy will join the ranks of local shredders with a signature guitar model.
For the last few months, Tweedy's main acoustic guitar has been a Breedlove Revival 000 12-fret Calendar guitar. (That's him playing it at the Dec. 7 Barack Obama fundraiser at the Riviera.) He apparently fell in love with the guitar at local guitar shop Make'n Music, and it seems to have replaced his Santa Cruz 000 on stage in recent months. (Not that we're so obsessive as to pay attention to such things.) The Revival 000-12 Jeff Tweedy Limited Edition will be a bit different from Tweedy's current ax -- most notably a bee-themed inlay on the guitar's headstock -- but otherwise the same basic guitar.
The folks at Make'n Music tell us that they'll order "one or two" of the guitars, and that they expect to see them in the shop sometime after the NAMM Show in January. The guitars will be expensive (full list is $5,999, though the guitar will likely to sell in the $4,800 range), but we don't think that'll deter local Wilco fans from trying to scoop one up. After all, if fans have deep enough pockets to help the band sell out a five-night run at the Riveria, one or two of them will have the cash for the coolest Wilco collectable ever.
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