“It’s like being a CSI detective, but for guitars…” From Prince’s Cloud III to John Lennon’s Framus and Kurt Cobain’s Sky Stang I, meet the auction house expert responsible for appraising some of the world’s most valuable guitars
Mike Adams gets a VIP view of the kind of rarified instruments that most of us only get to read about. As the in-house guitar appraiser for Julien’s Auctions, he has worked on guitars owned and played by Prince, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon – and that’s only in his first year in the job.
It’s a dream role for any guitar geek, but then Adams is not just any guitar geek. From living on beans to buy his first vintage models, to founding a vintage shop (Mike and Mike’s Guitar Bar – of which he’s no longer affiliated), and becoming the internet’s go-to offset expert, he has dedicated his life to understanding guitars and has a particular soft spot for Fender oddballs.
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