Pink Floyd's David Gilmour Auctions Off 126 Guitars and Raises $21Mil for Climate Change Battle

[babylonsister]

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Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Auctions Off 126 Guitars and Raises $21Mil for Climate Change Battle
By McKinley Corbley -
Jun 21, 2019


Earlier this week, legendary Pink Floyd guitarist and songwriter David Gilmour auctioned off dozens of his guitars – and he sold them all so he could donate the proceeds to charity.

In total, Gilmour auctioned off 126 of his guitars at Christie’s, raking in a whopping total of $21 million.

The most notable guitar to hit the auctioneer’s block was the iconic black Stratocaster that Gilmour used to record “Comfortably Numb,” “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” and “Money”, according to Guitar World.

The axe ended up fetching a hefty $4 million after it was purchased by the owner of the Indianapolis Colts.

The English rock star says that he will be donating every penny of the auction’s sales to environmental nonprofit ClientEarth.

“The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face, and we are within a few years of the effects of global warming being irreversible,” tweeted Gilmour.

“We need a civilized world that goes on for all our grandchildren and beyond in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung.”

James Thornton, ClientEarth CEO, said: “I’d like to express my deep and heartfelt gratitude to David Gilmour for this utterly remarkable gift. David has a long history of supporting charities and I am honored that he has chosen ClientEarth to benefit from this landmark auction.”

Link to tweet

[mr_lebowski]

1. Damn I'd have loved to have the Black Strat ...

Or ... actually any guitar David Gilmour picked up at any time.
Very jelly ...

Anyways ... DAVE YOU ARE THE MAN!!! WOOT!

Always loved that cat ...

Here's the link if you don't want to give facebook credit for your visit:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/david-gilmour-auctions-126-guitars/

[ronatchig]

3. Shine on

You crazy diamond!

[pansypoo53219]

2. aewesome. more reasn to love him.

[mopinko]

4. a friend of mine was planning to attend, but sounds like it was

too rich for his blood.
dont know if he made it.

[TalenaGor]

5. epic

I saw a Pink Floyd in 1989, I think it was, saw scorpions that same year...... Last year I saw the scorpions again and I saw a Roger Waters..... It was as if my life came full circle LOL

[Karadeniz]

6. Putting his money where his mouth is...what a big soul!❤

[griloco]

7. A real tragedy for MAGAs

Who can no longer be "Comfortably Numb"

[BSdetect]

8. Hope Christies chipped in their costs at least?

[BigmanPigman]

9. "Giving money to fight Climate Change? What a waste!"...

tRump would say. And, "He isn't even going to be alive so what does he care about it for?". This is what he said about Prince Charles after their discussion on the topic. Dave knows wwhat money is good for and he shows he is a man, not a greedy conman, bully/coward.

[Kitchari]

10. Good on him

That's what we need-- celebrities raising awareness AND contributing cash to the cause

[Solly Mack]

11. :)

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Money: "think I'll buy me a football team". Football owner: "think I'll buy me the Money guitar"

A pleasing circularity.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Well, Good On David!

Very cool!

[Martin Eden]

14. Meanwhile, tRump wants to increase the burning of coal

The single most important step in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases is putting a Democrat in the White House.

[Qutzupalotl]

15. "Are all these your guitars?!"

[jcgoldie]

18. Wanna take a bath?

[DFW]

16. My friends in Dallas must be very jealous

I am friends with many people at Heritage Auctions, which is the third largest auction house in the world behind Christie's and Sotheby's. They also have a rare guitars division, but they have never had a $20 million guitar sale that I know of. I do know that Graham Nash is soon selling some of his guitars through Heritage, so if there are any guitar enthusiasts that missed the Gilmour sale, there is always the Nash sale! It's only 19 guitars from his collection, and it's in July, so I won't get to see them, unfortunately. Among the Nash guitars are a Gibson SG once owned by Duane Allman, an acoustic Martin once owned by Johnny Cash, and a Martin D-45 he played at Woodstock in 1969. I wouldn't mind having a couple of those to play on, although my instrument is really the 12 string, and I have had several made for me by the legendary Božo Podunavac. Those sound so special, people will have to wait for Heritage to auction the DFW collection before someone other than me gets their hands on them!

[panader0]

17. And Jeannie thinks it's crazy that I have 14.