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Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman

Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 10:04 pm:   

Interesting...

http://www.qksrv.net/click-1802666-10381315?loc=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI .dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D7381143315
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 10:58 pm:   

So, this is Steve Miller's Iceman? Interesting... :-) And no reserve, too. Very, very interesting. This will be one to watch!
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 11:39 pm:   

Here's another auction from the same seller. This one is for a rare Andy Timmons model. Seems that this seller knows AT personally.

http://www.qksrv.net/click-1802666-10381315?loc=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI .dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D7381117663
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Michaelkaufman
Username: Michaelkaufman

Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 7:41 am:   

What are the pups on the AT?

mk
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Tubescorcher
Username: Tubescorcher

Registered: 03-2004
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 8:16 pm:   

I went to a show at Sam Ash Cherry Hill. Admission was a can of food. The Larry Mitchell Band was there and Andy Timmons. Andy played with some taped tracks and soloed over them. Larry played a few songs with the band then Andy joined them for a jam. Awesome show! That was '92 or so. It was an Ibanez night!!!
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Munch
Username: Munch

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 6:20 am:   

To be correct about it - the poster, from a Guitar Player/World magazine has a picture of Steve Miller's Iceman. The actual guitar for sale is most certainly not. It doesn't have the tailpiece.

Another case of misleading Ebay advertising.

Cool guitar at a good price though (so far).

Cheers,

Mark
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 8:22 am:   

Here's a picture of Steve Miller playing the Iceman. It's hard to see at this size, but it definitely has that long tailpiece. In fact, it looks completely stock, as far as I can tell.

SteveMillerIceman

However, I've seen this straight slotted tailpiece on another Iceman, lately. Looks like half of the later cloud tails. I suppose there's some chance that Steve changed it out..but I was suspicious when I saw it.
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 8:40 am:   

I just looked at the auction description again. It's very hard to tell whether "he's" saying (1) it's actually Steve Miller's guitar, (that's what I assume from the way the headline reads) and the actual guitar that he recorded Fly Like an Eagle with, or (2) just showing "extra" evidence that Steve Miller indeeed played a guitar like this one.

Anyway, this guitar could NOT have been used to record the songs mentioned in the Alan Paul article that he shows, because that album was released in 1976.

Fly Like An Eagle
The Steve Miller Band
Capitol 11497
Released: May 1976

I think the title and description are confusing.
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Sixvsix
Username: Sixvsix

Registered: 03-2002
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 5:42 pm:   

I'm sure there are an extra couple of knobs (maybe EQ) in that pic John posted. That matches up with the 'Guitar World' centre fold but not the guitar being auctioned.

six
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 10:14 am:   

Six:

I examined the photo under a (digital) magnifying glass and I'm confident that the illusion of extra controls is caused by reflections off the tone and volume knobs.

For the benefit of the lurkers, the picture of Steve Miller above shows him playing a '76 Artist model 2663t (technically not named Iceman, at the time). Here's the catalog shot:

2663t

Here's the description from the catalog (Thanks Harry and and Hasy!):

Select mahogany top with mahogany body
Hard laminated mahogany neck with adjustable truss rod
Ebonized rosewood fingerboards with pearl dot inlays (Note: the inlays are actually pearl parallelagrams)
Chrome plated metal parts and smooth-tuner machine heads
Special design Ibanez 3 coil pickup
4 postion tone selector switch, volume and tone controls.
Rich brown sunburst finish
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 10:40 am:   

Well, there was some vigorous bidding on this guitar and the winning bid was US $1,471.00.

Dave_g you were in the hunt for a little while. Did you think that the guitar was actually Steve Miller's?
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Dave_g
Username: Dave_g

Registered: 01-2002
Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 6:47 pm:   

John, NAH,never was much of a Steve Miller fan, I was bidding on that guitar mostly because it is kinda a rare bird, and I really dig my IC400....I'm actually very surpised at how high the bids got on that one.......
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:48 pm:   

This picture of Steve Miller playing an Iceman is from a '77 Steve Miller Band tour book that I recently acquired.

SteveMiller2663

You can't tell from this picture which model it is, but there are other pictures of his rhythm guitarist playing one that is clearly an IC210. So, I'm assuming it's the same guitar.
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Jchester
Username: Jchester

Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 12:45 am:   

...and another odd strap position.
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 8:16 am:   

Jchester:

That's not a guitar strap. That's one of his pants suspenders. The suspenders actually say "Rolling Stone" on them.

I'll try to post a picture that shows his strap attachment clearly.
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Jchester
Username: Jchester

Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 12:55 am:   

DAMMIT... he got me with those goofy things again!!!
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Gemberbier
Username: Gemberbier

Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 6:18 am:   

Kabouter Plop strikes again!


Ginger

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