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Vox phantom ian curtis9/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Italy’s Eko Guitars, always had a close relationship with Vox. And perhaps no guitar player ever looked cooler than the Velvet Underground’s black-clad, wraparound- wearing Sterling Morrison slinging a white Phantom. For the first time since it's well-publicised auction in 2020, and in its first major public display in over 30 years, the iconic, white Vox Phantom VI teardrop guitar owned by Joy Division's. On the rhythm guitar part on that song, you can hear this guitar. Joy Division’s Ian Curtis made a high-strapped Phantom one of the band’s visual and sonic trademarks. Said Sumner, “We did use it on a couple of New Order recordings, the one I remember is Everything's Gone Green. It sounded like some of the thinner guitars on Velvet Underground tracks, clean and jangly.”įollowing Curtis’ death in 1980 the Vox was used by Sumner and later gifted to Curtis’ daughter, Natalie Curtis. Vox Phantom VI guitar orig from Joy Division exhibition identical to Ian Curtis Musical Instruments & DJ Equipment, Guitars & Basses, Electric Guitars. The guitar has a battery in it, and if you press the buttons in the wrong combination it will go into self-oscillate mode and start to make this strange twittering sound that Ian liked very much. Ian Curtis white Vox Phantom VI Special Guitar, famously played by the late Joy Division frontman in the bands seminal Love. The starting estimate for the guitar is 77,000 100,000. ![]() “We got the guitar repaired, and it turned out that 'replat' is actually 'repeat' – it was just a misprint. The Vox comes in a hard rectangular, plush-lined case, accompanied by a copy of a 12-inch single for the 40th anniversary of Love Will Tear Us Apart on vinyl, and a letter of provenance from Natalie Curtis. Joy Division released their debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded their follow-up, Closer, in 1980. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division. Those Vox guitars were real dogs to play. Vox sold them the rights and designs of those sixties guitars and PGW produce Phantoms and Teardrops that are actually better than the ones made in the '60s by Vox. It had a pause unit, and a thing called the 'replat.’ When we got the guitar, half the effects didn't work, and we were thinking, what the hell is replat? Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 ) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. If you want the Ian Curtis Phantom the closest you can get is by a company called Phantom Guitar Works (PGW). The Phantom had tons of effects built into it, as an added bonus. In an interview for Pat Graham's book Instrument, bandmate Bernard Sumner said, “Ian really liked this guitar. ![]()
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