# John McLaughlin is auctioning off the custom double-neck PRS guitar: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/12/05/john-mclaughlin-is-auctioning-off-the-custom-double-neck-prs-guitar-video/
- Published: 2017-12-05T22:26:47+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Through eBay, fusion innovator John McLaughlin is auctioning off the custom double-
neck PRS guitar he has played throughout the “Meeting of the Spirits,” his historic
final U.S. tour concluding Dec. 9 in Los Angeles.**

McLaughlin has used the guitar to perform classic Mahavishnu Orchestra material 
like “Birds of Fire” and “Meeting of the Spirits,” making the instrument an important
part of the tour’s mission to revisit the past with spirit. It features a 12-string
neck and a six-string neck, with a tremolo arm for the six-string component.

Covering the tour’s New York City stop in early November, JT editor Evan Haga wrote:“
Even if an Orchestra reunion has become something of a jazz chimera, there were 
many delightful invocations of the past at the Town Hall. Not the least of these
was McLaughlin’s double-neck PRS guitar, whose very sight inspired whoops from the
fanboy-men and brought to mind those classic early ’70s photographs of the guitarist
clad only in white and playing his hulking Gibson EDS‑1275. (I can’t help but think
JT’s Mac Randall had something to do with the making of this PRS instrument. Read
the closer of this Q&A.)”

“It’s a magnificent instrument and it’s already priceless to me,” McLaughlin wrote
on eBay. “It’s for this reason I wish to auction it after my tour in December 2017,
to raise money for a non-profit organization in Ramallah [Palestine], who are healing
through music therapy, traumatized children and women. The entire proceeds from 
the sale of my guitar will go to the Music Therapy Center in Ramallah.”

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