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 40/50 Electric Guitar
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This electric guitar belonged to Zube Franz, a biker and musician from Millard County in Utah. As a teen, Zube helped his Dad build an aluminum fairinged Harley to hopefully break a speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The quest ended in tragedy when his Dad got sideways at 130 mph, wadding himself and the bike into a huge ball of fast, but failed, attempt. Zube took the larger pieces of fairing detritus and used them and his Dad's old Kolster radio to craft what he called "the perfect instrument for psycho-surfadelic music." He thought that a good tribute to his Harley loving Dad would be devoting his life to scoring soundtracks for biker movies. Sadly, Zube had the melody sensitivity of a warped air raid siren. Davie Allan would not let him join the Arrows. Jerry and the Portraits wouldn't even let him sit in when two of their members were incarcerated. Undaunted, Zube formed his own band, The 40/50's, a weird name but supposedly he charged $40 to $50 per session. If you can find it, check out his work in "The Savaged and the Bludgeoned", "Hell's Spurned", and "Cult Sixty Nine." He makes Link Wray's playing sound like a clean freak. 

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40/50 Electric Guitar -weighs 7 lb 7 oz
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100% leather wrapped back
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