- It's cool.
What do we got here?
- We have a Warwick Buzzard bass guitar
prototype number five that was designed and owned
by John Entwistle from The Who.
- Okay. I grew up on The Who.
- To me, it always seemed like they never got the credit
that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones got.
But to me, they're just as important.
- Yes, sir.
- John Entwistle, this guy was a rock star bass guitarist.
He didn't just sit and pluck strings
like most guys did on the bass.
This guy played his bass like a lead guitarist did.
- Correct.
- And it was--what-- in the 1980s, he was looking
for a new style of bass,
and he collaborated with Warwick.
And this is what they came up with, this Buzzard bass.
- All right, so I mean, there's gotta be
some kind of backstory to this. Why don't you give it to me?
- Originally, I was gonna trade a Rickenbacker
to Godfrey Townsend, who was the guitar player
and lead vocal in the John Entwistle Band.
But unfortunately, John passed away
before we could complete the deal.
So I ended up buying that from Sotheby's
when they auctioned off the John Entwistle collection.
- Okay, you got any kind of paperwork showing me
that it was John Entwistle's?
- I do.
This is paperwork from the auction.
And it shows me as the purchaser.
- Okay, so you definitely got something
pretty important here.
Now, how much are you trying to get out of this thing?
- I would like to get $15,000, Corey.
- Okay, I'm not surprised.
I'm not surprised at the number.
Do you mind if I take some pictures
and send it over to my guitar expert, Dave,
have him take a look at it? - I do not mind at all.
- Okay, pretty impressive piece of equipment here.
All right, well, come with me. We'll go do the video chat.
And I'm sure by then, he'll be able to get back to us.
- Okay, Corey.
- See if I can get him on here real quick.
Hey, Dave, how's it going?
How are you?
So you got the pictures I sent you, right?
- I did. It's a cool bass.
- So what can you tell me about the bass?
- John Entwistle designed that bass.
He drew it on a napkin in a club in London
in '85 with the guy that owned Warwick.
He'd been playing Alembic basses prior to that,
and he had him build basically a prototype of the design,
you know, his drawing of the Buzzard.
Those were not for sale.
I believe the first 20 all went to him.
That one's one of the early ones, number five.
I'm assuming that came out of the John Entwistle auction.
- Yes.
- You have all the paperwork from the auction company?
- Correct.
- So there's no question about the validity of it.
- Okay, so in your opinion,
what do you think this one's worth?
- I'm thinking around 8 grand.
- Around 8,000, okay.
Well, Dave, I appreciate you taking my call.
I will let you know if we pick it up, okay?
- Good luck. Hope you get it.
So I mean, I just gotta say, normally when somebody
is asking me for $15,000 and I'm basically telling you
I can't even offer you half of that,
is it even worth our time to make an offer to each other?
- I don't think so, not at this time, Corey.
We're too far apart. - Kinda got that feeling.
Well, I appreciate you bringing it.
Come with me, and I'll get you back out front, okay?
- Thank you, sir.
- What do we got here?
- We have a vintage leather Fender jacket.
- Okay.
So tell me about where you got it.
- So I got it at a vintage store.
And this was the only one that was there.
I've not been able to find anything
about this jacket whatsoever.
- Okay.
Fender started off in a small shop in Fullerton, California.
I think the first instrument that they actually made
and created was a Hawaiian lap steel guitar,
not a Stratocaster or anything like that.
And then boom.
There's nothing more rock star than a Fender Strat.
- Yeah.
- Do you mind if I take a little bit of a look at it?
- Yeah, please do. - You know, it does say R&D.
It could be Research and Development.
So now, let's go back to the fact
that this is a leather jacket and not a guitar.
- Right.
- Fender has never been into the leather jacket business.
What you have here is, you have a really,
really popular company which opens them up
for licensing deals.
People come along all the time and say, hey, Fender.
Let's open up a company together
and, you know, we'll give you 10%,
and let us use your logo and print it on jackets.
We're just gonna start a company called
Fender Rockwear, where Fender really doesn't
have anything to do it.
They probably get final approval of the product.
And they just cash checks. - Sure.
- And this was probably part of a more higher end,
upscale licensing agreement
that somebody was trying to make
that probably just never took off.
- That makes a lot of sense.
- You know, I've never seen one like it before.
How much are you looking to get out of it?
- I'm looking to get 1,800.
- Okay, we're talking about vintage clothing,
not vintage guitars.
When I look at something like this, I look at--
let's lay this down right here.
We have a giant gap between the N and the D.
That is not something you want on the chest of your jacket
because what's "Fen-der"?
It's almost two words, which kind of it
just wrecks the whole jacket for me.
If you're looking for 1,800 bucks for it,
I would just have to tell you I'll pass on it altogether.
- Okay.
- I appreciate you coming down, though.
- Thank you. I really appreciate it.
- Take care.