Joe Walsh

Lot 3. Joe Walsh’s “Bono” Gretsch Irish Falcon Guitar.

Joe Walsh’s signed Gretsch G6136I “Bono” Irish Falcon. The hollow-body electric guitar consists of a laminated maple body with gold sparkle binding and a two-piece maple neck with an ebony fretboard.

Equipped with High Sensitive Filter’Tron pickups, a Gretsch Cadillac “G” tailpiece, and gold acrylic pickguard with a “The Goal is Soul” graphic, this version of the Irish Falcon is modeled on the guitar Bono used on U2’s 2005 Vertigo tour.

Manufactured in 2006, the guitar is marked with the serial number “JT06042289” on the internal paper label. Walsh has signed the body, below the left f-hole, in silver ink, “Joe Walsh.”

A regular part of Walsh’s arsenal, the guitar is marked with a piece of tape on the neck, “Bg66” and an arrow on the front of the headstock. The instrument exhibits some scratching to the pick guard and light surface wear from use. It is accompanied by the original paperwork and Gretsch COA. A black Gretsch hard shell case is included, which measures 19.5”x46.5” and 6” deep and exhibits some minor scratches and scuffs.

Don Felder is a legendary singer-songwriter, a 1998 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles, a New York Times best-selling author, and a true American rock and roll guitar hero.

Felder spent 27 years with the Eagles who own the fine distinction of recording the top-selling album of all time - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) - which has sold over 38 million copies (and counting). He co-wrote some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Hotel California” and “Victim of Love,” and became a New York Times Best Selling author with his autobiography Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles (1974-2001).

His iconic double necked guitar was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Play it Loud exhibit in May 2019 - the first major exhibition in an art museum dedicated entirely to the iconic instruments of rock and roll - and is currently on display in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s exhibit of the same name.

He was inaugurated into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville in 2016, and the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2017. His most recent solo album American Rock ‘N’ Roll (BMG) was released on April 5, 2019.