{"id":804156,"date":"2020-02-13T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=952515"},"modified":"2020-02-13T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:45:24","slug":"ex-rolling-stones-bassist-bill-wyman-to-auction-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ex-rolling-stones-bassist-bill-wyman-to-auction-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Rolling Stones Bassist Bill Wyman to Auction Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Rolling Stones<\/a> bassist Bill Wyman will be auctioning<\/a> off some of the instruments he used during his stint in the band. Other items in the more than 1,000-lot auction include his awards, concert posters, costumes, photos and correspondence.<\/p>\n

Everything will hit the auction block at Julien\u2019s Auctions in Beverly Hills between May 29th and May 31st.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollecting and archiving has been one of the great pleasures of my life and will undoubtedly be one of my legacies,\u201d Bill Wyman<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cIt feels like the right time to share my archive with the world. I hope people will get as much joy from my collections as I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julien\u2019s will be holding public exhibitions at the Newbridge Silverware Visitor\u2019s Centre<\/a> in Ireland, the Hard Rock New York and its own Julien\u2019s Auctions Beverly Hills. The Irish viewing will take place from March 10th until April 20th. The New York exhibition will take place between May 4th and May 10th. And the Beverly Hills showing will be from May 18th to May 28th. All are free to visit.<\/p>\n

Some of the money from the sale will benefit three specific charities handpicked by Wyman. \u201cIt is easier to let these items go knowing that a portion of the proceeds from this sale will support three causes that are close to my heart: The Prince\u2019s Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support and CCMI (Central Caribbean Marine Institute) who are at the forefront of restoring the health of the world\u2019s reefs and oceans,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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One of the most notable items is Wyman\u2019s 1962 Vox AC30 amplifier. According to legend, Keith Richards was enamored of the amp, and it convinced him to invite Wyman into the band. It\u2019s estimated to sell for between $80,000 and $100,000.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also offering up a 1969 Fender Mustang bass that Leo Fender designed before he left the company; Wyman used it at the Stones\u2019 concerts and on recordings between 1969 and 1970. It\u2019s expected to go for between $300,000 and $500,000.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also auctioning a 1978 custom-built Travis Bean Custom Short Scale bass, which he acquired in 1978 and used in the Eighties (estimate: $200,000 to $300,000), and a Dan Armstrong Prototype bass that he used in 1975 and on the group\u2019s 1981 Top of the Pops <\/em>performance of his song \u201c(Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star\u201d (estimate: $100,000 to $200,000).<\/p>\n

He is also selling a 1968 Les Paul that Brian Jones used in the filming of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus<\/em>; no estimate was immediately available for that guitar.<\/p>\n

Wyman was recently the subject of a documentary called The Quiet One<\/em>. In a clip that Rolling Stone <\/em>premiered<\/a>, he explained how he came to join the band, including the story behind the Vox amp.<\/p>\n

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Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman will be auctioning off some of the instruments he used during his stint in the band. Other items in the more than 1,000-lot auction include his awards, concert posters, costumes, photos and correspondence. Everything will hit the auction block at Julien\u2019s Auctions in Beverly Hills between May 29th and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 23:09:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}