Andrew Gold’s tribute guitar

In 2005, we custom built a Manne Taos with a hand-applied gold leaf finish and presented it as a gift to Andrew Gold. I had immediately recognized Andrew and we had a great visit together at the 2005 NAMM Show, while he was in the Manne booth testing and playing one of our guitars. Andrew’s great song “Lonely Boy” was one of the vinyl records that wore out the needle on my stereo in my teenage years. We were so sorry to hear that Andrew passed away from a sudden heart attack in June 2011 in Los Angeles.

Andrew’s greatest hits of the mid-’70s included “Lonely Boy” (No. 7, 1977) and “Thank You For Being a Friend” (No. 25, 1978) which became the theme song for the sitcom “The Golden Girls.” Andrew was the leader and lead guitarists of Linda Ronstadt’s band since his worked on the 1974 solo breakthrough “Heart Like a Wheel” and on her hits “You’re No Good” and “When Will I Be Loved”, enhancing these records with some of the tastiest licks ever put down on vinyl. Andrew was a producer, writer and sideman for great artists like James Taylor, Art Garfunkel, Celine Dion, Nicolette Larson, Cher, Stephen Bishop, Vince Gill, Eikichi Yazawa, Aaron Neville, Wynonna Judd, Paul McCartney, Jackson Browne and Brian Wilson.

After his death, Andrew’s custom made gold leaf Taos somehow disappeared. So Andrew’s widow, Leslie Kogan, decided to order from Manne a new Signature Tribute Gold Leaf Taos, which recently completed, building it by had with great care. For the new guitar, we applied an antiquing process to the gold leaf, developing a patina and creating edge and top wear, before applying a smooth hand rubbed final finish. The goal was to make the new guitar looks and feels much more organic than the original, as if it had been played and enjoyed for many years by Andrew. Leslie also provided us with Andrew’s signature which was inlaid at the 12th fret.

You can see the guitar in this month’s new instruments, in the Manne Gallery on our website.

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