The markings on the pole of all the celebs who have bought guitars at Strings West (a virtual who's-who of rock and country) got me to searching out some Larry Briggs links. I thought he had an FB page I creeped once with a lot of celeb shots and guitars, but it may well have been elsewhere.
Larry Briggs has been active in the music business since 1970, when he and his father opened a used guitar shop in rural Tulsa County, Oklahoma. In 1974 he purchased a music store in Tulsa, and proceeded to combine his extensive collection of old and rare instruments and amplifiers with the existing new inventory. Larry was one of the few people in the Southwest dealing in vintage guitars during this time period, and his reputation grew rapidly. Consequently, Strings West became an oasis of old and rare guitars, amplifiers, banjos and mandolins.
Larry was appointed to the dealer advisory board of Guitar Player Magazine in 1983, and served thereon for many years. He sold guitars and amplifiers to many of the super groups and stars of the seventies, eighties, nineties and into this century, including Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, Ted Nugent, Vince Gill, Neil Schon, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, Little River Band, Heart, Bob Dylan, the Bee Gees, Barney Kessel, Brian Setzer, Bobby and David Carradine, the Climax Blues Band, Elvin Bishop, Hank Williams, Jr., J. D. Souther, J. J. Cale, Ry Cooder, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ricky Van Shelton, John Fogerty, Junior Brown, Thom Bresh, Merle Travis (Larry owns Merle's 1962 Cadillac convertible), Leo Kottke, Michael Martin Murphy, New Grass Revival, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Pete Anderson, Pink Floyd, Pure Prairie League, Robert Blake, Scotty Moore, Stone Temple Pilots, Survivor, David Bromberg, Ronnie Dunn, 1964 Beatles Tribute Band and many others. In 1988, Larry co-authored “Guitars, Guitars, Guitars”, bible which contains some of the first comprehensive serial number reference information for Fender, Gibson, Guild, and other American brand guitars, and which was used extensively in the vintage guitar business.
http://www.stringswest.com/Ahhh, I wasn't on drugs:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strings-West-of-Tulsa/93530552447
