Prince's Custom Yellow Cloud Guitar Fetches Over $137K
. ![]() (Classic Rock) Prince's Yellow Cloud guitar which he used throughout the 90s has sold at auction for $137,500. The custom-built guitar was made by Minneapolis Knut-Koupee Enterprises and is outfitted with gold knobs, tremolo and tuning keys. It was purchased by Indianapolis Colts owner and avid music memorabilia collector Jim Irsay - who also bought former Beatle Ringo Starr's drum kit for $1.4 million last year. Prince's former guitar technician Zeke Clark says of the guitar (via Heritage Auctions): "This Yellow Cloud guitar was Prince's main guitar and used in most of his early videos and touring performances and album recordings. From around 1988 until 1994. "In 1994 he broke the neck of this guitar at a French TV show. After returning to the US, I repaired the neck and installed the first Floyd Rose set up Prince ever played. He used it to record more albums, up until the symbol guitar was born. After the symbol guitar, he wanted 24 additional cloud guitars made to be sold at his outlet store." Read more here. Classic Rock Magazine is an official news provider for antiMusic.com. |
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