I think the eleven weeks is the moral of it.

Part Forty-Eight: Eleven Hundred Dollars

It was not a three-thousand-dollar Les Paul Standard in heritage cherry sunburst.

I know that is what the story says.

I have read the version.

Somebody in a Facebook group added the words worth easily double the value of the Fender he had sold and I have seen that sentence reproduced perhaps forty times.

What eleven hundred dollars buys at the downtown music centre, which is a real shop with a real owner called Hollis who has been there since 1991, is a used Gibson Les Paul Studio in satin black, eight years old, with a ding in the lower horn and a replaced output jack, at nine hundred and forty-nine dollars, plus a hardshell case at a hundred and nineteen, plus a set of strings, which Hollis did not charge for.

And I want to say two things about that instrument.