#CONTROL IAN CURTIS SERIAL#

In Peter HookвЂ™s book Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, he comments on IanвЂ™s guitar playing, saying: вЂњYou could tell he would have been a great guitar playerвЂ¦HeвЂ™d picked the guitar up late, starting around the time we were writing the sounds that would become вЂCloserвЂ™вЂ¦ He played in the video for вЂњLove Will Tear Us ApartвЂќ and was obviously quite a rudimentary player, but you could tell he would have got so much better because he had that ear вЂ“ he thought like a musician.вЂќДЇollowing IanвЂ™s untimely death, the band released the video for вЂњLove Will Tear Us ApartвЂќin June 1980 and it has since gained over 63 million views on YouTube. Sadly, this was the only music video Joy Division ever filmed, for Ian Curtis committed suicide at his home in Macclesfield just three weeks later in May 1980, on the eve of the band heading off for their first American tour. A suitably gritty backdrop for a deceivingly melancholic track, this video has undeniably become a part of musical history. It is in this video, set in a disused mill, that Ian Curtis can be seen singing and playing his Vox Phantom guitar. DavidsonвЂ™s studio on Little Peter Street, Manchester (a location they had rehearsed in at the start of their career). This was closely followed by the band filming their own promo video on the 28th April at T.J. Joy Division released their single вЂњLove Will Tear Us ApartвЂќ on the 18th April 1980 on Factory Records. It sounded like some of the thinner guitars on Velvet Underground tracks, clean and janglyвЂ¦вЂќ The guitar has a battery in it, and if you press the buttons in the wrong combination it will go into self-oscillate mode and start to make this strange twittering sound that Ian liked very much. When we got the guitar, half the effects didnвЂ™t work, and we were thinking, вЂњwhat the hell is replat?вЂќ We got the guitar repaired, and it turned out that вЂreplatвЂ™ is actually вЂrepeatвЂ™ вЂ“ it was just a misprint. It had a pause unit, and a thing called the вЂreplatвЂ™. The Phantom had tons of effects built into it, as an added bonus. It is said Ian played this Vox on the track вЂњHeart and SoulвЂќ on this album in an interview for Pat GrahamвЂ™s book, Instrument, Bernard Sumner states: Ian really liked this guitar.

By March of the same year, the band were recording their second studio album Closer, recorded at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London. This version was very similar to the version the band played live, however the band later re-recorded the single with producer Martin Hannett at Strawberry Studios, Stockport in March 1980. Joy Division recorded their single вЂњLove Will Tear Us ApartвЂќ at Pennine Studios, Oldham, on 8th January 1980, along with the B-side, вЂњThese DaysвЂќ. Through his complex and melancholic song-writing, his distinct vocals, and commanding stage presence, Ian has managed to leave a lasting influence on musicians everywhere, and the music industry has never quite been the same since. Now regarded as one of the best albums of all time, itвЂ™s said вЂUnknown PleasuresвЂ™ defined not only the city of Manchester, but a moment of social change. Despite a short career, IanвЂ™s association with Joy Division as a fascinating and enigmatic figure was instrumental in the band becoming pioneers of the post-punk movement with their debut album вЂUnknown PleasuresвЂ™, released by Factory Records in 1979. Used by fellow band-mate Bernard Sumner following IanвЂ™s death, and later gifted to IanвЂ™s daughter Natalie Curtis, in circa 2002.Д¬onsidered by many as a British cultural icon who had a once-in-a-generation talent, Ian CurtisвЂ™s musical legacy, even 40 years on, is as strong as ever. Owned and played by Joy Division frontman, singer-songwriter Ian Curtis (b.1956-d.1980).

#CONTROL IAN CURTIS SERIAL#

British-made, serial no.76634 stamped on the neckplate, pentagonal mahogany body finished in white with JenningsвЂ™ Bigsby B5-type tremolo, Tune-o-matic roller bridge, three pickups with six push-button controls, including the misprinted вЂReplatвЂ™ for вЂRepeatвЂ™, and five rotary controls, original strap buttons, back with cavity for PP3 battery conversion, laminated scratchplate, one-piece maple neck with zero-fretted rosewood fingerboard and original frets, dot markers, headstock with Phantom VI Special decal, chrome truss rod cover and non-original Schaller machineheads, in hard rectangular, plush-lined case, accompanied by a copy of 12вЂќ single for the 40th anniversary of вЂњLove Will Tear Us ApartвЂќ on vinyl, and a letter of provenance from IanвЂ™s daughter Natalie Curtis, CITES license no.592982/01

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