![]() ![]() I’ve looked hard for these Nagel graphic guitars and haven’t really found any others. I got the guitar from a dealer in Las Vegas after a web search. Guitars with his artwork on them were illegally produced in the following years until the Nagel Foundation worked to stop it. ![]() The graphic is inspired by artist Patrick Nagel, who did illustrations for Playboy, the cover art for Duran Duran’s Rio, and inspired the aesthetic behind one of the greatest videos of all time: Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistible.” Nagel died tragically from a heart attack in 1984 at age 38 after, no joke, an “Aerobathon” fundraiser for, you guessed it, the American Heart Association. The first Baretta came out in 1983 and was inspired by Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat. The Kramer Barettas evolved through a number of iterations through the early 1980s into the early ’90s. This is a Baretta with a reverse “pointy” headstock (as opposed to banana). Name: Peter Ellman Hometown:Pinehurst, North Carolina
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