{"id":74381,"date":"2011-03-10T16:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=74381"},"modified":"2011-03-10T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:17:23","slug":"russian-armenian-musician-bought-eric-claptons-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/10\/russian-armenian-musician-bought-eric-claptons-guitar.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian-Armenian Musician Bought Eric Clapton&#8217;s Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Clapton raised $2.2 million US at a Bonhams auction in New York yesterday, as buyers competed for his guitars, amplifiers and other memorabilia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-09\/eric-clapton-auction-early-prices-soar-above-presale-estimates-at-bonhams.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bloomberg reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tally for the sale, benefiting the UK musician\u2019s Crossroads Center Antigua for drug and alcohol rehabilitation, was almost four times its presale total of $400,000 to $600,000.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top bidders was Russian collector of Armenian descent Vladimir Avetisyan. Sitting in the middle of a packed room, he bought lot after lot, from a $1,098 Crossroads gift bag to the day\u2019s priciest item, a 1948 Gibson L-5P guitar that fetched $82,960. Prices include the buyer\u2019s premium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the main hobby of my life,\u201d said Avetisyan, who plays guitar and is a vocalist for a Moscow-based Clapton tribute band called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claptomania.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>D-Black<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which has a website claptomania.com. \u201cI love blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top bidders at a Bonhams auction in New York yesterday was Russian collector of Armenian descent Vladimir Avetisyan.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23208,23207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}