Gibson Les Paul Signature Bass - 1973

Glenn Wheatley's own Gibson Les Paul Signaure bass guitar from 1973. This item has some serious Australian music history providence. Brought into the store by the late Mr Wheatley's supreme leader, Gaynor Wheatley and the legendary John Farnham backing singer Lindsay Field. The condition is pretty decent, apart from a mark on the body front where a rag had sat on the guitar whilst remaining locked in it's case for years and years. Plays and sounds great. Comes with a road case from the era.

The Wheatley name is synonymous with some of the great Australian music ever created. 

Built as a counterpart to the Les Paul Signature guitar of the '70s, the Les Paul Signature bass was one of several models designed in conjunction with Les Paul himself. These instruments used low-impedance pickups and the Signature Bass also included a three-position tone switch to control the output of the pickup. More recently, Epiphone makes a variation on this bass as the Jack Casady Signature model.

Body Style: Semi-hollowbody
 
Years of Production: 1973 - 1979

Notable Players: Jack Casady, John Stirratt

Glenn Dawson Wheatley (23 January 1948 – 1 February 2022) was an Australian musician, talent manager, tour promoter and radio entrepreneur. Wheatley was the founder and managing director of Talentworks. 

Wheatley began his career as a musician in Brisbane in the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, he became known nationally as the bass player in the rock band The Masters Apprentices. He subsequently formed a media empire which included radio stations and artist management.

Wheatley is best known as the long-time manager of John Farnham; he has been described as an "iconic industry figure" and is credited with launching the career of Delta Goodrem. He is also recognised as having established Little River Band in the United States.^[2]

In 1999, Wheatley was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and he is also a recipient of the Advance Australia Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Entertainment Industry, a Council Member for ScreenSound Australia.