Jeff was first seen using the guitar around 1985, during his time in Los Angeles while playing in a band called Group Therapy. He continued using it through the late 1980s and was last seen with it around 1989 while performing with The Wild Blue Yonder.
This guitar is, unfortunately, a mystery. The exact model has not been identified, and until it is, all further research is on hold. The body shape somewhat resembles certain Ovation models from the 1980s, such as the Viper, but the headstock design complicates things and doesn’t match known examples.
If you have any insights or information, please feel free to leave a comment below.
in the Dream Brother book it is noted that Jeff’s customized Ovation guitar was stolen from Chris Dowd’s loft right before Jeff moved to New York for good in early 1992 to work with Gary Lucas. The Viper was mentioned earlier in the book.
so I think this one might have been a stock Ovation body and maybe a custom neck.
Yeah something funny also when I took the neck off an old swizzle stick fill out an old one just a piece of it might be used it as a shim or something
No I’m not sure but I might have that guitar I got an old guitar on a trade or an iPhone and you know I mess with it did some pain on and stuff I noticed a signature on it but I didn’t pay much attention until I took the neck off of it on the inside of the neck on the body and the neck it was his name was on both of them in the number on both same number they both said Buckley and had the number
Hi Chris. Do you have any photos of the guitar that you can share?