Celebrity Clients

Through the years we’ve bought and sold to people all over the world, from all walks of life, and some celebrities too.

Here are some of the famous (Captions by Strings West Owner Larry Briggs):

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A bunch of homeless Okies stranded in Nashville, Cam Eagle, Larry Briggs, Bobby Clark, unknown Opry star (Vince Gill) and Harold Murphy

 

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Stevie Ray Vaughan inside my 1305 Peoria location just 4 months prior to his death. The inset card was written for me by Stevie with his mother’s contact info so that my father and his mother could compare notes on the Vaughan family genealogy that both were tracing.
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Billy Gibbons and me in Orange County, 2008.
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Members of Cheap Trick inside 1129 Peoria 1977

 

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Howard Leese of Heart examining the Les Paul burst he bought from me.

 

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Bobby Carradine, Darel Clay (Strings West manager), Larry Briggs, David Carradine and John Carradine (over 500 movies). Taken outside 1305 Peoria.

 

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Ry Cooder inside my booth at a show.

 

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John Fogerty at my California show in the nineties.

 

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Candid shot of Don Felder and my friend Tony.

 

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Scotty Moore, Elvis’ first guitarist who furnished the hot licks on Heartbreak Hotel and all the other major Elvis hits. Taken at my Arlington guitar show. Scotty was also my guest at the 2000 Tulsa guitar show

 

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James Burton, who flew in to help with our Tulsa guitar show back in 2001. In the center is my daughter Heather.

 

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George Fullerton (George and Leo were G & L) holding Eldon’s Stratocaster, and Larry.

 

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G. E. Smith, former guitarist of Saturday Night Live, with items purchased from Strings West.

 

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Beeb Birtles of Little River Band and Larry Briggs

 

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Brian Setzer inside 1305 Peoria, Tulsa, Strings West, 1983

 

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Herman’s Hermits

 

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Ides of March band-members at our Chicago show. Jim Peterik, shown on right, later founded the group, Survivor.

 

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Robert Blake

 

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Wet Willie

 

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Kentucky Headhunters

 

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Marcy Levy, vocalist for the Eric Clapton group, circa 1975 holding 1965 Martin D-28 bought from me. Memorial Drive location.

 

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The Mother Blues Band, outside the 1305 Peoria location

 

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Thom Bresh sitting on his dad’s (Merle Travis) 1962 Cadillac convertible. I have owned the car since 1992, when I bought it from the estate.

 

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Kris Kristofferson with my pregnant wife Terry on right, and her mother on left.

 

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Neal Schon of Journey on right holding one of the two Stratocasters he bought from me that day. My repairman Larry Thomas on left.

 

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The Bacon Brothers

 

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Reverend Horton Heat and monster player Deke Dickerson, along with their entourages came to visit us in Sperry.

 

The pictures above are just a handful from our archives, below are links to albums on our Facebook page which have over 200 pictures combined. Be sure and like our page while you’re there as we periodically add new pictures and stories. Just click here to view all of our albums, or any of the text or thumbnails below.

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A few Tulsa and Oklahoma music personalities

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Celebrity Checks and Documents since 1970

 

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Celebrity Clients of Strings West since 1970 Album #1

 

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Celebrity Clients of Strings West Since 1970 Album #2

 

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The Late Great David Carradine at Strings West

 

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Stanley Mouse and Rich Severson