Epiphone G-310 Electric Guitar Formerly Owned by Carrie Brownstein

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Epiphone G-310 Electric Guitar Formerly Owned by Carrie Brownstein

Manufacturer Epiphone, Inc.

Associated name EMP Women's History Project

Date1991

DimensionsOverall (HWD) (overall): 39 15/16 × 13 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (101.441 × 33.338 × 6.033 cm)

Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection

Object number1999.531.1

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Portal Description

This Epiphone G-310 guitar was used by Carrie Brownstein (b. 1974) from 1993-1999 for songwriting, recording, and performing. Before she co-founded the musical band Sleater-Kinney and became an award-winning writer and actress on Portlandia, Brownstein was a teenage telemarketer in Seattle, Washington. Every day at lunch, Brownstein visited a music store on University Avenue, near the University of Washington, to look at this guitar and eventually purchased the instrument.

The Northwest-based band, Sleater-Kinney, originally formed as a side project of riot grrrl musical acts Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17 in 1994, then rose to prominence with a series of albums released on the independent Olympia, Washington (and now Portland, Oregon) record label Kill Rock Stars. In 2001, Time Magazine named Sleater-Kinney “America’s Best Rock Band.” This guitar was used to develop the signature Sleater- Kinney two-guitar sound.

Physical Description

Dark red guitar with black knobs and pick guard, two points at top of body on either side of the neck, silver tuning pegs, “Epiphone” on headstock in silver inlay.

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