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A solid-body electric guitar, 'Custom Yellow Cloud', bearing a nameplate on the reverse, PROPERTY OF PRN MUSIC CORP (612) 474-6630 / PN 16644, the body with carved scrolled motif, the body and headstock all finished in an opaque yellow lacquer, fitted with one EMG sync coil pickup at the neck and one EMG humbucking pickup at the bridge, mounted with a Floyd Rose adjustable bridge and tailpiece and locking nut, Prince's Love Symbol applied to the neck and fingerboard as position markers; together with various picks, a hardshell case, and a modern free-standing glass display cabinet with bespoke stand, believed to be the first Andy Beech Cloud guitar made in early 1993 and used on stage by Prince during the Act II Tour, 1993, including at the impromptu tour finale appearance at Bagley's, London, 8 September 1993

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The estimated worth is listed at 100K,
but then the write up has a few questionables.
This being the standout:

"Accounts of the Bagley's performance (8SEP1993) recall a raucous evening, with Mavis Staples making an appearance, and a final encore which ended in Prince throwing his yellow Cloud guitar to the ground."

"Zeke Clarke also states in his letter: In 1994 he broke the neck of this guitar at a French T.V. show. After returning to U.S.A. I repaired neck & installed the first Floyd Rose set up Prince ever played... As well as installing the Floyd Rose Tremolo, Zeke Clark appears to have removed the original output jack from the middle of the swirl on the body and restored the area, with an entire respray to the body and replacement symbol fret marker decals."

"No photos or footage seem to exist with Prince playing this guitar with the current Floyd Rose set up."

I thought he stopped playing the cloud in 93 (after the Bagleys show) and didn’t return to using it until 1999 (or something like that).
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The guitar with the broken neck on French TV in 94 probably would have been the symbol guitar (drops it on the floor quite hard at the end of the performance)
[Edited 2/23/26 18:23pm]

happyshopper said:

I thought he stopped playing the cloud in 93 (after the Bagleys show) and didn’t return to using it until 1999 (or something like that). . The guitar with the broken neck on French TV in 94 probably would have been the symbol guitar (drops it on the floor quite hard at the end of the performance) [Edited 2/23/26 18:23pm]

It was reported back n the day that he played a cloud guitar and smashed it on stage when he playd the HOuse of Blues in '94.

From an article in the April 2026 issue of Guitarist magazine:

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“Prince’s Cloud guitars have come up at auction previously and have quite a range of value points depending on what era they are and what they were used for,” she explains, “and whether they were one of the first four, built by Dave Rusan from 1985 to ’93, one of those made by Andy Beech from ’93 onwards, or later Schecters.

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“This one was a bit of a mystery because it was accompanied by a letter from [guitar tech] Zeke Clark about its usage, stating that it was Prince’s main guitar and used in most of his early videos from around 1988 to ’94. However, Prince’s first and original Cloud was donated to the Smithsonian in July 1993 and the other three Dave Rusan Clouds [2, 3 and 4], one of which was resprayed yellow at various points, have all been sold at auction between 2016 and 2020. That meant that this guitar was one of those made by Andy Beech, who was only commissioned by Prince to make Clouds from 1993 [as opposed to 1988].

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“The serial number – which we now think was probably put on a bit later – didn’t appear in the numbers listed in a Paisley Park fax dated January 1995 of all known Cloud serial numbers at the time. What we’ve since discovered is that we think this was the first one made by Andy Beech, effectively his prototype, which was delivered to Prince prior to his ‘Act II’ tour in the summer of 1993.”

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Amelia adds that stage-played Yellow Cloud guitars are rare, even within the exalted niche of Prince’s collection: “Since we know that the one in the Smithsonian [Cloud 1] was donated in July 1993, and Cloud 3 was given away in March ’93, we believe that Prince used the first Andy Beech Cloud – this guitar – for his 1993 tour of Europe, and close examination of the position of the controls, which vary quite a bit among the Clouds, as well as the profile of the headstock scroll, appear to confirm this.

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“Following the final show of the Act II tour at Wembley, Prince ended up playing an after-show at Bagley’s [former rave venue in London, in September ’93] and then tossed it [onto the stage floor] and the neck got broken – and that’s the last time he played it. Zeke Clark stated that he repaired the neck after a break and that he fitted the guitar with a Floyd Rose, which meant he had to move the input jack – and while you can see the ‘scar’ from this change to the scroll below the controls, the complete refin makes it tricky to see any neck repair with the naked eye.

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“We were so happy to discover he’d played it live. Obviously, it got broken and mended, and it’s been completely refinished. But it’s been done so well that you can’t see any kind of evidence of the repair, even when you blacklight it. It’s a really cool thing.”

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