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Post by brewmaster on Oct 27, 2019 10:38:58 GMT
Nice interview, thanks Rocky
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Post by brewmaster on Jan 14, 2020 10:39:02 GMT
During the "Paperback Writer" recording session, George is shown playing this guitar.... The guitar is a Burns Sonic bass. The interesting question is why George chose this particular instrument out of the other options he had; and why was George playing bass. Andy Babuik discusses the guitar in his superb Beatles Gear
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Post by ROCKY on Jan 14, 2020 13:52:16 GMT
Got this from "Paperback Writer Beatle Music History":
It was indeed Paul playing lead guitar which leaves the bass guitar work to George Harrison, since this rhythm track did not have any overdubs at this time. Adding to this conclusion are photos of the session on this day which shows George playing another new instrument to The Beatles line-up, a Burns Nu-Sonic bass guitar. John’s Gretsch electric guitar was apparently never used again by the group after this day. George, however, appears to have used this short-scale Burns bass guitar a couple more times during the “Revolver” sessions.
Probably George just wanted to try out something new and picked that instrument.
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Post by brewmaster on Mar 24, 2020 15:12:35 GMT
Interesting 10 string guitar, from BC Rich...
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Post by brewmaster on Mar 30, 2020 14:20:17 GMT
Another example... Hagstrom 8-string bass.
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Post by brewmaster on Aug 5, 2020 8:43:10 GMT
Nick Mason commissioned a set of custom copies of Syd's Esquire, and gave them as gifts to band members. Guy Pratt with his gifted guitar.
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Post by ROCKY on Aug 7, 2020 13:32:21 GMT
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Post by ROCKY on Aug 7, 2020 13:47:13 GMT
I am now doing research on a Jimi Hendrix guitar that he first got when he got out of the service in 1962. It was a 60's Ibanez Jet King guitar and he found it at a Music store in Clarksville Tn. A couple of pictures of Jimi with the guitar. This is what the guitar looked like (this is a reissue and has diff. style fret markers) What is really interesting is Jimi got the guitar on loan from the shop and couldn't make the payments on it so he returned the guitar to the shop where it sat for years. Finally when Jimi became famous the shop owner had put it on display hanging it on the wall in a prominate spot in the store. It hung there for 30 years until a tornado hit the city of Clarksville in 1999 and the guitar went missing. The shop owner died in 2015 never finding the guitar. The shop is gone now and a bank is now in its spot.
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Post by brewmaster on Sept 2, 2021 16:34:33 GMT
Interview with Hank....
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Post by brewmaster on Sept 7, 2021 20:33:04 GMT
A charming look at Mark Knofler's guitar history...
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Post by ROCKY on Sept 21, 2023 13:15:30 GMT
How cool that the Zenith guitar in the collection has the Hessey's sticker. That place was a Mecca for us lads back then, and I spent hours looking at the guitars in their Stanley Street shop. I just did some checking and Paul traded his trumpet for the Zenith at Rushworth's Music and not Hessy's. Also take a good look at the headstock it is different than Paul's Zenith. (Starts at 2:28) FROM THE UK DAILY REPORTER July 14,2014: "The young McCartney took the trumpet back to Rushworth Music shop in Liverpool and traded it in for the Zenith guitar (made in Germany by Framus)" HOORAY I finally found it! It's going to be Christmas in October!! I finally purchased a Zenith Model 17 in a Bristol, England guitar shop and it's on its way to me as I am writing this post!! Should expect it Oct.6th!! This is the guitar Paul is using in this video taped in 2014. Paul's guitar was made sometime in the early 50's in Germany, shipped to Liverpool, and traded a trumpet for by a young 14 year old Paul McCartney after his birthday in June 1956! First photo of my Zenith model 17
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Post by ROCKY on Sept 29, 2023 14:09:34 GMT
I received the guitar!! Here's Sir Paul using it in a clip from the Beatles Anthology film.
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Post by ROCKY on Oct 11, 2023 13:27:15 GMT
Here's an interesting pic I found. It's a pic of George with guitars around him. In the caption it reads 'George's Early Guitars', yet George was never known to own an early Zenith/Framus guitar. Did Paul lend George his guitar? There are no pics of Paul's Zenith from 1962 up to the early 1990's when Paul invited some of his friends into his studio for an impromtu concert. That is when someone asked Paul what his first guitar was and he pointed to it hanging on the studio wall. He took it down and played '20 Flight Rock' which there is a video of. It never appeared again until Paul did his 'Early Days' record in 2014 and did that little jam session with those blues guys and Johnny Depp. It's probably hanging back on the wall in Paul's studio now.
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Post by pothos on Oct 11, 2023 22:11:09 GMT
What year was that taken?
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Post by ROCKY on Oct 12, 2023 13:56:40 GMT
George is holding his Gretsch Duo-Jet which he got in the Summer of '61. Also in the picture are George's Futurama which he used on the Hamburg tour in '60. So my guess is the picture was taken in 1961.
*the two guitars behind George are hard to identify. One might be his old Egmond, but it has a pickguard, and the other might be the bass Paul used in Hamburg, but they smashed that one night when they were drunk.
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Post by pothos on Oct 12, 2023 22:21:37 GMT
Thank you for the information.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 13, 2023 8:21:40 GMT
The guitar behind George's right shoulder looks like a Hofner [check the headstock] Possibly a Club 40?
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Post by ROCKY on Oct 13, 2023 21:21:19 GMT
I think you're right Brew. Both Lennon and Harrison got Club 40's in '59. The only difference was John's had the Hofner decal on the left bout while George's didn't. So that is George's Club 40 in the photo. Lennon took his to Hamburg in 1960 and gave it to Paul to use after he got his Ric325. You can see Paul holding the Club 40 in that famous Hamburg photo of them.
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Post by pothos on Oct 13, 2023 22:31:13 GMT
That is one of my all time favourite Beatles photographs.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 14, 2023 9:20:32 GMT
I too, love that photo. It was taken at the annual funfair. In 1963 I visited that fair. I found this photo which was another view of George with his guitars....
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