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Post by ROCKY on Oct 14, 2023 14:00:55 GMT
I always thought that was George's bedroom that those photos were taken in, but actually it was the Harrison family room. It still looks the same as the day those pictures were taken 0ver 60 years ago!!
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Post by pothos on Oct 14, 2023 22:53:16 GMT
Great images.
My other favourite Beatle photograph is one from the Tittenhurst session with John and Paul sat down and George and Ringo stood up in front the house.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 26, 2023 15:32:03 GMT
I mentioned the Marr's Guitars book in the "recommended books" thread. While browsing I saw this photo of a pair of Strats, and noticed the left one has two selector switches. Never seen this before. Any thoughts?
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Post by ROCKY on Oct 27, 2023 13:49:54 GMT
Probably done before these 10 way switches came out.
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Post by brewmaster on Nov 5, 2023 9:53:24 GMT
A true guitar nerd...
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 5, 2023 14:36:02 GMT
I don't see what people see in this gentleman. But he's popular. It's been rumored he knows where Clapton's "Beano" Les Paul is, but he isn't saying. He's really good friends with Norman Harris who owns the Vintage Guitar shop in LA where he gets most of his rare guitars from.
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Post by pothos on Nov 5, 2023 21:57:22 GMT
Does this mean that some of the greatest guitars in music are still missing. Rocky what would you say are the most famous guitars that are lost.
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 6, 2023 16:08:46 GMT
Does this mean that some of the greatest guitars in music are still missing. Rocky what would you say are the most famous guitars that are lost. There are a couple of Buddy Holly strats that were stolen in the 1950's that are long gone. Probably parted out. Same way with a few Jimi Hendrix used guitars. A lot of Hank Williams Sr. guitars were just left at a bar and have never surfaced again. Paul's bass is Number One, missing since the Let It Be film sessions in Jan.'69. 2. George's gifted Ric 360/ 12 string that a radio station gave him in 1965. That also was stolen during the Let It Be film. 3. Clapton's Beano Les Paul stolen while he was in a Cream session playing in an old church of all places. 4. Jeff Beck had his '59 sunburst Les Paul stolen. 5. James Jamerson, Motown sessionman, P-Bass The Funk Machine. Stolen in 1982 after he died. 6. Mike Nesmith of the Monkees, Gretsch 12 string. 7. Joe Satriani's Ibanez 'Chromeboy'. 8. Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth's JazzBlaster guitar. 9. Ike Turner's gifted Hendrix guitar while he was using the bathroom at a bar gig. Almost every musician has had one of his guitars stolen and never returned. These are probably the more famous ones. There are also some very expensive guitars stolen from collectors and non-famous musicians. Like a 1954, first year strat, worth probably $100,000 USD!
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Post by brewmaster on Nov 7, 2023 9:17:20 GMT
Keith Richard has had more guitars stolen/burned than most bands own instruments! Also Hank Marvin had guitars stolen from a van in 1972 There were two Burns Marvins, green and white, his Martin acoustic and two Gibson acoustics, a six string and a 12 string in cherry sunburst.
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Post by pothos on Nov 7, 2023 10:15:34 GMT
I find this all so shocking.
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 7, 2023 14:49:31 GMT
I remember when they stole ALL of Pink Floyd's gear in May 1970 in New Orleans, which luckily was at the end of the US Tour. They finally got most of the gear back, but that does take balls to do something like that!!! And before that David Gilmour's most prized possession had been stolen, the white '68 Tele his parents bought him for being in Pink Floyd. It was never returned! www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=67[/quote]Also Syd Barrett's famous silver Esquire with all the mirrors on it has been lost since Syd was lost. No one knows whether he gave it to someone, traded it for another guitar, or if it was just plain stolen!
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Post by pothos on Nov 7, 2023 23:13:30 GMT
Does anyone know where Sister Rosetta Tharp's Guitar/Guitars are. One of the first major female electric players I can think of.
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 8, 2023 14:39:01 GMT
She is most famous for using her all white 1962 Gibson SG, but she had other guitars too. I believe her family still owns them. Sister Tharpe passed away in 1973 at the young age of 58. equipboard.com/pros/sister-rosetta-tharpe
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Post by pothos on Nov 8, 2023 23:14:10 GMT
Glad that her family have them.
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 25, 2023 18:54:11 GMT
Getting an early Christmas present for my Beatle Guitar collection! John's first guitar. A Gallotone Champion! John was 16.
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 28, 2023 4:07:50 GMT
A very rare photo of the brass plate that Aunt Mimi had put on John's Gallotone guitar. " You'll Never Make A Living With This " * Aunt Mimi Smith (1906-1991) died just 2 days before the 11th anniversary of John's murder. R I P
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 28, 2023 4:20:10 GMT
The History of John's Gallotone guitar.
John seen an ad for them in a music mag back in March 1957 and talked to his MoM Julia into buying him one. She sent in the 10 poundsUK and John got his guitar in April 1957. The pic above of him playing was taken on July 6.1957, with his skiffle band The Quarrymen. Paul was actually in the crowd watching, but neither knew one another until later that evening when Paul showed John that he knew how to play a guitar and so that was the roots for the group The Beatles. John used the guitar for a few years until his Aunt Mimi. who raised him after Julia was run over by a car in July 1958, bought him an electric guitar. Then the Gallotone sat in John's bedroom after that. And when the Beatles became famous and John had married, Aunt Mimi was left with the guitar. Aunt Mimi kept it all those years and as fate would have it Aunt Mimi had it repaired and had a small brass plague attached to the headstock that read, "You'll never make a living with this". She was going to give it to him as a Christmas present in 1980. Distraught with looking at it anymore she donated it to a friend. Who then gave it to his disabled son. After his son passed away his father gave it to a disabled girl to learn how to play. Her father later put it in a Sotheby's Auction in 1999 where it fetched $225k USD. The buyer was a NYC investor who still has it.
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 2, 2023 14:33:10 GMT
My Gallotone is almost here. It's in America Customs. I figured John's MoM Julia paid 10 pds. UK in 1957 for it and that was about $28 USD then. About $231 in todays money. Probably took John a month to receive the guitar in the mail. So he probably got it in May 1957, John was 16, and first used it on that day in July at St. Peters Church with both Julia and MiMi out in the audience. Along with 15 yr. old Paul, although he didn't know who they were at the time.
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 18, 2023 2:30:22 GMT
I just bought a shell of John's 'RoofTop' Casino guitar. I'm going to order the rest of the parts to build it.
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 18, 2023 2:33:06 GMT
I just bought a shell of John's 'RoofTop' Casino guitar. I'm going to order the rest of the parts to build it.
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