Glass Onion
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Post by Glass Onion on May 1, 2024 9:11:43 GMT
I'll start this off with John who apparently played the Fender Bass VI on the song 'Helter Skelter'. Put the person, instrument and song on the replies. ![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r8GOFbETxWI/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Post by ROCKY on May 1, 2024 13:53:18 GMT
Paul Barth's prowess as a guitar maker goes far beyond the 2000-some-odd instruments that came out of the Bartell factory in the '60s. Having previously worked with the likes of Magnatone, Rickenbacker, National, and Acoustic, it's safe to say the man knew what he was doing! It's no wonder that legendary guitarists Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and George Harrison all took a liking to Barth's work. In fact, there's one thing all three artists shared in common: the ownership of a fretless guitar designed by Barth. The only mention of this guitar by The Beatles themselves was at a radio interview with Kenny Everett on 6th June 1968, when John and George had the guitar with them, and referred to it as a "mad guitar". A friend of George Harrison, Jan Gorski-Mescir, confirmed the band left the Bartell Fretless at the Abbey Road locker for several months, until, stuck for the right guitar sound while recording some tracks on the White Album, they finally decided to use the Bartell: "During Happiness Is A Warm Gun, neither John nor George were very happy with the bend notes on the 'I need a fix' section. That's when they remembered the fretless in the cupboard. Both John and George played several versions of the very bendy guitar line on the fretless, with compression and a Vox distortion pedal." But, that was about it - one little known comment by a friend of The Beatles, a brief radio interview from 1968 and a fuzzy photograph. Until, in 2020, the actual guitar re-surfaced on BBC's Antique Roadshow, bringing it finally back to attention. The fuzzy photo with George with the guitar... ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) ![](http://i.imgur.com/4TohVxL.jpg)
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Post by Mr Kite on May 20, 2024 8:57:01 GMT
Brilliant ! Cheers for that Rocky 👍
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Post by Glass Onion on May 21, 2024 12:29:56 GMT
![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/d6/2a/71d62a366ea314ea596e3f5a34a317fc.png) While John was playing the six string bass on 'Helter Skelter' Paul was playing the blistering electric guitar part on this Fender Esquire.
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Post by ROCKY on May 21, 2024 15:04:33 GMT
John's orange guitar. A 1963 Gretsch 6120 hollow-body, double cutaway model. Serial No. 53940. Little is known about where this guitar came from; it was used on the "Paperback Writer" session in 1966 and then apparently stuck away at Lennon's home. A year later in 1967, Lennon gave this guitar to his cousin David Birch, who in 1963 had also received a Hamburg-vintage Fender Vibroluxe amp from his cousin. As David recalls, "Upstairs in John's house in Weybridge, he had his den and music room. It was full of tape decks, keyboards, guitars, etc. The two guitars I remember were the blue Fender Stratocaster and the Gretsch 6120. It may have been cheeky, but I asked him did he have any spare guitars, as I was trying to get a group together while staying with Mimi in Bournemouth. I really fancied the Fender, but that was a no-no, but he said I could have the Gretsch. I was over the moon, as you would expect." Birch loaned this guitar and amp to The Beatles Story in Liverpool for display in 2010, and in June 2012, the guitar was on loan to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In April 2015, billionaire James Irsay bought the guitar from David for $530,000 and it is now presently in his Beatle guitar collection. ![](http://i.imgur.com/kS1Jy3l.png) ![](http://i.imgur.com/wxpuwcr.png) ![](http://i.imgur.com/48AJZ9b.png) So how much would it cost you today to get one similar to the one John had.... cartervintage.com/shop/gretsch-6120-1965-orange/2eBa0eOkt7K946DtNL0RriukIrs?srsltid=AfmBOoq1zDfdOXMT3hJHNz6fSvKw7Qnu8JEPm1Ou8UajzpGhpp8G6qYT2SY
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Post by ROCKY on May 24, 2024 22:40:43 GMT
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Post by pothos on May 25, 2024 22:20:13 GMT
Wow that is some money.
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Post by ROCKY on May 29, 2024 20:55:51 GMT
Lennon's guitar sold today for a RECORD price! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) $2,410,000 ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png)
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Post by pothos on May 29, 2024 22:10:30 GMT
Wow.
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Post by ROCKY on May 29, 2024 23:55:31 GMT
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Post by Glass Onion on May 30, 2024 14:15:21 GMT
Now back to the theme of the thread. On the sleeve notes of the album 'Beatles For Sale' written by Derek Taylor it says Ringo is not playing the drums on 'Words Of Love' but playing a packing case. I sup[pose that counts as a different instrument.
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Post by Mr Kite on Jun 2, 2024 22:56:26 GMT
I vaguely remember reading that they did that for the reason that Buddy Holly and the Crickets used cardboard boxes on some of their recordings
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