fenderplucker wrote:I agree with Phil, Strat all the way.
Why? Well, firstly, Atlantis was recorded in December 1962, about a year before Hank started using the Burns (conspiracy theories about earlier prototypes are not supported by documented conversations with either Hank or Jim Burns) and, secondly, the Strat nails the Atlantis tone so why look further?
Paul.
Geronimo and
Atlantis were recorded on 13th November 1962.
I don't know what you mean about "conspiracy theories", but The Shadows were testing Burns prototypes as early as the second half of 1962 (though the instruments weren't seen in public until spring 1964, which is an entirely different thing).
The group's intention to have a change from Fenders was actually announced as early as the first week of May 1962, in the Associated-Rediffusion TV programme "Dan Farson Meets The Shadows" (which I think included Jet, so must have been recorded at least some weeks earlier than that).
Licorice Locking himself stated on several occasions that some tunes recorded in late 1962 (including both
Atlantis and
Geronimo) were played on a Burns guitar.
What's the difficulty with any of that?