Thanks, Didier. The Jazzmaster he used in their first video playing Apache. I suppose he used that in stage, as the J200 in those days would have presented problems.
Andy
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abstamaria wrote:I suppose he used that in stage, as the J200 in those days would have presented problems.
Andy
Didier wrote:JimN wrote:MMStingray54 wrote:It's a very funny sketch in my view. But I never understand why people say this about 'Cliff's guitar' - my understanding has been he bought it for Hank - and thus gave it to him originally? Fact is that Hank eventually preferred the tone of the rosewood board Strats once he got his hands on them (mellow and deeper sounding) and in any case 34346 suffered from string rattle issues - hence the paper stuffed in the string ends.
Hi, Don.
It is well-established that the original Strat was only on long-term loan to Hank and that it was returned when Jennings presented The Shadows with a full set of loan guitars in red (whichever red it was) with the rosewood necks, etc.
Here is what Hank said in an interview for a french magazine (translated by me) :
The (import) ban had just been removed, and people at Vox got an exclusive import contract for Fender products. The first packages contained some Precision Bass, some Stratocaster and Telecaster. This is why Bruce was shot with a Telecaster and Jet with a Precision Bass to promote the Fender range. Meanwhile two stratocaster and one Precision Bass were specially painted in fiesta red for us so we would all have a guitar of the same colour. We got them a few days later. So I gave back to Cliff my first Strat which wasn't really mine.
BTW, the interviewer was no one else than guitarist Marcel Dadi, one of the best European finger picking specialist who died in the crash of flight TWA 800 in 1996, when coming back from Nasville where he was just introduced to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Didier
GoldenStreet wrote:abstamaria wrote:I suppose he used that in stage, as the J200 in those days would have presented problems.
Andy
Yes, on stage and TV, I imagine little consideration would have been given to the technical issues involved in attempting to reproduce the sound of the record, with acoustic rhythm guitar, in live performance.
Another excuse for Willie... !
Bill
abstamaria wrote:I read, and I’m no expert here, that pickups for acoustic guitars improved enough for stage use only in the 1970s. Glen Campbell and Ovation are mentioned in that regard. In the early 1960s, I understand that the only way to get a good acoustic sound was with microphones, the pickups then not having seen the technical breakthroughs that would come a decade later. Mic’ing an acoustic on stage would have been impossible, what with Bruce moving about. Apart from looking cool with an electric guitar, the difficulty of playing an acoustic on stage was probably another reason why Bruce didn’t use the J200. Cliff, on the other hand, performed in front of a microphone, and that may have been sufficient to amplify the J200 at the volume needed. Besides, Cliff was probably backed up by a guitarist.
My thoughts only.
Andy
bor64 wrote:Never-mind the hand jive, what about the feet jive and never get unplugged by standing on the lead.
Hank didn't pulled the lead behind his strap, presumably Bruce neither....but hard to check with the dark rim of the SB JM.
The red guitars were ready a few days later....mmmm ?
Nitrocellulose finishes are evaporative finishes, and CAN be redissolved in their original solvents.
if you wish to test this, splash some lacquer thinner on your friend's mint 1957 Stratocaster. ( NO! DO NOT TRY THIS)
Lacquers dry to the touch relatively quickly, but then it can take weeks, or even months to dry completely, leading to the misconception that they "cure".
According to the peeps at Vox at least 3 neck changes were done on Bruce strat and at least two complete exchange of the two strats and bass did occur.
On the higher quality colour pics you can see Hank with a plain grained neck and with a tiger stripe rosewood neck.
When the strats came in for service and it was to much "work" they get exchanged according the Vox veterans.
The strats were just sold off to employees, the amps the same....when a amp case was to much damaged they replaced it with a new case and speakers.
Employees could pic them up for very small prices.
Cheers Rob
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