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jdogric12 wrote:Who's the boom king?

Familiar looking guitar there:

The pic is of remains of one of Pete Townshend's Strats: :lol: http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/equipment/guitar/pt19670813_strat_1.jpg See entry for 13 August 1967: http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/smashed.html "I think I can fix that. . . . " :lol: "My old man is a tel...

The pic is of remains of one of Pete Townshend's Strats:



See entry for 13 August 1967:
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/smashed.html

Adding another thanks to JPS for the tip - he shared that with me about 5 years ago ....and it's still on my list of things to do

EDIT: SIX years ago

Very cool! 8) Thanks for sharing! Was that really his original J-160E on the display? Seems odd that the black would fade to a red cherryburst, unless it was refinished at some point: 1962Gibson5.jpg George with the 1962 J-160E, note the moved pick up (which could have been re-located to its origina...

Cool clip! That XII looks like it has white knobs, like the Electric XII prototype Carl Wilson used. Gene's has the rotary knob though and it almost looks as though there's no peghead decal.

brammy wrote:It appears that is was a backwards mounted strap, but maybe not John's Vox Python

Perhaps the "scales" were causing unwanted reflections into the camera lens out in the sun, so they flipped it around?

collin wrote:what the hell is THIS?




I can't even figure out what he is trying to replicate.....pick wear? Kids...don't do drugs.

Maybe that's the Willie Nelson Jaguar?

Looks to likely be from the 1960s.

See this link for a timeline: http://www.hidehitters.com/cymbals/Zild ... eline.html

Hope that helps!

bassduke49 wrote:Wish I could find a better - and larger - version of this shot:

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I think that one's Photoshopped

Is that one of the Res-O-Glas bodied types? I played an old, short-scale model and it was kind of neat - still had the original flat-wound strings on it! I believe it had a Peizo-like pickup in the bridge. It sounded quite a bit like Chris Hillman's tone on the Mr. Tambourine Man album. http://livea...

"Younger Than Yesterday," mastered by Steve Hoffman, is coming soon to CD in mono from Audio Fidelity.

http://www.audiofidelity.net/content/by ... -yesterday

jingle_jangle wrote:Long time, hey, folks?

Here's a cool acoustic!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT