Interesting Beatle Photo

admin · Post by **admin** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 3:25 pm

I thought this would be a photo that might generate some conversation.

rick12dr · Post by **rick12dr** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 10:47 pm

John looks as though he's thinking,"I gotta get me one of these bloody things fo'meself"....

carr · Post by **carr** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:16 am

Looking at the strap, Id guess it was a pose purely for the photographer and the 330 was the first guitar at hand

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 7:35 am

I wonder how this instrument felt for John after playing his short-scale Rickenbackers for so long.

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 7:51 am

If the 'legend' holds true, John WAS acutally the first Beatle to try the 1963 360/12, and thought George may make good use of it...so they went back to The Plaza Hotel...The rest, as they say, is history.........

corey · Post by **corey** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 5:48 pm

It's interesting to think how different all of our personal Ric model preferences would be if John and George had made other choices... (or the other usual supects, for that matter)

Great pic!

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 3:58 pm

Special thanks goes out to Mark Vaquer for obtaining the original print of this photo and sending it along for all of us to share. Thanks Mark.

admin · Post by **admin** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 4:01 pm

Corey: Right you are. Our preferences for guitars in general and Rickenbackers in particular are closely connected to our favourite artists. I suspect our preferences for certain chord patterns is also closely associated with our favourite performers.

steve_hall · Post by **steve_hall** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:46 pm

Yeah Pete, I play in a praise and worship group and my friends will say "Hey, you played that progression like the Beatles" or "do that Creedence or Keaggy thing here". It's like nature or nurture---you play the way you were taught to play. Sometimes we all don't try to sound like that, it just comes out that way. However, sometimes I do come in with something that I feel would sound great in a certain place within a song, and it might be taken liberally from a solo within my CD collection.

corey · Post by **corey** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:04 pm

Peter: That's a very good point. I know I can trace much of my chord progression habits to Mr. Peter Buck (and in turn, see how he was influenced first hand by George Harrison, Roger McGuinn and Neil Young).

"You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been."