I need some Beatles guitar experts...

grinch · Post by **grinch** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:58 pm

Hey everybody,

I've been working on a Beatles guitar website for months and months. I've finally completed it, and if it's possible, I'd like to get some people to proofread. An advanced screening, of sorts. I've already asked on other forums, but I figure you guys (and gals) would know most about Rickenbackers in particular. I really just need some people to check dates, facts, and give me some feedback before the website is publicly released.

So, if you're interested in helping out (which I hope you are!), please email me at the following link:

[email protected]

And, here's a previewing screenshot of the site. Maybe it'll help me reel in some helpers!

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:43 am

Nick, I'll e-mail you later today.

admin · Post by **admin** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:16 am

Nick: Why not send us along your url so that we can all have a look? I am sure that many would be interested in your project.

grinch · Post by **grinch** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:22 pm

Alright, what the hell. I trust you guys!

Here's the site. Post your critiques and feedback here.

www.nickmartellaro.info

kog · Post by **kog** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:01 pm

Nick -- Great sight! Lot's of pics there that I either haven't seen before, or at least cleaner and bigger pics of a lot of one I have seen before.

I've only had time to run through most of it, so the only "critique" I have is that a couple of "catalog"-type pics of the guitars may be a bit dark. The one that springs to mind is the "Gretsch George Harrison Model" 12-string. At least on my monitor, it the body looks pretty dark. I know it's a dark brown/black guitar -- I just wonder if you can lighten some of those with Photoshop or some other program, just so we can see some details? (Or maybe it's my monitor..??)

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:16 pm

It's not your monitor! The details on the body are lost.

rumbush · Post by **rumbush** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:21 pm

On the Paul J-160E page, he's playing a square-shouldered guitar, and the subsequent photo is of a round-shouldered J-160E.
Right-handed models too...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:22 pm

OK, Nick, I reviewed most of the site and mostly came up with some spelling errors and a couple of grammatical clumsies.

Outside of that, EXCELLENT!!! And then I found out that you are sixteen...Amazing work and congratulations on a fully-realized labor of love.

I'll send you my list tomorrow.

One thing--the Fender VI was called the "Fender Bass VI" back in the sixties. Your father might know; if not, your grandfather...

grinch · Post by **grinch** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:55 pm

"Your mother should know..."

Anyways, I changed that whole Fender VI thing to a Fender Bass VI. Thanks!

apollo11 · Post by **apollo11** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:47 pm

Fantastic site, Nick. Extensive. Phenomenal job--extrmemly well done!

grinch · Post by **grinch** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:55 pm

Wow, I just posted it a little while ago, and I already have gotten a ton of submissions. New content:

-I found a bigger color photo of the natural 325 with Lennon playing it
-New Lennon guitar! The "mystery acoustic"
-More pictures for the Ramirez Segovia
-Some more pics of John with the Casino
-A lot more pics of Paul with his Jazz Bass and George with his J-200 (they're the same set)

That's all for now.

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:55 am

Some of those photos are copywritten, correct?

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:58 am

"The Fender Bass VI was a baritone guitar, somewhat like a bass. "

Not true. The Fender VI was a short-scale bass with two extra strings, tuned E-E. A baritone guitar is tuned A-A or B-B.

grinch · Post by **grinch** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:34 am

Hmm...

The reason I wrote that it was a baritone guitar is because I took a trip to Guitar Center, and played a Jaguar Baritone Custom. It was tuned like a guitar, and Fender's catalog calls it a "contemporary version of the Bass VI guitar".

Oh, and I'm not sure about those photos. I got them in emails, and it would be impossible to find the holders. If anybody contacts me and requests that I take a photo down, I will gladly do so.

paulv63 · Post by **paulv63** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:58 pm

I bet all of those photos are copywritten. Not only the photos but the likenesses and logos. If they were going to enforce all of those laws there wouldn't be much of a world wide web left to search.
Nick, just keep doing what you're doing until you get sick of it. You'll find people who will try to grind your gears with whatever you do.