Guitar Strands?

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:57 am

Just have to scratch my head when I see all the studio shots of the Beatles guitars laying every which way on the floor. Did the Beatles ever own a guitar stand?

Even when they played live didn't they just carry their guitars straight from the dressing room themselves?

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:36 pm

I saw a pic of Lennon in Pepper era regalia entering Abbey Road carrying his case-less Casino.

Even in concert, weren't their spares just leaned against the drum riser?

That's so cool.

cowboy_joe · Post by **cowboy_joe** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:31 pm

I've seen it too, and one good thing about keeping your guitars on the floor is you don't have to worry about knocking them over. Of course, you could step on it....

In the anthology film, doesn't Paul say that John was first awakened to the possibilities of feedback when he leaned is J160e up against the amp? Maybe the carelessness helped the creativity?

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:06 am

I didn't have a guitar stand for the first 25 years I played, until the late 80s. Just used to lean the bass headstock, backwards, gainst the amp, like everyone else.

bassbob · Post by **bassbob** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:03 am

Me too. Times are different though and most of us are a little more protective of our instruments in our old age. Now they all have straplocks and hardshell cases and I have a 5 guitar floor stand.

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:01 am

I don't remember guitar stands back in the late sixties, though I'm sure they existed.

kog · Post by **kog** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:04 pm

I still have one from the 60s. It was a flimsy all-metal contraption that kind of unfolded like a music stand. The arms on the bottom had some kind of plastic sleeve over them, I guess to protect the guitar finish. The arms were connected to the metal frame with wingnuts -- I guess you could raise or lower the height of the arms. If you bent the arms, you could never get them un-bent back to the right position and it would become even more unstable. And then when you lifted the guitar off of it to put it back on, then the strap or the cable would get caught in the stand and send the whole mess clattering across the stage. So I did the same thing -- just set the guitar with the neck up against the amp head.

Ah, the good old days!

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:20 am

You ought to put that thing on Ebay. The prices people are paying for stuff from the sixties, you might get $300 for it!

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:29 am

Sounds like a guitar stand that was made by Hamilton. I think I had one of those. I don't know what happened to it. But I don't really care either.

JimK

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:31 am

Hamilton still makes that stand, and it doesn't work any better now.

jbarnes · Post by **jbarnes** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:52 am

I had several in the mid 60's they were flimsy little gage strap type material, folding and they worked.......... If (and if is a big word nowadays)I can find one in the remnants, I will post a pic...........

Oh yea, really easy to bend or screw up, does anyone remember them ???

jwh · Post by **jwh** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:39 pm

I still have one of those old Hamilton stands.
I didn't use it much. I would just lean my guitar up against the amp or lay it on the floor.

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:37 pm

Hmm...Sort of like the Beatles did...

lyle_from_minneapolis · Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:43 pm

If you can remember a guitar stand from the 60's, baby, you weren't really there.

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:10 pm

I think I WAS a guitar stand in the sixties! It was really the seventies but don't tell. The sixties didn't really happen til the last part of the decade..