George's "This is Love" Video

[simer4001]

Has anyone seen this video? George plays what looks like a 450 with some type of cover over the bridge pickup. It appears to be jetglo with a gold metal pickguard. The headstock is walnut or some kind of dark wood with a dark TRC. He was playing slide with it. Pretty cool. I caught it on VH1 this afternoon. I've seen this video dozens of times and never noticed before.

[oreca]

I think it's on the Dark Horse Years DVD, not too sure tho, but I've seen him play a 450 on that DVD if I recall correctly.

[larrywassgren]

I think it's an early '60 Rickenbacker 420(single pick-up) but I could be remembering wrong. He pulls it out of the original case on an ocean beach somewhere with waves crashing around him. Very cool video for sure and a great song. That guitar was borrowed from Norm's Rare Guitars for the video. I could have bought it(should have) for around $4000 way back then. Seemed like too much money as the same guitar at that time(with no claim to fame) was going for around $350-500.

[fireglo]

You can download the video from fastfocus.tv as well as a couple of Beatles videos (Get Back and Don't let Me Down).

[admin]

Larry: What were you thinking? How many of us could get a Rickenbacker played by George Harrison for $4,000! Just kidding, there is a limit to everything. A great story nonetheless and thanks for passing it on.

[larrywassgren]

Yes Peter, hindsight is always 20-20! I remember that one well. At the same time I could have bought back my '61 fire-glo Rickenbacker 360 that George is photographed with in the November of '87 Guitar Player magazine article. He wanted $6000 for that back then so I should have gone to the bank and borrowed $10000! I still find it amazing that George would end up getting photographed with my old guitar. That was great.

[admin]

Hey Larry, any chance you could send me your autograph? Another great story.

[octagon]

And now through the magic of "youtube" This Is Love

[brammy]

Looks to me that it was filmed near Hana, Maui, where George had a house (and a yellow VW bug).

[simer4001]

Looks to me that it was filmed near Hana, Maui, where George had a house (and a yellow VW bug).

I believe you are exactly right. This is th ehose that someone had scaled the cliff and broke into. The person was living inthe house for about a week before George's brother-in-law found a window open and discovered the person in the home. Doing their laundry if I recall.