Groovy Beatles pictures

[kieran campbell]

good or bad replacements (I know this isn't a Groovy beatles photo but I think it fits in)

[brammy]

Personally I think that any MB Ric looks best with gold plastic.

[brammy]

I think thats the Dakota back there over Paul's right shoulder.

... my apologies in advance...

[brammy]

[brammy]

On a cheerier note, I've finally found a good pix of The Beatles playing at Carnegie Hall.

The Beatles play Carnegie Hall, New York City. Feb 12, 1964

[brammy]

George's red Jet Firebird had FilterTron pickups and neo or thumbnail fret makers.
That's his black 57 Duo Jet with the Dynas and hump block markers. such a cool little geet that.

YUP! you are coorrrrrect, sir!

[brammy]

http://www.thecanteen.com/harrison3.html

1963: Gretsch 6131 Jet Fire Bird (single cutaway, red w/ black pickguard, vintage '58-'62): Harrison probably borrowed this guitar -- essentially another version of the Duo Jet -- and used it briefly early in the year. It's seen in photos from a Cavern Club rehearsal, but precious little after that.

[brammy]

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

Pics...

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

More...

[FretlessOnly]

... my apologies in advance...

You know, no apologies needed, but those photos really freak me out. And to think it was just 16 short years later, and now its 30 years after that. There's always been something very prophetic about the Beatles to me, and those photos really sussed it for me.

[brammy]

June 1962

With Gene Vincent - July 1, 1962

George and red Duo Jet

Grundig recorder in the foreground

[brammy]

July 1961 - George still using the Futurama

July 26, 1961 - the Duo Jet appears

George Harrison bought his used 1957 G6128T in 1961, and called it his first "really good" guitar.
He would refer to this model as "the Eddie Cochran/Duane Eddy guitar" and although some sources report that it was purchased in Hamburg, it was clearly bought in Liverpool.

"My first good guitar was the Duo Jet Gretsch. It wasn't easy to get an American guitar in Liverpool back in 1960 because of shortage of supply, and more important at the time, a severe shortage of cash. I saved my money from the gigs I had started playing, and one night in the Liverpool Echo I saw the advert under "For Sale." I rushed to the address that was given, with about 75lbs cash in my pocket and returned home the very pleased owner of that Gretsch. I have it 'till this day,...after playing it through the Hamburg days and Cavern years, tours of Europe to America in '64 and many, many of the Beatle Recordings."

[brammy]

February-March 1961

Mid 1961

Late Summer 1961
Aintree Institute

[brammy]

Meanwhile, in the fall of '61 Ringo was rockin away as the lead guitarist for a group called "Ringo Starr and All-Starr Band"

The man in the leather jacket is Alan Caldwell, roadie for the band and some time performer.........

..... in the spring of 1962 Caldwell accidentally killed himself while performing his well known microphone swallowing stunt
while Ringo belted out the riff from the instrumental song "Raunchy". Ringo would later refer to the tragedy as "sad, but also bloody funny". After Caldwell's funeral, when Ringo was asked why he did not attend, he coldly replied, "I wasn't there when he was born either."