Steve Hook said:Speaking of black 'Duane Eddy'-models - here's Dave Davies with what seems to a black, humbucker-equipped DE-500-model :
Davies seems to have acquired this guitar (his first Guild) in late-1964 (there's a pic in Jon Savage's Kinks-biography dated Autumn 1964 showing Pete Quaife smoking a cigar in a hotel room, and the Guild is visible behind him), and interestingly enough Davies claims in his autobiography ("Kink") that the guitar was 'custom-made for George Harrison' (although there are no records/pics whatsoever which show that Harrison ever had this particular guitar in his possession to the best of my knowledge).
This is very likely the guitar that was lost by an airline company while The Kinks were on tour in the USA in 1965 (and never surfaced again), but it can be seen & heard in action here :
Hans, would you happen to know if Davies' example might indeed have been a unique/one-off example, or why it doesn't seem to have Duane Eddy's signature on its pickguard?
Steve
Steve Hook said:Speaking of black 'Duane Eddy'-models - here's Dave Davies with what seems to a black, humbucker-equipped DE-500-model :
Davies seems to have acquired this guitar (his first Guild) in late-1964 (there's a pic in Jon Savage's Kinks-biography dated Autumn 1964 showing Pete Quaife smoking a cigar in a hotel room, and the Guild is visible behind him), and interestingly enough Davies claims in his autobiography ("Kink") that the guitar was 'custom-made for George Harrison' (although there are no records/pics whatsoever which show that Harrison ever had this particular guitar in his possession to the best of my knowledge).
This is very likely the guitar that was lost by an airline company while The Kinks were on tour in the USA in 1965 (and never surfaced again), but it can be seen & heard in action here :
Hans, would you happen to know if Davies' example might indeed have been a unique/one-off example, or why it doesn't seem to have Duane Eddy's signature on its pickguard?
Steve
Steve Hook said:Do you also happen to know if there were any other black Duane Eddy-guitars made at the time, or was Davies' example truly a 'one-off' guitar?
I'm still a bit intrigued by Davies' comments (a.o. in his biography) that his black Guild was custom-made for George Harrison, although I think that the guitar might have been simply sold to him in 1964 with some 'sales-talk' in order to make the deal/guitar even more interesting...
Steve Hook said:Do you also happen to know if there were any other black Duane Eddy-guitars made at the time, or was Davies' example truly a 'one-off' guitar?
I'm still a bit intrigued by Davies' comments (a.o. in his biography) that his black Guild was custom-made for George Harrison, although I think that the guitar might have been simply sold to him in 1964 with some 'sales-talk' in order to make the deal/guitar even more interesting...