Guild sighting - Creed Bratton

[walrus]

Formerly of The Grassroots, and of course, "The Office". The link below has a long interview with him including pictures and videos. At the top are two photos of him with a Guild, an acoustic and what might be "his favorite" guitar, a '69 Bluesbird. Several pages down they ask him what his favorite guitar is, and that's what he says. On that same page is another photo of him with a Guild acoustic.

Perhaps someone more technically proficient than me can insert the photos only into this thread...

http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/04/02/grass-roots-creed-bratton-the-office-interview/

walrus

 

[killdeer43]

Great link....thanks!
*Big fan of The Office here. :rugby:

Joe

 

[jeffcoop]

Nice interview. Might the lower picture, the one that accompanies the quote about his favorite guitar, actually be the Bluesbird rather than an acoustic? (All you can see are the headstock and a small part of the fretboard, both of which look like the Bluesbird pictured at the top of the interview). Or am I missing another picture?

 

[jeffcoop]

Here are the pictures:

The article also has a great embedded video that incorporates Creed Bratton's musical history into that of his "Office" character.

 

[Renuncia701]

Followed the links and came to this, never knew that the Funk Brothers ( Motown session players) had a west coast equal, very informative
http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/

 

[walrus]

Jeff, that looks like it might be right, that the lower picture is the headstock of the Bluesbird...

Thanks for embedding the photos!

walrus

 

[SFIV1967]

At the top are two photos of him with a Guild, an acoustic and what might be "his favorite" guitar, a '69 Bluesbird.

That acoustic at least is an Epiphone.

The Bluesbird has a replaced normal size bridge humbucker. I guess the headstock is that same '69 M-75 Bluesbird.

Ralf

 

[walrus]

Thanks, Ralf! I need to learn your photo posting skills!

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

FWIW, LTG poster mgod has played on some of Creed's recent work and the diligent searcher can find comments and links to videos that show at least one Guild bass and I think some hands on discussion on which Guilds Creed used recently.

 

[SFIV1967]

Frono, you gave me a challenge now, but right, Creed has a nice old acoustic Guild (D-40 or D-50, can't see) as well!

Ralf

 

[chazmo]

Oooh, that's tough without a couple more shots. Looks like a Hoboken D-40 with replacement tuners.

 

[SFIV1967]

This picture also doesn't help me too much due to the light, it could be a rosewood D-50, but if it is a dark stained Hog D-40, who knows (well, Hans would know...)...

Ralf

 

[hansmoust]

This picture also doesn't help too much due to the light, it could be a rosewood D-50, but if it was dark stained Hog, who knows (well, Hans would know...)...

Ralf

Looks like a D-40 to me!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[chazmo]

Would a Hobo D-50 have a Chesterfield?

I think it's dark-stained mahogany, but I'm not sure... Hey, if Hans agrees, I'm stickin' by my guns.

 

[SFIV1967]

Would a Hobo D-50 have a Chesterfield?

I was initially thinking the same, but no, according to Hans book page 121 the D-50 got it only in 1968. I think it might have been the Rosewood fingerboard for the D-40 versus the Ebony fingerboard for the D-50 that was the giveaway.
Ralf