coastie99
Enlightened Member
Many of those "of an age", will probably remember some of these................
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It's "swooshy". I think it's supposed to be like that. All the rest are!coastie99 said:Check out the bronze H44 and look at the fit of the pickguard beneath the fretboard.
JerryR said:Not sure if I'm an old gem or old crap :shock:
Walter Broes said:I think the renewed interest in Harmony guitars has a lot to do with two west coast Blues Players.
-Junior Watson first with Rod Piazza's "Mighty Flyers") played (and probably still occasionally plays a silvertone Espanada, which is functionally a H-62 really. Ever since Watson started playing these, his Harmony + Fender Reverb tank + tweed Fender amp has pretty much become the "standard jump blues rig" for blues players all over the world.
A lot of the H-62 types were pretty nice guitars btw, if you're into that kind of guitar.
-Rick Holmstrom, who currently plays in Mavis Staples' band, started using the Les Paul Shaped Stratotones, and again sparked somewhat of a craze for these. Nice original ones have almost quadrupled in price in recent years.
Holmstrom talks about this in a recent issue of VG magazine, and a funny detail is that while Watson originally inspired Holmstrom to pick up a Harmony (a H-62), Holmstrom's use of a Harmony solidbody in turn inspired Watson to start playing them too.
Last time I checked, there were a couple of clips of a fairly young Watson with the mighty Flyers playing his Espanada up on Youtube, and there are plenty of clips up of Holmstrom playing his Harmony guitars, solo as well as with Staples. Great, inventive players, both of them, with nice greasy guitar tones.
The Guilds of Grot said:It's "swooshy". I think it's supposed to be like that. All the rest are!coastie99 said:Check out the bronze H44 and look at the fit of the pickguard beneath the fretboard.
coastie99 said:The Guilds of Grot said:It's "swooshy". I think it's supposed to be like that. All the rest are!coastie99 said:Check out the bronze H44 and look at the fit of the pickguard beneath the fretboard.
"Swooshy ??"
Originals weren't swooshy. Lookee here.............
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