adorshki
Reverential Member
Funny you should mention that but a lot of folks here feel Guild DIDN'T do enough to promote the brand that way. I suspect it might also have something to do with their willingness to make a special order for just about anybody. The Dead actually went to Westerly in '69 I think it was, and Bobby came back with a special Starfire (?), pictured in Hans' book. I know Paul Simon used one, Yanovsky from the Lovin' Spoonful used an early Thunderbird, used on every hit single, reported in the intro to Hans Moust's "Guild Guitar Book". Remember "Summer In The City" ?. In a "Behind the Album" (or whatever the heck they call it) segment on "Disreali Gears" Clapton mentions being inspired by a Spoonful tune for the progression for "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and also was an endorser, his picture with an F50R is in Hans' book and one of my buddies who's deeper into Clapton trivia than me says its that axe (or at least an F50) on "Thorntree in the Garden" on Layla. There's Yardbirds footage of Beck with an early F212 for "Heart Full Of Soul". Keef Richards was reported to be using an M75 (?) very early in the Stones, like '65? (reported on this forum.) Steve Miller with 12 string on cover of "Rock Love". Casady played a Starfire bass which became one of the first Alembics....Hendrix had a 12-string (I have a picture of the receipt from Manny's in one of the Hendrix bios but don't rememebr which one at the moment) Of course as soon as I go home tonight I'll remember some more, but as you can probably tell I LOVED the pop/rock music scene from about '64 thru about '71 with a special love for the San Francisco scene...since I grew up near there. There's another thread around here of "Guild Players" that covers a lot of other folks too. I just wanted to inflame your nostalgia, maybe stimulate you to pull out some vinyl this weekend...I sure will!Steve Hoffman said:Weird to see Jerry age like that. He looked about the same for 20 years and then, boom!
I think a lot of bands in the 1960's used Guilds, didn't they? Hans would know why but I suspect that Guild was far more open to endorsement deals and had an agent in the music biz who clued them in on up and coming bands. Had to be that (plus the fact that the Guilds were cheaper than Gibson models, correct?)
So many mid 1960's rock bands used Guild, a lot from the West Coast..
Interesting history.
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