hansmoust
Enlightened Member
Not my favorite picture(s) nor my favorite artist but I thought some of you might enjoy these nevertheless!
I assume some of you will recognize this photo of Eric Clapton playing a Guild F-50B :
It was used on the cover of the 1968 Guild catalog.
Shortly after the Westerly plant was closed in 2001, I was going through some old boxes with miscellaneous stuff and I found some old torn up contact sheets. Most of the sheets were damaged and smeared with dirt but I was able to make out some of it in the very dark room that I was in. The sheets turned out to be the contact prints of the photo shoot during which the photos for the 1968 catalog were made.
Unfortunately they were just contact prints and not the actual films, but I was able to scan some of it for you, so you have an idea:
It looks like somebody had the brilliant idea that there had to be a lady dancing around in these photos; meanwhile Eric looks like he's falling asleep. Lucky for us they never used any of that.
Here are some more that they didn't use,
but they had an artist make something out of the one in the lower left corner for the Flat Top Guitar Catalog that came out not long after that:
Yes, those must have been wild days! Hope you enjoyed the show!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl
I assume some of you will recognize this photo of Eric Clapton playing a Guild F-50B :
It was used on the cover of the 1968 Guild catalog.
Shortly after the Westerly plant was closed in 2001, I was going through some old boxes with miscellaneous stuff and I found some old torn up contact sheets. Most of the sheets were damaged and smeared with dirt but I was able to make out some of it in the very dark room that I was in. The sheets turned out to be the contact prints of the photo shoot during which the photos for the 1968 catalog were made.
Unfortunately they were just contact prints and not the actual films, but I was able to scan some of it for you, so you have an idea:
It looks like somebody had the brilliant idea that there had to be a lady dancing around in these photos; meanwhile Eric looks like he's falling asleep. Lucky for us they never used any of that.
Here are some more that they didn't use,
but they had an artist make something out of the one in the lower left corner for the Flat Top Guitar Catalog that came out not long after that:
Yes, those must have been wild days! Hope you enjoyed the show!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl
