Greg Brady with a Guild!

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A brief glimpse in the middle of this "Happy Days" interview. There may be more, but I don't know the episode...

At 8:05.



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On closer inspection - I don't think it's a Guild.
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Ah, I think you are correct! My bad, nothing to see here, where's Marcia?

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Ah, I think you are correct! My bad, nothing to see here, where's Marcia?
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Anxiously awaiting seeing you again at the Class of 75's 45th Reunion next year.

Y'know, though, wonder if Greg's guitar could be a Madeira?
Aoxoa actually joined up and posted here a few a times a while back:
https://aoxoa.co/madeira-guild-acoustic-guitar/
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There's even precedent for the 'guard shape and square label:
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Just didn't see 'em all together on the same axe in any of Aoxoa's lit.

Otherwise thinking one of those Japanese copies from the same era.
 

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kind of lame the producers of the Bunch could not fork up enuff dough to supply a real Westerly Guild for that scene. come on, there must have been a plethora of them, a D25 even at a low price. :(
 

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kind of lame the producers of the Bunch could not fork up enuff dough to supply a real Westerly Guild for that scene. come on, there must have been a plethora of them, a D25 even at a low price. :(

Hey Woody. I think you're too old to use plethora. My students at UVA practically to a man and woman overuse plethora in their papers they write. My god, when I was "a youngin" plethora meant something like "a gazillion." :wink-new:
 

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Hey Woody. I think you're too old to use plethora. My students at UVA practically to a man and woman overuse plethora in their papers they write. My god, when I was "a youngin" plethora meant something like "a gazillion." :wink-new:

LOL
I knew I should stop using that word, and I can say, I hardly ever use it anymore :)
 

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Hey Woody. I think you're too old to use plethora. My students at UVA practically to a man and woman overuse plethora in their papers they write. My god, when I was "a youngin" plethora meant something like "a gazillion." :wink-new:

Ha! Mine, too! I wonder if it's something Word supplies for them?

I also get a lot "defiantly" instead of "definitely" - that is Word, for sure. "I defiantly agree" is a classic!

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Ha! Mine, too! I wonder if it's something Word supplies for them?

I also get a lot "defiantly" instead of "definitely" - that is Word, for sure. "I defiantly agree" is a classic!

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i not a Michael Jackson fan, at all, but that "billie jean" tune, i always thought the chorus went: "The chair is not my son..." Which, I must admit, I never could understand. Of course the chair or any chair is not your son, Mr Jackson, it is an inanimate object. Like, huh?

then a friend pointed out the chorus goes: The child is not my son. Ah well, sure, that makes total sense.
 

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i not a Michael Jackson fan, at all, but that "billie jean" tune, i always thought the chorus went: "The chair is not my son..." Which, I must admit, I never could understand. Of course the chair or any chair is not your son, Mr Jackson, it is an inanimate object. Like, huh?

then a friend pointed out the chorus goes: The child is not my son. Ah well, sure, that makes total sense.

In his case, it seemed very unlikely the child was his son!

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...wonder if Greg's guitar could be a Madeira?
Good idea but I don't think so. The Dough Re Mi show was aired 1974, and the headstock shape was different until that time. That points against Madeira.
Also the pickguard on Madeiras was very different from Guild. Brady's guitar clearly has a Guild shaped pickguard which somebody could have added.
It has the small triangle TRC however and also the script looks similiar to Madeira but not same. The rectangular labels on Madeiras only started when they moved production to Korea and that was many years later, hence it also points against Madeira here.

Tough call what manufacturer this guitar is from. The exact headstock inlay does not ring a bell. But Japan sounds in the ballpark.

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