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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 15, 2021 8:51:14 GMT
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 15, 2021 11:40:04 GMT
Much as I love the iconic tele, was it really relevant to Quo's sound?
Francis has confirmed that much of Piledriver and Hello were recorded using Gibsons.
Here was me thinking the likes of DWMT was the unique sound of two teles!!
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jun 15, 2021 17:40:31 GMT
I would think that the Les Paul copy that he is referring to from Badfinger is the Guild Starfire that can be seen on the Pictures of Matchstickmen Top Of The Pops clip from '68.
Quo have used a surprisingly varied selection of guitars in the studio. Fairly sure Rossi used an Ibanez AR500 at times during the JS and NTL sessions. Then there were the Travis Beans and Kramers and I seem to remember Rossi saying that they had used some Flying Vs in the studio, possibly late 70s/early 80s.
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Post by drummer73 on Jun 15, 2021 18:12:17 GMT
I think the Matchstickmen TOTP guitar was a Grimshaw GS30? they were a British Company that also made the custom tele doubleneck that there's a picture of Rossi playing somewhere. Some good info on this website. www.grimshawguitars.co.uk/
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jun 15, 2021 21:38:40 GMT
I think the Matchstickmen TOTP guitar was a Grimshaw GS30? they were a British Company that also made the custom tele doubleneck that there's a picture of Rossi playing somewhere. Some good info on this website. www.grimshawguitars.co.uk/My memory is playing up!...that's right, Rossi swapped his Guild or a Gibson for Tom's or Pete's (Badfinger) Grimshaw guitar. The guitar that fell apart and led to Rossi acquiring the Tele.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jun 24, 2021 13:32:24 GMT
More content in that than many a longer article! A number of important take-aways from that ... (a) Never let Francis do any DIY for you. (b) He can't tell the difference between a song and a guitar tone. (c) Never let Francis do any DIY for you. Using an SG on Piledriver and Hello is hilarious, we all thing of the Teles all the time. I do. The SG isn't a very pretty guitar. Oddly enough, Jimmy Page used an SG a lot in early Zeppelin, and before that (or alongside that) he used a Tele. Nobody in the universe sounds less like a classic Tele than Jimmy Page, so lor knows what he did to it. Icon or no icon, surely all gutiarists will play anything they can lay their hands on, the more the merrier.
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Post by freewilly on Jun 27, 2021 2:38:50 GMT
So Rick got a Tele because he was copying you and got carried away...Only time people gave a shit about the Teles was in the early 90s, when you became the darlings of the chat show circuit
Any chance he gets...
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 27, 2021 12:35:34 GMT
And much as I'd be fascinated by what guitars they used on each album, it will likely all be forgotten now.
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