Guitar Archeology

Here are a couple more Fender Custom color guitars.  A Lake Placid Blue Precision Bass and a Sonic Blue Stratocaster.

1961 Fender Stratocaster Sonic Blue

Dupont Number: Duco 2295
Model Year: 1956 Cadillac
Years Fender Used it: 1960 – 1972

1965 Fender Precision Bass in Lake Placid Blue

Dupont Number: Lucite 2876-L
Model Year: 58 Cadillac
Years Fender Used it: 60-73

Here are a couple 1960’s Fender Custom Color Jaguars.

Fender Jaguar

Burgundy Mist Metallic

Dupont Number: Lucite 2936-H
Model Year: 1959 Oldsmobile
Years Fender Used it: 1960 – 1965

Fender Jaguar Teal Green Metallic

Dupont Number:Duco 4297-H
Model Year: 1965-1968 Lincoln
Years Fender Used it: 1965 – 1969

Here is one I picked up a few years ago.  Jimmy Page’s Original Orange Matamp Serial # OR 264. This one is rated at 200 Watts !

Jimmy Page's Orange Matamp

Jimmy Page's Orange Matamp Serial # OR264

Jimmy Page's Orange Matamp Serial # OR 264

I was back in The Game. Norm and Con Sundholm had asked me if I could use my “extensive contacts” in the music business to get their Sunn clinician a record deal. Buddy Fite was a Portland jazz guitarist that had been demonstrating Sunn amplifiers for a while and created a sensation at the ’67 NAMM Show in Chicago when h…e strung his guitar with two bass strings and four guitar strings and played both parts at once. Les Paul came over from the Gibson booth with his entourage and sat-in for an hour, and then spent the next two days steering people to the Sunn booth. Jazz wasn’t really my bag, but with my new friend Howard Roberts, who co-incidentally, was a big hero of Buddy’s, I thought I would broaden my game. Buddy arrived in Hollywood with neatly trimmed hair, wing-tips and a business suit. You’d never guess he had been an active member of the Hell’s Angels. He had some great stories and became an instant favorite in the office. After signing my Sinatra-lawyer management contracts, we went into the studio to cut a demo. We also recorded Buddy’s two bass, four guitar-string solo. Back in the office, the stunt solo got most of the attention. Our next-door neighbor on the fourth floor was Robert Mersey, an old school producer at Columbia and one of the first to go independent. He now produced Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Johnny Mathis and was setting up his own label. Our two offices shared a wall and we listened in on each other’s playback. I knew he was looking for a guitar player for Johnny Mathis, so I sent him Buddy’s tape and his reaction was positive, but he was skeptical about one person playing both parts simultaneously, so I invited him down the hall to see Buddy play it live. We had a deal before he left the office.

I have had several Zemaitis Style Metal Tops and Pickguards engraved by the Great Walter Bricker.  Here are a couple for you to enjoy.

Here are 4 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst Guitars at “Danny’s Guitars” in Everett, Washington.  Thank You, Danny Mangold for the Great Picture !

These are the original drawings of the Floyd Rose tremolo drawn by Bruce Scott while he played in the band JAX with Floyd in 1977.  Along with the very first Floyd Rose Tremolo made for Randy Hansen.

Thanks, Bruce and Randy for providing us with the opportunity to share these pictures.

Here are a couple pics of Led Zeppelin at the Seattle Center Coliseum taken March 17, 1975 by Richard Green.

Mick Flynn of the Band Child playing a 1958 Gibson Korina Explorer at My Place Tavern in Seattle.  This is one of the later ones that was shipped in the early sixties equipped with a factory installed Epiphone Vibrato.