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Doyle Dykes Live
A few highlights I remember:
That's all I got!
Doyle Dykes Live
A few highlights I remember:
- Yes, he has officially signed with Guild (but we knew that.)
- Quote: "I am so happy to be back with Guild. It has always been such a huge part of my life. I had nothing to do with leaving Guild. It was a pure business decision on the new owners part." Apparently when they shut down the NH factory, they cancelled all contracts as well to make a clean break.
- The pictures in the Oxnard visit showed him playing stock Guilds. When they signed him, he asked if he should get some new Guilds to play at events, and they said: "Why don't you keep playing your signature Guilds" -- in such a way he thought they might be bringing them back into production. If you check out Guild's Facebook page, they make a point of drawing attention to him playing his custom DD Guild:
"Guild friend and longtime fan and player Doyle Dykes stopped by the Guild factory last week to play a few tunes for our manufacturing team on a new F-512 Maple. Swipe through to see more...you don’t want to miss the last pic!"
- "The new owners are passionate about making great guitars. They don't say they want to make the most guitars -- I've heard that from other companies I have been with and it always made me a bit uncomfortable. But they said they just want to produce the best guitars Guild has ever made while it is under their watch because they respect the brand name so much."
- He mentions that the original DD 6 String was made by Ren Ferguson personally.
- GHS is coming out with a new Signature set of Doyle Dykes Strings (they already have PBs and Nylons). This is new. "But I can't talk about it yet..."
- He plays a tune (The End by Pearl Jam) on something I thought was a Godin, but turns out it was a Sands Guitar (never heard of them, but they have Chet Atkins seal of approval, so there's that...)
- Plays a Tom Petty song on his 12 String.
- About Godin Guitars. He has nothing but nice things to say about them. There were no problems between them. But he had reached out to the owners and asked if they wanted to continue on with what they were doing together, and he didn't hear back from them, so he decided it was time for him to move on. While he was trying to decide what to do next, he was talking with Thad Tegtmeyer at Sweetwater, and he said: "Have you thought of getting back with Guild?" Doyle said "Most people think I'm still with Guild." And Thad set up the initial meeting. Turns out, Guild had already been discussing reaching out to him, so it all worked out.
- Martin McQuade at Guitar Player magazine will be doing an article on Doyle in an upcoming issue.
That's all I got!