M-75 collection
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Steve Messenger
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These are from "Player's Vintage (Lowell Levinger's , aka "Banana" from the Youngbloods,, although he is busy these days touring with Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul) shop... He mostly sells mandolin family instruments, but he has had Bunch of of mostly-obscure guitars... As a matter of fact, that 1953 Guild M-75 Bluesbird .Six String is For Sale - $5000. He sold the tenor a few years ago
https://www.vintageinstruments.com/
Walter Broes
Enlightened Member
I saw that pic too. I wonder if the one on the right came with those DeArmonds stock, I'm guessing it did.
Cool photo! But I must admit I'm not a fan of the look of those Turner pickguards...
What is that on the left... A uke? A mando? It doesn't look like a bass to me. Am I just looking at it wrong?
GGJaguar
Reverential Member
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a tenor guitar!
Smiert Spionam
Member
It's a tenor guitar -- there are a few of them out there. Tuned like a banjo.
Smiert Spionam
Member
Or any of the rest of it. That impulse to embellish has fortunately not been indulged widely. Blech.
Neat, thanks for the info. I don't recall seeing a semi-hollow like that.
Blues&BebopFan
Junior Member
Beautiful... the unmodified one is gorgeous!
About the tenor guitar, with four strings you can still kick everyone ass like Tiny Grimes did !
(Solo at 1:47, one of the coolest swingest blues solo ever!)
About the tenor guitar, with four strings you can still kick everyone ass like Tiny Grimes did !
(Solo at 1:47, one of the coolest swingest blues solo ever!)
Harp Tail
Senior Member
All of a sudden my opinion of Rick Turner diminished considerably. Sacrilegious profanation, especially on that cute blondie with DeArmonds.
Harp Tail
Senior Member
That blond Guild tenor Grimes is shown playing right at the beginning of the solo is just as cool.
Blues&BebopFan
Junior Member
agree & agree !!
Mapleman54
Member
Do you know I had the same immediate feeling? Yuk, what travesty on a beautiful design!
Mapleman54
Member
Brilliant track… thanks for posting!
RVBASS
Member
Rick was very talented and innovative, and moved the industry forward in many ways, and did very high quality work. He was also a very nice guy and generous in his sharing of knowledge. Guild guitars were one of their platforms for innovation back then, as well as other brands and his own creations. I have a couple of his early creations (not modified guilds), as well as a couple of his newer models. I actually like the two modified guilds in the photo above and would like to hear how they sound.
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Mapleman54
Member
Agree! He certainly was an innovator and I was really interested in what you said. Note to self..‘Don’t judge a book….etc’!
GGJaguar
Reverential Member
Also, you have to look at the work in a temporal context. At the time the mods were done, those guitars may have simply been thought of as "used" not "vintage". There were many Fenders and Gibsons modded by owners in the 1970s that appall us now, but back then, it was no big deal. They were just used guitars.
Smiert Spionam
Member
I don’t judge him for modifying vintage guitars — I judge him for artless decoration. It would be just as ugly if done to a $100 Squier. It’s like a crocheted doily on an Eames chair.
RVBASS
Member
One person’s junk is another person’s treasure, to each their own 