Southern Cross, CS&N

[Appalachian Blues]

I played a birthday party Saturday night for a young man just turning 18. His name is Mason and he is a pretty good football player for a rival school. He loves classic rock and country, like a lot of young folks I encounter. His favorite song is "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash, one of my alltime favorites too. I felt bad that I had never covered it before. His family wants me to come back for their Grandmothers 70th birthday (she was at the party of course and ask me, with a straight face, if I did any Sonny and Cher. I kept a straight face but soon realized she was joking....she ask for Gene Autry later . I promised the young man I would learn the song and play it for him next time I saw him.
While getting lyrics from the internet, I decided to look up the performance on Youtube. Love the song!!! David Crosby is playing a Guild 12 string, it's a dreadnaught with the Chesterfield on the head stock. Anyone wanna take a stab at the model?

 

[SFIV1967]

David Crosby is playing a Guild 12 string, it's a dreadnaught with the Chesterfield on the head stock. Anyone wanna take a stab at the model?

My guess, late 70's or early 80's G-312.
See here: http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?180901-Guild-sighting-David-Crosby
Ralf

 

[dapmdave]

Unless it's a custom order, I think Ralf has it right. Was there a Guild 12-string dred other than the G-312 and the D-212? I don't think that's a D-212.

 

[SFIV1967]

Was there a Guild 12-string dred other than the G-312 and the D-212? I don't think that's a D-212.

I don't know when exactly that concert on the DVD was.
Originally until about 1981 there was only a G-212 and a G-312, no D-212. The D-212 was added in 1981 (according the often wrong S/N list) and later also a D-312.
Both G-212 ("12 string D-40") and G-312 ("12 string D-50") had no fretmarkers initially as seen in Hans' book page 132.
According what Hans had said in another discussion, position dots were introduced on the 12 strings during 1978, so the guitar that Dave plays is either an earlier special order with dots or a 1978 or later guitar.
The G-212 had a tortoise pickguard and the G-312 a black one. The one in the video has a black pickguard.
A D-212 basically was the 12 string version of the D-25 (and later the D-25-12), so that is not what he played.
That's at least where my guess about the G-312 came from.
Ralf