Re: 1969 Guild F512 Custom Brazilian - ANGELIC! (sound clips)
Hi everyone!!!
It's me...Duffy...
I thought I would take this Holiday season to introduce myself to this wonderful forum, and I thought I would do so by telling the long and remarkable story of my Guild 12 string. I am recovering form Hernia surgery last week, and since I also survived the end of the Mayan Calender, I thought this might now be appropriate time to meet you all and share my "tall and wonderful tale"!!!
I have been lurking on this site for a couple of years, and joined as a member a number of months ago, but I decided to wait to "come out" when I felt I had the time to share my story with all of you, which, I feel I can now, with some R&R time on my hands, AND...the gracious and generous help of my best friend...Mike "dadthrash", who will help me post all the pictures and offer "technical" assistance in this adventure.
I will send Mike some pictures to post of my guitar tonight, so hopefully sometime tonight/tomorrow, you will get a teaser peek at this wonderful instrument. My history with this guitar dates back to 1992 when I first laid eyes on it...and yes...even then...I knew what an amazing, and rare, and magical guitar this was...and this guitar weaved it's way, in and out of my life for 18 years, until I was finally able to buy it in 2010. It is a pretty cool story...I think, I hope...and I think you will be quite entertained.
FYI...the sound clips of this guitar...the second one is just me doing the "noodle" in drop D...but the first one is the guitar part to John Denver's song "Rhymes and Reason's", which is THE song that made me want to play 12 string when I first heard it in 1974 on John's first "Greatest Hits" album. And YES!!!...I am a HUGE JD fan...he is the primary person who made me want to play music, play the gutiar and sing.
Here is a little bit more of a teaser for you...
According to the original owner of this guitar, whom lives here in the Portland Oregon area, and whom I believe to be completely truthful in his story about how he came to this guitar, as a member of the New Christy Minstrels at the time...there was/is a "twin sister" to this guitar which was owned by John Denver, and this is how the original owner found out about his/my guitar...and...there is a picture of this "sister" guitar on the John Denver Guitar Research Website, though it is miss-identified as a picture of his #2 Guild F-612. Go to the site, go to the Guild Guitars Section, go to Guild 12 String #2 section.
Go to the second row, and then the 5th picture over from the left. It is a head and shoulders shot of John in a blue shirt with light blue cuffs and shoulder patches, and that guitar is John's 1969 F-512 Custom, and the sister to my guitar. Notice that the guitar's waist is not as deeply curved as the F-612 waist, and that the pick guard is a completely different color and dappling pattern than the pick guard of his F-612 #2.
So there you go...a little bit more to nibble on until Mike and I can cue up the 33 1/3LP version of the story...next week with any luck!
Have a wonderful Holiday Season!!!
I can't wait to be a more active member in the years to come!
Kind Regards
Duff