Westerly Wood
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Way I heard it is every great song from that era was penned with a Guild M20.
Sounds like a nylon string guitar to me. Probably his Yamaha ?Here's "River Man," from a John Peel session recorded in 1969.
Yeah but his M20 wasn't given to him by Eric Capton. Or Nick Drake.Doesn't anybody care that Neil Young plays an M-20? This has been well documented.
Correct. I just re-post what I had posted in another thread:Anyway it's not even Neil's, it's his producer's. He liked it so much he asked to borrow it for the tour. (Or at least that's how I remember it)
Right. The guy who took the photo for the album cover of Bryter Layter was Nigel Waymouth. He wrote later in 2002: "They weren't his shoes, they were mine. After I had asked him to take off his shoes, I put them there to add an optimistic note (blue suede shoes - dancing shoes), in an otherwise somber photograph, that would echo the title of the album, Bryter Layter. A few years later Nick came up to me at a party and said how much he liked the cover and that he now understood what it was about. The chair, by the way, once belonged to Charles Dickens, who sat in it to write, and the small Guild guitar was one that Eric Clapton gave to his friend and flat mate, Martin Sharp, the Australian artist and chief designer of Oz magazine. Oh, and the shoes were made to my design by the Chelsea Cobbler. Hope that covers it! Nigel Waymouth"The fellow who owns the M-20 Nick Drake was photographed with has recounted the story behind the photo session. There's a video version of this, recorded at a tribute concert of some sort, available on YouTube. The guitar itself makes an appearance too.
The M-20 that Neil Young plays in concert has all kinds of tone and presence, despite its wimpy size. Granted, the sound engineer has the bass boosted through the roof on that little thing.
Maybe Neil has the same sort of shoulder problem that many illustrious members of this forum are experiencing...
Neal
Maybe Neil has the same sort of shoulder problem that many illustrious members of this forum are experiencing...
And this brings us right back to square one -- reread my first post.