Guild Sighting from Angelheaded Hipster - Joan Jett

[walrus]

From the "Angelheaded Hipster - Songs of Marc Bolan" album. Joan Jett dong "Jeepster".

M-75 at 25 seconds?



walrus

 

[SFIV1967]

Yes, Newark St. (Edit: See my post #4!) with aftermarket added bigsby. Don't know who the player is, I guess he is a studio musician.



Ralf

 

[jp]

Yes, Newark St. with aftermarket added bigsby. Don't know who the player is, I guess he is a studio musician.

Ralf

That's one of my favorite guitarists, Marc Ribot. I didn't know he played a Guild Aristocrat? Very cool!

 

[SFIV1967]

That's one of my favorite guitarists, Marc Ribot.

Ah! Thanks for identifying him!
But now I have to correct myself again, looking again at the video that is not at all a Newark St. one but seems to be an original late 50's / early 60's M-75 Aristocrat !!!
Note the headstock shape for instance and the 8 block inlays which means the guitar is from after mid 1958.
Ralf

 

[jp]

Ah! Thanks for identifying him!
But now I have to correct myself again, looking again at the video that is not at all a Newark St. one but seems to be an original late 50's / early 60's M-75 Aristocrat !!!
Note the headstock shape for instance and the 8 block inlays which means the guitar is from after mid 1958.
Ralf

Good sleuthing, Ralf! I wasn't sure myself if it was newer or older. I can't really see the headstock shape well, but my NS has 8 block inlays too. I didn't know that difference about the number pre- to post-'57.

 

[SFIV1967]

...but my NS has 8 block inlays too. I didn't know that difference about the number pre- to post-'57.

Pre mid-58 (I believe) the M-75 Aristocrat had 10 inlays, same like the 2013 American Patriarch M-75 (was based on a 1956 model).
The Newark St. M-75 Aristocrat from 2013 was based on an end of the 50s model, hence the 8 inlays.

Ralf