Guild sighting: Hoyt Axton

[killdeer43]

Stumbled onto this one this morning. Looks like an F__ or JF__?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O53wg24FAT0

One of my favorites from one of my favorites. :applause:

Joe

 

[adorshki]

Stumbled onto this one this morning. Looks like an F__ or JF__?
Joe

Block inlays and G-shield, looks like maple sides, yep, would be F-50 or JF-65.
Nice sighting, I was expecting that WKRP in Cincinnati clip!
In fact, looks like same guitar in "Geronimo's Cadillac" clip on the sidebar, dated '78, so way too early for JF65...:friendly_wink:

 

[Guildedagain]

Is that Country, or Western? ;-)

My, how times have changed... the innocence of America ebbing away...

I'll never forget seeing him playing banjo on Hee Haw or wherever I saw him, damn he was good!!!!!!

I had a Guild sighting the other day, very NICE! It was Bonnie Rait on Youtube, and I clipped the link, went to post it here... Not sure what happened after that, saw a shiny thing... I can't remember.

 

[SFIV1967]

There are brilliant videos of Hoyt Axton and his Guild F-50 like this one from the episode Good Neighbors Duke S3/E10 - Original air date: January 2, 1981...:



Ralf

 

[SFIV1967]

Or this one from 1980, lovely music:



Ralf

 

[adorshki]

I had a Guild sighting the other day, very NICE! It was Bonnie Rait on Youtube

Coincidentally Bonnie's well known for playing an F50 too, in fact I'm sure she's owned at least 2, one of 'em "forever".
It's got her name on the TRC and has an F30 bridge from a repair job.

and I clipped the link, went to post it here... Not sure what happened after that, saw a shiny thing... I can't remember.

OOOHHHHHHH..........SHINY!!!

 

[SFIV1967]

In fact, looks like same guitar in "Geronimo's Cadillac" clip on the sidebar, dated '78

No, that is a different much older guitar! The one in the 1978 video has a lip top headstock and two pickguards!

You actually see that guitar a bit better in this video:



Ralf

 

[adorshki]

No, that is a different much older guitar! The one in the 1978 video has a lip top headstock and two pickguards!
Ralf

Well thank you sir!
I only saw the thumbnail pic, g-shield and sunburst, and thought it was the same instrument.

 

[Guildedagain]

Christina Applegate?

I'm defideddly distracted...

Thx for the cool videos guys ;-)

Daisy sighting!

 

[adorshki]

Christina Applegate?

I'm defideddly distracted...

First reported sufferer of loss-of-memory following distraction by shiny object.
:biggrin-new:

 

[txbumper57]

I love me some Hoyt Axton! Not only was he on Hee Haw but he also acted in some 80's classic movies. I remember him playing the traveling salesman dad in Gremlins. The first time I was old enough to appreciate his music was when I watched the movie "Heart Like a Wheel" which was a biography of NHRA racer Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. He played her Honky Tonk singing dad in that movie and it was the first time I heard "You Taught Me How To Cry". I was amazed at how low he could get his voice to go. Come to think of it that movie was the first time I ever heard "Turn, Turn, Turn" by the Byrds as well! That was a pretty good flick!

TX

 

[adorshki]

The first time I was old enough to appreciate his music was when I watched the movie "Heart Like a Wheel" which was a biography of NHRA racer Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney.... Come to think of it that movie was the first time I ever heard "Turn, Turn, Turn" by the Byrds as well! That was a pretty good flick!

OK, out with it, how old are you really?
I first saw his name as the author of Steppenwolf's "the Pusher" in '68.....

 

[txbumper57]

OK, out with it, how old are you really?
I first saw his name as the author of Steppenwolf's "the Pusher" in '68.....

I'll be 41 in 2 months. :applause:

 

[killdeer43]

I'll be 41 in 2 months. :applause:

Ah, 41. I remember it well. Well, sort of. :tranquillity:
Happy Birthday....in 2 months. Wouldn't want to miss it.

Joe

 

[adorshki]

I'll be 41 in 2 months. :applause:

A-HA!
So you'll never be able to say you had the pleasure of seeing him on WKRP In Cincinnati when it originally aired!

 

[txbumper57]

A-HA!
So you'll never be able to say you had the pleasure of seeing him on WKRP In Cincinnati when it originally aired!

Al, while I may not remember it exactly I am pretty sure I saw it when it first aired as that was one of the shows my folks loved to watch and I was born 3 years before the series ever aired. LOL! I remember a lot of shows I watched back then, Buck Rogers, God Bless Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering! Hubba, Hubba! Then there was Battle Star Galactica, Mork and Mindy, Different Strokes, Laverne & Shirley, Alice, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Charlies Angles, etc... and the list goes on. We always ate dinner in front of the TV as a family. Nice try though!

TX

 

[adorshki]

LOL! I remember a lot of shows I watched back then, Buck Rogers, God Bless Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering! Hubba, Hubba! Then there was Battle Star Galactica, Mork and Mindy, Different Strokes, Laverne & Shirley, Alice, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Charlies Angles, etc... and the list goes on. We always ate dinner in front of the TV as a family. Nice try though!

And here I thought you could only get flashbacks from LSD.

 

[RussD]

Hoyt's the reason I started play Guilds. When he played in a tiny bar in Canutillo back in the late 70's, he had a JF-65.
Got to share a stage at Bread and Roses in San Francisco and he was playing a Martin. He was a bit "under the influence" at that one and shared his wine with the microphone, his guitar, and the crowd in general. Love me some Jeremiah and Spain.

 

[adorshki]

Hoyt's the reason I started play Guilds. When he played in a tiny bar in Canutillo back in the late 70's, he had a JF-65.

I think at that time it would have to have been an F50 (JF65 name wasn't in use in the '70's), unless you meant a different time.
Still a cool story though. :friendly_wink:

 

[txbumper57]

And here I thought you could only get flashbacks from LSD.

LOL! I was blessed or cursed depending on how you look at it with a photographic memory from a very early age. If I heard something like a song once or saw something in a movie once I could repeat it verbatim. I've done my best to numb it over the years with Wild Turkey but Since I quit drinking around 6 years ago it keeps trying to kick back in. LOL! I was born in 75 and I know I remember back as far as 77 at least as I use to run around the house singing "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by the lovely Miss Crystal Gayle. That song was released in 77. I love the old country that I grew up with. Hoyt, Don Williams, Kenny Rogers before he became the face of Rubbermaid products, Merle, Willie, Waylon, Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Conway, Loretta, Crystal Gayle, Johnny Lee, John Conlee, and the list goes on and on. That was great music, not like today where current country songs sound like a mix of Pop and Hip Hop.

TX