Guild sighting

[zzwerzy]

Found this while listening to and reading about the great Barney Kessel.

"Barney Kessel - In the basement storage room of an east side music store in Wichita, Kansas, Barney Kessel demonstrates a new lick he is working on to a local musician. People were handing him various guitars to try out." By anyjazz65 - Barney Kessel, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3854585

Among many other contributions, Mr. Kessell is the genius behind Julie London's iconic "Cry Me a River", and a similarly-styled rendition of "Angel Eyes" with Ella Fitzgerald. Just guitar and voice. Even the mighty Jeff Beck can be heard covering Kessell's 'River' at the beginning of this TV clip.

In the '60s, Kessel was a member of The Wrecking Crew. In a two and a half hour session to record the one-chord song, "The Beat Goes On", he reportedly stood up and proclaimed, "Never have so many played so little for so much."

My kinda guy.

 

[adorshki]

Found this while listening to and reading about the great Barney Kessel.

"Barney Kessel - In the basement storage room of an east side music store in Wichita, Kansas, Barney Kessel demonstrates a new lick he is working on to a local musician. People were handing him various guitars to try out." By anyjazz65 - Barney Kessel, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3854585

Among many other contributions, Mr. Kessell is the genius behind Julie London's iconic "Cry Me a River", and a similarly-styled rendition of "Angel Eyes" with Ella Fitzgerald. Just guitar and voice. Even the mighty Jeff Beck can be heard covering Kessell's 'River' at the beginning of this TV clip.

In the '60s, Kessel was a member of The Wrecking Crew. In a two and a half hour session to record the one-chord song, "The Beat Goes On", he reportedly stood up and proclaimed, "Never have so many played so little for so much."

My kinda guy.

We've seen it before (might even be in Hans' book?), but still "re-post-worthy" especially with the backstory. Thanks!

 

[chazmo]

That’s cool, Z!

 

[Nuuska]

I was once honoured to work with him for one night.

Such nice gentleman.

Fine musician, too.

 

[SFIV1967]

We've seen it before (might even be in Hans' book?), but still "re-post-worthy" especially with the backstory. Thanks!

Yes, it is in the big thread "Your favorite picture(s) of an artist playing a Guild?":

Your favorite picture(s) of an artist playing a Guild?

I can only find photos of Jorgen Ingmann playing Gibson guitars so I'm guessing he didn't actually play an X-350. Interesting enough in "A Concise History of Electric Guitar" by Adrian Ingram he wrote: So I wonder if such statement was also made only based on that album cover... Ralf

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And here:

Barney Kessel X-500

Found this on Wikipedia:

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And here back in 2014:

Barney Kessel on a Guild

Was looking at Barney's wiki entry and, lo and behold, there's a pic of him playing an X-500! (Definite this time.!) I don't know if he was trying out a friend's, or if he did indeed own one, but here he is.

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But yes, cool picture!

Ralf

 

[zzwerzy]

Thank goodness I had some anecdotals to add.

 

[chazmo]

Thank goodness I had some anecdotals to add.

I find that very surprising, Z!

j/k: Please do!

BTW, I’ve been a little out-of-touch… How’s the F-312? Are you happy with it?

 

[zzwerzy]

Thanks for asking, Chazmo. It's in the shop. Had it for a few unhappy weeks. Bad action and problems with finish damage. Supposed to be ready next week. There will be a full update in TechShop, eventually.