Harmony and Stella

[banjomike]

That particular Harmony just happens to be "the one" that Page used to record the acoustic parts on the 1st three or four Zep albums.

It's very good sounding.

 

[fronobulax]

....and only God knows why the peghead face on the Sovereign is flat black. The series is trying hard to keep things correct, and I suspect this may be one detail that was done in the movies and TV a lot back in the 60s and 70s to guitars.

I have no idea if this applies but we have seen a number of clips where the brand of a guitar is obscured. The speculation includes a) one or more people have an endorsement deal with another brand or b) the producers were unable to get any payments for product placement so ordered the brand to be obscured.

 

[SFIV1967]

....and only God knows why the peghead face on the Sovereign is flat black. The series is trying hard to keep things correct, and I suspect this may be one detail that was done in the movies and TV a lot back in the 60s and 70s to guitars.

I have no idea if this applies but we have seen a number of clips where the brand of a guitar is obscured. The speculation includes a) one or more people have an endorsement deal with another brand or b) the producers were unable to get any payments for product placement so ordered the brand to be obscured.

I found an update to this guitar and the black headstock.



Three of the guitars were supplied by Scott Baxendale.
He wrote: "The sunburst version of these were only sold through Sears & Roebuck so originally this guitar has the Silvertone logo on the headstock, but when we got the guitar the headstock was already missing the Silvertone logo. The Sovereign logo version was only in natural finish on the top, except a few Sovereigns from the 60’s were also all black....

Danny Rowe was in charge of this and he was intently making sure the guitars were all period correct....
He had heard of us through Buddy Miller when Buddy Miller loaned a TV series, he worked on, two of the guitars we rebuilt for him. Buddy is one of Nashville’s best producer’s and has used our guitars on a lot of big records and somehow Danny Rowe had seen our stuff and liked them.
He Called me up and asked what we had that he could use and he got three guitars from us. At first I wasn’t sure what it was for, but when he told me Reese Witherspoon was producing the series I figured it would be good. It’s really good, I think....The production purchased them from us...

That first guitar they ‘destroyed’ was one of ours too, but I don’t think they actually destroyed it. They cut just before the smash.
Later in the series Billy smashes a 70’s Martin....The camera cuts away at the exact second he is smashing it, then you see the insides of the smashed guitar and to me it looks like that he actually smashed the Martin. It looks like 70’s era Martin bracing in the smashed top. Maybe they switched guitars but it could fool even me here."

The sunburst Gibson guitar used is actually Riley Keough's personal guitar as Danny Rowe explains here.


Ralf

 

[Guildedagain]

OMG, is this the thing where they actually smashed a priceless old Martin thinking it was a prop? The guitar was on loan from Martin? Something that was in the news in the last couple years.

 

[fronobulax]

OMG, is this the thing where they actually smashed a priceless old Martin thinking it was a prop? The guitar was on loan from Martin? Something that was in the news in the last couple years.

I remember the story and we have discussed it here. But I don't think it is the same movie that is being discussed in this thread.

I thought we were talking about "Daisy Jones & The Six" and the smashed Martin was "Hateful Eight".