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

[sailingshoes72]

"You too can be a star with a new Guild Guitar!"

That ad is from the early days on Pearl Street!

 

[Elderguilder]

Here's Judy Collins playing a Guild 12 string. I found this while searching for "Like A Bird On A Wire" covered by Jennifer Warnes ( which I did find here Jennifer Warnes. The JW version was included in the 13 hours or so I taped (cassette) during the summer of 1988 of air listening to WVAE, Detroit, a smooth jazz station at the time.

 

[sailingshoes72]

Here's Judy Collins playing a Guild 12 string. I found this while searching for "Like A Bird On A Wire" covered by Jennifer Warnes ( which I did find here Jennifer Warnes. The JW version was included in the 13 hours or so I taped (cassette) during the summer of 1988 of air listening to WVAE, Detroit, a smooth jazz station at the time.

Here's an interesting article on the restoration of Judy Collins' Guild 12-string. The work was done by Frank Ford. I don't know if it is the same guitar as the video... but chances are that it is. I really liked seeing the info on the hand-made "cleats" to repair the soundboard cracks.

Restoring Judy Collins' Guild 12-String

Frank Ford tells the story of restoring Judy Collin’s ’68 Brazilian rosewood Guild 12-string for guitarist Lisa Sanchez.

www.gryphonstrings.com

 

[GGJaguar]

Here's an interesting article on the restoration of Judy Collins' Guild 12-string. The work was done by Frank Ford. I don't know if it is the same guitar as the video... but chances are that it is. I really liked seeing the info on the hand-made "cleats" to repair the soundboard cracks.

Restoring Judy Collins' Guild 12-String

Frank Ford tells the story of restoring Judy Collin’s ’68 Brazilian rosewood Guild 12-string for guitarist Lisa Sanchez.

www.gryphonstrings.com

She also had a Martin signature model 12-string: HD12-35SJC. I almost snagged one years ago.

 

[Elderguilder]

Here's an interesting article on the restoration of Judy Collins' Guild 12-string. The work was done by Frank Ford. I don't know if it is the same guitar as the video... but chances are that it is. I really liked seeing the info on the hand-made "cleats" to repair the soundboard cracks.

Restoring Judy Collins' Guild 12-String

Frank Ford tells the story of restoring Judy Collin’s ’68 Brazilian rosewood Guild 12-string for guitarist Lisa Sanchez.

www.gryphonstrings.com

Wow!! What a phenomenal amount of work restoring this Guild. I clicked on the video at the bottom of the page expecting just the song but saw all those pictures of the work along the way - just amazing!

 

[dylancoolasbeans]

Andy Rourke of The Smiths. Probably my favorite bassist.

 

[Zelja]

Bryn Merrick from The Damned used a B-301 for a while:

 

[mavuser]

Jane Wiedlin of the GoGo's with a Dearmond Bluesbird. on the Today Show during 2020.

 

[DeArmond Hammer]

This photo caught my eye, accompanying an article about 2021 jazz collaborations. This thread has previously noted Mary Halvorson's Artist Award, as well as her travel guitar with the Guild headstock.

 

[MLBob]

https://www.memorialhallotr.com/cincinnati-shows/james-mcmurtry/

 

[sailingshoes72]

https://www.memorialhallotr.com/cincinnati-shows/james-mcmurtry/

I'm not used to seeing the 50's Gibson red finish on the back and sides of a Guild guitar. It looks like that guitar has seen some serious road miles!

 

[Midnight Toker]

A gal I went to high school with that we lost WAY too soon! I knew her brother Danny best, having played violin in the orchestra with him for years. I saw her and Danny numerous times back in the early mid 80's in their high school band called Stone Henge that played Yes, King Crimson, ELP, UK, and all sorts of stuff no high school kids have any business being able to play. They were bad****!

This pic (from my yearbook) was her and her brother Danny in our high school Sr Lounge (Bowie High School in Md) during the annual student talent showcase (around 1981-82?)

Danny today is a world class fiddle player in Iceland. Great guy.
Eva was an amazing talent early on. Her boyfriend Chris owned and ran a studio just outside of Bowie where a lot of local bands would record demos. If they needed female backing vocals, Eva was it. I witnessed her knock out 3 part harmonies in single takes! She'd listen to the melodies once. Hold the lyric sheet. Chris would hit the root note on a piano and say rolling. Rewind the tape, next track, hit another note on the piano, "rolling"...done. It was amazing. Such a sweet soul she was.

 

[walrus]

Great story, MT!

walrus

 

[Uke]

A gal I went to high school with that we lost WAY too soon! I knew her brother Danny best, having played violin in the orchestra with him for years. I saw her and Danny numerous times back in the early mid 80's in their high school band called Stone Henge that played Yes, King Crimson, ELP, UK, and all sorts of stuff no high school kids have any business being able to play. They were bad****!

This pic (from my yearbook) was her and her brother Danny in our high school Sr Lounge (Bowie High School in Md) during the annual student talent showcase (around 1981-82?)

Danny today is a world class fiddle player in Iceland. Great guy.
Eva was an amazing talent early on. Her boyfriend Chris owned and ran a studio just outside of Bowie where a lot of local bands would record demos. If they needed female backing vocals, Eva was it. I witnessed her knock out 3 part harmonies in single takes! She'd listen to the melodies once. Hold the lyric sheet. Chris would hit the root note on a piano and say rolling. Rewind the tape, next track, hit another note on the piano, "rolling"...done. It was amazing. Such a sweet soul she was.

Would have NEVER associated Eva Cassidy with King Crimson! Always something new on this forum!

 

[geoguy]

Lots of affection for Eva on this forum, Midnight.

 

[Midnight Toker]

^ So glad to know Eva is admired here. I'm still amazed at how her posthumous notoriety came to be. She was previously only known in modest music circles in the general Wash D.C. area, having only been pushed to perform live and record a solo record by her partner Chris Biondo just a few years before she became ill. Her audiences were mainly comprised of family, friends, and other local musicians that instantly recognized her talents. Anyone within earshot would instantly become a fan and her noteriety organically grew. But by no means was she a household name, not even in Bowie. Not until her story made the local papers when she passed. Then some radio DJ from England somehow got ahold of her local indie record Songbird that at the time maybe had sold a few thousand copies, if that. He played Somewhere Over the Rainbow on the air, listeners who heard it requested it again and again, it blew up, and word got back to Chris. CD orders went through the roof in the UK in no time, and before you knew it, lil' ol' Eva Cassidy from Bowie Md, STILL unknown to most in her own backyard, had just knocked The Beatles #1 album from the top spot in the U.K. charts!! THAT was when it finally blew up here at home. She was the lead story in all the local papers, featured on all the news programs on tv, was getting radio airplay for the first time ever locally, etc. It was amazing.....and heartbreaking, to witness. Today, if you drive around the Capital Beltway on any given day, guaranteed you'll see 1,2,3 or more cars with a big bumper sticker with bright red bold block print that simply says "ANOTHER EVA CASSIDY FAN!"

 

[Elderguilder]

^ So glad to know Eva is admired here. I'm still amazed at how her posthumous notoriety came to be. She was previously only known in modest music circles in the general Wash D.C. area, having only been pushed to perform live and record a solo record by her partner Chris Biondo just a few years before she became ill. Her audiences were mainly comprised of family, friends, and other local musicians that instantly recognized her talents. Anyone within earshot would instantly become a fan and her noteriety organically grew. But by no means was she a household name, not even in Bowie. Not until her story made the local papers when she passed. Then some radio DJ from England somehow got ahold of her local indie record Songbird that at the time maybe had sold a few thousand copies, if that. He played Somewhere Over the Rainbow on the air, listeners who heard it requested it again and again, it blew up, and word got back to Chris. CD orders went through the roof in the UK in no time, and before you knew it, lil' ol' Eva Cassidy from Bowie Md, STILL unknown to most in her own backyard, had just knocked The Beatles #1 album from the top spot in the U.K. charts!! THAT was when it finally blew up here at home. She was the lead story in all the local papers, featured on all the news programs on tv, was getting radio airplay for the first time ever locally, etc. It was amazing.....and heartbreaking, to witness. Today, if you drive around the Capital Beltway on any given day, guaranteed you'll see 1,2,3 or more cars with a big bumper sticker with bright red bold block print that simply says "ANOTHER EVA CASSIDY FAN!"

I hadn't heard of Ms. Cassidy before this thread. Just finished watching the Nightline segment about her. Amazing!!!
Eva Cassidy, Nightline

 

[Midnight Toker]

I hadn't heard of Ms. Cassidy before this thread. Just finished watching the Nightline segment about her. Amazing!!!
Eva Cassidy, Nightline

Thanks for posting that link. I hadn't seen that particular doc before. I got a bit choked up watching. I also saw several familiar faces in there.

One shot of her on an outdoor stage with local bassist phenom Larry Melton standing behind her to the right (who was also in that high school band Stonehenge I mentioned.. w/ her brother Danny), plus another shot of her in a living room w/ her brother Danny holding his fiddle. As for that band Stonehenge, they were really some of Bowie Md's top musicians of the very early 80's high school classes that were simply drawn together by skill level alone. Remarkably, every single one of them made a career playing music and continue to this day. Not something you'd normally see out of some high school band. 1-2 members maybe, but not every single one. It's been 40 years since I've seen many of them and can still name every member of that band as if they were Rolling Stone cover rock stars. I really looked up to them back then. Plus....I wouldn't come out and say Eva was way into prog rock (like King Crimson) and such. It just happened to be what her brother's band was playing, and she happened to join in w/ them. Plus w/ an electric fiddle player, Crimson is of course a natural fit. Also, for us kids at the time who were weened on Beatles/Stones/Zep/Who and others, during the very late 70's into the early 80's, with the emergence of punk and new wave, many folks, myself included, leaned hard in the direction of prog/fusion/jazz-rock to get us through an early 80's world being overtaken by Casio tone, electronic drums, cheesy midi synths, and an overall inorganic sterile sound that today is easily timestamped and has little if any lasting audible qualities. Numerous songs themselves from that period were really great and well written. Sadly, they were just caught in a very dated transitional period between analog and digital. There are few records from 80-86 that sound good to me today. Even ones I've never heard before, I can typically date them to that period if they have that sound. Thank God for King Crimson and the Discipline/Beat/Three Of a Perfect Pair era. They really got me through the 80's doldrums.

 

[beecee]

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Not famous but I love his guitar starting at Love, love me do

 

[Nuuska]

After years of searchin - FINALLY - someone posted me the right picture - and included data of magazin & # & year. Now I can start the search for better picture - should not be too hard, since that magazine is not super rare over here.

Ladies & Gentlemen - other fellows may enter, too - HARPO ( hit song "Movie Star" ) - playing my 1977 F512 Guild sitting on the sofa at my then workplace - Finnvox Recording Studios.





EDIT - its is not THE picture I was searching - but taken in same session. This picture was published in Jan 1981 - Harpo is telling that he is leaving music business and is going to concentrate on horses. But now it should be fairly easy to find the right picture.