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

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spoox said:
...with a Newark St. M-75 with an interesting vibrato tailpiece.
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Great catch! Indeed extremely interesting! A Guild "G end" mounted over a bigsby B5! The guitar got 1965 Rowe/Dearmond Gold Tone pickups (mounted on wooden pickup rings/spacers he carved) and custom master volume, 50’s spec master treble cut and bass cut control for neck pickup. The guitar player is Jason Gutierrez (Producer/Guitarist/Singer/Composer, Guitar/Amp Repair Tech, Owner- Enfield Studios,...) and he customized the guitar by himself.

@Walter Broes would probably like this?

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A few more of the guitar:

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Here is a slightly earlier picture where she still had the orange toggle switch cap, which he replaced with a metal one. And the clear Guild knobs which he replaced with black knobs. Also note the different bridge he had mounted in between.

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He owns more interesting modifications like this A-150 where he added a second Rhythm Chief 1100! He also added a thumbwheel volume control for the bridge pickup under the corner of the pickguard.

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Ralf
 
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dadglasser said:
Not a picture, but there's a Guild in there
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Nice find! The guitar player is Turtle VanDemarr from Portland/OR and it is a very old 50's F-50 with a guitar silhouette label!
Here from the same 2013 gig at the Rhythm and Roots Festival in Charlestown, RI:

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I didn't find really good pictures of the guitar, those two have to do:

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Ay Yi Yi. If I were going to buy another guitar then it would have to be an F-50R. It's probably better overall if I go practice about now. I'm working on another Steve Gillette song. Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen at the cook shack, The Old Trail:

 
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SFIV1967 said:
Nice find! The guitar player is Turtle VanDemarr from Portland/OR and it is a very old 50's F-50 with a guitar silhouette label!
Here from the same 2013 gig at the Rhythm and Roots Festival in Charlestown, RI:

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Turtle retired last year and moved to Mexico. He was like the Jimmy Buffet of the Oregon Coast.
 
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I came across this photo while researching the history of the song "I Know You Rider". I first heard the song on records by the Grateful Dead and Hot Tuna. The earliest known transcription was by Alan Lomax in the 1930's. He had heard the song sung by an 18 year old women in a state penitentiary in Mississippi or Louisiana. Judy Roderick was one of the early 60's folk singers who performed the song.

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This is from her 1965 Vanguard album Women Blue.

 
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Another Guild spotting . . . Matthew Perryman Jones playing what I think is maybe a D40? He's quite a talented songwriter, and to my ears, his voice has the same timbre as a young Bono.

 
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I have just stumbled upon this, Peter Noone (of Herman's Hermits fame) playing a "round-bottom" Guild solid body...I do not have the computer skills to grab a screen shot, perhaps someone here can, but the bit is here
from 9:36 to 9:52 with the band The Tremblers...

Interesting video about HH, though after you get in a bit, too many names of producers et al to make sense of it.
 
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Hello, I’m new to the forum - thought I’d post these pics of the Canadian guitarist Sonny Greenwich with his Guild archtop - an early X-150 Savoy I think. I came across an old LP of his with a picture of the Guild on the cover in a local record store, and was curious to find out more. The first photo is a screenshot from a film of him playing with the Don Thompson big band; the second photo is taken from Mark Miller’s enjoyable Greenwich biography ‘Of Stars and Strings’.

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Greenwich was active on the Canadian jazz scene beginning in the 1950s, although I’m not sure if he is still performing these days; he used the Guild guitar in the photos pretty much exclusively until the early 80s. Early on he also played through a Guild Master Amp 66. He had some ongoing physical health difficulties throughout his career, which made travelling difficult, and this is partly what limited his ability to make an impact internationally. He spent a bit of time in the US, where he cut an LP at Blue Note with Hank Mobley in 1967. That album - ‘The Third Season’ - was shelved until 1980; it’s as good an example of his playing as any I’ve found. He has a very distinctive style - single note lines, through a low wattage valve amp cranked to the edge of distortion; he said he didn’t tend to play chords much because he couldn’t get enough definition with the amp sound that he liked. He recorded quite a lot in Canada, and there is various material on Spotify, including some of the albums that he made as a leader. Other material is on YouTube including some clips from Canadian TV performances - this one with his quartet is great:
 
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