Bill Ashton
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Your favorite picture(s) of an artist playing a Guild?
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On a John Lennon FB page, a post about the famous bed-in/ Give Peace a Chance period.
Only a backside of their heads, but there’s no mistaking Guild’s headstock, or Tommy Smothers’ head.(Yes, he was there.)
Only a backside of their heads, but there’s no mistaking Guild’s headstock, or Tommy Smothers’ head.(Yes, he was there.)
On a John Lennon FB page, a post about the famous bed-in/ Give Peace a Chance period.
Only a backside of their heads, but there’s no mistaking Guild’s headstock, or Tommy Smothers’ head.(Yes, he was there.)
Just because it fits so well with Chris' post, I'll repost this one:
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Here’s another great archive photo of a Guild archtop. This is the guitarist Amancio D’Silva playing what I think is a T-100 - I’m not sure of the date of the photo, but would guess it’s from the late ‘60s.
D’Silva was born in Mumbai, and had a background as a gigging musician in India; he also did soundtrack work in the film industry there. After relocating in the late ‘60s to London he became involved in the local music scene, and recorded for EMI as part of Denis Preston’s Lansdowne Series. He was a self taught musician with an intricate, ornamental playing style rooted in jazz but with strong influences from Indian classical music. His first LP as leader, and the session he co-led with the Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott - ‘Integration’ and ‘Hum Dono’ respectively - are both great examples of progressive British jazz, though they had very little commercial impact at the time of their release. D’Silva was active in the UK as a player and teacher until suffering a stroke in 1992. This photo is from a website maintained by his estate which has a lot of other info, photos, and some music: https://amanciodsilva.com I’m not aware of any videos of him performing, but here’s a link to the audio of his instrumental ‘A Street in Bombay’ from 1972:
D’Silva was born in Mumbai, and had a background as a gigging musician in India; he also did soundtrack work in the film industry there. After relocating in the late ‘60s to London he became involved in the local music scene, and recorded for EMI as part of Denis Preston’s Lansdowne Series. He was a self taught musician with an intricate, ornamental playing style rooted in jazz but with strong influences from Indian classical music. His first LP as leader, and the session he co-led with the Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott - ‘Integration’ and ‘Hum Dono’ respectively - are both great examples of progressive British jazz, though they had very little commercial impact at the time of their release. D’Silva was active in the UK as a player and teacher until suffering a stroke in 1992. This photo is from a website maintained by his estate which has a lot of other info, photos, and some music: https://amanciodsilva.com I’m not aware of any videos of him performing, but here’s a link to the audio of his instrumental ‘A Street in Bombay’ from 1972:
hansmoust
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Photo is not very clear, but that looks like a CE-100BDP to me!Here’s another great archive photo of a Guild archtop. This is the guitarist Amancio D’Silva playing what I think is a T-100 -
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Thanks Hans for the clarification!
jte
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OK, it's hard to see, but that's Cornell Dupree behind Wilson Picket. Dupree is playing a Starfire II or III. I think it's a III with the Bigsby based on recalling seeing other shots from the same gig.
That other guy in the photo, playing a very cool Jazzmaster, might have accomplished something and been famous if he didn't play left-handed...
That other guy in the photo, playing a very cool Jazzmaster, might have accomplished something and been famous if he didn't play left-handed...
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He looks a bit like Peter Green, but it may be the 'look' of that particular period!
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Definitely not Peter Green, though I've no idea who it is
Peter Banks?
One of my favorite, kind of obscure, artists. What's the guitar? Looks like a mahogany top, but a chesterfield inlay.
Ian Siegal - Psycho
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Maybe a GAD 25
Good call. The pickguard is a match too.
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I can see that Ernest Ranglin needs no introduction on LTG, but it doesn’t look like these photos have been posted on here, so I thought I’d share them. The shots are from the front and back sleeve of his 1965 LP ‘Guitar in Ernest’. The guitar I thought is a CE-100 or T-100?
The LP is from my father-in-law’s collection - he bought the record in Jamaica in 1967 or 1969 while he was over there doing geological research. As he says of the latter trip: “I shall not forget the strains of ‘The Liquidator’ keeping me awake in the university suburb of Kingston, Mona Heights, it’s powerfully amplified sound being audible all over the city from a massive gathering on a fairground”. Here’s a link to the instrumental ‘Soul de Ern’ from the Ernie Ranglin album: Ranglin didn’t play on the Liquidator as far as I know, but he did do a version of it:
The LP is from my father-in-law’s collection - he bought the record in Jamaica in 1967 or 1969 while he was over there doing geological research. As he says of the latter trip: “I shall not forget the strains of ‘The Liquidator’ keeping me awake in the university suburb of Kingston, Mona Heights, it’s powerfully amplified sound being audible all over the city from a massive gathering on a fairground”. Here’s a link to the instrumental ‘Soul de Ern’ from the Ernie Ranglin album: Ranglin didn’t play on the Liquidator as far as I know, but he did do a version of it: