Johnny Hallyday - that looks like an early X350 or X375 ...
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Your favorite picture(s) of an artist playing a Guild?
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hansmoust
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Photo is a little grainy, but that looks like a Stratford Starfire to me!Johnny Hallyday - that looks like an early X350 or X375 ...
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Does a Stratford Starfire have those 6 switches? That's what I thought was the telling feature.
hansmoust
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Yes! A Stratford Starfire (also known as the SF-350) was basically an X-350 dressed up with some design elements of the Starfire series from that particular period.
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sailingshoes72
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That looks like a young Buddy Guy on the far right. He was an early endorser of Guild musical instruments (the amps look like Guild as well). Or it could be Muddy Waters. The other two are, maybe, Buddy Miles and James Cotton. It appears that Eric Clapton was sittin' in with someone else's band and using their gear. Cool photo!
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kitniyatran
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I'm wondering if that might be James Cotton on harmonica and given that, it's hard to see the other Thunderbird player but I wonder if it could be Muddy Waters?
kitniyatran
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Looks like we were posting the same time. I was trying to place the drummer and now you say Buddy Miles I think that's right, and it could be Buddy Guy, it's really hard to tell on the other guitar player.
hansmoust
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That looks like Eric sitting in with the Muddy Waters Blues Band playing Muddy Waters' Thunderbird.I don't recall seeing this one in the thread. I believe that is Eric Clapton and another guitarist each playing a Thunderbird, can't find any info on where/when this took place, though.
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I don't think it's Buddy Guy, but the drummer does look like Buddy Miles
kitniyatran
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I wish we had a little more or a lot more clarity on the other guitarist cuz I really just can't make out enough to tell, but I'm kind of inclined to think that I don't think it looks like Muddy or Buddy really, I was guessing mostly on the context of who the other guys look to be
From earlier this month:
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index...ht-special-john-denver-and-two-guilds.216340/
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Was watching Muddy Waters at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, 1968. Looks very much like the same guitars. If they are, then Eric is playing Muddy's Thunderbird, black, with "Mickey Mouse" pickups. I think Luther Johnson played the other Thunderbird in Copenhagen and if it is the same guitar, then it's an earlier version with the mini humbuckers. To be honest, I don't think that it is Luther playing, but it's probably his guitarI don't recall seeing this one in the thread. I believe that is Eric Clapton and another guitarist each playing a Thunderbird, can't find any info on where/when this took place, though.
sailingshoes72
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Is that a centerfold of the month photo? 
Nuuska
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Quite a playboy . . .Is that a centerfold of the month photo?
SFIV1967
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That's what I found regarding the source of the picture:can't find any info on where/when this took place, though.
“Buddy Miles, James Cotton, Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters wound up on the same stage at Ungano’s for an unbelievable jam session that broke up at 3:30 AM and left customers staggering toward the exits.” New York City, NY. Mid-July 1969. Eric playing one of Muddy’s Guild Thunderbird guitars. Photo: KLN from the August 30, 1969 edition of ROCK"
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