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Check out some of the iconic guitars and gear Harrison used throughout his career to creating his iconic sound and change music forever. Harrison was also known for playing several Gretsch and Rickenbacker models, among others. Ever since he started playing guitar, George Harrison wanted a Fender Stratocaster. In the early s, Harrison had a chance to buy a bonafide Fender Stratocaster. When he got there, someone else had already bought it. The rare for the UK, at least Strat ended up in the hands of the guitarist for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes—the band that featured the future Beatle, Ringo Starr, on drums.
It scarred me for the rest of my life. As the Beatles gained popularity around the world, so did their acquisitive power. It had three single-coil pickups, a tremolo bridge, and three adjustment knobs. Harrison loved the guitar so much that he used it to finish a few songs on Help! It instantly became one of his primary guitars for the rest of his career. As hippie culture progressed, thousands started painting everything in bright, psychedelic colors.
In , he grabbed some Day-Glo paint which was a new invention at the time , stripped the hardware off his favorite Stratocaster, and gave it a colorful new paint job.
George Harrison and Rocky stayed together for the rest of his career. Around , Harrison started to learn slide guitar.
He decided that Rocky would be a great contestant for slide, so he jacked the bridge up high and added some heavy-gauge strings. According to Harrison, that was the best Rocky ever sounded! In , Fender decided to recreate this iconic, colorful guitar. The Beatles might be one of the most influential rock bands of all time, but sometimes, they wanted to go acoustic. When the Beatles learned they scored a record deal in the summer of , the first thing George and John did was order two matching Gibson JEs with sunburst finishes.
Unlike acoustics, the JE has 15 frets above the neck joint as well, which means you can play it more like an electric with access to higher frets. Harrison and Lennon used their matching Gibson JEs for many years. In , the two actually swapped guitars for some unknown reason.
Talk about an iconic instrument! Harrison continued to use his Gibson JE until about when he discovered the Gibson J, but the continued to make appearances on Beatles albums up until their split in in the hands of John Lennon. This is easily one of the most iconic George Harrison guitars of all time. Like all musicians, George Harrison had to wait a while before he hit it big.
Harrison bought his black Duo-Jet secondhand when he was 18 years of age. If you want to hear the iconic spanky tone of the vintage Duo-Jet, check out this video of a Beatles live performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool back in He retired the guitar in when he gave the vintage Gretsch to bassist, Klaus Voormann. Voormann kept the guitar for decades until George Harrison decided he just had to have it back.
Harrison bought the guitar back from Voormann in the mids and used it on his solo album Cloud Nine. It features all vintage hardware and dual DynaSonic single-coil pickups to achieve that classic Beatles tone. While recording Sgt. In , Fender gave him a model of its new Telecaster in an attempt to get the word out about the new instrument. Custom built specifically for him, after receiving the guitar he used it in recordings for Let It Be and Abbey Road.
George can be seen playing this guitar in the rooftop sessions of the film Let It Be. As far as acoustic guitars go, something like the Taylor ce will give you the sound quality and performance you need. The first amp George is said to have used consistently is the Vox AC Though it sports the Vox moniker, the company commissioned it to be built by Triumph Electronics. The good news is that the exact model George used is now for sale. Possibly the most famous amp he played with is the Leslie This rotating speaker cabinet can accommodate guitars and keyboards, and Harrison used one for the Let It Be and Abbey Road sessions.
The guitar was found during preparations for a Badfinger retrospective at the Hall of Fame in In those days day-glo orange and lime paint were very rare, but I discovered where to buy them — very thick, rubbery stuff. I got a few different colours and painted the Strat, not very artistically because the paint was just too thick. John with a Fender VI. George played this guitar on the Hey Jude Video. The Fender VI was released in and followed the concept of the Danelectro six-string bass released in , having six strings tuned E to E, an octave below the Spanish guitar.
The Bass VI was closely related to the Fender Jaguar , with which it shared styling and technical details, notably the Fender floating tremolo. It departed from the concept of the Fender Precision Bass in having six strings, a shorter scale and thinner strings, and a mechanical vibrato arm. The Bass VI never caught on to the extent that the four-string Precision Bass and its derivatives did. The model was discontinued in Bramlett recalls the moment the guitar was presented to him:.
Delaney Bramlett is playing the Rosewood Telecaster that George gave him. It had been routed for Humbucking pickups, which were gone by the time I saw it and had what looked to be the original pickups back in place. Although the identity of the West Coast collector was not revealed, rumours persist that the bidder was none other than U. V actor Ed Begley, Jr. Click on the pic. Gibson records show that serial number was shipped from the Kalamazoo factory on December 19, I had it done at the factory in the SG-style clear red finish that was popular at the time.
Clapton and Harrison Era. Clapton did not play this instrument much. In August he gave it as a present to his good friend George Harrison.
Theft, kidnapping and recovery. This began a lengthy negotiation which resulted, ultimately, in Harrison via Harvey trading Ochoa a Les Paul sunburst and a Fender Precision Bass for the return of Lucy.
Credit: Meet the Beatles for Real. The guitar is still owned by the Harrison Estate today. Legend has it the guitar is the same one that Bob Dylan is seen holding on the cover of his album Nashville Skyline. There is so much discussion online about whether this is actually the same guitar pictured on the Nashville Skyline cover. The guitars in the pictures are identical right down to the way the strings are wrapped, so maybe it is the same guitar.
Thanks Chris. Harrison produced the songs and played acoustic guitar, with McCartney on bass, Starr on drums, Eric Clapton on guitar and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Larry Knechtel and George. In , George gave the guitar to Bob Purvis, a member of the band Splinter. The original tuners were replaced some time before George gave the guitar to Mr.
An endpin mini-jack and Barcus Berry pickup were professionally installed in the mid to late s. See this article here. While some accounts suggest the Strat Clapton gave Harrison was a sunburst one, the Bangladesh guitar was stripped to the wood; meaning it possibly could have had a sunburst finish at some point.
There was one that was stripped to the wood that I gave to Spike Milligan. He was at my house one day with Peter Sellers — Peter was playing the drums, Spike was playing the piano, and I was playing guitar. Then Spike got off the piano and wanted to play the guitar, so I plugged him in to this Strat through a little Champ amplifier. Having said that there is always the possibility that the Strat was refinished? Just guessing. What do you think? Lets not confuse another Strat that was auctioned off at Heritage Auctions in and again in by Cooper Owens with the sunburst Strat from L, given as a gift from George Harrison to Spike Milligan.
A marketing tie-in with the Traveling Wilburys supergroup provided that opportunity. They were cheaply made in Korea, and bear no resemblance to any other past or current Gretsch. A few collectors hoarded them thinking they would eventually be a goldmine, but that looks unlikely.
Gretsch made a ton of them, and they were always low-priced promotional guitars. Source: The Gretsch Pages. This model was designed by Leo Fender but unfortunately it was not very popular and was discontinued around This guitar was given to him by his wife Olivia. Reading about the background to this concert makes it even more special. Obviously, he stepped up and was brilliant, and performing here was one of his happiest memories.
After this, he regained his confidence to release and perform new stuff, including the Wilburys and the tour with Clapton. So apart from being a great concert in its own right, it led onto bigger things.
A red strat and the black one pictured below. A sitar owned and played by George Harrison is going to be auctioned in the United States. Acoustic guitar and muted bass were augmented by the Indian instrument.
It fit and it worked. A year later, Harrison travelled to India to learn how to play the instrument under the renowned sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Just imagine some Indian villager trying to play the violin when you know what it should sound like. But that was the environment in the band, everybody was very open to bringing in new ideas.
I am writing about the sitar pictured here. One of the things that is not mentioned is that the sitar is a Ravi Shankar type sitar — i. It was early July , when they came to India and connected with my father late Pt. George Harrison bought sitar, my father displayed those instruments by playing each of them. What a historical moment it was for Indian Music! It was boom for Indian Classical Music in the western world. My salutations to all the great personalities.
Prayers to pioneer of musical instrument making, Ever! Bishan Dass Sharma. Also to the great Beatles members, who are not around….. Bartell guitars were produced in California from to , with just instruments ever built. The guitar was passed on from Lennon to Harrison to the current owner, a gentleman named Ray, is a prototype from this time.
In an interview with Kenny Everett on June 6th, , John Lennon was asked what kind of guitar is that? The interview is available on YouTube. I have the full background on the Bartell Fretless and am writing a book on this. Lots more to this story if you would like to contact me. Great pictorial of Harrison guitars here. Anyway, thanks for posting these. Never saw another one! Certainly no pictures of it that i can find. Maybe Ringo will show the serial number of Georges second gent someday!
Oh, embarrassing! That made it by the proof reader! That guitar i believe was bought by George for Mary Hopkin. Thanks for pointing that out. Trying to put together a homage to some of Georges early guitars for the Merseyside Guitar Show November …. Hi there! Looking at this post reminds me of my previous roommate! He always kept talking about this.
Thanks Stephen! I corrected that on the website. Great site! Any plans on doing Pauls guitars? Thanks for the feedback Buddyhoot! I do appreciate your help with corrections.
I am working on Pauls guitar page and should have it up in a week or two. In MANY instances you will see a more spaghetti logo in silver. And in some instances a truss rod plug. It also does not have a truss rod plug or skunk stripe. The neck plates are often different as well. Some having the Custom Shop stamp, while others are original to Georges F logo stamp. This has since been proved with the Dhani Harrison Apple App.
This guitar must have been the least used guitar by George in the Beatles. George did not care much for this guitar as he was a Stratocaster player and it was Paul who ordered this guitar not George. George never once thought about it again in his life but 2 years after his death Olivia Harison buys it a an auction where Delany Bramlet sold it. The seed might have been planted at this meeting. Thanks for the mention in the Rosewood Tele section. The sale of the guitar turned into a bit of a challenge for me.
I was upset at the time; not for any loss of a sale, but for the embarrassing chore of explaining to Mr. Harris the unfortunate circumstances.
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