Keith Richards - About his Gibson ES-350 guitar

[stratobagster]

i will miss him when he's gone.

[jamwc3008]

Keith Rocks! God Bless him~ He is the sound of Rock & Roll!

[robert3359]

Hey Gibson and Fender guitars are not the only best guitars made out there. have you seen some of the guitars made in Japan, they are incredible.

[Nickpatient]

@robert3359 What do you mean? Ibanez? :) They still haven't really improved or evolved the original Fender and Gibson designs. Nobody has. Apart from little things, as Keith said.

[MusicFanMark]

Keith is right, the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster and the Gibsons remain the standards to this day. Born out of nowhere, as he said. Sure, the electric guitar was invented earlier, but it was the Fender Broadcaster (soon to be Telecaster) that really got things going around 1950. I also agree with Keith that you should know the acoustic before the electric, but to each his own.

[painxtreme]

@MusicFanMark Agreed, just as I teach my kids to drive a stick prior to automatic. Acoustic doesn't let you cover you screw ups at all, Electrics give you lots of forgiveness, depending on the make and model of course.

[painxtreme]

Um, Keith, unless you are nearing 80, the electric guitar wasn't born in your lifetime. The solid body electric was, but Gibson made Hollow body electrics as far back as 1939, probably earlier, it just happened to be the model I saw that day. Im not going to mention the price that was being asked in 1985, cuz if I think too much about leaving it in that shop, Ill start breaking things.

[moucon]

@painxtreme You can nit-pick him, but what he's saying is basically true isn't it? The instruments sold today are not much different and not much better (if at all) than the very first generation of the various well-known guitars. Strats, Teles, LPs, ES... I do like current innovations like better tremolos and piezo pickups, etc. - but could play without any of them. It's not like they evolved from the harpsichord to the piano-forte.

[painxtreme]

@moucon Of course its true, if not better. What does Itzhak Perlman play? A Soil (pronounced Sawl) made by Antonio Stradivari in 1714, during his golden period. Any authenticated Stradivarius, unless destroyed, will fetch over a million, with the highest— sold for Japan earthquake relief brought over 15 mil, and they did, of course bid up to help. The highest before it sold for 3.5 mil. It is true electric was not close to being born in his lifetime, it was a story of missed opportunity.

[painxtreme]

@painxtreme Im 48, and have played jazz, rock, pre-70s country and anything good in a band we've had since we were 17. Tragically our bassist Od'd in 2004, replaced by my son. Weve not played since, but may someday, cuz there is no high on earth that matches when it all falls into the groove, loud as fuck, no one missing the toughest or most subtle part. Id love a Gretsch White Falcon, like Frusciante has. Unless recording, Playing clean is the mark of a great, e.g. Django.

[funkster007]

@painxtreme I'm sure he meant that it became popularized in his lifetime.

Keef was born in the early 40's, most people didn't even know the electric guitar existed until the 50's. Of course it's in his lifetime.

[painxtreme]

@funkster007 Even Django didn't see an Electric until the late 40s in the US. Prior to that he mostly played the Selmer 503, and sometimes the Selmer Maccaferri, which he used little because that model had a resonator box that was better for support rhythm than lead. Im still angry with myself for leaving that 1939 on the shelf for $695

[painxtreme]

@painxtreme Now into the weeds. Early electric guitar makers were: Rickenbacker (1st called Ro-Pat-In) in 1932, Dobro in 33, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 34 Vega, Epiphone (Electrophone and Electar), and Gibson in 35 and others by 1936. Now, more fun. The 1st solid body electric guitar was offered by Vivi-Tone no later than 1934. Another solid electric guitar, Electro Spanish, was mace by Rickenbacker in 1935 of Bakelite. In 1936, Slingerland made a wooden solid body electric

[painxtreme]

@painxtreme Now the wrap: The 1st documented performance with an electrically amplified guitar was in 1932, by Gage Brewer. The Wichita, Kansas-based musician had an Electric Hawaiian A-25 (frypan, lap-steel) and a standard Electric Spanish from George Beauchamp of Los Angeles, who would later form Ro-Pat-in, later called "Rickenbacker"

I could kick myself around the world for leaving that '39 ES-150 on that dang hook...only 7 years into the technology, and I left it there.

[painxtreme]

@painxtreme George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker, sold the very first electrics of any kind, and the A-22 Frypan was actually a solid body, made in 1932, from cast aluminum, which worked for the Hawaiian music craze, but these men were not awarded a patent until 1937, allowing others to take the technology and run. After seeing acoustics had too much feedback from guitar vibration, Beauchamp had decided that acoustic properties were undesirable in an electric guitar. Fun, huh?

[TheKeefguitar]

keith's guitar is the gibson es-335

[Nickpatient]

@TheKeefguitar I don't think I've ever seen him play a ES-335.. He has a black ES-355 mono and a white ES-345 and to me his signature thing is the 5 string tele but I'd love to hear more about him on a 335, my favourite all rounder guitar ever. :)

[booksteve]

yes, the right phone at the right time