Eddie Lang and Ruth Etting

From the movie "A Regular Trouper", 1932

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[snorkelbda03]

he briefly played an L4 in apprx 1925, before being completely endorsed by Gibson and given the choice of their finest L5s once joining the Whiteman Orchestra. The L4 is generally a red guitar with a large oval whole...while the L5 has a beautiful dark brownish sunburst finish and 2 F wholes like a violin. The early L5s had "dots" on the fret boards until apprx 1929 when they switched to Mother of Pearl "blocks" in the frets. Lang Played both styles.

[Vegavox]

@snorkelbda03: the L5 played by Eddie was the 16" model. The 17" model - the one we know better today - was introduced by Gibson after his death. It is also interesting to note that Nick Lucas (born Domenico Lucanese), a few year older than Eddie and an idol to him, was a Gibson artist too and used a round hole model guitar designed by himself. Eddie used a "Nick Lucas" very heavy pick on hard tension flat wounded strings.

[TheRideArounds]

song name?

[Vegavox]

@TheRideArounds: "Without That Man" written in 1931 by Donaldson.

[RRaquello]

How times change. In the early 30's the great guitarist (Lang) dies young from a botched tonsillectomy. In the early 70's, the great guitarist (Jimi Hendrix) dies young from dope.

[boonskank]

I'm in love.

[playingwithfirehurts]

is it me or does it seem when Eddie played with Joe, Ed's guitar is easily underappreciated, almost unrecognizeably quiet

[TheRideArounds]

@Vegavox i just realized after I asked that the song title is at the start of the video, thanx anyways though

[Vegavox]

@zthetha I have answered you with a private message.

[zthetha]

@Vegavox Grateful for your erudition -yours is the quickest response I've ever had on youtube - 3hrs - I'd always thought he played an L5 until someone said differently - incidentally how can you tell the difference?