Keith Richards - About his Gibson ES-350 guitar

Keith Richards answers a question from a fan. The video was posted on his website around 2003.

Keith Richards website: http://www.keithrichards.com/

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[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.

[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?

[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 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]

@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]

@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.

[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.

[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.

[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. :)