JuanCarlosVejar Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Folks, Here's one lucky picker : That guitar sounds majestic imho and I would hope montana tries to replicate it at some point ! JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Best 160'er I ever heard - John would have freaked out melting at a reunion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 'Cuse me, is this you, JCV ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanCarlosVejar Posted June 29, 2015 Author Share Posted June 29, 2015 No that's not me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfbird Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'm using serious Sennheisers and there's no way for me to make any serious comment on the guitar sound. It could be nearly any guitar in that setting and I'd expect it to sound like that. I'd need to hear it properly miked and used in a song that doesn't change chords every two seconds. There's no conclusive proof of anything. Other than people's natural biases to want to like the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 No that's not me Aha, , , didn't fit my idea of your portrait either. In this mind you are a younger person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Damn, sorry but that was that was just plain painful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Beatles riffs like Daytripper sound great on my J45 Standard....... at home. Would they buy the J160 if they had all the choices today? Doubt it. That was a test run for an acoustic with pickup with lam top for live play, wasn't it? A billion choices now, plus anti feedback gadgetry. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanCarlosVejar Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 Beatles riffs like Daytripper sound great on my J45 Standard....... at home. Would they buy the J160 if they had all the choices today? Doubt it. That was a test run for an acoustic with pickup with lam top for live play, wasn't it? A billion choices now, plus anti feedback gadgetry. BluesKing777. I have thought about this too . My conclusion is that John got a replacement to the "stolen one" because he liked the tone and feel JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I have thought about this too . My conclusion is that John got a replacement to the "stolen one" because he liked the tone and feel In relation to the re-found miracle, I read that Lennon more than loved his/this 160'er and your logic is clear. Still something tells me the new one didn't quite match the stolen, which might be the reason he always used George's (in reality his own before they swapped) further through 64-65. He got the D-28, yes, but even during the White sessions the are pics of him with the now sanded new 160E. The one preferred for Give P a Chance also, , , (as we know). A theory could be that 1 - Lennon dug the somewhat raw voice of the ladder-braced lami-beast 2 - was fascinated by the 2 functions of the guitar and 3 - of course was drawn to its irresistible looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Would they buy the J160 if they had all the choices today? Doubt it. That was a test run for an acoustic with pickup with lam top for live play, wasn't it? Never cared for the sound of the 160E unplugged. I always wondered if it had not been for the association with the Beatles would these guitars be near as popular as they are today. They did, however, sound great plugged in. A bunch of us went a different route opting for an old J-45 with a Dearmond 210 pickup slapped across the soundhole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 But as said before, I would be the last to not praise McCartneys 1964 Texan and its sonic importance in the early B-camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Don't know what he uses here, but a highly interesting thing for the specialists, is that the joyful phrase known from Imagine as Yooohoooo you may say, , , is already on the sketch-board in this early phase. Listen 1:43 and again 2:16 and towards the end. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdja8s4UNI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Damn, sorry but that was that was just plain painful! I'm with you Zomby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splake Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 The J 160E is on my list and maybe my next Guitar. I want to find a clean one and after I pay for a neck reset that is getting fixed now, and get some stuff situated around the house here, Maybe by christmas. They are popular because of Lennon and Harrison. I drank the Kool Aide. I would wear a pink G- string if Lennon and Harrison wore one. Yeah, I am a punk ,hack player, Beatle Fanboy. Just being honest. <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 It sounds like a guitar. Nice to think of the history associated with the guitar, but I just don't hear anything special in this instrument. Nor can I remember hearing anything special in any other guitar owned and played by some legend. We seem to attach magical qualities to guitars that celebs played throughout their careers or on a particular record, performance, or even simply autographed. But in reality they sound like guitars and if there's any magic it's from the legend who played the guitar. I think we want these guitars to sound like something special and that's what we often hear. A few years ago when we were in Nashville I got to meet Marty Stuart and he sat there and played one of Cash's favorite D28s. It was sweet, hearing the guitar and knowing Cash played it and it sounded like a D28 should: it roared. But no more than most D28s, etc. Besides, guys like Stuart can play rubber bands and make them sound good........Anyway, I'm sure Lennon's old guitar is a sweetheart and I appreciate the role it played in music history, but I doubt it has any qualities other J160's of that time period didn't also have. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 It sounds like a guitar. Have to add that my positive response hasn't to do with the original owner. It probably sounded like it should back in the day, still in Lennons ears apparently better than the 'Harrisons' 160 (in reality John's first) as they swapped before it got stolen. What I praise is the way time has kicked in. Not really a fan of the model here, this 1962'er sounds better than most others I've heard. Then again haven't listened to many old J-160E's close up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Don't know what he uses here, but a highly interesting thing for the specialists, is that the joyful phrase known from Imagine as Yooohoooo you may say, , , is already on the sketch-board in this early phase. Listen 1:43 and again 2:16 and towards the end. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdja8s4UNI Love this clip of one of my favorite early ballads. It's a long, long distance from a demo to the finished product, but I always enjoyed seeing a song bloom as you worked from the first rough run-through to the performance level and the final finished product through the magic of the studio. It's an exhilarating experience, particularly when you work with a demanding group of perfectionists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 This is akin to that Epiphone David Rawlings plays…it is really a cheap guitar, although he has a good one, I've played a couple that are dogs. BUT because Rawlings plays one, they have skyrocketed in price…..silly really….The J-160 is a sub standard guitar acoustically, but plugged in, with the P-90, sounds like an electric (sort of)…..but because Lennon played one…..prices are sky high…..again, silly….but to each his or her own….I read somewhere that the J-160 was all laminate in an attempt to eliminate feedback when plugged in…..acoustic properties be damned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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