glider Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 as a kid i was hooked on the look/sound of f hole guitars from watching lennon on the top of the apple building playing tunes from Let it be. I still love looking at that footage on youtube from time to time!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblue Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I grew up on BBKing, Grant Green, and Wes Montgomery, plus a slew of blues players including Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush. I listened to Geo. Benson, T-Bone Walker, and Chuck Berry. So I own a ES-347, a superb example of what Gibson can do to upgrade the ES-335. Great sound and playability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EastEnder Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 The store manager who had the good taste to display Wenzel Rossmeisl's "Roger" guitars in the Francis, Day and Hunter* music shop in London's West End during the mid-fifties. Then Scotty Moore, the true King of rock'n'roll. EE * Might have been Boosey and Hawkes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkolo Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Chet Atkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtjazz Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 I would have to say Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, and George Benson. My first electric guitar was a 60's Fender Coronodo. Used to play it in the high school jazz band. Sure wish I had it now. I too lived near Eugene and used to see Robert Cray and Curtis play at Murfy and Me Tavern on a regular basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasdw Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Roy Clark and his Byrdland. And, of course Chet. When I was a kid out riding bicycles, playing ball whatever I'd run home every Saturday night at 6:00 pm to catch Hee Haw to see Roy and hopefully a tune by Chet. Times have changed. Kids now can just log onto youtube and see all those clips - and more - Chet clips even back to the 50s. Man, if I had those kind of resources when I was 10... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazerface Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Three words: john lee hooker. I know a bunch of bluesmen used em, but it wasnt until i heard hooker that i actually wanted to play one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilford Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 For years I was a Les Paul guy after seeing the Allman Bros at the Boston Tea party in '70. Duane's LP was awesome and I was about 6 feet from him while he played it. Loved that LP sound, but I was a kid then;-) But one day, I started getting interested in 335 out of the blue, maybe because I love jazz and blues and that "f" hole consumed my mind. I was all set to buy a VOS figured, but Eric Clapton's cherry caught my eye and it grew on me. Now I have my own. It is taking a while to get used to it's larger size from my LP, but it grows on me more every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyBabyBrandon Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Boy, I really don't think that there was really someone that made me want one. It seems like I don't really play the same stuff as my guitar heroes, like I just don't dig a les paul (sorry everyone), it just never felt right to me, but I LOVE Jimmy Page, also the band that got me into playing, and that are still probably my favorite band of all time, Smashing Pumpkins, has Billy Corgan with a strat, which I did have for a long time and was the guitar I learned on, but at a certain point I just wanted something else. That said I think everyone needs either a strat or a tele. I guess Steve Howe was a big influence on at least my playing, and I did love his sound, but while I wouldn't mind a 175, for my purposes, it's just too big of a guitar. Of course he often used a 345 and various other gibsons and fenders, most notably an ES-5 and a modified Tele, but when I think about it, none of my big heroes play 335's as their main guitar. I guess loving all those guys really helped me to realize the perfect storm of a guitar for my needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldorado2001 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Mark Farner, Steve Howe, Alvin Lee and Patrick Simmons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFord Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Chuck Berry and then as I got older and got a Fender copy and then a Les Paul copy I kept drooling over all of the shots of Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Alvin Lee, Dave Edmonds and all of the rest with their 335s so guess what I got? Yep, a red 335! There's just something really special about the hollow body and semi-hollow body guitars so I'll always have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 I had always considered a 335, but after seeing this video, it became a goal. Finally got one around 2005 or 2007, I think. These days, except for occasionally picking up a Tele, an f-hole is the only guitar I'll play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RTh5t8yEqI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc1funk Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Thought I wanted a 335 for a while... Seeing Dan Auerbach playing big double cut semi hollow bodies live with The Black Keys convinced me this was the tone I was after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 John Lennon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Vibratoer Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Alvin Lee, B.B. King, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hayden Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 BB King, Eric Clapton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Scotty Moore, Howard Roberts, Alvin Lee, Roy Clark, Chuck Berry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowey Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 +1 for Alvin Lee - from the time I watched him in the Woodstock movie ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeko Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 My guitar teacher when I was a kid, Mr. King. I didn't understand the differences in guitars back then as I was only about eight. I had a cheapo chinese made classical which I still have. He'd take that sunburst L5 CES out of the case and I'd think "now THAT'S a guitar"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The one and only, Chuck Berry. Then George Thorowgood Then Izzy Stradlin. I bought my 1988 ES-175 the week I saw Guns-n-Roses way back in 1988. He played a couple of them the night I saw the band in Anaheim, CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_L Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 B.B. King, Gary Clark Jr, Warren Haynes.... and the sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody78 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Then Izzy Stradlin. I bought my 1988 ES-175 the week I saw Guns-n-Roses way back in 1988. He played a couple of them the night I saw the band in Anaheim, CA. I was 4 years old in 1988, but got into G N' R around 1991 when I turned 7 and Izzy's white ES-175 was probably the first f-hole guitar I can remember seeing. At around that time I was given a book on Guns N' Roses with lots of live pictures and I used to always stare at Izzy's 175 thinking one day I must get one of those! Izzy had/ has some brilliant guitars like his 3 pickup Black Beauty, Byrdland, ES 135 and the Gretsch he used on the album '117 Degrees'. He still makes some cool music too which seems to go under the radar sadly. His albums Ride On, Miami, On Down The Road and Like A Dog are great examples of his post G N' R work, as well as the 1992 classic Izzy Stradlin & Ju Ju Hounds which remains my favourite. All that said, my favourite ES 175 players were all the jazz guys - Pass, Ellis, Raney etc, but I got into them much later on in my late teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetdog Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 BB King ES 335 Wes Montgomery L-5 Freddy Green ES 330 Eddy Lang L-4, L-5 Charlie Christian ES 150 Chuck Berry ES 335 Keith Richards ES 335 Joe Pass ES 175 Any of those Cats chunking away in the back during the Big Band Era B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twang Gang Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 There have been many - but mostly ALVIN LEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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