dustymars
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Link looks like a silly, out of touch guy back then and even worse today, but he grew on the youngsters very fast. Probably a touch of rebellion for some of us then. I often tell my wife that the most successful music often turns out to be the simplest tunes and lyrics. It attracts people because they can remember it and hum the tunes easily. Unlike Jazz, Link Wray's music was anything but complex and technical. As a guitar player Jazz attracted me because it most challenging and more difficult to understand. Maybe I am not explaining it correctly, being an old guy that has not played in years.
I often search for videos featuring Jeff "Skunk" Baxter because he fit well with Steely Dan's style of music, then was a deep thinker that fit in with the military defense strategy. He is a genius that started off picking and mastering the guitar and scientific endeavors as well. Like Link Wray, both were thinkers and doers.
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Yeah, Link surely got our attention back then. Some of the places we played always had a few requesting that new kind of music, Link's Rock. 🙂 It has been so long ago I have a hard time remembering it. But, the reaction from the gals was weird. Now I know how Elvis must have felt when the gals would come up at the stage and grab at us. Glad I didn't take the adulation seriously or my life would have been entirely different, and short. Some of the musicians we ran into on the road, much better and more popular that we were got into the grassy smelling smoke and powder. That ended many of their lives. Sometimes our dreams are nightmares in disguise.😁
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Yeah, here's one I remember:
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I started out learning and playing that stuff back in Jr Hi (1953) then went out on tour during Hi School (1955-59) and for some time after that with a local band. We played beer joints and larger venues down the southeast coast into Florida. My first guitar was a cheap Sears Silvertone, of course. My first Gibson was a yellow TV model then an SG, and a few models I forget and then ES-335. I cannot play anymore due to arthritis and then lack of interest.
Yesterday I was just listening to very popular guitar picker in the 1950's, Link Wray, who wrote "Rumble" and wanted to get my axe out to play along with Link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4&list=RDucTg6rZJCu4&start_radio=1
The tune is quite easy to play and is not very sophisticated or really technical at all, but back then, in 1958, when we struck out with it the audience went bonkers. I remember once having to play it so long my fingers bled. Link was everything that teens liked then. A character for sure. It proved that the simplest tunes caught attention.
Anyone here ever heard of Link Wray and his wild rock & roll?
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On 5/9/2021 at 8:06 AM, dustymars said:
The only reason my 335 fit the 1966 year was when I actually bought it, in 1966 or 67. It has been too long ago to remember exactly. Seems like Gibson's S/numbers were haphazard.
My mistake, my ES-335 TDC (865807 ) is a 1967. I misread the serial number many years ago.
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The only reason my 335 fit the 1966 year was when I actually bought it, in 1966 or 67. It has been too long ago to remember exactly. Seems like Gibson's S/numbers were haphazard.
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3 hours ago, Whitefang said:
Good 'un. But if we're gonna drool over women guitarists, here's a suggestion( sadly, like with many clips from the "Tube" you gotta FF about a minute to get to the meat.).
Whitefang
I suggest she learn a few licks other that the one.
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A voice from heaven and guitar style way out:
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4 hours ago, j45nick said:
Dusty,
Thanks for posting that. The headstock serial number on yours is quite different in appearance from that on the OP's guitar. I honestly don't know what is going on with the back of the headstock on his guitar.
Your ES 335 is gorgeous. I have a 1959 Historic ES 335 (made in Nashville in 2010) in heritage cherry.
I bought my first Gibson (used) in 1966. I still have that one.
So yes, I am old, too.
I was replacing my old 1957 Les Paul "SG" or "Special" or whatever it was and went to a big guitar shop in Ft. Worth, Texas. I really wanted the sunburst color, but they were out and I was short on time so got the red one. Guess if Chuck Berry had one I could too 🙂
Here is a URL for much info on Gibson guitars: http://www.guitarhq.com/gibson.html
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Tried to catch the cracks but they are slight:
I haven't played it in several years due to arthritis and got tired of listening to myself. One forgets tunes. One loses interest.
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🧓 Well, shows you how an old guy's memory slowly goes away; here is the back of the head stock with, you guess it, the serial number. Also, just one shot of the front at the inside label:
The stamp inside has a fuzzy '8' and large '7'
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On 6/18/2020 at 7:11 AM, SteveFord said:
dustymars,
Good for you!
All I seem to see are changed pick ups, changed tuners, 43 holes drilled in the things, repaired necks - you actually took care of yours.
It is exactly as I bought it back in 1966. Not one to change a work of art :)
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20 hours ago, j45nick said:
Dustymars, beautiful guitar in what looks like immaculate condition
Would you consider posting a close-up photo of the back of your headstock showing the way the serial number is embossed? It would be nice to compare yours, with perfect provenance, with the OP's guitar, which has been the subject of a lot of speculation.
Failing that, could you just comment on how the number style (size, shape of numbers, spacing of numbers) on yours compares to the OP's, particularly the 8, the 0, and the 7?
I'll have to dig it out of the closet, so be patient -- I'm old. The serial number is not stamped on the head stock, only inside on that orange sticker. But I will look since it has been a while. There are some fine cracks in the front finish, so I will have to polish it a bit. I will have to look inside so see how the numbers are stamped. Hold on, I'll be back........
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I bought my 1966 ES-335 TDC (S/N 805807) in 1966. Dah.
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I still like Blues. It is great to hear so many young players into Blues guitar. My Mom gave me an old wooden radio back in the late 1940's and I found a local garage station that played Blues. First time I heard B.B. King I think was in 1949. Then Jimmy Reed set me off listening to all his stuff in the early 1950's. Later on, I started playing his Blues, Eddie Tayor was his lead player. The last time I played was a list of Reed tunes. My left hand gave way to arthritis soi I loosened the strings and put it in the case for good. Their tunes were simple, but great.
I like all kinds of music except opera. Music allows me to model astronomical equations in my head and understand how the Solar System works. I guess.