duluthdan Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 the only people I knew who had one or really wanted one in the '60s were girl folksingers. Thanks Milod - this kind of solves the mystical allure these always had on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisA83 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Great, more Martin clones I had a strange dream last night that I was in a shop playing a D-28, and really loved it (which was quite surprising in itself) then looked over to my left, there was the Martin, looked down and.... I was actually playing one of these new Fenders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike tango Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 my guess is in charge of pricing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 As to the HB back in the early '60s... It seemed to me that all the guys wanted a D28 or better - not even D18 - and the girls all seemed to want the 'Bird. It was a very, very folkie environment. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 As to the HB back in the early '60s... It seemed to me that all the guys wanted a D28 or better - not even D18 - and the girls all seemed to want the 'Bird. It was a very, very folkie environment. m That's pretty much what I remember as well. One guy on my floor in a college dorm had a J-50, and I had a roommate with a D-18. Another guy I played with in the fire stairwell (hard walls for a nice bit of echo) had a 000-28, which I had never seen before. And I had my beat-up old J-45. I had never really seen a Hummingbird until I worked with a folk-rock band out of NYC a couple of years later. The leader of the group (not the lead guitarist) had the first Hummingbird I had ever seen, and I thought it was a bit over the top visually. The lead guitarist had a D-28 (actually can't remember if it was an 18 or a 28, but I think it was a 28). Funny things you remember from 40+ years ago...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 That's pretty much what I remember as well. One guy on my floor in a college dorm had a J-50, and I had a roommate with a D-18. Another guy I played with in the fire stairwell (hard walls for a nice bit of echo) had a 000-28, which I had never seen before. And I had my beat-up old J-45. I had never really seen a Hummingbird until I worked with a folk-rock band out of NYC a couple of years later. The leader of the group (not the lead guitarist) had the first Hummingbird I had ever seen, and I thought it was a bit over the top visually. The lead guitarist had a D-28 (actually can't remember if it was an 18 or a 28, but I think it was a 28). Funny things you remember from 40+ years ago...... What's your thoughts now nick? Still over the top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 As for the Hummingbird being basically a Martin clone, yup but... it wasn't marketed that way as such. It was marketed as a solo vocal accompaniment piece and honestly, the only people I knew who had one or really wanted one in the '60s were girl folksingers. My memory is a bit foggy but girl folksingers were all about the smaller body Martins probably thanks to Joan Baez. You forget that Keef started playing a Hummingbird around 1964. From that moment it became a rock & roll acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 What's your thoughts now nick? Still over the top? I'm a bit more open-minded now in my taste in guitar finishes, as can be seen by my cherry-red ES-335. "Ah, but I was so much older then......I'm younger than that now." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Zombie... Actually where I was, nobody had a "little" guitar that I recall. The smallest would have been a classical. The one exception would have been in '64 when a girl I know had her parents get her a small guitar in Mexico. Otherwise, one brand or another, the girls were with dreads. Some of that may have been the time and place. But I don't even recall any of the girls at the old Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., with smaller guitars - but that would mostly have been '61 and '62. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Some of that may have been the time and place. But I don't even recall any of the girls at the old Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., with smaller guitars - but that would mostly have been '61 and '62. m OK, now you've officially hijacked the thread and opened Pandora's box. Just follow this link back in time to 1965. I was a freshman at Brown then, and Club 47 was as close to heaven as a young folkie could get..... Just look at the line-up for Club 47 that month. My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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