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2 hours ago, Phil OKeefe said:

 I just recently learned during production of the movie, someone (Norm Harris?) actually pointed out to the directors of Back to the Future that a Gibson ES-345 didn't exist in 1955, but apparently, they wanted to use one anyway since they felt they had "creative license" to do so. That inaccuracy is one of the few things that has always bugged me about an otherwise quite enjoyable trilogy. 

 

Found it - here's where I saw that:

 

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/back-to-the-future-fender-strat-instead-of-gibson-es-345

 

Well I think it tied in to the whole "this is your cousin Marvin BERRY" joke too much for them to care... It is still a great film though.

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5 minutes ago, Rabs said:

Well I think it tied in to the whole "this is your cousin Marvin BERRY" joke too much for them to care... It is still a great film though.

How many people other than guitar nerds know it was a ES-345 used in the movie? And that it wasn’t in production in the time frame of the movie?

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