bratpack7
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But should Pete Townsend be in the conversation?
But should Pete Townsend be in the conversation?
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But should Pete Townsend be in the conversation?
The Brit's saved the Les Paul.
End of errand.
Gentlemen, to the boats....
Agree, I started at school in the late 50s. Some of us just wanted to form a 'group' because of the skiffle/rock and roll things going on. We started playing mainly instrumentals in the Shadows/Ventures style then moved on. My first 'real' guitar was a Guild Slim Jim, then moved on to a Strat.A well as the usual suspects. In the UK but also elsewhere:
Not everyone started playing guitar because of Page, Clapton, Beck or Green.
looks like Vinnie Barbarino w/Jimmy BeamThis guy.
Agree, I started at school in the late 50s. Some of us just wanted to form a 'group' because of the skiffle/rock and roll things going on. We started playing mainly instrumentals in the Shadows/Ventures style then moved on. My first 'real' guitar was a Guild Slim Jim, then moved on to a Strat.
I bought a Les Paul NOT because of someone playing one. It was purely because I went into a shop and tried many guitars. I liked Les Pauls. Managed to get my small collection up to 16 of them, but now down to 6.
Apart from when I saw the Shadows playing Strats, I have never bought a guitar because of some so-called star played one.
I've read biographies of most of the British greats and all credit Hank Marvin as their first influence to starting playing guitar. Just read recently in Guitarist magazine that even Peter Green also started playing due to the Shadows.