Trivia Question For Guitarists And Long-Time Music Enthusiasts

[Floogeldy]

The guitarist for a famous band built his career playing this guitar (albeit modified).

Can you name the artist?

[maveric]

1. Peter Green? n/t

[Floogeldy]

2. No

Not Peter Green. :)

[maveric]

3. I'll give it another shot. Mick Taylor?

Damn, that axe looks familiar!

[Floogeldy]

4. No

Not Mick Taylor. :)

[6000eliot]

5. Steve Howe?

[Floogeldy]

6. No.

Steve played a Gibson ES-175, early on. :)

[Floogeldy]

7. Kick for real guitarists that were playing last night.

:)

[Floogeldy]

8. Dammit

;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Brian Setzer

[WCGreen]

10. Bill Haley.....

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. John Lennon

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dammit :evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

11. Taking a stab at it - Buddy Holly

[Floogeldy]

13. All good guesses.

But, alas, no.

70's band.

[auntAgonist]

14. Tom Petersson

[Floogeldy]

16. No

Not Mr. Petersson.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Steve Morse

[Floogeldy]

17. No

Not that I know of. Only about 500 of these guitars were made.

[specimenfred1984]

18. Leslie West of Mountain

???

[Floogeldy]

21. No. Leslie played a Les Paul Jr.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. John McGlocklin (however the fuck it's spelled)? Montrose? Mark Knopfler?

Adrian Belew? Robert Fripp? George Harrison? Duane Allman? Edie Gormet? Leadbelly? Vinnie Vincent? Pete Townshend?

[Floogeldy]

22. No

Adrian has mostly played Les Pauls, as Fripp, I think. Harrison played a lot of guitars, but not this one. Allman played Gibsons. No to the rest.

[maveric]

20. Michael Nesmith

[Floogeldy]

24. I'm pretty sure Michael played Gretsch

:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. Jimmy Page

[Floogeldy]

25. Jimmy played Fender, Gibson and Silvertone.

:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. I'm trying to guess the brand there...don't recognize the headstock

except I know Martin made a handful of electric guitars back then...I had one it wasn't worth shit but I can't remember what the headstock looked like

[Floogeldy]

27. Very few ever heard of this brand.

This is a very tough question. Only a vague memory of the shape could help most people and they would have to have been concert going in the early 70's.

Don't feel bad. :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. But I *did* go to concerts then!

And I DO recognize the guitar...more for the neck pick ups than anything

[maveric]

28. Bernie Taupin?

[Floogeldy]

31. I thought Bernie was a lyricist only?

At least, I have no recollection as him being known as a guitarist in a famous band.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Brian May?

[Floogeldy]

32. No. Brian and his dad made Brian's guitar. Nowhere near 500 made.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that.

Hard to believe the thing lasted all those years... i would have broken it within a decade, I bet. :-)

[Floogeldy]

33. I'm going to give you a clue.

The guitarist in the band put tape over the F-holes.

[maveric]

35. Brian Jones?

[Floogeldy]

36. No.

He started out using Vox guitars. :)

[Broken_Hero]

37. Michael Schenker

of UFO?

[Floogeldy]

38. Okay, I'm going to show you the answer.

[Floogeldy]

39. More

[Floogeldy]

41. And More

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

40. LOL ..Mark Farner!

I knew I saw that guitar...just wouldn't call him a guitar player :)

[Floogeldy]

42. Heh heh.

He actually did play the thing on a level to which everybody could relate. ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

43. power chords

:yourock:

[Floogeldy]

44. No. YOU Rock!, NSMA. Just for you . . . .

. . . . Grand Funk in Tokyo, 1971. :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

45. I just want you to know that even though I didn't post on this yesterday

I was going crazy trying to figure out where I had seen that fucking guitar last night

[Floogeldy]

46. I can imagine.

I would have done the same thing, had I not run across the Guitar Player Magazine article that (finally) identifed Farner's early guitar, made by Messenger. It has an aluminum neck. DOH! :)

[symbolman]

48. One of my very first albums

With good ol' Mean Mistreater on it, same time as Paranoid came out, I was 16 the Frisbee had just been invented and since we now had STEREO's that played with needles and were actually PORTABLE, we'd take the Albums out in the yard, plug into an extension cord and throw the Frisbee around to the strains of these guys slamming through the speakers.

One of the high points of my young like, ditching school days.. knowing I was going to be drafted in two years made me get an attitude..

Okay, now I have a question. Just picked up a beautiful 50 watt VOX, the new kind with tubes, and they have 15 or so amp Models in them, so you can play the old AC15 or AC30 just like the brits when they invaded. It's really amazing, all these amps in one lil old box, love the future..

So I have a question about this VOX, if you know anything about them..

Also picked up a Roland Electric drum kit with 99 drumsets.. if I had these at 16 I'd be a millionaire by now, but never approach the BEST power trio in the world, Grand Funk Railroad.. no one has touched them and never will.

Thanks, my guess was John Lennon..

[Bassic]

47. Mark Knopfler?

:shrug:

Edit : Nevermind :)