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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | I just saw a picture of Martins latest signature model. It is the Andy Griffith D-18. No joke, they are making that guitar. I think I will hold off for the Barney, or Aunt Bea models.(lol) |
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Location: NJ | Ol' Andy DID play a lotta guitar on that porch at night, and he DID make a bunch of records before he even did the show.
. . . but it IS a bit "much".
btw:
The Barney Fife model comes with a pick.
. . . but only ONE pick! :) |
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Location: Scotland | Though Martin have taken this to extremes it's nothing new. Gibson produced a George Gobel signature model for a while in the late 50's. Gobel was a comedian to whom the guitar was little more than a stage prop. One hit-wonder Trini "If I Had a Hammer" Lopez also had a Gibson signature model. Again Lopez was no great shakes as a guitarist and dissapeared without trace pretty quickly. But it illustrates the power of artist-association, regular TV/movie appearances or a hit record in terms of influencing guitar sales. |
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Location: Central Oregon | Hey, wait a minute! Wasn't Trini Lopez a TWO hit wonder? :) I thought he recorded Lemon Tree too. Yeah I know BFD, hahaha. :)
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | I want to get the Martin "Earnest T. Bass" signature percussion bricks.
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Location: NJ | Let's not forget the "Otis Campbell" Signature Model BASS JUG. |
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Location: NJ | Trini's Trilogy:
He had a big hit with "LaBamba" as well. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I think instead of a Martin Barney Fife Signature, that Zildjan would put out BPF Signature Cymbols! Those and a Hohner BPF Signature... for his Harmonica (remember the song "Juanita" with the goat loaded with dynamite)...those were the only instruments Barney ever played....
hmmm....seems like I need to get a life!
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | What was the name of that country family that played bluesgrass music on the Andy Griffith show? I think it was the Darlins. I use to like them. (lol) |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Drisco Darlin and the Boys (Charlene his man crazy daughter)
The actual band were the Dillards.
tim
I know I gotta get a life! |
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Cliff, there is a picture of old Andy playing his Martin D-18 in the Martin website. Also they show that this guitar list for 3,699 dollars! Damn, that is a bit much. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Well at least we haven't seen the Herbert Khoury "Tiny Tim" signature model Applause ukelele!!!! :D |
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Location: Scotland | At least Tiny Tim could actually play the Uke & had a long, if not always illustrious career. Bet you can't name any other famous Uke player. A tiny Tim model uke would have sold shit loads, back in the day.
The Dillards were some of the most important musicians in the development of country rock, along with Clarence & Nesmith. |
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Location: NJ | "...Bet you can't name any other famous Uke player..."
Rudy Valle and Arthur Godtfreid. :p |
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| As a sideline question...........
Paul, George Harrison was known to play a lot of Uke in the last years of his life. People who knew him said he was quite a player (not hard to imagine George being a great musician). Do you know what type he played? At the McCartney concert I attended, Paul played a Uke version of "Something" on a uke that he said George had given him |
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Location: NJ | Harrison had a house on Hawaii and spent a lot of time there. Judging by the pics that I've seen and the quality of the ukes, I venture that they were custom made on-island. |
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Location: Scotland | Harrison was a Ukulele FREAK! He was also a masssive George Formby fan. Formby was a Brit music hall act/comedian who played risque tunes on the Ukulele-banjo (a bizarre 30's brit hybrid. During the banjo boom you could get banjo versions of just about any stringed instrument) Harrison was a very accomplished and commited Uke player. His Uke playing on the last record is great. Some aquantances of mine now have the licence, from the late Tony Zemaitis himself to make Zemaitis instruments. Harrison owned several Zemaitis guitars and was a big fan. They made him a Uke in the Zemaitis style but I believe he died around the time it was finished.
I don't want to get into this too deeply right now, but I was involved in a later version of one of Harrison's early "Dark Horse Records" signings, which was a duo from the north-east of England called "Splinter" who along with Ravi Shankar were responsible for Dark Horses's most sucsessful records in the mid '70's. Several years ago I was hired by the remaining half of the duo & we went on the road with a bunch of new songs, a few old ones, & a management company who promised us the world. Needless to say it turned to shit, but that's another story. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Every time I have seen Andy Griffith playing a guitar it has been nylon string, not a D-18.
In randomly changing channels I ran across a Hawaiin ukelele show featuring some of the top players and their bands, it was GREAT and I didn't have a tape handy so I missed taping it. Those guys were amazing and I could understand any musician wanting to follow in their footsteps. There were some other type musicians featured but the ukelele players stood out. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hawaii is a funny place. You can be the most hard-core rock'n roller, but after a few days of Mai Tai's and hula skirts (remember, your supposed to watch the hands) you can't but help picking up even the cheapest of Uke's sold at 7/11 and noodling.
And yes, I said 7/11 store. The one on the corner next to the ABC store in Waikiki. (people who have never been there will not get this joke at all). |
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Location: NJ | I remember "Splinter"!!
If memory serves they only did one album?
(Two guys and Harrison playing guitars while stnding in water on the cover?). I seem to remember it was pretty good (but alas went with the LP collection with the "ex").
About a month ago I went to the NYC screening of "A Concert for George" which was an all-star Tribute concert on the first anniversary of his death. Pretty much EVERYONE whe EVER played with Harrison was on stage. George's son Dhani was playing his Dad's all-rosewood Zemaitis Jumbo Acoustic the whole night. BEAUTIFUL guitar! The kid is the EXACT spitting image of his dad when HE was 18! In the film, between songs they showed some of the interviews shot during rehearsals. At one point they were interviewing either Ringo or Clapton and in the distance in the background you can see Dhani trying to retrieve a pick that fell inside of the guitar. Here's all of these Rock&Roll "legends" milling about and in the middle of it all is this lanky, awkward 18-year-old holding this guitar over his head and jumping up and down! The whole theater busted out laughing!
The movie was on a VERY limited theatrical release but comes out on DVD at the end of this month. I HIGHLY recommend it! Very moving sentiments, and some GREAT music!! |
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Location: Scotland | Cliff, Splinter made 4 Albums which were produced by Harrison and released on Dark Horse. There was another 3 after that on other labels. One was UK-only, another Japanese-only. There was a another album recorded but never released. The Harrison-produced stuff had some great players on them, including Jim Keltner & Waddy Wachtel. Harrison played guitars but was credited under a pseudonym. The albums were good for the time but the production hasn't dated too well. Under the new guise we were demoing songs for a Jap label when we'd had enough and quit.
Harrison had given Bob (the half of Splinter I was working with) one of his Harptone 12-Strings and Bob sold it in the '80s when he was stoney through Christies Auction House. It reached a few grand. God knows what that would fetch now.
Incidently Bob's main instrument for the majority of Splinter's career was a Glen Campbell 12-string. |
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Mayberry RFD?