who is playing hank garland's guitar?

[dunlop212]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjjR1imxBo

Could not have been a lot of L5CTs with CC pups floating around
Nashville in 1963. Doesn't look like him, and it is two years after
the car wreck.

Gotta like the chick singer, too.

[ott...@hotmail.com]

Maybe it's a Byrdland??:-)
Bg

[gtrmon]

Since Hank did not die in the car wreck, I doubt it's his guitar. I
know he continued or rather started playing again, having some days
better than others.

Don

[jdah...@uiuc.edu]

Hank died on Dec 28, 2004. He was actively posting somewhere on the
web for a
while but danged if I can remember where.

[dunlop212]

Yeah, I am familiar with the story. As I understand it, he tried to
make a comeback after the car wreck, painstakingly trying to
reconstruct his technique, but there was something missing; he would
draw a blank at the wrong time during a session. I have also heard
that for a while other musicians would sign his name when tney did a
session to help help out. He played for the rest of his life, but not
at the level he did before the accident.

He and Johnny Smith were the two supreme artists in flatpick
technique, IMHO.

I just thought it might have been a friend of his at this session
borrowing his guitar. Looks like an L5CT to me (without seeing the
tailpiece, hard to tell for sure that it is not a byrdland), and there
were only about 45 made, and I figured no others were made with a cc
pickup. Now that I think of it, though, the Garland guitar (the one on
the trunk lid on Jazz Winds) was a sunburst, and this one looks solid
color.

[gtrmon]

It was a fascinating bit even just thinking about that popping into
your
head! Now I'm wondering if anyone is playing Merle Travis' special,
the
one with the oval sound hole designed like an old L4 but electrified
and
Bigsby'd.

Don

[Michael L Kankiewicz]

Just as interesting, check out the rare Super 300 behind LL.

MK

[jsea...@csc.cps.k12.il.us]

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I think his son, Thom Bresh, has it and plays it. There was an article
in Fingerstyle Guitar about it not too far back.

[charles robinson]

After his accident he used to give guitars to guys who came by his brother's
house in Florida to jam with him.Gibson used to send him Byrdlands and he
had an attic full of them was the story that I heard. So it is possible that
this type of generosity was extended to whoever it is on the video. On the
other hand it could have been a player there in Nashville who had heard Hank
and wanted a similar sound or even just a coincidence.
Charlie

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[pmfan57]

On Apr 16, 2:13 pm, "charles robinson" <robinsonch...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> After his accident he used to give guitars to guys who came by his brother's
> house in Florida to jam with him.Gibson used to send him Byrdlands and he
> had an attic full of them was the story that I heard. So it is possible that
> this type of generosity was extended to whoever it is on the video. On the
> other hand it could have been a player there in Nashville who had heard Hank
> and wanted a similar sound or even just a coincidence.
> Charlie
>

> "dunlop212" <ed_ha...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message

>
> news:1176594708.8...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjjR1imxBo
>
> > Could not have been a lot of L5CTs with CC pups floating around
> > Nashville in 1963. Doesn't look like him, and it is two years after
> > the car wreck.
>
> > Gotta like the chick singer, too.

I think that's Volker Kriegel.

[gtrmon]

I thought it was a young Larry Coryell

[charles robinson]

Well no it seems fairly obvious that the guitarist is Holger Weber but where
he might have gotten the guitar remains a mystery.
Charlie

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[charles robinson]

All kidding aside the story about Garland giving away guitars is true, I
knew a couple of people down there who got them.
Charlie

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[Michael L Kankiewicz]

> >
> > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjjR1imxBo
> >
> > > > Could not have been a lot of L5CTs with CC pups floating around
> > > > Nashville in 1963. Doesn't look like him, and it is two years after
> > > > the car wreck.
> >

> > I think that's Volker Kriegel.
>
> I thought it was a young Larry Coryell

No, it's Galbraith. He did some sessions in Nashville around then.

[charles robinson]

Most probable: Grady Martin, who played a lot with Lynn around that time.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=grady+martin&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
Charlie

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