Steve Clarke has reviewed many rare and famous guitars for various guitar magazines. The idea of “Famous Frets” is to look at these iconic Guitars in detail and learn why they sounded the way they did. Did they play well ? Did they have custom parts ? Was the sound due to lucky component matching or were the stars of the stage blessed with cutting edge bespoke parts which were not fitted to mainstream guitars ?
All will be revealed !!!
All of these guitars came to me for servicing during a break in their tour itinerary via George Borowski who was their guitar tech at the time. I got them all on the Tuesday and had to get them done for Thursday so working through the night was mandatory. Note green telecaster which needed a…
In case you didn’t know, Chip Taylor wrote Wild Thing (The Troggs) and Angel in the Morning and MANY other well known hits. He is also the brother of actor Jon Voight and thus is the Uncle of Angelina Jolie. Sadly, Angelina was not with him when I met Chip at his hotel in Manchester! …
This came to me for a general service before it was to be sold at auction having been signed on the headstock and body.
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