Droooooool

Real guitars.

Want

Remember, you can't say Gretsch without wretch.

/hideous

Rev.K:Remember, you can't say Gretsch without wretch.

/hideous

uh, did you mean "retch?"

/gibson-fender man

Give me the Guess Who. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic.

The collection has been kept for the most part in a storage facility, except for a few that Bachman regularly used in the studio (he also has Fender and Gibson guitars in his "guitarsenal," as he calls it).

Guitarsenal would be an awesome band name.

And I'd go see this museum.

Finally those guitars won't be forced to play any more BTO.

Gretsch guitars are farking beautiful...what's with the hate? I mean, I play a Les Paul as my main axe, but I adore those kickass Country Gentleman models and the like.

If it's good enough for Chet Atkins, it's sure as hell good enough for your Farker ass.

Tr0mBoNe:Guitarsenal would be an awesome band name.

It already is (new window).

Rev.K:Remember, you can't say Gretsch without wretch.

/hideous

Sorry your pointy 80s shred machine isn't worth much any more.

/Fender man, but would gladly kill my own family for a vintage 6120 or Duo Jet.

El Freak:/Fender man, but would gladly kill my own family for a vintage 6120 or Duo Jet.

I wouldn't go that far, but I would love to have a 6129 silver jet. None of that humbucker nonsense.

/and get off my lawn if you don't use tubes.

My baby:

(now with photobucket goodness)

Gretsch 6116 PTV "Power Tenny"

this please

NigelTufnel:this please

I just came. White Falcons are gorgeous.

El Freak:NigelTufnel:this please

I just came. White Falcons are gorgeous.

I agree with your point although I was very uncomfortable with the delivery!

Still does not address the fact that 'Takin Care of Business' is th most awful and overplayed song on every classic rock station in the U.S.

//It's not Randy's fault, but I farking hate BTO.

kanesays:Still does not address the fact that 'Takin Care of Business' is th most awful and overplayed song on every classic rock station in the U.S.

//It's not Randy's fault, but I farking hate BTO.

Randy Bachman sucks... this is a given

Gretsch is ok, but if you feel like buying one, why not just get a Gibson instead?



/ plays a wood Carvin, loves it.
// used to have a Rickenbacker

It's BTO
they're Canada's answer to ELP.
Their big hit was TCB.

Moses To Sandy Koufax:Gretsch is ok, but if you feel like buying one, why not just get a Gibson instead?
/ plays a wood Carvin, loves it.
// used to have a Rickenbacker

you make it sound like it has to be either/or instead of both/and

BTO: Randy Bachman, CF Turner, Phil Overdrive

I don't get all the guitar hate at all. I have a Strat and a '69 Rickenbacker. Used to own a Gibson 335 (twelve string). Thanks to an axe-collecting brother-in-law, I've played about everything. Other than the Steinberger feeling weird, they all were incredible.

Rickenbacker:I don't get all the guitar hate at all. I have a Strat and a '69 Rickenbacker. Used to own a Gibson 335 (twelve string). Thanks to an axe-collecting brother-in-law, I've played about everything. Other than the Steinberger feeling weird, they all were incredible.

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Longdon:It's BTO
they're Canada's answer to ELP.
Their big hit was TCB.

"have The Rolling Stones killed" "but sir..."

360 guitar?

I_Love_Cheesecake:Tr0mBoNe:Guitarsenal would be an awesome band name.

It already is (new window).

Wow that was bad. I killed the first song 3 seconds in~

Moses To Sandy Koufax:Gretsch is ok, but if you feel like buying one, why not just get a Gibson instead?

Because it's much harder to get decent twang out of a Gibson.

Of course, with the audio shaping that one can do nowadays, you could get twang out of anything. Given that I can't afford my dream guitar and amp, I make do that way.

/besides, humbuckers suck, that's why you don't get a gibson.
//the designated hitter ruined baseball too, as long as I'm being a curmudgeon.
///not good enough to afford anything other than my Eastwood Vox clone.

NigelTufnel:Rickenbacker:I don't get all the guitar hate at all. I have a Strat and a '69 Rickenbacker. Used to own a Gibson 335 (twelve string). Thanks to an axe-collecting brother-in-law, I've played about everything. Other than the Steinberger feeling weird, they all were incredible.

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Oh I'm guilty of that too, at times. But damn...anything that's not a Hondo or a Lotus is a good guitar!

Personally I'm a Rickenbacker man, but a Duo-Jet could easily find a place in the stable. Hell, I'll take just about any guitar or bass offered...

Except for a B.C. Rich...sounds alright, looks fu*king hideous.

the gretsch 6120 is the one townshend used on 'who's next' and 'who are you' as well as the eric clapton 'rainbow' concert ... joe walsh gave it to him (with a fuzzface and a fender amp) ... townshend said he'd use it live more often but it doesn't stay in tune well enough

the 6120 is on my wishlist big time ... great sound ... i'd settle for a white falcon tho ;)

Two weeks ago, Bachman finalized a deal to sell the collection to Gretsch and have it displayed at the company's headquarters in Savannah, Ga. The collection - ranging from a 1928 model to the latest prototypes - arrived in Savannah on Canada Day.

Yeah! It's Canada Day in Savannah Georgia USA! Today only, it's a Canada Day! 20% off everything in the store!!!

Gretsch quality varied tremendously from instrument to instrument. I have a 63 Tennessean I wouldn't trade for the world, but I've played White Falcons that were complete POS. A good 6120 is a work of art, however.

I met Chet Atkins once (also Leo Kottke at the same time) backstage after a concert in San Diego, truly a class act.

Gretsch quality varied tremendously from instrument to instrument. I have a 63 Tennessean I wouldn't trade for the world, but I've played White Falcons that were complete POS. A good 6120 is a work of art, however.

Amen, although you could really say the same thing about most guitar manufacturers.

Logweasel:Gretsch quality varied tremendously from instrument to instrument. I have a 63 Tennessean I wouldn't trade for the world, but I've played White Falcons that were complete POS. A good 6120 is a work of art, however.

Amen, although you could really say the same thing about most guitar manufacturers.

I couldn't agree more.

I want the Gretsch that Neil Young used on his 1st album. He never again used that sound.

Glenechocreek:I want the Gretsch that Neil Young used on his 1st album. He never again used that sound.

Wow, no kidding. I listened to that album not long ago and was amazed at the sound. It's really a forgotten wonder.

Gretsch? Awful sustain and tone. Trying to tune one to anything that isn't a standard makes it lose so much top AND bottom end it's not funny.

Best sounding guitars right now? Martin Dreadnoughts (if you can afford 4K for an acoustic) and...

B. Farking C. Rich. Bar none. Not the NJ series, either. I personally love my KKV more than any other I've owned. Tune it to Drop D, WAAAYYY high B or any damn thing you want - it'll hold it like no other.

/Love the design - makes parents nervous and girls say "cool".
//Remember: If you are a white male and want the ladies: learn to play guitar. And not a Wretch or a Render. Gibson/Martin... ANYTHING but those two.

NigelTufnel:this please

Gifted myself with White Falcon when I turned 35. Have never looked at another guitar since.

/Gifted myself with a baritone sax when I turned 36; same with a piano the following year.

//Now have to stay out of music stores around the ol' birfday...

dugong:NigelTufnel:this please

Gifted myself with White Falcon when I turned 35. Have never looked at another guitar since.

/Gifted myself with a baritone sax when I turned 36; same with a piano the following year.

//Now have to stay out of music stores around the ol' birfday...

Bought one of these for my 35th... took almost a year to get it. Unbelievable and my wife will not let me look at another guitar.

dictyboy:Gretsch quality varied tremendously from instrument to instrument. I have a 63 Tennessean I wouldn't trade for the world, but I've played White Falcons that were complete POS. A good 6120 is a work of art, however.

I met Chet Atkins once (also Leo Kottke at the same time) backstage after a concert in San Diego, truly a class act.

Dang, Chet and Leo, I'm jealous and I rarely am.

Have a Sebring (clone of a Gibson L4) which is great, except the pickup hole constantly gets lose; a Martin D-35 which is great, but old and really hard to play until I get the neck redone (again) and a Fender Squire. Oddly, mostly these days I'm playing the Squire - with my recorder's effects processor it sounds better than my ears hear anymore.

Want a really good Les Paul but can't persuade the wife person. (To be fare, she's gottem me a labrador, a 35 hp tractor and a Roland Boss recorder in the last year, so I really can't complain.

I played a Gretch many years ago, a fine guitar.

Dear god Halfmast... what the hell is that?!

NigelTufnel:Dear god Halfmast... what the hell is that?!

Looks like some really farking weird copy of a Danelectro Longhorn. A Teisco Del Ray maybe?

El Freak:NigelTufnel:Dear god Halfmast... what the hell is that?!

Looks like some really farking weird copy of a Danelectro Longhorn. A Teisco Del Ray maybe?

Looks like... hmmmmm, similes fail me :(

Jedekai:Remember: If you are a white male and want the ladies: learn to play guitar. And not a Wretch or a Render. Gibson/Martin... ANYTHING but those two.

Wretch? Render? Dude, seriously. Are you 12?

/Must be, you think BC Rich makes attractive-looking instruments.
//How good can they be today anyhow? Bernie Rico and Neal Moser both split.
///Okay, the Mockingbird looks badass. But that's it.

DoctorCal:NigelTufnel:Randy Bachman sucks... this is a given

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Don't be upset that I never called... you knew what this was

...a collection of more than 360 guitars...

Made me think of this:

The sustain, listen to it...
I don't hear anything.
Well you would though, if it were playing.

Headline:Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and BTO takes care of business by unloading his collection of Gretsch guitars -- all 360 of them

FARK Bonus: He does it after he leaves the Mormon church, so they don't get their 10% tithe of the profits. Heheheheh.

My sister-in-law has a Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins she inherited from her late father. She wouldn't sell it for anything. What's something like that worth? I'm sure it depends on the year, condition, etc.
I love the sounds of a Gretch meself.
/rockabilly fan

Fark all of you out there that say only one type of guitar over another. I have a Fender Stratocaster, a Gibson Les Paul(studio), a Gretsch Electromatic, a Fender 12 string, and a Martin 000XE. They are all good guitars, each one has their own personality and sound that's great for a different kind of music. Playing/owning a range of different guitars is like being able to sleep with a bevy of beautiful women. You all sound like some douche that says he only sleeps with 5'5', 100.3lbs, green eyed, blondes with a 34C.

and

Jedekai
Gretsch's are good for a 50's twang not droped D metal riffs.



Would like to hear you finger pick Mr.Sandman on your BC Rich

I used to own a Silver Anniversary Chet Atkins Gretsch 6120. It was a gorgeous instrument with a pretty nice neck. When I think of what it's probably worth now, I still kick myself for getting rid of it.

My wife's dad was a Gretsch guy. He had two White Falcons, the "Country Gentleman", and a 6120. And he could play the living crap out of them. Lots of Chet-type stuff, Merle Travis, etc.

I gotta say I agree with dictyboy about Gretsch quality being uneven. A friend of mine has a White Falcon that he let me play awhile back & the thing had a neck like a fencepost! I wasn't too impressed.

Nowadays, I mainly gig with my trusty little 1984 Japanese Fender Strat with hot rails, or for the blues stuff my '92 Fender American Standard Strat. They're just a comfy guitar. I also have a Gibson Les Paul & a '76 Gibson Marauder with 496R pickups. I like 'em, but don't gig often with them because of the weight. If you think the LP is heavy, the Marauder's a beast!

I've had tons of guitars. Some great, some not so great. Some of the really good ones were brands you might not expect, like Yamaha, Westone, and even my dad's sweet old Japanese Crestline LP copy, which I still own, and though the frets are almost gone (gonna get that fixed) the neck is like butta. You can't always tell if a guitar is a good one by the name on the headstock.