How Will You Celebrate...

[Trumpet Rider]

...Jim Marshall's Birthday?

 

[PelliX]

Same way as I would like to celebrate my own. Beer, rock 'n roll and a couple of J's. Might add a decibel or two for Jim, though.

 

[jmp45]

I'll crank up the SLP again but probably won't do this..

 

[PelliX]

I'll crank up the SLP again but probably won't do this..

Looks like Pete was playing a Telecaster. That's not a Fender neck/headstock though... I wonder how that came to be...

 

[jmp45]

Looks like Pete was playing a Telecaster. That's not a Fender neck/headstock though... I wonder how that came to be...

Probably scraping the parts bin from all the other smashed guits Isn't the cab like 1 of 6 made? No regrets..

 

[PelliX]

Yeah, I never got his obsession for destruction. Maybe he got it from Keith who was probably the worst of 'em

Kicking over a speaker cab, even destroying it I can vaguely understand, but your instrument? It would be like going out with a buddy, having a great time and ... beating him into hospital at the end of a fun night.

 

[Ramo]

well, I will play my dsl today then.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

Looks like Pete was playing a Telecaster. That's not a Fender neck/headstock though... I wonder how that came to be...

Fender™ 12 string?...

 

[MonstersOfTheMidway]

...Jim Marshall's Birthday?

I'd like to celebrate Jim Marshall in "Jimi Hendrix style," but since I'm not right now playing music with my band I'll celebrate JM b-day "Eric Clapton style" but with a JVM410H behind me instead.

 

[jmp45]

I'd like to celebrate Jim Marshall in "Jimi Hendrix style,"

I can't do that.. If I light up my strat it will burn the carpet..

 

[Far Rider]

Loudly.

 

[CroTone]

I already saluted Jim by cranking my Plexi today! RIP Jim!

 

[PelliX]

Fender™ 12 string?...

I'm guessing it was a Rickenbacher... according to the Who's site, it's a 'non-Fender™ rosewood neck':

https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/marshallstack.html

 

[Dogs of Doom]

I'm guessing it was a Rickenbacher... according to the Who's site, it's a 'non-Fender™ rosewood neck':

https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/marshallstack.html

that's not an official Who site...

it took me some time to find your quote:



ok, so I did a little more digging, this is what the Who fansite says:

https://thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/fendertelecaster.html



Grimshaw?

funny, that Grimshaw says Rick on it...

https://thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/grimshaw.html



The problem w/ Rick though, is the neck design is neck-thru. The way it attaches to the body would make it a pretty big feat to mate to a Fender body, because it is a really different shape/size & just the way to cut it off & mount it would be pretty difficult.

According to the site, the only reason Pete used Tele's was to destroy them, so, he had the breaking the neck in mind, even before he pulled it out. Not sure he'd go through all that trouble to hook up a real Rick neck, just to smash it...

 

[Trumpet Rider]

that's not an official Who site...

it took me some time to find your quote:

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ok, so I did a little more digging, this is what the Who fansite says:

https://thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/fendertelecaster.html

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Grimshaw?

funny, that Grimshaw says Rick on it...

https://thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/grimshaw.html

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The problem w/ Rick though, is the neck design is neck-thru. The way it attaches to the body would make it a pretty big feat to mate to a Fender body, because it is a really different shape/size & just the way to cut it off & mount it would be pretty difficult.

According to the site, the only reason Pete used Tele's was to destroy them, so, he had the breaking the neck in mind, even before he pulled it out. Not sure he'd go through all that trouble to hook up a real Rick neck, just to smash it...

Excellent detective work, Dogs.

 

[PelliX]

The problem w/ Rick though, is the neck design is neck-thru. The way it attaches to the body would make it a pretty big feat to mate to a Fender body, because it is a really different shape/size & just the way to cut it off & mount it would be pretty difficult.

Excellent point. I guess the Danelectro might make more sense. So that makes me wonder what happened to the original Tele neck - damaged during the first rehearsal?

 

[Harlequin tusk]

Awesome pictures!!!!

 

[Dogs of Doom]

Excellent point. I guess the Danelectro might make more sense. So that makes me wonder what happened to the original Tele neck - damaged during the first rehearsal?

yeah, who knows, in another image, on the tele page, it shows another one fitted w/ a Strat neck...

IDK how available cheap knock-offs that would work, were, at the time. It sounds like he just needed the guitar to be playable for the duration of the song up until the smash episode, then, he'd rebuild it to do all over again.

 

[Sapient]

I'm gonna buy a little cake and eat it with his 8x10 facing me from the other side of the table.







Probably not.

 

[Trumpet Rider]

yeah, who knows, in another image, on the tele page, it shows another one fitted w/ a Strat neck...

IDK how available cheap knock-offs that would work, were, at the time. It sounds like he just needed the guitar to be playable for the duration of the song up until the smash episode, then, he'd rebuild it to do all over again.

I did some reading on the fan web page that Pellix linked and (I'm not going to try to find and quote it) somewhere someone said that Pete requested that the expendable guitar look enough like the player that he could swap them out at the last minute and the audience would not know the difference. Also, he did not put the guitar through a speaker, but only tore through the grille cloth. A bit disappointing in a way.