Jack Van Breen from Guitar Showcase plays a 1964 model 6192 Gretsch Country Club hollow body. And does this guitar have tone! When Jack first saw Neil Young play, he had one of these — Jack channels Neil with “Mr. Soul” and “For What it’s Worth.”
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Jack van Breen from Guitar Showcase show us a replica 1957-58 Gretsch Duo Jet. Before the Filtertron pickups, there were Dynasonic Pickups. Made of a chambered mahogany body, the Duo Jet model 6128 is one of Gretsch’s most sought after guitars.
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Jack Van Breen from Guitar Showcase plays a 1964 model 6192 Gretsch Country Club hollow body. And does this guitar have tone! When Jack first saw Neil Young play, he had one of these — Jack channels Neil with “Mr. Soul” and “For What it’s Worth.”
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Jack van Breen from Guitar Showcase show us three lap steel guitars and a Fender Resonator. We have some rare ones today. There’s a very nice sounding Hawaiian guitar with a date of 1920 on the inside. Then we have a 1930s National Tri-Cone resonator metal guitar. Also in this group is a sweet sounding Dobro lap steel. To round things out, there’s a Fender Resonator you play like a regular guitar.
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Jack van Breen from Guitar Showcase has a couple of real veterans from their vintage collection. These are early 1930s Rickenbacker Frying Pan lap steel guitars. This is a fascinating story of the innovators of both the first successful electrified guitar and also the resonator guitar. Jack has both a 6 string and 7 string Rickenbackers, the first guitars from a company that’s still going strong.
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Jack van Breen from Guitar Showcase shows us a real veteran an 1936-1939 Gibson EH-150 lap steel. EH stands for “Electric Hawaiian” the birthplace of slack key guitar. This is the first true production Gibson electric guitar model. With a tobacco sunburst finish, this one has the famous Gibson “Charlie Christian” bar pickup. And you talk about tone- played through a Fender SuperSonic 22 amp, this thing has tone to burn. It’s truly amazing.
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Jack Van Breen from Guitar Showcase shows us another great guitar, this time a 1960 Les Paul. What you say, it looks like and SG. Well it IS and SG body style. In 1960, the Les Paul Guitar we know wasn’t selling well due to competition from the Fender Stratocaster. So Gibson answered with a thinner, lighter double-horn body. Gibson still had a stock or Les Paul truss rod covers and used those until 1963. In 1960, Les Paul the inventor, left Gibson. The SG body style proved popular over the years and is still in production today.
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Jack Van Breen reviews some vintage Ibanez guitars. While Ibanez started making inexpensive copies of Gibson and Fenders, after they were warned about the American patents, they started making their own designs. The Artist models of the mid 1970s were very nice with excellent quality. Today Jack plays an Artist 12 string and an Artist owned by Steve Miller — one of his four stage guitars. Jack also talks about a new 470 guitar suited for heavy metal. Jack also talks about a nice acoustic guitar — so nice he bought it the first time he picked it up.
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