Time off for the holidays and being sick equals a short absence but with that here’s a nifty find related to the two previous posts – a doubleneck baritone and guitar. Elvis played this in the movie ‘Spinout’ (cardboard cutouts available online). I might just have to acquire/make one….
The pics are from various people’s visits to Graceland (definitely on a place to visit). The story of how the guitar got to the movie/Elvis is a little murky but what is known is that he went home with it and afterwards played it often. But what we do know about it is that it’s a Gibson Custom Shop model from 1965/66. It has no designation (like sister guitar EDS-1275 for example) that I can find and it has trapezoid inlays instead of the slashes as well. What is also unusual is the vibrato as you don’t usually see that on a Gibson doubleneck (other makers usually put on a bigsby and Fender isn’t known for doublenecks…) It also has humbuckers all around and no giant sidewinder pickup. And I keep referring to the larger side as a baritone but it might considered bass (it’s 30”) so that’s upto interpretation plus it kept the elephant ear tuners. I’m surprised this model hasn’t caught on more (if it where actually in production). For the contemperary version, here’s Joe Bonnamassa’s doubleneck MusicMan in action.
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