Let’s play a game. Guess who?

[Dogma]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

No, KevinH got it - young Tommy Emmanuel - you can see why he's linked so closely with Maton guitars - they have supported him right from the very beginning of his career.

Here's the full picture with his late brother Phil.

Gonna guess that too. I remember hearing an interview with him where he told the story of their dad getting him and his brother the exact same model guitars in two different finishes- sunburst and something else. They decided that one was the lead guitar and the other was the rhythm guitar and whenever they played they had to make sure that the person playing the relevant position had the corresponding guitar. I thought that was so apt for kids' way of thinking! Anyway, could be those two guitars in the photo!

[Wadcutter]

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

She played acoustic guitar when she was still singing at coffeehouses back in Texas, before she moved to the West Coast and started fronting Big Brother and the Holding Company.


whm

Thanks Wade, very interesting. Wonder if she was an “accomplished player” so to speak.

[Wade Hampton]

I think she was a “college coffeehouse” level player.


whm

[BrunoBlack]

Hint: photo taken in 1959

[Wade Hampton]

George Harrison.


whm

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by Haasome

Hint: photo taken in 1959

When I first saw it I was thinking Richard Farina, who got me interested in the dulcimer, but now I'm thinking not him.

[BrunoBlack]

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

George Harrison.


whm

Bingo. And here he is with his mate in the same year.

[SalFromChatham]

Sir paul McCartney?

[Wade Hampton]

Right - George and Paul.

whm

[Elder Gail]

Agree George Harrison. Wrong on the first pic. Guessed Glen Campbell
Gail

[Jim Owen]

Originally Posted by AusTexMurf

Looks like Duane Eddy because it’s a Guild, but it’s got the harp tailpiece, no wang bar. So I’m stumped.

[BrunoBlack]

Originally Posted by SalFromChatham

Sir paul McCartney?

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

Right - George and Paul.

whm

You guys got it.

[AusTexMurf]

Originally Posted by Jim Owen

Looks like Duane Eddy because it’s a Guild, but it’s got the harp tailpiece, no wang bar. So I’m stumped.

The photo isn't Duane Eddy but these two did play/record together and the photo is from the late 50's, I'm thinking, so overlapping era...Good guess.

[donlyn]

Del Shannon?

Don
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[scotchnspeed]

I usually rail against millennials, not so much boomers, but in this case...