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The FT-79 was produced by the Epiphone company starting in 1942. After Gibson bought Epiphone in 1957, the Texan was produced in Kalamazoo, Michigan until 1970. There have been numerous reissues of the Texan since their primary production period in the 1960s. [1] The original, New York made Epiphone FT-79 is quite a different guitar.
This is a List of Epiphone players (musicians) who have made notable use of Epiphone Guitar models in live performances or studio recordings.Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of these instruments was especially significant – that is, they are musicians with long careers who have a history of faithful Epiphone use, or the particular ...
Ostensibly simple, featuring only McCartney playing an Epiphone Texan steel-string acoustic guitar [17] backed by a string quartet in one of the Beatles' first uses of session musicians, [18] "Yesterday" has two contrasting sections, differing in melody and rhythm, producing a sense of variety and fitting contrast. [19]
In England in the 1960s, several Epiphone models were brought to particular prominence via their use by The Beatles, Paul McCartney favouring a 1964 Epiphone Texan that he purchased in 1965 and used for the writing of "Yesterday" among other songs, while John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all performed using Epiphone Casinos ...
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.
Epiphone SG Special 1961 50th Anniversary (used at the 2012 Coachella Festival with At the Drive-In) Tokai SG-60; Gibson SG Jr - Ward has used two of these guitars—a green SG with a white pearl pickguard and a sticker of the Texan flag, [7] and a white version with a tortoise pickguard and a sticker of the Welsh flag. [8]
In 1988, John Connolly, accompanied by vocalist Greg Anderson, guitarist Mike Grimmett and bassist Kyle Sanders started a band called Piece Dogs in Atlanta, Georgia.In 1992, Piece Dogs released an LP titled Exes for Eyes through Energy Rekords.
1964 Epiphone Texan FT-79 [20] acoustic guitar (also modified for playing left-handed) [27] 1965 Rickenbacker 4001 S [ 20 ] left-handed bass guitar in fireglo (red sunburst) finish, given to McCartney by Rickenbacker at Burt Lancaster 's house in Benedict Canyon , Hollywood , during the week beginning 23 August 1965.