When Keith hits the guy on the Hamton 81 show, what guitar is he playing?

He didn't hit the guy and he was playing his black Telecaster.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-11-14 15:54 by GasLightStreet.

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vincentwhirlwind
When Keith hits the guy on the Hamton 81 show, what guitar is he playing?

This is one of those trick questions isn't it? Of course Keith wasn't playing his guitar when he hit the guy with it, he was swinging it as a weapon. So the answer is no guitar.

Thank's guy's, Any more info , like the year etc..........

The learned Mathijs has told us:

"Keith bought his first Tele Custom from Gene Warner (now repair man at Krazy Kat Music) in San Antonio, TX
June 2nd 1975 (the exact date is known since the local dealer made it to national press with his story).
According to the dealer, he had had the guitar for about half a year, meaning it most probably was a 1974 model.
In all accounts, it was a regular off-the-shelf Custom, straight from the factory: a two or three piece ash body,
maple neck, bridge single coil pickup and fender Wide Range Humbucker in the neck, classic three-saddle Telecaster bridge,
white switch tip. Keith used this guitar during the 1975, 1976 and 1978 tour. He replaced the guitar for the 1979 tour
(most probably due to a bunch of guitars being either stolen or damaged in a 1979 fire)
with a late 1975/early 1976 model with the then modern 6-saddle bridge, and a black switch tip.
He used this guitar for the new Barbarians tour. Somewhere before the 1981 tour (probably during the Longview Farm rehearsals),
this guitar was modified: the Fender 6-saddle bridge was replaced with a Schaller modern 6-saddle bridge,
the tuners were changed to Schallers, and the jack cup was replaced by a Gibson Les Paul type jack.
The switch tip was changed back to white, as it was replaced by a click-less Les Paul switch.
This guitar –a straight from the factory late 1975/early 1976 model- would be his main guitar for the 1981 and 1982 tours
and his Hail Hail R&R guitar. The guitar returned in 1993 for the Winos, but now in 5-string modification:
it was strung to 5 strings, and the low E slug of the single-coil was pulled and filled with wax,
in order to get rid of unwanted noise. It was put away after the Winos tour, only to be pulled out again
for the last two shows of this 2005 tour! Notice another change: the pickup selector switch has moved to the neck pickup’s tone pot.
In this way, Keith won’t accidentally hit it as he plays really high on the neck when playing open G."

"In 1972, at the Chicago Trade Show, the new, revamped Custom was released to the music press:
the official name is Fender Custom Telecaster (so not Telecaster Custom), but ever since
everybody refers to it as "the 1972 Telecaster Custom", in order to make a difference with the vintage
(and thus much more expensive) 1959 Telecaster Custom. The 1972 Custom Telecaster was released in 1972,
but actually almost none of them were available in stores -it wasn't until 1973 you could actually buy them.
1972 Customs with a 1972 serial number are virtual non-existant. So, the "1972" in the name
is meant as a reference to the model, not the date it was built. Until 1975, the Custom Telecaster
was only available in black, sunburst and in late 1975, mocha (coffee brown).
ALL black models (so also Keith's) were made of ash, but all (more expensive) sunburst models were made of alder,
as alder has much more grain and figure in it's wood, wich shows up nicely on sunburst.
Also, black models were mostly made of several pieces of wood glued together (sometimes up to six pieces),
while sunburst was made of two pieces at the most. In 1976, there were some changes, but only in appearance:
the headstock logo changed slightly, a six saddle bridge was fitted and 1 MEG post were also fitted
for the bridge pickup (making it way too trebly actually), and the guitar came available in more colours:
black, sunburst, white, mocha, blonde and some rare colours. In late 1978, the custom was fitted
with cheaper, smaller black knobs, and the wood that was used was encredibly heavy. Also, the curve of the upper bout changed shape.
No matter what Keith says in interviews: all his customs have an ash body, and were run of the mill production models,
and not prototypes. The first one was a 1974 acquired in 1975, and later he bought another one."

That's all from just page one of this thread: [www.iorr.org]

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GasLightStreet
He didn't hit the guy and he was playing his black Telecaster.

Totally agree. Missed the guy.

Another myth persists...