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Racer X
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 Posted - 08/14/2008 : 14:37:05
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Is this a Ted Newman-Jones ? I can find no definitive reference.
I know Keith had several Newman-Jones, the ones that became the
Chandler Austin Special in particular.
The photo is by Robert Knight, c1973.
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timbo
Silver Member
Australia
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Posted - 08/14/2008 : 17:22:37
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| im not really sure... i remember seeing pics of old bc rich and ibanez guitars with a similar bridge. similar headstock to a bc rich too. |
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pawnshop_trash
Gold Member
USA
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Posted - 08/14/2008 : 18:10:47
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is it just me, or is that a 5-string guitar?
I know Keef has (had) a few Teles with 5 strings (he removed the low E string, for some open tuning), so a custom 5-string isn't that surprising...but it is unusual. |
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Racer X
Silver Member
USA
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Posted - 08/14/2008 : 19:11:27
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It is a 5 string. Ted Newman-Jones built Keef several 5 strings in
1978 or 1979.
This is an oddone because it predates the Newman-Jones by 5 or 6 years.
I have two other shots of Keith in action with this model but
I have yet to find out who made the dang thing.
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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Posted - 08/14/2008 : 20:51:03
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possibly it's an early Zemaitis,as i think a lot of the 60's crowd...(stones,harrision,faces,) were starting to use some of his guitars around then,i'm fairly sure the great keef had a couple but i always thought they were the metal fronted 'Les Paul' types..Harrison and ronnie wood (who was in the faces then)were probably the most high profile users,but even clapton had one of his acoustics,on the 'Concert for George' georges son dhani uses his dads zemaitis acoustic for most of the gig.......... |
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Racer X
Silver Member
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2008 : 00:12:05
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I'm pretty hip to the Zemaitis angle. Woody and Ronnie Lane both were
playing "Z's" as early as 1971 in The Faces. Also, this is really
altogether different from Tony's guitars at this point. His metal
fronts were begining to come on. Woody turned Keith onto " Z's" and
Tony made him a 5 string narrow waist "LP" with the skull, pistol
and sabre inlays in '74 or'75.
This has perplexed me for a while. |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2008 : 18:53:45
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ronnie wood has been seen knocking around town lately(he has a house outside dublin) if i see him i will ask him for you but he back on the soup according to reports so i don't know if you would get a straight answer out of him..... ..... |
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What kind of guitar is this ?
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