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Vintage Guitars - Hofner, Rickenbacker, Burns,
Gretsch, Framus, etc. used by Irish bands in the '60s |
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On these pages we share
vintage photos of musicians with their instruments. If you can identify
any of the musicians,
please let us know. We are indebted to
Guy Mackenzie, Paul Day,
John Doyle, Stefano Aria, Steve Russell, Jack Marchal, Mike
Robinson, Alfons Lahaye and
Tommy Dunne for their very
generous expertise in identifying most of the guitars. Where
possible, we have credited vintage guitar websites with photos. If your
website has been omitted, please let us know and it will be added. |
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Fergus Plunkett of The Corvettes
with his Hagstrom.
Colour photo courtesy of
weirdvintageguitars.com |
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An
Egmond-made Rosetti
Solid 7 (c.1960) played
by Val Reynolds of The Black Aces. |
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A beautiful
Hofner President
hollow-bodied archtop played by
Mickey Brady
of The Avons. Thanks to Steve at
vintagehofner.co.uk
for photo on left. |
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A
Vox
Mark VI Phantom
(c.1964-'65)
owned by a member of The Woodpeckers
from Drogheda. |
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Jimmy Uprichard of The Majestic
Showband sent us this photo with his
Guild Starfire III
from the
early '60s. |
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Derek Kennedy of The
Swingtime Aces with his vinyl-covered (red)
Hofner Colorama c.1960-'61
with metal tailpiece and sans tremolo.
Thanks to Steve from
vintagehofner.co.uk |
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Speedy McCormack of The Crackaways
with his Italian-made
Crucianelli Ellisound Triple
guitar. Thanks to Stefano of
fetishguitars.com for
identification and lower photo |
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Aiden Magennis
of The Debonaires onstage with his
Rickenbacker 325
c.1965-'67 |
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Unknown guitarist (name?) with unknown Dublin
group (name?) plays a rare
Wandré
Bikini guitar with built-in amp and
speaker. Photos courtesy of
Kate Horgan and
fetishguitars.com |
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The Southlanders guitarist (name?) with his
Burns Vibra Artist 1962.
Photo on right courtesy of
burns-guitars.nl
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Alan Carr of The Silver Clouds with an Eko
500/3V (c.1962-'63).
Photos courtesy of Alan
Carr and RudysMusic.Com |
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Guitarist with Athlone's Saints Showband pictured with his
semi-solid Rickenbacker 330 |
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Not many acoustics used during the
showbands era but here's one - a Gibson J45. |
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A young Brendan Quinn who later went
on to great success as a country singer pictured with his Harmony
H78 when he was in The Signs Showband. |
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Top of the Hofner archtop series, the
Committee played by The Cossack's guitarist (name?). |
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A Hofner
Colorama c.1960-'61 played by
the guitarist in The Young Vikings. Up to 1960, the Colorama had a
Gibson-style (3+3) headstock. Photo on right courtesy of
vintagehofner.co.uk |
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The Detroit Showband's
other guitarist with his Hofner. |
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Stewart Gillespie
of The High Seas Showband with his Rickenbacker 330. |
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Two unusual guitars played by members of The
Laredo Showband.
An
Egmond-made
Rosetti Airstream 3 (c.1961-'62)
and a
Rosetti Bass 8
(c.1961-'62) |
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The
Exiles on stage in the Isle of Man in 1966. Dave Storey (right)
playing a 1964 orange
Gretsch Chet Atkins
and Albert McKenzie playing a 1962 White
Fender Stratocaster. |
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A
Hofner President c.1957-'60,
owned by Tommy Fitzpatrick (Swingtime Aces/Kings) |
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Guitarist with The Detroit Showband with
his Hofner. |
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Hofner Galaxie
c1962-'63 |
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The late
Brendan O'Brien (brother of Deke) of The Corvettes
with his Futurama/Hagstrom? |
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This guitar looks like a Rickenbacker but
it's not. Is this a Framus Fret-Jet
c.1962-'63.
Not Paul Brady as we thought but
Dave Prim. |
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Ronnie Clugston playing his
Burns
Jazz guitar in Vancouver in 1967 (thanks to Ronnie) |
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