The Mudbelly Guitar History or a Book Someone Needs to Write if Anything Ever Happens...

 All the recent interest in the Beatles that has been brought back in focus with the new documentary "Get Back" that gave us insight into their creative process. For us guitar and gear nerds it was a pleasure to see what instruments and amps played what. 

This caused me to recall a website I once saw that must have had a photo as documented proof of every guitar and amp a Beatle was publicly seen playing and a history of that piece of gear. I can't seem to find that site but there are books written and another site very similar. The information on each item was amazing. I recall there were some amps spotted in the studio with one Beatle in the 1960s and then later spotted onstage at a live performance with another after the group disbanded. Imagine the call, "Hey you still got that old Fender Bassman, can I borrow it this weekend?" 

This trove of info reveals that the fab four were pretty much like all guitar guys (except they played much better and more creatively) with it came to guitars. They worked on them, painted them, sanded them down, had them stolen, backed over by cars and traded back and forth. It seems like I read in a book that Lennon had a room in the Dakoda where he stacked guitars against the wall much like I do. 

All this brings me to the old pawn shop Suzuki Classical guitar Bill Cooney gave me to repair in 2019. I made repairs and returned the guitar to him. It came back to me after his passing. I played it in public the first time this past week at a Religious Education Epiphany Celebration at my church. I decided if a bass guitar, what I usually play at church is not essential I'll play this guitar on the Spanish and bilingual music.    

Maybe one day some one will collect up all the photos of me playing my various instruments into a book and try to explain what I was doing. Should be interesting reading. 

If they write a book on Cathy there will be a lot of photos but they will all be the same guitar since that's the only one she owns. 

 

Don't forget to include photos of me playing the shaker I made from the belly dancer

ghungroo bells. It's not a guitar but it's a favorite. 

I guess the point here is play what you like. Something will happen and that's what everyone wants.