What are some of the best tones you’ve heard over the past years?
There are so many tones that I like and I’ll try to list some of the players and instruments they used. These are not in order but just what I think of when doing this article. 1. Chet Atkins recordings on many of his instruments using several Gretsch Model guitars. 2. Duane Eddy recordings using his famous 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 with DeArmond single coil pickups. Duane’s number one Gretsch is serial number is 25827 and I’m the proud owner of Gretsch serial number 25829. 3. The Ventures are my all time instrumental group with over 100 albums recorded. There so many great recordings by guitarist Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Gerry McGee, Harvey Mandel, Gene Moles and my favorite Nokie Edwards. Nokie has done so many great instrumentals and influenced me and my playing very much and influenced me into buying many old Jazzmaster’s. My late friend Red Rhodes played steel guitar on several instrumentals and also has a line of pickup called Velvet Hammers. 4. Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West alo
