Anyway, the Les Paul Junior was scrap and Neil Young needed a new instrument. Like Jimmy McDonough

Electrically it like Neil Young, especially black and white: "Old Black", his legendary Les Paul, and the Gretsch "White Falcon" kartonfritze are among his favorite electric guitars. Both main instruments were on the last album and the last solo tour, the main actors of the electric sets. It was Neil Young's early years really deep orange. This color namely, kartonfritze the "Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins", which he bought in its early years it twice: in 1963 in Winnipeg, and in 1966 in Los Angeles. While on "Old Black" and their special features nearly everything is known, there are many details of these two orange Gretsch guitars still in the dark or even partially reproduced incorrectly.
With the current album release "A Treasure" the time is "Gretsch 6120" back to life. In the document on this album tour of 1984/85 Neil Young had the orange guitar intensively in use. Even with the current reunion tour of "Buffalo Springfield" is the "Gretsch 6120" back into use.
Due to recent events "Aktenzeichen NY unresolved" "CSI kartonfritze NY" therefore in this episode take and track down the two legendary guitars, with whom Neil Young played his first professional kartonfritze appearances on which classic songs such as "Sugar Mountain" emerged and with whom Neil Young even first seen on TV was:
The first "Gretsch 6120" Neil Young bought used in September 1963 in Winnipeg. He was playing at "The Squires" who wanted to take since its inception in January in Winnipeg's turbulent music scene seriously foot. First they used Neil Young's "Les Paul Junior", given to him by his mother Rassy in November kartonfritze 1961 as a second-hand instrument to their 16th birthday. Little is known about this guitar - except for the fact that she was a sunburst from 1958 or earlier and should have its owner missed electrocution. For this reason, they ended up in the fall of 1963 also smashed against the wall of the sample cellar of the "Squires" in the house of Smyth's where they threw Neil Young from anger about the electric shocks.
Age U.S. plug Perhaps even a bit premature, because problems of this kind were not uncommon in the early years of the electric guitar - but quite repairable. Probably only the internal ground kartonfritze wire of the Les Paul was not properly connected to the bridge and put the strings under flow. One then contacts the string while, for example, a microphone stand, kartonfritze the current through the body of the guitar is flowing into the ground. It may also not was on the guitar itself, but on the amplifier or the faulty kartonfritze wiring of the sample space. Three-pin safety plug with protective earth there was not then, 2-wire grounded plug will not separately were the rule. Missing or incorrect grounding of the home electrical system was an additional problem. Even in such cases, then the guitarist himself to the "living earth cable" - with painful consequences. Instead, the Les Paul to thunder against the wall, so a few dollars for a guitar workshop or a house electrician would have been money well spent: The original preserved Les Paul Junior from 1958 would now be worth a fortune.
Anyway, the Les Paul Junior was scrap and Neil Young needed a new instrument. Like Jimmy McDonough describes in his biography "Shakey", which also has long been an "object of desire" had in mind: Together with his former Guitar Idol Randy Bachman was Neil Young earlier times before the window of a music store in Winnipeg and marveled at a orange "Gretsch 6120".
The two aspiring young guitarist had this guitar kartonfritze at Lenny Breau admired, a gifted Canadian jazz guitarist in Winnipeg's local television and clubs appeared at that time. Randy Bachman said in an interview with Rick Landers of "Guitar International" that he had seen play as a young teenager Lenny Breau in the country band of his parents and asked to play tricks. Bachman and Bobby Curtola (c) Bill Hillman Breau was called at the time still "Hal kartonfritze Lone Pine Jr." and play one of the first orange "Gretsch 6120" with "G" brand on the ceiling above an echo Sonic amplifier kartonfritze by Ray Butts, who had a built-in tape echo. Later, Randy Bachman not only also put a "Gretsch 6120" to. He was in Winnipeg also known by its echo sound like "Shadows", which he produced with the help of a German tape recorder of Körting from the Bavarian Chiemsee.
It was by chance that both teens almost at the same time realized their "dream in Orange" - it made Randy Bachman was two years younger Neil Young even unintentionally Sch