WWRY/Spread your wings: Because the cold would inevitably have damaged the inreplaceble instrument.
Play the game: you realy don't think that Brian would let Freddie throw the real thing through the air, right?
jeroen wrote: WWRY/Spread your wings: Because the cold would inevitably have damaged the inreplaceble instrument.
Play the game: you realy don't think that Brian would let Freddie throw the real thing through the air, right?
WWRY/Spread your wings: Is this the garden of Roger's house? Or where is it?
Play the game: No, they just played the film backward. Brian and Fred did not throw / parry the guitar.
The Guitar in the PTG vid was indeed a cheap Strat copy by a brand called Satellite, a friend of mine had a one of these, exactly the same as the one in the video and the only one I have ever seen (may well have been the same one !).
I remember it having a ply-wood body and the guitar itself was the heaviest guitar I have ever picked up, a real back breaker. The neck was also the fattest neck I have ever played, almost impossible to play, maybe this is why Brian used it.
I also remember that it only had a 3-way pick-up selector rather than the usual 5-way.
All in all a hideous thing.
Time to nitpick:
> A replica of the red special that Brian broke in 81
He broke it in '82...
> WWRY/Spread your wings: Because the cold would inevitably have damaged the inreplaceble instrument.
Not inevitably, because otherwise John's bass would've been damaged as well, and Brian's Birch guitar, which wasn't hurt until 1982...
> Wouldn't it be Roger saying that somethings a piece of junk?
Roger's not the only one capable of uttering "piece of junk", nor did he copyright the expression.
Sebastian wrote:
> WWRY/Spread your wings: Because the cold would inevitably have damaged the inreplaceble instrument.
Not inevitably, because otherwise John's bass would've been damaged as well, and Brian's Birch guitar, which wasn't hurt until 1982...
Course, Seb, but I do believe that was the reason Brian did not want to use it for that shoot!
I'm sure John had more peace of mind in taking that risk, knowing that his instrument would be replaceable if something DID happen to it...
But you're right - the word 'inevitably' was a bit overdone ;-)
Well yes, weather could've been a factor, but somehow I suspect that even if they'd shot the videos midsummer Brian wouldn't have used the Red Special - he often used different things for miming jobs (Montreux Festivals, TOTP performances, and loads of videos).
I learnt to play on the Satellite guitar just like Brian's in Play the Game, same colour everything.
I was amazed when the video was released and I saw him playing it, it was a horrible guitar, in now lives in my attic, all burn and warped. I set fire to it and left it out in the snow. then put it in a case on the wall with a label saying
"Buddy holly's original guitar rescued from the plan wreck"
Some silly buggy tried to steal it once thinking it was real!