I would think they would get a correct era strat for the movie.
Buddy died in 1959... but in the movie, the last concert Buddy played, they showed Gary Busey using a 70s Strat with big headstock. DUH!!!
whats up with that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFY2VaX_jqM
No one except nerds like those that hang around here would know or care. That's what's up about that.
-Mark
Sure, and young Buddy was playing a Fender Bronco.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
They always said that Buddy was ahead of his time.
POO DAT!!!
Originally Posted by Mesotech
funny.
Imanidiot.
Remember "Back To The Future"? When Michael Fox (can't remember his character's name) ripped through "Johnny B. Goode", he's playing a'59 ES 345 ............in 1955!
Yeah, Tom! But what AMP did Marty McFly kick over while playing that?!
At least it wasn't some SS thing.
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Marty McFly - right!I remember a tweed amp - Bassman?
Narrow panel - not available in '55 either?
That Thing You Do got all the guitars right and all the drums, but there was a Sabian cymbal on the set and they weren't in busibess then.
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
Was there really a string section on that tour?
I saw a stage version of the Buddy Holly Story that really kicked ass.
I can't recall if the gear was period correct or not.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
The guitar for Back to the Future was provided by Norman Harris of Norman's Rare Guitars. He said that he had originally provided a period correct blonde 3 pickup ES5 Switchmaster which the movie production kept for 6 weeks but the art director wanted something red with a whammy bar so Norman gave them the '61 Es345 which they were OK with and kept for another 7 weeks and had to rent a couple of extra times for a couple of reshoots.
VM
If aliens listened to our current top 40, they'd think that the entire planet was populated by sexually ambivalent robots with ethnic insecurity.
It's the little details that count! The Buddy Holly flub was pretty bad. The producers did not do their homework.
They're movie people, not guitar geeks. Plenty of anachronisms in movies.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
You think the 70s Strat was a balls-up? Well, according to a thread on http://www.vintageiwear.com (run by and for opticians with a special interest in historically relevant spectacle frames) the frames "Buddy" is wearing in that film didn't come out until _1965_! They got the "Bookman model D" when Buddy made the _model Bs_ famous. You can spot it a mile off apparently (but only if you're wearing your glasses.)
-Mark
Ha! I looked up a clip on YouTube and it is, indeed, a narrow-panel of some sort...great eye! There's no logo plate on it, but it does look tweed-ish. Can't tell from the video quality. I was honestly looking for some '60s blonde nubtex, but it's too hard to see.Marty McFly - right!
Narrow panel - not available in '55 either?
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
I saw La Bamba recently, and I am pretty sure they got Buddy's guitar right in that one. It was a sunburst early 50's style, at least.
Yep. I remember it well. It's way before repro's, so it's gotta be legit.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
flashback to ...today.
i'm looking at my kids *teen beat* mag...or whatever they call it..*j-14*?...i dunno...
and there's a few teen-stars standing in front of this 10' SRV strat that's sitting in Michael Jacksons white diamond glove...w/ MJ faces on THE GUITAR...and i'm like WTF?...this is?!...and that's?!?!....
and my daughter says, "dad, nobody looks at that stuff!"
Imanidiot.
Wasn't that the professor's guitar that he left on the passenger seat of the Delorean?Remember "Back To The Future"? When Michael Fox (can't remember his character's name) ripped through "Johnny B. Goode", he's playing a'59 ES 345 ............in 1955!
Plus, I don't know if Marty McFly would have been able to see over the side of a Switchmaster.
http://www.bttf.com/backtalk/future4.jpg
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
No, I think it was the band's guitar player's.
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Plus, I don't know if Marty McFly would have been able to see over the side of a Switchmaster
No different than when in TV shows or movies they often have the sound of a hammer being cocked or a slide being racked on a weapon that is already ready to fire.
Ahh, the curse of knowledge on film enjoyment.
I really like the sounds of tires squeeling, on dirt roads on television or in movies.
POO DAT!!!
For that matter - how about the sound of explosions in space?
... and my wife thinks I'm bad for tearing up "her" movies about minutia that's messed up. You guys elevate that to a whole 'nuther dimension!
I hadn't even noticed the stuff you guys have picked up on -- I just enjoyed the movies!!!!
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