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Post by lee holliday on May 9, 2006 13:38:05 GMT
Alan, The fingerboard was pearloid and he and annie were wearing union jack clothing, I can understand it all gets confusing over time! Lee
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Post by Alan on May 9, 2006 17:54:26 GMT
I know the one, I've got a picture in a book somewhere
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 10, 2006 4:33:19 GMT
Watch 'Chocolat' closely... JD plays two different Nationals on the boat, the one seen first, from the front is NOT the same one you later see from the back as he gets up..
I bought the DVD to check this out. It seems he has more than just a few prewar Nationals.
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Post by Michael Messer on May 10, 2006 9:54:19 GMT
Back in 1979/80 I used to visit a music shop in North London called John Beeby's (or Beebies??) - I used to go there to look at the National style 2 Tricone that was on display in a glass case out of reach of the punters. I seem to remember a figure of £750 being attached to the guitar. I tried to do a swap one day, I had a Duolian and a Dobro, but no deal! Sometime after that the style 2 ended up owned by Dave Stewart and appeared on TV and many concerts. Now this is where I am not 100% on the facts.....but by the early 90s this guitar was owned by Mark Makin. I think Mark sold it, but I don't remember who to or where it went, or where he got it from
It's a small world - many of the Nationals in circulation do the rounds and turn up with different owners every few years. Which reminds me....where is the Tricone with the black painted wood front? It used to turn up in London shops every couple of years. I last saw it at Chandler Guitars in the late 1980s.
(BTW....what a great thread, we're going all over the place with it!)
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Alan on May 10, 2006 14:14:36 GMT
Here's the Climie Fisher reso
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Post by MARK MAKIN on May 10, 2006 14:47:45 GMT
Hello Michael Point 1 - The Style 2 is still with me! Point 2 - The "Panda" as I call it (black wood topped Tricone) was owned by a Mr. B.Brozman for a time and appeared on Tone Poems - Track 17 "Stompin at the Savoy" played by Mike Auldridge. He then parted with it and it appeared again for sale somewhere in California about two months ago. It was discussed on the IGS forum. Bob Brozman commented that "this poor thing keeps restlessly travelling about trying to find a proper home". I think people ask a lot of money for it because they think somehow that "uniqueness" is worth money. National did it all the time. I'm just glad there aren't two of them!!!
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Post by Michael Messer on May 10, 2006 15:50:19 GMT
Hi Mark,
Ahhh....you still have the style 2. Now I know why I didn't know all the facts!
So Bob Brozman sneakily bought the 'Panda' (nice name for it). He kept that one quiet. I don't own a copy of Tone Poems. Regarding the guitar's rarity factor - these days its rarity does make it worth money to the right buyer.
That's another National term that I have to add to your list - Panda, Exploding Palm Tree, Mother of Toilet Seat, Chicken feet coverplate, Tin Can..... I can't think of any other Makinisms!
Shine On Michael.
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Post by Michael Messer on May 10, 2006 18:25:52 GMT
Here's a photo & some blurb about the National 'Panda' Thanks Mark, Shine On Michael
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Post by MARK MAKIN on May 10, 2006 19:43:37 GMT
Incidentally Michael, the Style 2 Tricone that I have was used primarily by Dave Stewart for the "City Never Sleeps" track on their Eurythmics Video album VHS
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Post by snakehips on May 10, 2006 21:45:59 GMT
Hi there !
I'm sure there is a Style "O" in the Blues Brothers film. The scene where Jake and Elwood are down in the cellar of the orphanage with Curtis the janitor (Cab Calloway). Elwood tells Curtis how he was good to them when they were boys, blowing harp for them etc. Elmore James' "Shake Your Money Maker" plays in the background. Hanging on the wall behind Curtis is, if I'm not mistaken, a Style "O".
I've not watched it for a long time - but I think I'm right. Am I ??
Oh yeah, another reso on TV - on the UK Argos ("argoose") TV adverts - a chrome Dobo this time.
I've still got good eyesight. I need it for my day job !!
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Post by Andy S on May 11, 2006 20:13:58 GMT
Thanks Michael, I guess this thread was inspired not only by a late night TV show (and heres me, who watches very little TV....!) but also by sitting in my back room later that weekend with my guitar and a few bottles of Marstons Pedigree. I also thought that your web forum, would be full of inspired contributors who would take it off on many tangents. I was not wrong.
There is also that fabulous quote in Paul Simons Graceland "The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National Guitar....." If theres no other reason for owning a resophonic, its got to be that imagery (or have I had one too many Waggledances!!!!)
Andy S
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 12, 2006 1:38:40 GMT
Andy S, Spot on! If you ever see (saw?) the video for Paul Simon's Gracelands, the tricone is siting on a stand behind him as the camera pans the room... I vaguely recall him playing bass for some reason on the video, but may well have been suffering from tricone envy at that moment...
Anyone here able to dig up a copy?
Aloha
Colin
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Post by Michael Messer on May 12, 2006 9:55:10 GMT
I haven't seeen the Graceland film for a while, but it was mentioned in my first post on this thread as an important 'resophonic moment in history'.
Andy, you were right about starting a thread that would "be full of inspired contributors who would take it off on many tangents" .....absolutely spot on!!!!
Another good one on British TV was in Red Dwarf. Craig Charles' character, David Lister, is occasionally seen with a metal bodied Dobro in his cabin.
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Alan on May 12, 2006 16:40:12 GMT
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Post by Alan on May 13, 2006 12:32:40 GMT
A couple that I rember from Ronnie Lane The odd Dobro with no cone that he always used to play Oddly enough the Zemaitis that he used to have, maybe with the cone and cover on. Theres also some stuff when he is playing with his band on a hilside near his farm and one of the band is playing a yellow Collegian
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