John Doe’s Guitar

Posted on December 23, 2004 by Tito

I saw John Doe on Tuesday opening for M. Ward. Since I am just learning guitar and trying to pick up ideas,techniques, etc… anywhere I can and was standing near the stage, I noted he used a rather old looking guitar with a "GUILD" label, to see if I could find anything about it later. Well, what do you know? The next day Rolling Stone runs a brief article about him, specifically referencing the guitar. Spoooooky.

The other source of inspiration for Forever was Doe’s new guitar. "It’s an old Guild hollowbody electric guitar, a 1959 Aristocrat," he says proudly. "It was given to me by [Beck and Tom Waits guitarist] Mr. Smokey Hormel. He said, ‘Here, why don’t you mess around with this.’ And so I did."

Oh yeah, M. Ward was his usual awesome self, too.

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