Mick Taylor's Mayall burst

[spidey]

Listening to 'me and my woman' from Mayall's Crusade album and Mick's tone and phrasing are manificent.
I understand his Burst from that era was stolen. Did it ever re-surface?

 

[mistersnappy]

It wasnt the Keefburst?

 

[spidey]

Was it? I don't know.
I found this

http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1089711

but I always thought it had been stolen. Memory might be failing me... it's been known before!

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

The burst on Crusade was a different one. It was stolen and thats when he bought the Keef burst

 

[spidey]

Hmmmmm, thanks for explaining the keef burst story. So what's the guitar in the story in the link I posted. Or is that bogus?

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

No clue. Maybe its the other burst he owned when he was in the Stones

 

[goldtop0]

Listening to 'me and my woman' from Mayall's Crusade album and Mick's tone and phrasing are manificent.

Just a great track alright. A lot of Mick's tone is to do with the JTM50 he used,a very different sound to the previous EC and PG amps.....kind of figures though doesn't it.

 

[mistersnappy]

Yall are the Taylor experts. There is a pic on the inside of Mayalls Looking Back album showing him with a different Burst from the Keef and he looks real young.Yet, isnt there a pic of him with The Gods around here somewhere where hes playing a Bigsby Burst?

 

[spidey]

Just a great track alright. A lot of Mick's tone is to do with the JTM50 he used,a very different sound to the previous EC and PG amps.....kind of figures though doesn't it.

I guess you're right. I've never played a jtm50 but would love to try one.

 

[mistersnappy]

Here are the pics I mentioned above:
The Gods pic shows a Lester with Bigsby and poker chip,
The Mayall pic I can't tell what tailpiece it has but appears to lacking poker chip. That has to be waaay early in his tenure as McVie is still on bass.

 

[slimdave]

Here are the pics I mentioned above:
The Gods pic shows a Lester with Bigsby and poker chip,
The Mayall pic I can't tell what tailpiece it has but appears to lacking poker chip. That has to be waaay early in his tenure as McVie is still on bass.

Nice pics! Thanks for sharing

 

[spidey]

Here are the pics I mentioned above:
The Gods pic shows a Lester with Bigsby and poker chip,
The Mayall pic I can't tell what tailpiece it has but appears to lacking poker chip. That has to be waaay early in his tenure as McVie is still on bass.

Great pics. MT looks so young on the first one!

 

[Flogger]

Well, he was, what, 17?

 

[spidey]

Yes he was 17.
Makes me laugh these days when they rave about a 'young' guitarist and it turns out they are in the 20s.

 

[The Shifter]

Damn hard to hold on to a 'Burst in the UK in the mid 60s.

 

[mistersnappy]

Damn hard to hold on to a 'Burst in the UK in the mid 60s.

:rofl Too true.

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

I can see how back then even though they were in high demand, it was still a ten year old guitar. im sure they didnt guard them as the holy relics they are now.

 

[goldtop0]

Any Gibsons outside of the USA were like GOLD to a muso back then as they were unobtainable........... and high priced if one did appear.

 

[bern1]

+1
They were already holy relics by the late 60's, especially outside the States. I still remember the first time I saw a real sunburst, in the hands of Spencer Davis, at the Big Apple club in Munich, 1967. I think that was the first time I'd seen a Les Paul being played by anybody and I recall it looked strange, a small guitar compared to most others at the time.

 

[refin]

Is this the same guitar?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/refin/Steve--Les Pauls/MickTaylor.jpg