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Me,Wes & Albert Lee


What is your favorite Heritage Color? And yes you have to pick just one!   

155 members have voted

  1. 1.

    • Almond Sunburst
      22
    • Amber Translucent
      5
    • Antique Cherry Sunburst
      5
    • Antique Natural
      9
    • Antique Sunburst
      16
    • Black
      0
    • Black Translucent
      3
    • Blue Opaque
      0
    • Blue Translucent
      12
    • Burnt Amber
      5
    • Cherry Translucent
      3
    • Chestnut Sunburst
      11
    • Dark Almond Sunburst
      7
    • Emerald Green Translucent
      3
    • Gold Top
      7
    • Natural
      3
    • Old Style Sunburst
      17
    • Orange Translucent
      4
    • Red Opaque
      1
    • Rose Natural
      1
    • Sunsetburst
      7
    • Vintage Sunburst
      14
    • White Opaque
      1

Just been searching through some old photos,and I came up with on of a band I was with in 1968.We were called 'Quadrant',and we did jazzy latin stuff & pops of the day.If you take a look at the photo I posted in my album,I'm playing a Gibson L5 that I had recently purchased.I still have this guitar.I loaned it to Joe Pass for one night to do a seminar in London in th '70's .I was playing it through a 2 x 15" Fender Showman cab,& a 'Bandmaster' head.Instant 'Wes' ! The guy with long hair & his back to the camera was the great country picker Albert Lee.Also on the gig that night were 'Traffic',with Steve Windwood,Jim Capaldi & Dave Mason,Chris Farlow & the Thunderbirds,& the Mike Cotton Blues Band.This took place in the northern U.K. city of Hull.I've talked & gigged with Albert Lee several times since that gig,and I've figured out why he was watching us.At one time,Albert had bought a Gibson Super 400 to gig with,thinking it would do everything.Well,it does the jazz & rockabilly,but he was having difficulty with everything else he had to do.I reckon he thought I'd made the same mistake. I was a mad keen Wes Montgomery fan,having seem him a couple of times in London.He'd brought out the 'Moving Wes' album with a stock L5 on the cover,and I had to have one.It worked very well for me,though the Showman was a bit over the top !

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