John Farrar Telecaster

[JimN]

I don't recall ever seeing John playing the black Telecaster Custom (Fender WRHB in neck position, standard Tele pickup in bridge position). Of course, that doesn't mean much. MW&F weren't exactly media darlings and their pictures simply didn't turn up in print all that often.

To my eternal regret, I never once saw MW&F perform live, even though I was living less than four miles from the London Palladium in 1972, when they did a long summer season there. I did see "Marvin and Farrar" at a night-club date a couple of years later.

One black guitar I do recall seeing John play (and I even have one myself...) was this:



Power To All Our Friends, anyone?

JN

[George Geddes]

You can just about see the black LP on the cover of the Cliff goes East LP... Just about the only Gibson electric I like - the seeds were sown in the 70s when I saw Sacha Distel and his MD playing them (Sacha's was a Gibson, the MD was playing a copy!)

Couldn't justify the expense of the real thing, so settled recently for a black Stagg LP copy.

Like Jim, it is a source of much regret that I never saw MWF, M&F or the Farrar lineup of the Shadows...

George

[StuartD]

I saw them on numerous occasions and the only electric guitars I saw John use were the Tele Thinline, the Black Les Paul, Gibson Melody Maker and the original Strat. I certainly never saw him with a Tele Custon, black or any other colour.

Regards

Stuart

[George Geddes]

The only clue I have - apart from my own article for SCOFA! - is an interview where John says he uses Telecasters (plural) rather than 'a Telecaster'.

Maybe I dreamt the whole thing...

Thing is, I really don't fancy theThinline much, but the black one looks seriously cool.

George

[alewis41]

This has been an enjoyable thread, even if we are no closer to answering George's original question. Stuart always has great info and I thought Howard's reminiscences were very interesting.

I did not see a black telecaster in John's studio in Malibu and it is not in any of the photographs I have of him. John told me that he still had the telecaster but I did not get to see it.

Andrew