As I was re-reading the Guitar Player magazine from February 1989, I was struck by some cool tips about improvisation from Sonny Sharrock and Mick Goodrick, and really enjoyed an interview with Buck Owens.
Relevant to PRS forums is when Buck Owens was talking about the red-white-and-blue guitars that Harmony made in the 1960's:
Did Fender make your red-white-and-blue Tele?
Yeah. Even Ovation and Gibson made me red-white-and-blue guitars, and I’ve got Fender red-white-and-blue acoustics. That was just my way of making a statement for America. Everyone was marching and burning the flag at that time, and I had been overseas, man, and there wasn’t any freedom over there.
Those red-white-and-blue acoustic guitars that Harmony made–I leased the rights to them for that, and Sears distributed them. Wasn’t a bad little guitar, either. I got $2.50 for each guitar sold, and they were selling them for $99. Didn’t sound like too good of a deal to me, but the first check they sent me was for $15,000! They sold 6,000 of them in the first month.
I thought it was interesting to learn what his royalty was on the guitars. Do you think that current endorsers get 2.5% (ish)? More? Less? I never thought of it before, but now I'm very curious!
You can read the post at: http://www.ethanlewis.org/icarus/20...rty-years-ago-in-guitar-player-february-1989/
Relevant to PRS forums is when Buck Owens was talking about the red-white-and-blue guitars that Harmony made in the 1960's:
Did Fender make your red-white-and-blue Tele?
Yeah. Even Ovation and Gibson made me red-white-and-blue guitars, and I’ve got Fender red-white-and-blue acoustics. That was just my way of making a statement for America. Everyone was marching and burning the flag at that time, and I had been overseas, man, and there wasn’t any freedom over there.
Those red-white-and-blue acoustic guitars that Harmony made–I leased the rights to them for that, and Sears distributed them. Wasn’t a bad little guitar, either. I got $2.50 for each guitar sold, and they were selling them for $99. Didn’t sound like too good of a deal to me, but the first check they sent me was for $15,000! They sold 6,000 of them in the first month.
I thought it was interesting to learn what his royalty was on the guitars. Do you think that current endorsers get 2.5% (ish)? More? Less? I never thought of it before, but now I'm very curious!
You can read the post at: http://www.ethanlewis.org/icarus/20...rty-years-ago-in-guitar-player-february-1989/
