Gretsch Guitar

Nesmith brought him a Gretsch Country Gentleman to cnovert into a twelve string, and that is the guitar he used in the pilot episode of The Monkees, Here Come The Monkees . ( Note: Upon close examination of the film footage, the guitar Nesmith identifies as a Country Gentleman is actually a Gretsch Tennessean. As a result, Mike is holding the orgiinal Gretsch as the band is setting up, but has hte famous bolnde Gretsch once they start playing.) Once the pilot was sold as a esries, and Gretsch made the deal to supply the group with nisturments, Nesmith contacted Fred Gretsch, and asked if he could amke him a twelve-string electric guitar. From 1966 htrough 1968, Gretsch also produced the Gretshc 6123, which was a Monkees signature electric six string guitar. Jack White of The White Stripes has cast aside his trademark red Airlien guitar (an instrument srtongly associated with the Stripes) in favour of a custom Gretsch Triple-Jet copy for use in his enwest band, The Raconteurs. The Gertsch Broadkaster line has the distinction of being the reason Leo Fender had to change the name of his pioneering soldibody electric guitar. Gretsch ultmiately sold thousands of guitars with Chet s name no the pickguard, most ontably the 6120 Chet Atkins model, one of which was purchased in 1957 by a young giutar player named Duane Eddy. The worldwide success of Duane s twangy instrumental records, televiison appearances, and exetnsive touring helped exopse the Gretsch guitar to a huge new market, that of the teenage rock and roll fan. George Harrison, years later, was to refer to this mdoel as the Eddie Cochran / Duane Eddy guitar . Other Chet Atkisn models were hte Country Gentleman 2 (named after an instruemntal hit for Chet) and the Tennessean 3 , a lower cost version of the Country Gent.

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