About four years ago I wanted to try a hollow body electric guitar with Bigsby vibrato. I went to my local guitar shop and told them what I wanted and they said that I would be looking for a Gretsch guitar because that’s what they specialized in. And this guitar shop had just brought in the new line of Gretsch guitars for that year 2016/17 I do believe and that’s when the Streamliner line came out. I tried a few one day and went back with money about two weeks later. The first one I tried had very limited access to the upper frets yet sounded really good and looked and handled great. Then the second one I tried was the G2622T which had the tremolo, a sunburst finish, centre block and access to the upper frets was better. Then I tried a another Gretsch which was really nice but had no centre block. So I chose the Gretsch Streamliner G2622T and I was very satisfied with it. I had it a week and had to take it back for tuning because I could not get the Bigsby to stay in tune (a common problem with new Bigsbys) and they tuned it and it’s been fine ever since. It is a masterpiece of a guitar, the hollow body is just the right width and size and it stays in tune great. I love the style and the centre block helps it to not feedback. Then it has total diversity, it has the nicest clean sound while a great heavy or distorted sound which apply’s to all ranges of my playing. The Gretsch G2622T is a great guitar for a great price and I am glad I bought it because it is totally worth buying.
Although Malcolm Young usually used his 6131 Firebird, I’ve heard that during the studio sessions for back in black, he used his white falcon for much of them.
I played a double cut White Falcon and it was the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen. It played great and sounded fantastic but I've played other great playing, fantastic sounding guitars - but never one as gorgeous.
I love the TV Jones Classic pickups on any Gretsch hollow or semi-hollow body guitar. The WF is too ostentatious for me, but the 6120 or 6122-62 types are perfect for my not-made-it status.
I have to say that the way you talked it sounded like TV Jones was the pickup that came in the 50s. But those were Filtertrons. TV Jones has been making the best Filtertron type pups since the 90s. I believe that is how it goes. Great playing.
This guy either doesn't know or totally messed up. In 1957 Grestch switched from DeArmond Daynasonic pickup to Filtertrons created by Ray Butts. In 1998 ( maybefore) T.V. Jones started making reproduction filtertrons producing them as close to possible to the late 1950 filtertrons. Filtertrons ARE hum canceling pickups they came out separately but around the same time as Gibsons Humbucker pickup. DeArmond Daynasonic pickups are single coil.
