"The Beatles" Guitar Collection 

"And She Loves You", from off the Rubber Revolver album

George had the best taste in gear out of the three of them

Guys you missed the Epiphone texan , used by Paul even nowadays, and with that one he recorded yesterday. , so missed an impossible one to miss. , thanks 🙏🏻, i saw him 3 times live and he tells the story of that guitar , and now is with a sticker . He uses a lot still.

John’s original Gibson J-160 E was ONLY used for “Please Please Me” and “With The Beatles” album. Mal Evans accidentally left the guitar at a gig in 1963 and it was lost for years. I had the opportunity to see it at an exhibit before it sold at auction for $2.41 mil.

Apologies for crossing wires between "She Loves You" & "And I Love her"... Lots of info to express and I hope you can understand this one lol!

10:53 "And I love her", not "and she loves you"

Paul played an Epiphone Texan when he performed "Yesterday". It was a righty strung lefty and continued to use it with Wings with a winged wheel sticker.

Every guitar is “one of their favorites” in the collection

So according to an online inflation/currency exchange calculator, £15 in 1960 comes out to over $400 today, and £260 comes out to around $7500. That sort of puts those price tags in perspective if anyone else was curious.

“Finally in 1968, Don Randell from Fender was able to arrange a meeting with George and John... and Yoko Ono for some reason...”

Playing in a cover band in the 60's we had to play the Beatles ... this vid was soooo cool ... I just love that rosewood tele ... great job guys !!!

What can I say except, you guys are.............PHENOMENAL!!! Much LOVE to for Posting this WONDERFUL Vid.............♥️🎸💚

That collection is a precious treasure. Thanks so much for sharing it. Wonderful guitars.

The Beatles are so iconic even their instruments are associated with them

Hahaha I love your guys faces in the intro. One can actually see how excited you are to be able to share that insane collection with us. Thank you so much guys!

and she loves you, off of the album abbeys lonley hearts club band by the rolling beatles

George didn’t tour America with the Duo Jet. He used it on the first album and singles ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘From Me To You.’ He’d purchased the Gretsch Country Gentleman, played it on ‘She Loves You’ and toured America with it and the 12-string Rickenbacker.

My favorite song from A Hard Day's Night: And She Loves You

These are such in prestine conditions wow! I love Paul's early guitars.

Great video guys, I've aways loved the sound of Gretsch guitars. George really showcased the pure beauty of their sound. Thanks for all of the line up coverage here....But truly, out of all the Beatle gear, George had the best taste!

John and his epiphone casino, beautiful guitar.

Amazing video and awesome collection!!! Thanks for sharing with us!!!

Cool looking collection of guitars love this video those early day guitars are extremely rare and hard to find nowadays; it’s a LARGE collection indeed Love this👍♥️

great video! love the fast paced edit, descriptions and succinct back stories!

Thanks for sharing ! What a great history of their instruments!

Really comprehensive and well done guys. Kudos to the production team as well. Great video, sound and lighting! High quality to match the instruments. Cheers and thanks.

"And She Loves You". That great timeless Beatles classic. Gretsch Duo Jet on the first American tour? Wrong. He was using the Country Gent. Where is the Epiphone Texan as used by Paul for Yesterday? And the Fender Jazz bass that's all over the White Album... Beautiful instruments here. That 4001 Ricky bass had me salivating.

Great stuff guys. Was really looking forward to seeing this. Cheers.

awesome tribute beatle mania history. The classical guitar George played on "And I loved her" was the first and only time the use of a nylon string guitar was ever used on a beatle record. Thanks for sharing these great guitars.

Excellent presentation of the Beatles guitar inventory. Thanks!

7:02 Paul never owned a 1964 Hofner 500/1. He only owned 1961 and 1963 models. 9:09 Not true. John used this model until 1963 when it was stolen after a concert. In 1964, John bought a 1964 Gibson J-160E and used it. His 1962 model wasn't found until 2014. 10:39 Not true. George only owned 2 Gretsch Country Gentleman guitars, a 1962 and 1963 one. On the Ed Sullivan show, George used his 1963 Country Gentleman. 10:52 George owned a 1950 Jose Ramirez De-estudio Classical Guitar. NOT a 1964 model. 10:57 George traded his Duo Jet for the Ramirez in 1963, not 1964. 13:19 The guitar you're showing is NOT the Rickenbacker George used. He used a Trapeze tailpiece on his Rickenbacker 360/12c63. He used the "R" tailpiece on his Rickenbacker 360/12c65 guitar, but the one you're showing is not accurate to George's. 15:21 George used a 1964 Gibson SG Standard, not 65. Wow, I know too much about the Beatles. I need a life...

4:55 George admitted he bought this on a whim, as he wanted a Strat for years. He hated this guitar as it buzzed a lot

Extremely impressed! Especially with the early years rare guitars

The Beatles guitars are just so dang cool. All of them really.

Well done, guys. Good job. Enjoyed watching.

Fantastic video, good job lads! Never seen your channel before but I'm about to binge. You've earnt yourselves a new fan :)

Really wish Fender would reissue that groovy George Harrison strat, I’ve always loved that artwork

My first guitar was a 1954 Stratocaster I got for Christmas, 1963. It was $75 in a pawn shop. VERY expensive for my family. Good show, guys. You missed one, that probably was a "borrow" guitar ... the ES-345 that George used on "In My Life" and probably a few others.

Hey Trevor! Your buddy Jim Croop here... I just happened to kind of stumble on this video you put up and was really blown away with it man. Great job and how can you go wrong?! You got the Beatles and you've gosot many examples of all the super iconic guitars. And the examples that you have are in such incredible condition as well! so yeah Trevor, from one Beatlemaniac to another I just wanted to say thanks and keep on putting up this kind of stuff so we can all enjoy it!!!✌😎💕 say hi to your pop for me okay?🔊🎸♩🎶🎵🕪✌💕😎🤣🎶

Nice job. Good mix of info and pictures, very well done.

Great video you guys! Seriously. Great job.

That rosewood tele is just so pretty

What an absolutely fantastic video, I'm especially impressed by the early guitars... I can't believe the owner found a pristine Futurama! I'm only halfway through the video but I really hope you guys also played the guitars because I want to hear how crappy it actually sounds

Awesome! I “unintentionally” have a handful of these guitars 🎸 😆

Beautiful collection!

Paul's Hofner is not the 1964, it's the 1962. His Hofner doesn't have neck binding like the one that was shown in the video. He also had another Hofner which was the 1961 or the Cavern model. Sadly, it got stolen during the Let It Be session.

Where's the epiphone texan?

George's Gretsch Duo Jet was never used on the Beatles US tours. He had essentially stopped using it for live gigs sometime in 1963. His Country Gentleman (of which he had two) was his main guitar for the first American visit. For the first extensive American tour in the summer of 1964, he used the Country Gentleman and the Rickenbacker 12-string. The single cutaway Chet Atkins model started to get use in 1965. The orange Gretsch was John's. Also, Paul had start using his Rickenbacker 4001 bass in the studio as early as 1965, even though the Hofner was his touring bass. He used the Rickenbacker for most studio recordings for the remainder of his time in the Beatles and a large percentage of his Wings recordings.

The Ramirez guitar you show is a Flamenca guitar. George had a Ramirez "classic" on the picture. Great collection, great presentation, as usual on Emerald City of beautiful guitars. Thanks.

Excellent collection Don't forget the Jazz Bass used in Oh darling and Taxman

Unbelievable collection. Amazing.

Really great footage captured guys.

Nice video guys, a few slips up here and there but over all, nicely done. Paul's Rick bass that you really glossed over quickly was actually given to Paul in '65. It was used as a backup to the Hofner for a good deal of the '65 tour and all of the '66 tour. Also, it was used more than the Hofner in '66 for recording.

Excellent. Thank You, Emerald City Guitars..Fantastic.

Enjoyed this so much. Thanks

It’s Gallotone, not Gallatone. Just clarifying for anyone who may want to look it up on Reverb.

Yeah, that's what my house is supposed to look like !!

You guys know your stuff. Great video. 👍🏻

11:18 the Mick Taylor Strat

FOR GOODNESS SAKES PLAY THEM!!

thanks for sharing, so cool, we love it

How has it taken me this long to come across this video. Sheeeeeesh.

Really enjoyed the video! I just picked up a new Casino and definitely understand Paul’s love for it. Rock on!

Wonderful job mates! Very nice walk down 'Strawberry Fields'!

Thank you, the video was awesome .

Thanks,I really enjoyed this great look at history

Pity you did not play a beatles tune on each guitar - like blackbird - si we can HEAR the difference. Thanks for an eye opening video

love that Rickenbacker, so cool

Great video! I made a copy of George's Rocky Strat myself. I used a Squier SE model Strat and painted it to match. I did it for fun and I had to have a copy. Funny this one is only painted on the top! One the real one the colors are painted over the sides onto the back. But in the Miller Feeman book Guitars of The Sixties, later reissued as Fuzz And Feedback they have a huge three page centerfold photo of it from the front and back. Also his son Dhani helped develop the George Harrison guitar app that shows 360 views of his most known guitars including this one.

Pretty accurate work guys. Impressive collection and nice space echo shirt

wow, this is fantastic ! congratulations

Very nice video. I just added a Bass VI to my collection it's a fun instrument to play and adds in interesting palette of tones to my arsenal. I got it mainly because of Robert Smith & The Cure.

Thank you guys to show us that beautiful guitar collection. Congratulations to the owner ;-) I think I read somewhere that the Fender guitar issue was no only about money at the time, but also that George and John wanted to sound different to Hank Marvin and other famous guitarrists that used strats and teles at the time. About Fender Amps, I read also that the lads didn't used them until the White Album because the deal that Brian Epstein did with Vox amps. Only after Brian's death they used other amp brand.

What a gorgeous collection! I was hoping someone would eventually bust out one of George’s sitars or something haha 🧘🏻

thanks guys!! my favorite youtube video.

John and George used the Bass VI on later TV appearances where Paul was playing Piano

Great video though and insane collection!

'And She Loves You'? - very creative!

Great video guys.

No matter what guitars or gear they used, they always sounded like the Beatles!

Great video Trevor

Incredible collection!

As a massive Beatles fan, I'd love to have that Rick 360/12, Gretsch Tennesseean/Country Gentleman, '65 SG, Rick 4001 and the Lucy Les Paul Standard. George was the first guitarist that made me want to play the instrument in the first place and so many of his guitars (Mainly the Rickenbacker and Gretsches) are honestly ones that I dream of owning someday

George's Rosewood Tele (and Jimi's no-show Strat) were actually built by Phil Kubicki, who worked in Fender's Marketing Dept. under Roger R.

The Rosewood Tele was also owned by Delaney Bramlett. Fender also made a Rosewood Stratocaster to be presented to Jimi Hendrix but he died before receiving it and its whereabouts are unknown

Nylon saddles on casinos makes quite a bit of difference in tone. I put them on one of mine and it brightened right up dramatically. The original 60s’ Gibson ES models and casinos had nylon saddles, as do the ones they’re showing here. Interestingly though, my 65’ Elitist reissue (not the Lennon version) has nickel saddles, but still sounds absolutely biblical nonetheless. They’re my favorite guitars to play; light and extremely versatile.

My dad gave me his Hofner Senator. It has the long finger bridge with nylon bridge material giving it a dark earthy tone. It had a hole kicked in the side which I had professionally repaired bringing it back to perfect condition as they built and steam pressed a whole side strip and matched the finish.These days it would cost a small fortune to repair but I paid about £120 in the late 80s for the work to be done when I found out the Beatles used this guitar at some point. The guy I sent it too offered to buy it from me because he said it was rare to find them fully original with old school brass tuners throughout. I declined the offer because It looks so beautifully finished in nitro with some crazing going on. Either that or it is a violin finish which has shrunk a little. The guitar has a very nice oversized overhang on the fretboard which allows the top to move much better giving a fuller tone. Maybe I should have a mic fitted into the body to go acoustic/electric.

Great collection but the Paul section was lacking in my opinion. He used a Fender Esquire (single pickup tele) which he had strung lefty, and a Fender Jazz bass in sunburst with tortoiseshell pick guard that he both used in recording sessions in 68. Also missing the “cavern” Hofner bass with a slightly different pickup configuration and id want to have one that replicated that same cavern bass when he sent it in to Hofner to have it refreshed, it was seen in the Revolution video and was shortly after stolen. He also used an Epiphone Texan acoustic (also strung lefty), his Casino was my favourite of the 3 as it was slightly earlier with a different headstock and Bigsby, both guitars he still uses today. Would’ve liked to see more post Beatles guitars as well! Paul owned a couple lefty Les Pauls including a gold top that was gifted to him by Linda, a 5 string Wal bass (also a gift from Linda), and a Yamaha BB1200 1979 model as some examples.

Fabulous!

Some corrections and omissions: Paul got his first Hofner in Hamburg. John owner the orange Gretsch. George’s first guitar is missing. John’s J-160 wasn’t on Abbey Road, so not on every album. No Epiphone Texan or Gibson J-200?

gear thats a huge Collection you have there!!!!

That rosewood tele is one of my all time favorite guitars. Unfortunately my budget dictates that I’m gonna have to buy the Harley Benton one and modify the heck out of it

Love it ,,thanks guys..

Awesome! I wish you could have done a sound demo on each guitar as well...

You can hear John play the 1965 Framus Hootenanny acoustic 12 string in You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.

12:48 Certainly a cool one! A real German Framus Hootenanny 12 strings guitar!...... I know there are very few. I visited the Framus Museum a few years ago in Markneukirchen, near the Czech border. And there they one of these. Also an incredible collection of other guitars and many many other instruments. Why I got there is that I became a piece of wood, later put some strings on to test and play it, which was one serial number earlier than the Hootenanny. Named a Framus Camping King, also 12-strings. It is very similar to the Hootenanny, but it doesn't have the metal piece below to attach the strings to but a more "modern" system with plugs to attach the strings into the bridge. These guitars have a quite distinguishing, delicate sound, and i think mine sounds like the Hootenanny, by example because the backside isn't flat but more bent round. Unfortunately when I was busy fixing all the missing parts (that I bought at Framus directly), an accident occured. Dustbin in the room caught fire and i could barely stop the fire. When i managed to, there was a very thick dirty smoke hanging all in the room. So at the moment my Framus Camping King is still quite dirty, and it's extremely hard to clean it without damaging the top paint layer (gloss) or more of the surface. So it's just laying down here, until i find the time and effort to take a REAL good look at it and try to get it clean and afterwards restored as good as possible. It was built in 1966, and even in spite of some damages it looks very impressive, more than this Hootenanny, as the Camping King has a sunburst paint on it an is very shiny (still). By the way, I was told by the engineers at Framus/Warwick that they had only seen ONE other Framus Camping King before mine, but that one was certainly broken and probably not worth fixing.

Ever seen George’s Maton guitar? It’s at the Beatles museum in Liverpool.

George played a Cherry SG Standard with vibrato on Revolver & The White Album

George used an Australian Maton Mastersound MS500 in 1963 or 1964, loaned to him by a Manchester music shop, while one of the Gretsch’s was in for repairs. He returned it later

Great video, thanks.