The Story Of The 1970s Buck Owens "American" Guitar by Harmony - Ask Zac 190

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My first memory of seeing a guitar in person was seeing a Buck Owens “American” guitar leaning against a couch at a neighbor’s house while visiting my grandmother in the mid-1970s. Soon after seeing it, I understood its significance by seeing Buck play an identical one on the Hee Haw television show. Later, via the influence of Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, and the Desert Rose Band in the 1980s, I would dig back and start listening to all of the great albums that Owens made through the 50s and 60s that in turn influenced my heroes. Through the years, I kept looking for one, but one was never up for sale nearby, as I really wanted to see what this Harmony-made mail-order guitar was like. It wasn’t until recently that I was able to test out and acquire one of these red, white, and blue beauties from one of the fine chaps at Glaser Instruments, and I was able to finally join the “Buck Club.” This of course threw me down the rabbit hole of finding out everything that I could online from sites like SilvertoneWorld.Net and even calling up Buckaroo Jim Shaw, who continues to run Buck’s Crystal Palace club in Bakersfield, CA to get the full low-down on the story behind it. And though Owens is certainly the star here, I have to give Pat Smear of Nirvana, and the great Ryan Adams credit for their role in raising the “cool” factor on these crazy 70s creations. To close the episode, I share the story that Jim Shaw shared with me that they sold hundreds of warehoused versions of the Buck models to cover their expenses during the pandemic. It was hard for me not to see this as Owens working things out from beyond the grave.
Special thanks to Buckaroo Jim Shaw, and Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace.
www.BuckOwens.com
Also for the wonderful information gathered from Silvertone World.
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@37BopCity 4 месяца назад

Great Buck story for all of us dedicated Buck & Don fans. I've been a fan since I was a kid in the '60s and every jukebox had Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. One of my favorite Buck stories is about the Beatles. He said when they first hit America in the early '60s and Beatlemania began, he didn't pay much attention. Later he heard they had recorded one of his songs, "Act Naturally". He was impressed, but still didn't pay a lot of attention to what the Beatles were doing. Then one day his first royalty cheque for "Act Naturally" arrived in the mail. It was for the sum of $100,000. "After that I started paying attention to the Beatles!" said Buck.

@psalmer5690 4 месяца назад

You're lucky to make $100 on a million seller today as a songwriter. Thank you internet streaming!

@FuzzballToday 4 месяца назад

Wow.. I was thinking about being a songwriter seriously... Kinda put a brick in my dreams.. 😮😢

@paulj0557tonehead 4 месяца назад

@@FuzzballToday Now don't give up buckaroo, songwriting is one of the greatest pleasures even for free because that's what most of us make. $0.

@idiotgrins3238 4 месяца назад

He didn't write it, but he did manage to get hold of the publishing.

@FuzzballToday 4 месяца назад

@@paulj0557tonehead 🤫🤔😑😏🙄😬😄😃😍🤣

@patricks2586 4 месяца назад

Just came across this video. Great story. My dad knew and worked with Buck before he was famous. When my dad worked with Buck, Buck would bring his guitar to work and play it during lunch. My dad used to tell him jokingly, "put that thing away, you'll never amount to anything." I grew up in Bakersfield and remember my dad introducing me to Buck. Now my family still has ties to Buck as they are good friends with one of Bucks former guitarist and current owner of the Buck Owens ranch. I was given a red white and blue guitar last year by his family while at the Crystal Palace for dinner. A copy of course and had the privilege of having Thanksgiving dinner at the ranch. As a kid, my dad told he was famous. I never realized how famous he was until I grew up. I live in Colorado now and sadly about half the people I talk to have never heard of Buck Owens. Reading the comments, it's good to know there are a lot of Buck fans out there. Thanks for the story and pardon my lengthy comment.

@mitchgordon3512 4 месяца назад

Bakersfield boy here, born and raised, “I’ll tell you what”! Thank you sincerely for your most excellent excursion down memory lane. 🙏😎

@jeffsquires6620 4 месяца назад

I remember watching Hee Haw with my father in the 70s. He never missed a opportunity to watch Buck or Marty Robbins.

@Havanorange 4 месяца назад

My whole family usually enjoyed Hee-Haw on Saturdays at 7:00 p.m EST. Often we'd laugh out loud at the corny jokes and sing along with the familiar songs. Zac, thanks for making this episode.

@svt4001 4 месяца назад

Like many of the posters here, I used to watch Hee Haw with my father as well. He built me a go cart when I was about 7 or 8 and he asked me what color I wanted it painted. I told him I wanted it painted like Buck's guitar! Thanks Zac, thanks Buck, and most of all, thank you, Dad! I miss you every day.

@jeffclark7888 4 месяца назад

Excellent!

@richardcoffey3125 4 месяца назад

Got one for Christmas in 1972, Loved it. Watched HeeHaw with family never missed. Holding my guitar in my hands I would try in place my hand where Buck put his. They bought it at sears, the only place we ever shopped back then.

@jimwest6571 2 месяца назад

Hello Zak. Great story on Buck's guitar. I was honored to work for Buck and his sons at KNIX radio in Phoenix for 8 years. It was one of the stations he owned for 30 years. I was on an Advisory Board to the Arizona Music an Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2007 when we inducted Buck into the Hall. His son Buddy Alan accepted the award on his dad's behalf. I helped with his induction that day and then one of the best Christmas gifts I could ever get was a BUCK guitar with my name engraved on it. It came from the Owens family because Buck had already passed but I love and cherish it to this day. I was at his funeral in Bakersfield in 2006 and so was Brad Paisley, Dwight Yoakam and Garth Brooks who was a pallbearer. The best years of a 50-year career in country radio was working at Buck's radio station.

@rafaelcarmany463 4 месяца назад

I started my Recording Engineer career under the tutelage of Mr. Lee Furr in 1976. Lee built Buck's first recording studio in an old movie theater in Bakersfield - and Lee recorded and mixed many of Buck's hit records there with Jim Shaw. BTW - This studio is being leased from the Owens Family to the rock band Korn (with a backwards "K"). When I first started studying with Lee it was at a beautiful studio that he had built in Tucson, AZ after coming back to Tucson from Bakersfield. He had one of these Red White and Blue guitars hanging on the wall before you entered the big recording room. This studio in Tucson is still operating and it is called "Jim Brady Recording".

@kcctradio5751 3 дня назад

I just recently discovered your channel. I've been playing country music for almost 50 years now. I own lots of guitars but , like you, I always pick up a Telecaster first. Brad Paisley is one of my favorite artists and the fact that you grew up with him is beyound words for me. I truly love learning about the history of country music. Growing up, our family never missed HEE Haw.

@mikekloepfer7424 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the great background story! In 1971 (at age 11,) it was the first guitar I bought with my own money (brand new.) I watched Hee Haw regularly with my family, Buck Owens and Roy Clark were early heroes of mine. I still have mine over 50 years later. The guitar has suffered the "not uncommon" delamination of the headstock face plate. It still has a nice bright sound. It was great to hear the history behind the instrument. Cheers, Buckaroos!

@ConcezioPellegrini 4 месяца назад

You,Sir, took me back to my youth. Beautiful long gone days when life made sense. MANY Thanks.

@C_Moore 4 месяца назад

So I used to work for Artie Niesen at Front Porch Music here in Bakersfield, CA which is where Mosrite and Buck Owens were from. Artie was an employee for Mosrite guitars back in the day and is the largest collector of Mosrite guitars in the world. He told me the origin of the Red White and Blue coloration wasn't made for or requested by Buck Owens. Mosrite actually made a salesman model guitar painted Red White and Blue to show all 3 finish options instead of bringing multiple guitars to their dealers. Semi Mosley showed Buck a salesman model to try out the guitar and Buck liked the color scheme and adopted it as his own.

@klausthedog9670 4 месяца назад

Bill Grugget probably painted it.

@soniah4821 4 месяца назад

Use to watch Hee Haw every Saturday morning when I was a kid and remember thinking that Buck’s guitar was so cool and unlike any other acoustic guitar I’ve seen. Thanks for a great story.

@telecasterbear 4 месяца назад

Never before have I seen the back of the Buck acoustic. Thanks Zac.

@dvsreed 4 месяца назад

My dad had one back in the 70's. He was singer guitarist for a lot of bands that never quite got anywhere but played a lot of bars. He never kept a guitar for long and they mostly all looked the same to a young kid. The colors made this one standout.

@DD-lc9jv 4 месяца назад

No need to apologize about going long, heck you could have done a whole mini series on Buck Owens and it would have been just find with me. Great stuff Zac!

@TomBaddley 4 месяца назад

OMG...the guitar that started it all for me. I remember being in 1st grade, coloring and cutting out a Buck Owens guitar and pretending to play it for my classmates. I'm still pickin' and grinnin'!

@jonstout7635 4 месяца назад

My brother and I painted my old Kay to look like Buck's back in 1969.

@user-ei8re3lp6v 4 месяца назад

I have rented a house on my back property to Howard. He is such an honest man that I allowed him here not even knowing his last name. He said he had played the Grand Old Opery and had been on the Hee Haw show. Otherwise I would have skipped over this awesome accounting of this Buck Owens's story!

@timscarrow9151 4 месяца назад

I was a Hee haw Kid, I had the Lunch box, Only recently I discovered the Charlie McCoy played on EVERYTHING. I think that insert for the bridge encourages that brightness, Snappy.

@danielerickson5175 4 месяца назад

I was living in Champaign Illinois in the 80s and remember a buddy of mine showed me a newspaper ad: “ Buck Owens, Mosrite guitar. Red, white and blue. $250 “ Boy did I want that rascal! I was broke… 20 years ago I did get my hands on the Harmony like the Zak is playing… $375. At the time I thought I was overpaying a little bit 😂 Over the years, I watched the headstock face plate, crumble into dust, but I’m now having a professional gentleman who works with signs and computers make me a replacement. he’s creating it out of one sheet of vinyl about the thickness of the original plastic plate. I’ll update later to let you know how it turns out! Buck and Don!!! ✨🎶

@andrewbowen6875 4 месяца назад

He’s one of my favourites. Those who know and I remember your video about how good a player Buck was, would know that he wrote such beautiful simple songs. Far from simple to pull it off

@rahnhasbargen3310 2 месяца назад

In 2021, I bought a Buck Owens Fender model on eBay during the Covid lockdown after going on a 50-year search for one of these guitars. As a 7-year-old in 1971, I begged my parents to get me the Sears model for Christmas; but it was NEVER in the Christmas catalog. Therefore, my parents never got me one (It was sold only in the regular catalog; NOT the Christmas catalog).

@brucehines2179 4 месяца назад

Love your show, loved Buck. Iconic guitar.

@davidmahoney1248 4 месяца назад

My pop was a huge C&W fan, and a religiously devoted Hee Haw viewer. As a rock n' roll obsessed, early (older) GenX kid, the folks of Kornfield Kounty often seemed about as uncool as could be, but I secretly watched it pretty regularly, never admitting to pop just how much I actually enjoyed it, and God forbid if my peers found out. A favorite bit for me was always Pickin' and a Grinnin' with Buck and Roy and of course that cool-ass guitar. Thanks for the content Zac. Really appreciate what you do.

@syfman6 4 месяца назад

That guitar brings back some great memories of watching Hee Haw with my pops! 💚🎸

@brianwood7237 4 месяца назад

Loved watching Hee Haw as a kid in the 70s! Buck and Roy made me want to play guitar... I also remember Recording King back just a few years ago had a red white and blue model very reasonably priced didn't have the fancy inlays of course probably made of who knows what but it looked real cool for like 400 bucks wish I had gotten one, cuz THAT guitar Buck played is so Iconic

@FlyJohnny100 4 месяца назад

Before Hee Haw, Buck played on Cousin Herb’s country music show, broadcast on channel 10 from downtown Bakersfield. I was only 7 when the show ended (‘63), but enjoyed seeing him, Bonnie Owens, Merle and lots of others on Cousin Herb!

@jameshepburn4631 4 месяца назад

Herb Henson, may we meet again where the soul of man never dies. Gone way too soon from heart disease.

@babayaga1767 4 месяца назад

for my 50th birthday i rode cross country to bakersfield and stood at bucks grave. i played excuse me on my phone then went over to don rich's grave and played buckaroo.

@TheAzmountaineer 4 месяца назад

When I first moved to Phoenix, Buck still owned local station KNIX, considered by many at the time to be the best country station in America. Buck's guitar was used for the logo and I remember it posted on billboards around the valley. The station still uses red white and blue on their logo, although it's a circle now instead of the guitar.Jim West wrote a book about KNIX called "The Buck Owens Years". I haven't read it yet, but I plan to when I get the chance.

@jimwest6571 2 месяца назад

Well, howdy-----I just stumbled on Zak's video on Bucks guitar. Yes, I did write KNIX---THE BUCK OWENS years about the history and employees of KNIX radio in Phoenix when Buck owned it. I was privileged to work there for 8 years. Thank you if you purchased a copy from Amazon. Jim West, Phoenix

@iketyke7324 4 месяца назад

Ryan Adams has played this Guitar for years. Absolutely incredible songwriter and Guitar player.

@rickinaround1799 4 месяца назад

I used to have an old Tokai Breezysound that had been re-painted in Buck’s red/white/blue scheme. Wish I had that one back now!

@michaelgregory2231 4 месяца назад

Cool history, Zac! My brother and I grew up on Hee Haw and loved it. I played with Buck's cousin, Dale Owens, in a country gospel band in northern California when I was 14. I played Buck Owens' Crystal Palace club in Bakersfield the night before 9/11 and we drove to a hotel at LAX and got booted off of our flight back to Nashville and had to commandeer our rental cars and drive them back to Nashville. Good times...

@MichProgNerd 4 месяца назад

Buck’s acoustic is as iconic as Willie’s Trigger.

@edsterling5258 4 месяца назад

Thank you for this! Growing up, Hee-Haw was always watched in our home, and I'm sure that Roy & Buck were early subconscious influences. The RWB guitar was always a centerpiece. SA-LUTE!!

@banjomandan7199 4 месяца назад

Loved every minute of this! Thank you! Fond memories of seeing Buck and that guitar on Hee Haw! My parents watched it every week! I was a rocker back then, so I never even thought of pursuing owning one. Dang, would have been so easy! A few years ago, I picked up a used, Chinese-made, red, white and blue Harmony Sovereign in more of an OM body style (model 01016, no serial number), that I was told was a limited run commissioned by Chicago Music Exchange. Solid spruce top (with the wood visible around the sound hole), laminate mahogany back and sides, mahogany neck and rosewood fretboard, x-bracing. Not a bad player, although not the dreadnought sound. I use it now when I play and sing for our State Veterans Home, and they love it!

@silverstem2964 4 месяца назад

Back in '97 as an owner/operator I leased my semi tractor to an entertainment trucking company in Nashville. We would haul a three trailer country music museum to various venues where our contracted performers were appearing. One of Buck's American guitars was in the display as was the original handwritten manuscript of "Blue Suede Shoes". Marty Stuart owned the rolling museum. It was called Tennessee Treasure's. Way cool job!! Our dispatcher's father-in-law was Waylon Jennings.🎸🪕

@Wileylikethehawk 4 месяца назад

I’m a Canadian and I’ve always loved these. My dream is the buck owens Tele as well!

@imannonymous7707 4 месяца назад

Wow sounds ok on a phone. Would not have expected this. This was a great story and I'm old enough to remember seeing buck on hee haw original airings. I actually wanted one as a little kid

@RaptorV1USA 4 месяца назад

I remember that guitar from watching hee haw and TV specials in the 70's...I'd forgotten all about it but as a kid I was just starting to get interested in guitar and THAT guitar is one of the ones that caught my eye and got me wanting to learn. I remember thinking it was cool as heck... Nice video!

@gamertf2209 4 месяца назад

I just started to follow Buck Owens, and I’ve fallen in love with how don rich picks the guitar. Your videos about them are my favorites

@jeffclark7888 4 месяца назад

Good choice!

@Yyz1971 4 месяца назад

Wow. I had one of these when i was a child in the mid 70s. My father bought it when he left the marine corps after coming home from Vietnam. I don't know what happened to it, but I still have pictures of my father and I both playing it.

@Satchmoeddie 4 месяца назад

Buck Owens used to own the radio station across the highway from me. It got a new call sign KTUF from the old KHEP. Sadly or not so sadly the station has completely shut down. Germanium transistor amps, any amps with a coil in the signal chain (Mesa Boogies & Fender Super Twins) wah pedals and any slightly shoddy patch cord into any kind of amp would usually receive KJJJ 910 across the highway and 3 miles north or they would pick up KTUF right across the highway, but only at night. Later on KNIX 104 FM simulcast with KTUF 12?? AM, and there was a huge KNIX billboard with the Buck Owens' guitar along the highway.

@jimwest6571 2 месяца назад

Hello. My name is Jim and I used to work for Buck and his sons at KNIX radio. KTUF radio went country in 1967 when Buck purchased it. KNIX-FM 102.5 went Country in 1968 after purchasing it separately. Buck Owens never owned KHEP. That station went on the air in Phoenix in 1956 and RAY ODOM was the owner. I was lucky to work for Buck for 8 years on the air at KNIX. KNIX. is still on the air but not owned by the Owens family anymore, Buck sold it in 1999. You are right about the BIG BILLBOARD. KNIX was advertised on it for many years.

@williamsanderson9279 4 месяца назад

A great Buck story Zac. Buck left a fantastic musical legacy in many, many ways.

@stuarthightower418 4 месяца назад

I just discovered your channel. I love guitars although I cannot play. I wish I could. I’ve tried numerous times to take lessons but never found the right teacher. I grew up watching Hee Haw every Saturday. I wasn’t as much of a fan of Buck at the time as I was of Roy Clark. I dreamed of being able to play as good as Roy. I remember seeing these Buck Owens American guitars around when I was younger. I never knew the story. Thank you for telling it. I am now a huge fan of Buck from listening to Dwight Yoakam’s Bakersfield Beat channel on SiriusXM radio.

@joeldowdy404 4 месяца назад

❤ Thank you for this episode!! I was obsessed with Buck and Don as a kid. Watched every episode of Hee Haw just to see Buck and Roy.

@sethtravins3647 4 месяца назад

You’ve hit the nail on the head about Chicago harmony om ladder braced guitars. They are bright twangy and loud. I like them because they seem to occupy the frequencies in between an arch top and an xbraced flat top.

@NoNameNo.5 4 месяца назад

Dude! Z!….we NEED that buck Owen’s story at the palace pal….maybe next week..?

@unclemarksdiyauto 4 месяца назад

Love Buck Owen’s while growing up in the 1960s and beyond. My dad saw him in person years back. Thanks for the history.

@scotttrezak6558 4 месяца назад

Buck gave Ringo that guitar on my 5th birthday, which will make me 60 next month 😢

@jimwoodard64 4 месяца назад

I had one of those from the Sears catalog when I was a kid! An uncle or aunt bought it and gifted it to me when they'd beat it up enough. I should have kept that dang thing! :D I would take it out and jam along whenever Hee Haw was on TV.

@flapjack413 4 месяца назад

First time I saw one of them was when Pat Smear played one on Nirvana Unplugged, on MTV in 1994. My 14 year old dumb ass had no idea about how lacquer aged back then, and I thought it was a red, yellow, and blue guitar, haha. I thought it was pretty cool, as at the time I had only seen acoustic guitars with natural or sunburst finishes, or solid black paint. Seeing a colorful acoustic was pretty cool, and the fact that Pat was playing it, only made it cooler in my mind. I don't think I finally figured out what that guitar was until about 15 years ago.

@HBSuccess 4 месяца назад

Fascinating story. Thank you for putting it together for us!

@phillipcole3068 4 месяца назад

Great story. Great guitar. Great storyteller. That is such an iconic guitar. I remember watching Buck and Roy play on Hee Haw as a kid. It was just part of my inspiration to play guitar as I'm sure it inspired so many other potential young guitar players. I'm loving this string of "behind the guitar" videos of yours! 🎸

@mojo6778 4 месяца назад

Love these deep dives, great information on the guitar and Buck Owens. I remember watching him on Hee Haw, great memories.

@tomburkhardt811 4 месяца назад

Hi Zac, Me before Cincinnati remember hearing that Buck gave one of these guitars to Johnny Bench years ago. I know Johnny tried his hand at a singing career. I remember seeing him on Hee Haw. Maybe that's how him and Buck got to be pals. Also it seems I remember hearing that he gave one to Bobby Goldsboro as well. Good show today, great history lesson!❤

@geraldmadero5131 4 месяца назад

I found your story on Buck Owens to be very entertaining, with some humor but even more the sources you had for the video were impeccable. What I’m trying to say is I believe this presentation as factual. Thank goodness you didn’t title this “The REAL story of Buck Owen’s’ guitars. When I see REAL, and REALLY in a title I run the other way. I see from looking at your catalog of videos that you usually have an electric in your hands. I’m an acoustic guy myself and would really like to see your research and 1 on 1 style of on camera delivery to a few more acoustic guitars and their players, owners, etc. And because of this Buck Owens story I have subscribed because I feel like there is a lot to be learned about the past music world from your insightful stories. Thanks.

@markjohnson9485 4 месяца назад

I had to add a second comment because I enjoyed this story so much. You do a great job with telling stories and I really liked and enjoyed this one. Thank you

@AskZac 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much!

@markjohnson9485 4 месяца назад

@@AskZac You're very welcome thank you for everything that you do

@Colinjohnmusic 4 месяца назад

For a ladder braced guitar with an adjustable bridge your’s is an incredibly great sounding example. Great back story as ever. Thanks

@pecktox 4 месяца назад

I do appreciate your interviews and reviews of things related to my past..cool. thanks peck

@hasserl 4 месяца назад

Cool story Zac, thanks. Something about the Ladder bracing, it seems to produce a sound that was common on early acoustic blues, probably because the early blues artists could only afford something like a Harmony or Stella guitar, so that sound is very reminiscent of that era of blues; and for guys wanting to cop that sound a ladder braced guitar is probably what they need to look for. Parlor guitars seemed to have made a bit of a comeback lately, but all the new ones use x bracing, which misses the mark for the guy wanting to nail that early acoustic blues thing; you still need to hunt down an old Stella to get it right.

@insulartomb 4 месяца назад

perfect episode! thanks as always

@duanebroberg5967 4 месяца назад

Great work as always Zach. Love your videos.

@markjohnson9485 4 месяца назад

I remember seeing this guitar in some of the music store windows. It became pretty popular about 1976 because it was the bicentennial year. Never thought much of them. But I wish I would have bought one .

@davidjessee7701 4 месяца назад

Wow! I’m 57 and vividly remember Hee Haw with Buck and Roy and the famous red white and blue flat top.. great video… love the photo with you , Brad Paisley and Buck.. at the first I thought it was Brent Mason 😂

@user-uc1gz4zm9l 4 месяца назад

Great true story love this stuff loved Buck Owens still do

@davegallagher7428 4 месяца назад

Always enjoyable. Great video Zac!

@nellayema2455 4 месяца назад

Great story of a legendary, iconic guitar and Buck. I've always wanted one of those. It's great to hear about its history.

@hankd18 4 месяца назад

I really like your content.Seems well researched and presented. Nicely done. Thanks

@guitarguru4492 4 месяца назад

When I was a kid, I thought that guitar was so cool!

@user-oe9hk2ze9n 4 месяца назад

Here's a story about the Red, White and Blue. A Japanese friend and I went to the Chrystal Palace in the late 90s( I lived in Japan for 10 years and hung around the CW scene there). At that time if you bought the Korean model there for $200-300 bucks, Buck would meet you back stage and sign it. Buck was real nice to my Japanese friend but wasn't happy I came along. The only thing he said to me was "Who are you !". At least I can say I talked with Buck Owens.

@wanagie 4 месяца назад

It don't get no better than Buck and the legacy of the original Bakersfield sound.

@-Mark_F 4 месяца назад

Very cool vid. It was nice hearing a story about Buck Owens and his guitars.

@iplaymytele 4 месяца назад

I have one…👍🏻❤️🎶 It is the Korean made. I believe mine says harmony at the top….! I received it as a gift , probably 20 some years ago… it has been hanging on the wall in my studio unplayed since then..!

@muckytrails323 4 месяца назад

Thanks Zac what a great story ❤see you in the next one 😊

@denehunt8121 4 месяца назад

Really appreciate you doing the Buck Owen’s story with the Harmony guitar! Super nice job!

@victorbeebe8372 4 месяца назад

Aloha Zac! Very interesting story. I remember that guitar and over course the show Her Haw Mahalo.

@paulbednarek4720 Месяц назад

Thank you for a very formative history lesson. I did not know the origin of this guitar.. much appreciated.😍

@FuriousMess 4 месяца назад

This video is sooo cool Zac! Thanks mucho hombre

@finchwilliams9859 4 месяца назад

Awesome episode Zac!!

@JT-gd7he 4 месяца назад

I 54 now and remember my Aunt having this guitar in the mid seventies. She lived in Corpus and at first I wondered if than was where you got it from.

@OG_Wakanobi 4 месяца назад

I have a 70s Harmony LP copy. Thinking of doing an Owens tribute with it.

@nocturnalferalguitarist 4 месяца назад

Mr Zac, I really enjoyed this tutorial and everything you shared including pricing. Very good playing. Great content. I like Birchwood guitars so much , the way they sound. My first was a '71 ( Kay?) g 101 all Birchwood, brass frets, fat neck , high action, ultra inexpensive small student model I got from my older sis in 77 when I was 11.

@peterkerr9822 4 месяца назад

Excellent video 👍Really enjoyed it 😊👍🎸

@wherethereisfaith 4 месяца назад

Thank you Zak. That was a wonderful story!

@AskZac 4 месяца назад

Thanks for listening

@Barry101er 4 месяца назад

Great detail about the guitar-thanks. Buck saves the day-love it!

@WillyPDX94 4 месяца назад

Ladder-braced guitars definitely sound different than x-braced guitars, but they have their own character and qualities that I appreciate. I have a mid-50s ladder-braced Gibson LG-1 (made in Kalamazoo) which I dearly love. I've played a couple of U.S.-made Buck Owens Americans and they are good guitars in their own right. Enjoy your American, Zac!

@Andy_Fallon 4 месяца назад

Hey Zak, I've recently been deep-diving all your Truetone interviews. I can tell they are well-researched as your flow seems effortless. You should think about writing a book on Don Kelley as he seems to crop up in all your interviews. The Brent Mason interview was excellent. Many thanks, Andy

@paulmerojunkpileguitars 4 месяца назад

I see Speedy West in the background))) Great video. Thank you.

@robbergin9586 4 месяца назад

The matching red white and blue neck is a classy finishing touch by Buck and Harmony....must have added to production cost but would not have looked so good without it!

@rickstrandberg6398 4 месяца назад

That was pretty cool ! Thanks Zac

@johnnymalmsteems198 4 месяца назад

Great episode sir 👏🏻

@PaisleyPatchouli 4 месяца назад

Great episode for a great guitar!

@Mountainrock70 4 месяца назад

That’s got to be the best sounding catalog guitar made.

@chrisholmquist7725 4 месяца назад

Great story, great guitar! But I couldn't help but chuckle when I realized that this guitar almost perfectly resembles the Netherland's flag. "Red, white, & blue" - I guess cost concerns made it impossible to give old Glory its true due. Instead, in my alternate universe, the Dutch will always be remembered for their incontrovertible contribution to American country music when such an artifact is discovered in 500 years. I'd like to think that the man who sang 'Made in Japan' would have a sense of humor for such intercontinental conundrums.

@chrisholmquist7725 4 месяца назад

It should be noted that depending on how future researchers interpret the playing position of this instrument, the credit could just as easily go to the French.

@chrisholmquist7725 4 месяца назад

Worth mentioning that left-handed archaeologists might presume Chile...

@jfrankcarr 4 месяца назад

I wanted one of these when I was a kid from watching Buck on HeeHaw. I ended up getting a cheaper Sears acoustic guitar for my birthday that was essentially unplayable.