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Provenance:
Gary owned this guitar prior to 1988 but it is uncertain exactly when and where he acquired it. The body is 1963 with a later replacement neck, origin unknown.
It features on Movin' On, the first track of the album Still Got The Blues, recorded in 1989 and released in March 1990. It was then used on various sessions for the 1992 After Hours album, including for the tracks The Blues Is Alright and All Time Low. The albums Close As You Get, 2007, and Bad For You Baby, 2008, also saw this Telecaster used.
In an interview for Guitar Buyer magazine, November 2007, Gary talks about the guitars used for his then-latest album, Close As You Get and he erroneously refers to the guitar as a 1968 model. He comments: "It's got a later neck on it that someone put on before I bought it but its got character and it really works. You can get some very mournful sounds out of it as well as a hard, in-your-face sound. It's a real old battle-axe." The guitar appears on versions of the tracks Hard Times, Thirty Days, If The Devil Made Whiskey, I Had A Dream.
Live Performances:
- German TV performance of Bad For You Baby,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy4eoY2lOi0
- 2014 CD, Live From Bush Hall, 2007, Eagle Records EAGCD535, I Had A Dream and Thirty Days
- Live In Germany in 2008, at around 60 minutes in,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHAPqSi363g
- Interviewed on camera for Guitarist magazine, 2007/2008,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8O15HXip4
- There is also footage on facebook.com of Gary playing in Dublin, April 3rd, 2007, performing Too Tired. Playing the drums that night was Brian Downey, Gary's old bandmate from Thin Lizzy.