What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

[Lewguitar]

Found this old video and I remember seeing Glen play this same guitar the very first time I saw him play. I remember him doing Phil Ochs' Universal Soldier, maybe on Shindig or Hullabaloo or maybe the Mike Douglas Show in the early or mid 60's before he got famous. He was playing the same guitar he's playing in this video. What the heck is it?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

Think I got it figured out: it's some kind of Tiesco!

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Re: What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

^^ My first thought as well.

 

[Boogie Bill]

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It looks like it could be a Teisco. I'm wondering when that video was done...maybe even as early as late '50s???

I met and got to jam with him backstage at a concert in the summer of 1967. This was after his big hit with Universal Soldier. He was using a red Mosrite semi-hollow double-cut. I was just a kid, 17, and he was was so nice and encouraging. Great player, and a very nice man. This vid is definitely years before that meeting.

I know he also used a guitar by Micro-Frets, solid Mosrites, Fenders, old Music Mans, and Ovation acoustics and electrics. He's been using a G&L Comanche recently.

Bill

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

That is indeed a Teisco.

 

[Zombiwoof]

Re: What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

It looks like it could be a Teisco. I'm wondering when that video was done...maybe even as early as late '50s???

I met and got to jam with him backstage at a concert in the summer of 1967. This was after his big hit with Universal Soldier. He was using a red Mosrite semi-hollow double-cut. I was just a kid, 17, and he was was so nice and encouraging. Great player, and a very nice man. This vid is definitely years before that meeting.

I know he also used a guitar by Micro-Frets, solid Mosrites, Fenders, old Music Mans, and Ovation acoustics and electrics. He's been using a G&L Comanche recently.

Bill

I don't remember him having a hit with "Universal Soldier". I think it was Donovan or someone who had the hit.
I believe Glen was in the Shindogs on Shindig (with a beardless Leon Russell on piano), some of those old vids are the Shindogs doing the hits of the day on the show. Of course, he was a studio guitarist on a lot of hit songs (like Beach Boys stuff, which is why he ended up replacing Brian on bass when he quit performing live), he also was in the Champs ("Tequila), also he played one of the guitar parts on the Knickerbocker's "Lies" and a bunch of other stuff.

Al

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

I don't remember him having a hit with "Universal Soldier". I think it was Donovan or someone who had the hit.
I believe Glen was in the Shindogs on Shindig (with a beardless Leon Russell on piano), some of those old vids are the Shindogs doing the hits of the day on the show. Of course, he was a studio guitarist on a lot of hit songs (like Beach Boys stuff, which is why he ended up replacing Brian on bass when he quit performing live), he also was in the Champs ("Tequila), also he played one of the guitar parts on the Knickerbocker's "Lies" and a bunch of other stuff.

Al

I don't think it was big hit for him, but Glen's been doing Universal Soldier in his shows for decades. I thought Phil Ochs wrote it but actually it's by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Here's a performance from 1980.

 

[Boogie Bill]

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I remember the show; the Shindog band I remember most would have been a 4-piece with a drummer, James Burton and Joey Cooper on guitars and Delaney Bramlett on bass. The Wrecking crew often did the show as well, but when I think "Shindogs", it's those four.

Bill

 

[Wattage]

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http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2014/02/glen-campbells-mystery-guitar.html

Teisco T=60

 

[Lewguitar]

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http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2014/02/glen-campbells-mystery-guitar.html

Teisco T=60

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Guess that's where Steve Vai got the idea for the "monkey grip", eh?

 

[Wattage]

Re: What guitar is Glen Campbell playing in this old vodeo?

no doubt in my mind