Rocky
Rocky 是 The Beatles 吉他手 George Harrison 的电吉他
George Harrison 本人曾在多个场合使用它:
George Harrison Performing With Rocky in 《Im a Walrus》
George Harrison With Rocky
George Harrison Playing Rock in Abbey Road Studio
关于它的制作过程:
Stratocaster® guitars were almost impossible to find in England in the late 1950s and early 1960s, so when George Harrison actually found one in a shop during the pre-fame early days of the Beatles, he meant to get it but was scooped by the guitarist for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes (whose drummer went by the stage name Ringo Starr).
A few dizzying years later, when the sessions for Beatles Help! album got under way in early 1965, Harrison had better luck - he and John Lennon sent roadie Mal Evans out to get one for each of them, and Evans soon returned with a matching pair of Sonic Blue Strat® guitars. Harrison’s guitar, serial number 83840, still bore a decal from a music store where it was purchased at one point - “Grimwoods; The music people; Maidstone and Whitstable”. Thus, Help! marks the first appearance of a Stratocaster in Beatles music; heard in the low drone throughout that album’s “Ticket to Ride” and in the solo for “You’re Going to Lose That Girl.” Near the end of 1965, both Strats were put to even more prominent use on groundbreaking album Rubber Soul, most notably on the ringing chordal solo in “Nowhere Man”, and again on mid-1966’s Revolver.
In 1967, sometime between the end of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions and the June 25 live worldwide telecast of “All You Need is Love”, Harrison took up paint and brush himself to give his Stratocaster a multicolored psychedelic dayglo paint job. It also appeared prominently in the “I Am the Walrus” segment of 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour film. The guitar remained a favorite of Harrison’s for the rest of the decade, and by December 1969 Harrison had painted “Bebopalula” on the upper body, “Go Cat Go” on the pickguard and “Rocky” - the guitar’s nickname - on the headstock.
其中提到,Rocky 是由一把 61’ Stratocaster, 并且是由 George Harrison 本人改造而来。
下面这段材料揭露了关于改装的细节(主要是颜料方面):
“During ’67, everybody started painting everything,” Harrison says, “and I decided to paint it. I got some Day-Glo paint, which was quite a new invention in them days, and just sat up late one night and did it.” (Harrison points out that some of his ex-wife Patti Boyd’s nail polish was used to paint the headstock.)
The guitar made appearances that year in the Beatles’ live performance of “All You Need Is Love” on Our World, the first global satellite TV program, and in the film Magical Mystery Tour, in the segment where the Beatles mime to “I Am the Walrus,”
Rocky 使用的主要颜料是 Day-Glo (Day-Glo Color Corp. 生产的一种荧光涂料), 而琴颈部位则是用他当时妻子 Patti Boyd 的指甲油涂绘而成
我本人非常喜欢 Rocky 的配色,奈何负担不起 Rocky Custom Shop 的高昂费用,也由于墨产 Rocky Player Series 的低性价比而未选择入手
恰巧我有一把 Fender Vintera 60’s Stratocaster, 从年代和琴型上都与原版相对接近。于是我把它送到一位网友那里,完成 Rocky 的复刻
在改造前,它原本是日落色的,大概这样:
日落色
在使用 硝基漆 和一些荧光涂料改造之后:
我带着它参加了一些小型演出
Fender Blues Tweed Deluxe
Blues Deluxe™ 是 Fender 的一款晶体管音箱,我选择它有两个原因:
- 音色:我对吉他音箱研究不多,但是 Fender 音箱的清音不用多说,很悦耳
- 外观:这款复古气息的粗花呢黄色音箱本身就是一款装饰品
奈何功率太大,我很少使用它,最多拍视频的时候才想起来用一下