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My band, Red For Dissent
https://youtu.be/hjBxxuYzdxM
Gretsch guitars have been pigeon-holed as rockabilly instruments, and they shouldn't be, but again, it's all down to style and fashion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Meteors_live_in_Pordenone,_Italy,_2006.jpg
I was briefly in a 50s-style rock ‘n’ roll band and played a club in Leicester which had a big rockabilly scene - I was using a gold-refinished ‘65 Fender Musicmaster and a Mesa DC-5… on the ‘pushed clean’ setting the Mesa sounded pretty much the same as everyone else’s amps which were all tweeds of various kinds, but I got a bit of gentle stick for it from one of the other guitarists. The guitar was deemed acceptable though .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
P Paul Fenech of The Meteors played a Gibson Flying V in the early days, and you can't really get much more Psychobilly than them. Mostly plays a Strat nowadays. Seen other Psycho bands using Telecasters back in the day too. A lot of the modern Psycho bands do mostly play Gretsch though, from what I've seen.
The kids, of course, knew exactly what they were hearing. You could have called it "rock and roll" or "rockabilly: or "chicken soup" and Buddy Holly would still have packed the venues out.
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