Makin Music - The Great Gretsch Sound

[@HotTagProductions]

Thanks so much for posting these online!

[@andynew2]

I'm proud to be a Gretsch owner. I have a Gretsch 6122-1959 Country Gentleman. I've been a Chet Atkins fan for early fifty years and there is absolutely nothing that matches this for sheer tone quality. Every guitar has it's own niche like the Fender Telecaster for example. but for beautiful sound, nothing, and I mean nothing can touch that great Gretsch sound.

[@wayneschlegel1340]

you mean.... nothing?

[@Quatloo2007]

I recently bought a Gretsch Rancher Falcon wide body, and I am thrilled with the sound and the look. In a forest of Gibsons and Martins, my Gretsch stands out.

[@AlexPractical]

Man, I love that belt buckle bridge! Gretsch really did have some good ideas here and there.

[@Stichfam]

Love it! Great Interview! Nice to see Mike Lewis Again!

[@bundr]

absolutely great... these guys know something about guitars.

[@GuitarShowcase]

That's a nice guitar you've got there! "That great Gretsch sound" is a slogan that Gretsch uses to describe their guitars. It stems from the way Gretsch builds their guitars, the electronics they use, and other unique characteristics that makes Gretsch guitars different from other brands. There isn't a particular amp setting to achieve "that great Gretsch sound", because it is inherent in your guitar. Thanks for your question and keep rocking!

[@craigbrowning9448]

Humbucking Coils were first used in Electromagnetic Loudspeakers.

[@denisechetty4019]

I love that great Gretsch sound!!! I'd never give my 6120 VS away😊

[@consul1957]

OMG, that Roundup at 23.28!!

[@zebdoz333]

excellent upload!

[@larryhutchinson8805]

Wow! Really learned a lot about Gretsch history, thanks for a great video. Musicman2xs

[@MikeSuttonXerox]

enjoyed the show!!

[@delorean63]

I like that !

[@whimpypatrol5503]

Oh, I have seen Glen Campbell playing behind his head (must have been about 1962) and I think someone else in the 50s also (don't remember who). So how people play 'nowadays' is relative.

[@jimdeeds]

The introductory music was Greg Koch playing a tele! Irony.

[@GuitarShowcase]

@Stichfam - One of my favorites as well...

[@soolan11]

Disappointed you failed to mention Duane Eddy he made the 6120 for rock and roll.

[@whimpypatrol5503]

1958, that's the year the music died. So almost all the vintage rockabilly -- that played on Gretsches -- was played thru (DeArmond) single coils. Even though Travis played a Gibson Super 400 with p90s, Holly played a Strat with single coils, Joe Mathis played a Moserite custom wound, and Chuck Berry played an es350 with p90s, almost everyone else played gretsch with DeArmond single coils. If so, what's all the fuss about how great PAFs and filtertrons are???

[@whimpypatrol5503]

One of my favorite pickups are the hilo'trons. I think they came out in the 60s and are humbucker tech. But I don't know if they would sound good in just any guitar.

[@GuitarShowcase]

@acountrygent - It was taped 07-26-2006 and aired - 08-03-2006.

[@shecky308]

Mike,bring back the 7690 supergretsch this more colors and curly famed wood{affordable please}.

[@MrRoadstar2]

Yeah, meeen!

[@acountrygent]

Any idea when this was made?

[@hellbent6344]

That intro song sounds like it belongs in South Park

[@jeffreybiscoe6]

Horrible ,thank you ! I scrolled comments to see if just me. Was very annoying enough to skip video.

[@paulbill1078]

Where can I get a mustache like that?

[@dutleydurite26]

Totally possible for a CT scan to have been done, but a MRI would have trashed the guitar.

[@daddyhotrock]

Agreed. I am a guitarist as well as a radiographer. For CT, the metal parts would create significant scatter which makes it hard to create a useful image. However, an MRI scan is out of the question. Even if you removed all the metal, the neck rod would still be in there. This would make the whole thing fly through the room as soon as you entered. Any MRI institute would have stopped you way before that. Anyway, a little camera at the end of a flexible rod would reveal much more.

[@pietertoerien4648]

Jes jes that twangy sound

[@dutleydurite26]

They are talkin guitars though so it's easy for them to get that detail mixed up.

[@jimmeyize]

You guys missed Epiphone history......older than Gretsch!

[@NormanZealandMalana]

+Elven Grail Epiphone was founded 10 years earlier than Gretsch.

[@NormanZealandMalana]

+Elven Grail Epiphone was founded in Italy in 1873. Gretsh was founded in New York in 1883.

[@richfiryn]

Intro by Greg Koch

[@baytuni]

u cannot put metal parts in an MR machine. Especially those coils. They would fire around like bullets. Advertisement bullshit!

[@JohnShalamskas]

Maybe they meant a CAT scanner that uses X-rays

[@playpaul2]

All this talk about Chet Atkins and the early Gretsch days is fine and dandy...but you want to know who really put Gretsch on the map? George Harrison and the Beatles. It was the Ed Sullivan show in 1964 that first displayed that 'Great Gretsch Sound' to the whole world when the Beatles performed live. Gretsch sales went through the roof after that performance. George Harrison played that guitar in every Beatle concert in every major city around the world. Now you know the whole truth...and not mentioning George Harrison and the Beatles is very disingenuous.

[@franklinarchambault5397]

I have Gretschs of my own but don't like this video because of the blocking it sucks

[@johnpike8415]

The Great Gretch SOUND? Not interest in a list yappy opinions. play the fucking guitar so i can judge THE SOUND.

[@MrStratocaster1949]

Ok, I will. I never have liked Internet Toilet Explorer and I don't like it any better with this version. I for one, will be glad to see this piece of crap hit the trash can cause that's about all its worth.

[@williamm4812]

I will NEVER buy a Gretsch guitar until they are made right here in The United States of America again..

[@johnhulsker9123]

South Korea is the 51st. state

[@jeffdixon847]

Custom Shop is ready for your order.

[@keithclark486]

Quit making excuses because you can't afford a guitar.