MY NEW GRETSCH WHITE FALCON.

I think the guitar Mary its playing in the video is a Stromberg, rather than her White Falcon, but a lovely guitar nevertheless. And that looks like Billie Holiday sitting next to her.

... I was waiting for someone to spot Lady Day.

Unfortunately the sound's a bit ropey 😕

@Radium Girl You, of course, are correct. *blush*

That's what I get for focusing on the tail piece rather than on the rest of the guitar. My ADD talking.

Rookie mistake. 'Pod

@sauropod it’s not polite to talk about a lady’s tailpiece..or her f holes for that matter.😉

@Radium Girl Especially if said tailpiece is cloaked in virgin white!

Gretsch is for G-string after all! ;-)

I'm afraid I don't have the technical equipment to make a demo video, plus I'm not as photogenic as RJ!😕

Well, I'd love to show the guitar off in a live concert, but it would be impossible to organise one this year with all the ongoing uncertainties of Covid 19 and its variants. Perhaps later next year, if the situation really does become far less dangerous, but also if my health issues permit. (My eyesight is a particular concern in terms of live performance.) At this moment though, I think it's not tenable. I will, of course, feature the guitar on future releases!

What a great story. 🙏 Great to see the origins. I like that publicly shot and that name, The Cresters. The Chesters also appear to be three siblings.

Slightly Merseybeat-sounding, early Beatles-sounding 45 from The Cresters (assuming it’s the same band) . . .

Funny it’s called ‘I Want You’ since that’s the name of a Beatles song from ‘Abbey Road.’

I associate the Gretsch White Falcon with Matthew Ashman (R.I.P.) of Bow Wow Wow. When I was a teenager, I had the biggest crush on singer Annabella Lwin from that band, just thought she was out-of-this-world, plus she was my age. Matthew Ashman’s gigantic Gretsch White Falcon couldn’t be missed, either and he played that line from ‘I Want Candy’ in a way that brought a sense of nostalgia to us teenagers who most of us weren’t even familiar with the original, by The Strangeloves in 1965, another very visual band! The strange-looking Staccato Drums and playing by Dave Barbarossa were also a big part of it all, of course. That hypnotic Burundi influenced rhythmic style. Still it’s all about the big Gretsch White Falcon.

Bow Wow Wow’s ‘I Want Candy’ . . .