Gretsch Custom Shop Masterbuilt Stephen Stern G6128T-GH George Harrison Tribute Duo Jet - Black

In Stock!

Peach are proud to have secured one of only 60 Custom Shop George Harrsion Tribute/Replica Guitars. The guitar looks phenomenal and is bound to become an extremely collectable item for the future.

Meticulously recreated by Gretsch master builder, Stephen Stern & his crew from the ORIGINAL guitar owned by George and played during his early & post Beatles career. Only 60 Harrison TRIBUTE guitars will be produced worldwide.

There's a very famous early film of the Beatles performing at Liverpool's Cavern Club; the dank, cramped cellar where the group played from February 1961 to August 1963. The grainy black and white footage captures the Beatles (mere days after new drummer Ringo Starr officially joined) sweating through a raucous cover of "Some Other Guy," then a staple of their act, before a packed house.

At far stage right, 19-year-old guitarist George Harrison is blasting out the song's infectious chord progression on what he later called his "first real decent guitar"-a black 1957 Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet, serial number 21179, with a Bigsby® vibrato unit. The guitar is clearly visible in the footage.

The Gretsch Duo Jet that Harrison plays in the clip was dear to him at the time. He often referred to it as his first truly good guitar. He'd bought it secondhand from a Liverpool cab driver a year earlier at age 18, in summer 1961. After acquiring the guitar, Harrison played it during the historic three-year period when the Beatles made their momentous transformation from local favourites to U.K. sensations to worldwide phenomenon. He used it to record the Beatles' first album,Please Please Me, and the song of the same name that was their first number-one hit. A quarter-century later he returned to the guitar for his acclaimed 1987 solo album Cloud Nine.

So when Gretsch wanted to honour Harrison in 2011 with a signature guitar model-it had to be that guitar.