From August 1994 Guitarist magazine interview with Steve ‘Boltz’ Bolton It’s like a different guitar now, like a new guitar. It’s almost like once it knew it was not going to be on the record, it just went bing! I had it rebuilt, and I’m going to have to take it home and play it. And yet, while I was working on the demos before I went into the studio, it worked perfectly well. The strings had corroded to an extraordinary extent, the frets had grown mold, the bridge had come off, the back had popped open, and all of the top had delaminated. I opened the case and picked it up, and it had just completely fallen to bits.
You know, I’ve smashed so fucking many guitars, and always maintained that they’re just planks of wood, and, “Don’t give me that shit about guitars with all that ‘it knows when I’m away’ stuff,” but because I hardly used it on this record at all, it died! It was in the studio waiting in its case, and I went back to do some work there with Boltz, the other guitarist. This is a weird thing about guitars and musical instruments. But I detect that this record is the first time you’ve ever recorded without your Gibson J-200 since 1969. Guitar Player: Since Tommy, the acoustic guitar has provided a sonic cushion for almost everything you’ve recorded, no matter how bombastic the context, and the new album is pervaded by that cushion. From September 1989 Guitar Player article. 1981, in the studio, with the original 1968 Gibson J-2 Rickenbacker 330S/12. I came to Manny’s again and told Henry I wanted a J-200 and he brought out 20 brand new and I tried all of them and I found one superb, which I still have.Ĭa. From April 1980 issue of Sound International article, courtesy Joe G’s site. Selected quotes from Pete TownshendĪll quotes and references are copyright their original owners and are included for reference only. In February 2004, Gibson has issued a Gibson Pete Townshend SJ-200 Limited in commemoration of Pete’s Gibson J-200. With the Who and solo activity starting in 1996, Pete acquired numerous non-vintage blonde (Antique Natural Lacquer) Gibson J-200 guitars fitted with Fishman Acoustic Matrix pickup systems for use in stage and studio activity, which he has continued to use to this day. With the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, Pete donated this guitar, where it is on display at present.
Around 1989 ( Iron Man era), Pete switched to using Takamines and other acoustic guitars in the studio, at which time the original Gibson J-200 deteriorated (see story, below), though was subsequently repaired. At some point around or after 1979, he acquired at least one additional sunburst Gibson J-200, a model from 1955–1961, with open “moustache” bridge, which was used for studio work (see photo at bottom). He brought the original Gibson J-200 with him everywhere until 1979, at which time he acquired his first small-bodied Fylde Ariel guitar. Pete used this guitar for writing and recording on virtually everything beginning in 1968 until 1989’s Iron Man. Pete’s original 1968 Gibson J-200 on display at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio.
The guitar that made Pete’s defining acoustic sound on record.
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