I'm with Andy Babiuk who has written what has to be one of the top, well, a
couple of the top books on the history of
musical instruments, especially on the music of the Beatles.
A most recent book on the instruments of The Rolling
Stones and also a book, a book on guitar builder and
designer Paul Bigsby, so Andy, thanks for joining us [CROSSTALK],
my course students I think would be interested in knowing how
it is that you got involved in writing this kind of
a book, a book about exactly the guitars that The Beatles used.
>> Well you know, my personal passion was, you
know, I'm musician myself and, and I, I've been
in a band called The Chesterfield Kings for, you
know, I don't know, 20 some, 30 years or whatever.
20 years.
Anyhow. It was our, our thing
to try to sound like those records. You know, we grew up listening to them.
But we wanted to emulate it.
And we figured you could buy a
Rickenbacker, you could buy this kind of amp.
And so, then there was more to it.
Well, then there was like the recording process.
There was a lot to it, like, I would just study it for my own head.
And, and it wasn't just with The Beatles.
It was with the Stones and I would trying to emulate stuff.
And different things so, it became a passion.
And then I, I have been in the music industry
for a long time. The retail, you know.
My forte is vintage guitars in general.
Just vintage instruments, so it kind of all mutated into this thing and I was
working and these people would come in and ask for, like, a Beatles amp.
I want a Vox amp like The Beatles had, a Super Beatle.
They, that's what they used in the studio.
And I, I'd say, well, actually they didn't.
They only used them li, no, no.
And then you'd get arguments from people. And I was, like,
I had done a lot of research.
And I go, well, no, they didn't use Super Beatles.
And they used AC30s, and, you know, AC100s.
No, no, no, I have pictures, and I was, like.
And these guys I was, I was working with, they'd always laugh at me.
And they'd go, another Beatle knucklehead, huh?
And I'd go, no, they.
And one my buddies said, he'd go, Andy, you know what you should do?
Get a case of beer.