Jimmy Day's 4 neck console

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 1 Feb 2011 4:34 pm

What kind of guitar is Jimmy playing here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPx1nA2D ... re=related

Here's another with him on a Bigsby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucI5X_wgx1E&NR=1

Thanks

Jay

B. Greg Jones · Post by **B. Greg Jones** » 1 Feb 2011 4:46 pm

Looks like a real early Wright Custom Quad on that 1st video. I think Jimmy played a Wright for awhile.

Greg

B. Greg Jones · Post by **B. Greg Jones** » 1 Feb 2011 4:47 pm

Guess I was correct, but someone beat me to it!!! LOL Looks like we posted about the same time LOL

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 1 Feb 2011 4:52 pm

What is the writing on the front of it?
I couldn't make it out.

Thanks for the replies guys

Jay

Don Euton · Post by **Don Euton** » 1 Feb 2011 4:53 pm

My eyes are not as good as they once were, but it looked like it said Wright Custom on the front. It sounds like one.

Don Euton

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 1 Feb 2011 4:58 pm

Alright, now I see it
It does say Wright Custom.
Thanks all!
Jay

Chris Lucker · Post by **Chris Lucker** » 1 Feb 2011 6:05 pm

Because the borrowed Bigsby has no name on the apron, and with the apparent the pedal arrangement, it is likely to be the Buddie Emmons Bigsby, however, it could be that it could be that of Connie Conrad.

Chris

Billy Tonnesen · Post by **Billy Tonnesen** » 1 Feb 2011 9:23 pm

It is a Wright Custom probably around 1959. Chuck made covers that fit over the strings behind the Nuts which you can briefly see. I had one just like it for about a year but lost it in a Fire that burned up the Jubilee Dance Hall in Baldwin Park, Ca. Chuck's price for the Guitar at that time was
$600.00 including the Case.

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 2 Feb 2011 12:45 am

Chris Lucker wrote:Because the borrowed Bigsby has no name on the apron, and with the apparent the pedal arrangement, it is likely to be the Buddie Emmons Bigsby, however, it could be that it could be that of Connie Conrad.

Chris

Chris you're right, it's Buddy's guitar.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 2 Feb 2011 5:44 am

It is A Wright for sure, Day recorded Crazy Arms with this guitar with ray....

Here the the other guitar....

Heres a new one from that time frame

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 2 Feb 2011 7:24 am

David,
Were you ever able to play/own any of these guitars?
Are there any still around?
They look like a million bucks......classic.
Jay

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 2 Feb 2011 7:40 am

Jay,
I never played them, was just a kid in them days

there is some still around, Barbara's, is in her Hall of Fame, it was a 4 neck.. Wright he built for her at the age of 12...

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 2 Feb 2011 9:11 am

Prices can change with out notice...

just a little history..))

Billy Tonnesen · Post by **Billy Tonnesen** » 2 Feb 2011 1:45 pm

David:

I remember Barbara's Wright Steel Guitar when she was twelve. When her Dad brought her to Cal's Corral TV show at the upstairs Huntington Park, Ca. Ballroom. Any of us that were around would volunteer to get her Guitar up the outside steps in the rear by the parking lot. This was when I decided to get a Wright just like she played. It would be my first Pedal Steel Guitar.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 2 Feb 2011 3:11 pm

Billy,
Great story, she was not very big, and the guitar most likely out weighted her

Thank you for sharing...and thank you for buying one!!,, it help feed me

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 2 Feb 2011 6:28 pm

Jeff Keyton · Post by **Jeff Keyton** » 2 Feb 2011 8:00 pm

Hey Chas,

If you ever decide to subdivide that guitar I'll take the Crazy Arms neck !

Chris Lucker · Post by **Chris Lucker** » 4 Feb 2011 1:41 am

I found my old snapshot of Buddie (before Buddy) Emmons playing his Bigsby with the skirt in place. This photo shows why the Buddie Emmons name is not on the front apron where you most often find an owner's name.
The photo, which I did not take, is dated April 1958, however, that may be the date the film was developed, not when the photo was taken.

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 4 Feb 2011 1:00 pm

Around the time of the mohawk haircuts...