James Honeyman Scott despite his early untimely death will always be a rock and roll legend. RIP

The Jingle jangle sound he had was amazing !

Nice thing to own. Honeyman-Scott has become a legend.

Wow! JH-S was an early hero of mine, and I saw him play that very Zemaitis, with the Pretenders, in Central Park. Glad that it went to someone who properly reveres it!

@PoppysGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Hey do you have any pics from that gig in central park?

@buddybeetle

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. I first saw this guitar hanging on Tony's wall, just a few days before JHS came to collect it. Lovely guitar for a lovely player. I think James was a genius guitarist.

JHS is my favorite English guitar player. I’ve finally come to understand this. That was a great tool for his genius!

That's the one! John you are so lucky and thank you for showing it.

Plug it in!! I had no idea this video existed. That was always a beautiful guitar. One of those that I wouldn't even feel worthy touching, cause of the price.

kzread.info/dash/bejne/a22n2NR_mpCtj8o.html this guitar was used in the video for talk of the town.

Underated is an understatement.

Lucky bloody you! Awesome.

Pretenders 1 was released December 1979 and this guitar is actually marked 1980 so it can't have been used on alot of their early records. Pretenders II was recorded 16 Aug 81 so it is possible it may have been used on that... however it is widely reported he used a Gibson ES-335 for most of the recordings... by the man himself in interviews etc.

I want for Christmas!

Play it!!!

He used them live mainly. In studio he used les paul and telecaster almost exclusively

When Jimmy first joined the Cheeks 1973/4, he was using a blonde gibson 335 that belonged to a member of the band Barclay James Harvest and after that was returned he was loaned a Gibson Junior belonging to Mick Ralphs, Mott TH , Bad Company. So i can onky guess that having achieved sone success was keen to own a few guitars for himself. Lol R.I.P Scotty

James Honeyman-Scott actually owned five Zemaitis guitars. He had two metal front ones, this one being one of them. He also had a black sort of semi-Telecaster shaped one with a scorpion inlaid on the body (which inspired an idea of mine for a guitar), he also had one similar to Ron Wood's stone front Zemaitis, and I forget what the fifth one was...or maybe it was just four. But I remember an article on Tony Zemaitis in Guitar World, in 81 or early 82, and there was a side piece on JHS, showing his Zemaitis guitars, and I think it also mentioned some of the other guitars he owned at the time. Given how many he owned, I imagine like as soon as The Pretenders started making real money, he must have called up Tony and ordered them in pretty quick succession.

@briansteff8616

10 ай бұрын

Yes. This is the 24 fret metal front that John Shanks owns. The other metal front had 22 frets and a different headstock…Nils Lofgren has that one. JHS also had a red single cutaway, single humbucker Zemaitis (kind of like a Les Paul Junior) with a dragon inlaid on the body.

@Kohntarkosz

10 ай бұрын

@@briansteff8616 Yeah, that's right, now I remember the red dragon.

Can I ask how you aquired his guitar? Thanks for showing.

I have an R8 , Dave Johnson aged that Norm tells me was yours, best sounding LP in the world, Live At the Filmore tone. Till death do us part.

I'm dying to hear you play the top of Brass in pocket

Zemaitis - sounds like "Clemaitis" NOT Zem I tis.