![]() ![]() When did you first begin playing one, and what attracted you? ![]() "The Gibson Super 400 has been your trademark guitar for many years. I found this on the web regarding Burrell and his Gibson guitars: Kenny sold his D'A through Mandolin Bros., an overpriced guitar store in Staten Island for something like $86K in the late 80s. He played the guitar through his Twin Reverb, and filled the huge auditorium with the sonorous sound of his D'A. When I went to the Felt Forum to see KB play at the Newport in NY Festival, Kenny was using that guitar, and when he played the first two quartal chords of his version of "People", numerous spontaneous orgasms were reported to have broken out through the capacity audience- both male and female! My father paid something like $400 for his D'A guitar, which was an early model made in 1935, which I inherited when he passed. He bought a D'Angelico from his best friend Duke, who was an excellent guitarist and jewelry designer, and designed the Art Nouveau design of the building on the headstock of the New Yorker model guitar. and used to hang out at his shop on Kenmare St. My father was a guitarist/songwriter back then, who lived on Elizabeth St. D'Angelicos were made by one man, John D'Angelico, who had a shop in Little Italy from the 1930s till his death in 1964. ![]() Smoother, more nuanced sound on any of his other records, when he used mass produced Gibson guitars. KB used his D'Angelico New Yorker on both of those albums with a DeArmond RC-1100 floating pickup. ![]()
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