The other day I was watching a music video, and it was set in world war 2, and the bass player in the band was playing a precision bass (the guitar players were playing period correct archtops), and I felt very nerdy for knowing that the precision was released six years after the war ended. It got me thinking, has anyone else ever noticed any other guitar anachronisms in videos or movies or tv shows?

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In the 1953 film classic "From Here To Eternity" there's an evening scene showing Montgomery Clift's character sitting out on a veranda with his GI buddies lamenting their sad lot as Army dog-faces. They're enjoying their 3.2 beer and one of the guys is strumming what for all the world appears to be an early '60 Fender Palomino acoustic with the trademark six-on-a-side headstock. The guitarist was actually Merle Travis (yes, that Merle Travis) and the instrument was in fact a modified Martin Dreadnaught with a Paul Bigsby neck. Neither Bigsby's nor Fender's patented headstock design existed during the time-frame depicted in the movie, the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

If I remember correctly, in the Buddy Holly Story, the strats they used were the big headstock ones of the 70's?

Back me up Arjay?

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"You can never have too many Tele's." A quote from my Sweetwater Sales Engineer

Possibly (I haven't watched my copy in a while). I do remember something wonky with the amps though.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Yep, they were.

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You think that's nerdy? I was a drummer before I was a guitarist, and the number of times I've noticed the wrong drums being played in... well, almost every movie that has a band in it. Sometimes it's the stands, sometimes the shell wrap, sometimes the shape of the lugs...

Now how geeky am I?

Cheers - C

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I noticed a glaring misplacement of a guitar in Back to The Future.The story is supposedly set in '55 but the guitar that McFly(Michael J. Fox) borrows from the bandleader is a Gibson 335 that didn't appear until '58-a Strat would have been a much better and classier choice especially when he supposedly plays with his teeth.

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Seeing as how how I deliberately didn't say the name of the song so as not to embarrass myself, I now hate you.

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the band in this video (1st at about 1:20) are playing guitars that are unusual,would that be anachronistic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMCFXuoxNg

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