Epiphone Hummingbird Pro Acoustic Electric Guitars

In belated 2013, Keith Richards informed the Wall Street Journal exactly how he created the proper textures for just one of Rolling Stones’ most well-known riffs: the intro to “Street Fighting Man.” He’d been tinkering with open tunings, tracking his tips regarding the fly on an early on Philips cassette device. But he had to utilize an acoustic electric guitar, because little stick mic on the ancient recorder couldn’t deal with the quantity of a power. When he eventually got the riff he wanted, he pulled in Charlie Watts, which introduced along an easy high-hat and tambourine.

“I had Charlie remain appropriate beside the mic together with little system and I kneeled on the floor close to him with my acoustic Gibson Hummingbird, ” Richards said. “There we had been, facing this little package, hammering away.”

He laughed.

“After we heard the playback, the sound was perfect.”

It just is sensible that i'd test-drive Epiphone’s new Hummingbird Pro acoustic-electric by tuning it to an available G, exactly like Keith performed, and hammering away on “Street Fighting Man.” Whilst tone doesn’t have the velvety warmth for the classic 1965 Gibson Hummingbird I owned as an adolescent, this budget Epiphone appears completely beneficial to its very inexpensive price point. And when you plug into an amp and fiddle because of the settings—no must worry about blowing down an affordable cassette machine these days—you makes a bright racket that is quite near the chiming butterscotch Telecaster Richards utilizes as soon as the Stones play “Street battling Man” live.

A Cosmic Vintage

The Hummingbird has actually hovered across rock, cosmic cowboy, alt-country, and also jazz globes like the capricious bird it was known as for since Gibson launched it in 1960. It was the business’s very first huge, square-shoulder dreadnought, built to compete with the popular D-series Martins.