Gretsch G6196T Country Club

Guitarist Alex Trimble of the Two Door Cinema Club has been seen using the Gretsch G6196T Country Club Electric Guitar during many of his live music performances.

Towards the top of this page, there are photos of Marr with his Gretsch Country Club guitar.

“Around 1984 I decided that I wanted to get another single cutaway White Falcon like the ‘Sanctuary one as I loved the way it felt. Unfortunately at that time I couldn’t find one let alone afford one and I came across a Country Club that had the same feel. So, I traded the Double Cutaway Stereo Falcon for it. Originally it was a natural wood finish so I got it painted in London by a guy called Roger Giffin who was a guitar customizer under Kew Bridge. Instead of white I decided to get it painted black because I wanted to create my own ‘Black Falcon’ as I just thought it would look cool. The black guitar, white guitar ‘flim flam’ in the ‘Love Removal Machine’ video were the ‘Sanctuary’ Falcon and this Country Club. I don’t think I ever played live with it with the wood front though. I think I invented the Black Falcon before Gretsch did! When I got it painted by Roger Giffin, the paint that he used was supposed to be black but sometimes if you paint a guitar and there’s too much moisture in the air ‘clouding’ can happen. The finish got a bit cloudy like a milky black, almost with a green tinge to it. But in fact that’s what happens to some vintage black guitars anyway so more out of luck that good planning the Country Club became a black guitar with a vintage finish. Something else that happened was that in December 1989 we were on tour in Canada and it was extremely cold. This guitar was in a truck with the ‘Sanctuary’ Falcon and the paint lacquer finish on both of them cracked. But, it was in a very attractive 1950s way, which made both the guitars look kind of sexy and more vintage than they really are. It was a fortunate accident! So combining the clouding paint effect and the cracked lacquer I ended up with a guitar that almost looked like it had been antiqued. Later on, as I usually do, I changed out the pick ups at the bridge as for a hotter one which was a TV Jones. In the 1990s or 2000s I swapped out the tremolo arm for a White Falcon one that Fat Rick from New Kings Road Vintage Guitar Emporium found for me. For a long time it became my backup live guitar to the ‘Sanctuary’ Falcon but was never my primary guitar. I just had it there in case I broke a string on the regular Falcon but I never did as the ‘Sanctuary’ one was so reliable that I never needed my spare. One final piece of trivia on this guitar is that in the 1980s Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera rented it to use in a video. He saw it in when I was having some work done on it and he asked to use it so I let him as I thought he was a nice guy and cool. It still is a very pretty looking guitar and one of my favorites.”

In this picture you can see Bryan playing a Gretsch G6196T Country Club Electric Guitar on stage

In [this interview](http://gc.guitarcenter.com/interview/t-armstrong/) with Guitar Center, Tim Armstrong says, "I played Gretsch guitars for a long time before the people at Gretsch got in contact with me. They wanted to reissue the '70s Country Club that I play, which they stopped making in 1981. I've always loved that guitar because I play a lot of clean-sounding punk guitar, and it always sounds very full-bodied. Even when I play it through a distorted Mesa Boogie, you can still hear every note in a chord. It's always been my favorite guitar"

"It's just kind of got that nice, a little bit acoustic sounding, a little bit of electric sounding. It's hard to play with feedback. You can only really do clean sounds with it," says Billy Corgan, at 2:00 in [this video](http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-smashing-pumpkins-billy-corgan-oceania-stands-up-with-my-best-work-507240/2), talking about his Gretsch Country Club.

According to Premier Guitar, Stewart used his Gretsch Country Club for his Eurythmics' days.

Used in his video Clubland from his release Trust with the Attractions.

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On the official [Gretsch website](http://www.gretschguitars.com/artists/richard_hawley), Hawley's artist page states that he uses a Gretsch G6196T Country Club guitar.

This guitar was featured on the "guitars" section on his official website.