Bernie Leadon

Here is a piece from Reverb.com where they go through some of the gear the Eagle guitarists used during their heyday. Here they show you whay Bernie was playing during his Eagle tenure.

"Bernie Leadon primarily played a brown Fender Telecaster with a B-bender. The guitar has an interesting history; it started as an early ‘60s Tele with a white body and rosewood fretboard. Dave Evans, now of Evans Pull String Guitars, installed a B-Bender, and it was refinished by pedal steel guitar player Red Rhodes to have the natural brown look. The neck pickup was also a full-size humbucker. Leadon used the Tele in this configuration for the first two Eagles albums."

You can see him play it on this live version of Peaceful Easy Feeling.

"Leadon used a variety of Fender Deluxe Reverbs and Tweed Deluxes."

Here we have a rare photo of Bernie using a 1972-1973 Les Paul Deluxe. The Les Paul Deluxe in this period practically replaced the Standards. They came with mini humbuckers and a 3 piece pancake body. The reason why it was so rare to see Bernie with a Les Paul because he highly favored using a brown rosewood telecaster over his Les Paul

Here is a piece from Reverb.com where they go through some of the gear the Eagle guitarists used during their heyday. Here they show you whay Bernie was playing during his Eagle tenure.

Here is a piece from Reverb.com where they go through some of the gear the Eagle guitarists used during their heyday. Here they show you whay Bernie was playing during his Eagle tenure.

Bernie using a Martin D-28 for this tv performance of 'Train Leaves Early This Morning' in 1973

In a photo from the Flying Burrito Brothers' 1969 concert, Bernie Leadon is seen playing a black(?) Gibson ES-335 Electric Guitar equipped with a Bigsby B7. In 1965, Gibson started implementing block inlays on the 335 instead of the dots. It can't be a 355 or 345, because those have a Varitone Switch. The 355 has a different headstock inlay, too.