Waddy Wachtel

"Session players are particularly concerned with their guitar gear since they must satisfy not only their own tastes, but those of producers and artists as well. Waddy was lucky enough at age ten to acquire a Gibson L-7 arch-top, and the next year he got another Gibson, a Bigsby-equipped by Les Paul. The Bigsby vibrato tailpiece was especially suited to the Duane Eddy tunes, and to this day the device remains essential to Waddy's technique."

At 2:48 they started talking about this guitar.

At 8:40 they started talking about this guitar, he said that he was told that it's from 1956 but when he opened it up he discovered that it's from 1957.

"He also owns two Fender Stratocasters-a '56 sunburst and a red one from '63-a Gibson J-200 flat-top acoustic that he always takes on the road, a Rickenbacker Bake-lite 6 string lap steel, and a Gibson Super 400 arch-top that he almost never touches."

"He also owns two Fender Stratocasters-a '56 sunburst and a red one from '63-a Gibson J-200 flat-top acoustic that he always takes on the road, a Rickenbacker Bake-lite 6 string lap steel, and a Gibson Super 400 arch-top that he almost never touches."

“I grew up thinking that only Gibsons were ‘real’ guitars,” he admits, “but then I realized that a Fender is a rock ‘n’ roll machine, and very important. I have another Strat that’s a ’63, and a ’53 Telecaster that’s gorgeous.”