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    May 03, 2019 4 minutes
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    Scotty Moore didn’t keep his ES-295 for very long and didn’t play it on many Elvis tracks. Even so, it was enough for Brian Setzer to dub the ES-295 the “ultimate rockabilly guitar”.

    Most agree it only featured on the first four Elvis singles. Having traded a ’52 Telecaster for his ES-295 and subsequently fitting a trapeze tailpiece and a Melita Synchro-Sonic bridge with individually intonatable saddles, Scotty chopped in the ES-295 for a ’54 Gibson L-5 in the summer of 1955.

    Later on, Danny Gatton was certainly partial to his ES-295, and he turned a young Joe Bonamassa onto them, too. Other notable users include Geordie Walker of Killing Joke, Johnny A and one of this

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