[MF_Dearmond]

I was curious if anyone can post videos where a gretsch seems out of place from it's standard calm & plunky Surfy-Country twang style?

I have to admit, I have heard the band name Depeche Mode a million times in my life, by I never knew it was a Gretschy band!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAtRm1IrXsw

Marylin Manson's band also covering the same song with a Gretsch! (Half moon inlays and square nameplate on headstock, couldn't make out the model)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6fyhZ0G5E

The White Stripes also rocked an original vintage Gretsch White Penguin(!?!?) in the music video "Icky Thump".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReeVYTB5qng

Post up more Gretsches in unlikely situations please.

[j.s.c]

Wow Depeche Mode, I never realized that they were a good blues band !
thanks for that!

[araT]

This thread has a Placebo deficiency

Not their best songs, but double Gretschiness:

You Tube

You Tube

[Mortis]

I'm at work right now so I can't post (or view for that matter) any videos but, IIRC, Dave Grohl plays a White Falcon in the Foo Fighters "Monkey Wrench" video. I'll have a look later.

[Ricochet]

I saw Steve Hunter toting a Corvette during the last Alice Cooper tour. Not as spectacular as seeing him with a hollow body I suppose, but still surprising given the setting...

[HypotenusLuvTriangle]

I use my Gretsches to play thrash metal.

[drmilktruck]

Nick 13 of Tiger Army is a Gretsch endorsee.

[fjr_wertheimber]

You Tube

Foo Fighters with Serj Tankian from System of a Down doing a cover of the Dead Kennedy's "Holiday in Cambodia" at the 2007 MTV VMAs. Silver Phoenix, anyone?

[fjr_wertheimber]

You Tube

Yup, White Falcon. Knew I loved the Foo Fighters for a reason.

[fjr_wertheimber]

Originally Posted by MF_Dearmond

I was curious if anyone can post videos where a gretsch seems out of place from it's standard calm & plunky Surfy-Country twang style?

I have to admit, I have heard the band name Depeche Mode a million times in my life, by I never knew it was a Gretschy band!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAtRm1IrXsw

Interesting to see Gahan channeling his inner-Mick Jagger... also interesting to see the old blacktops... Seems like everyone plays HS Filters, TVJs, or Dynas... I liked the edgy, blues-y distorted sound, actually...

[Bobb]

I never though of Malcolm Young as a "standard calm & plunky Surfy-Country twang style" player.

[fjr_wertheimber]

Originally Posted by Bobb

I never though of Malcolm Young as a "standard calm & plunky Surfy-Country twang style" player.

Yeah, or Reverend Horton Heat, or The Living End, or Tim Armstrong from Rancid, or about half the Gretsch-sponsored artists, for that matter...

[Lizardkinged]

Sometimes I use my DeArmond 2000's for playing Pantera for the novelty of playing Pantera on a fully hollow. the 2000's have the right EQ, and pretty decent breakup/crunch driving the right amp for it. It's funny, but I have guitars more suited for playing w/ trem for that style so I generally use those.

[drmilktruck]

Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls played a White Falcon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9aBySJkRQ&feature...

[GretschGhost]

Not sure why you'd consider Jack White an "unlikely" situation.

He probably owns more Gretschs than anyone on this board.

He's also had custom not-Gretsches made by Randy Parsons. (ref: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazin...rs.aspx?Page=3)

He also owns a Diddy-Bo Penguin which he's played with Dead Weather on tour:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...her_bowery.jpg

Or maybe the custom Anniversary w/a Green Bullet installed inside of it (a la Randy Parsons, too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1FUpUkp60

Of course, there's always the King of All Jets, the Triple Jet (and yes, that's an actual COPPER top) again, via Randy Parsons:

http://www.parsonsguitars.com/triple_jet.php

Just sayin'.

[catfish72]

I don't understand this topic at all. A Gretsch guitar in the hands of rock musician is as good as any other. It is like saying a piano should only be used for classical music and the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and many others are something of an "unusual situation".

Isn't that guy, Tim Armstrong one of those "unusuals", yet Gretsch gave him a sig model?

Rant off!

[MoonshineCalbilly]

Originally Posted by catfish72

Isn't that guy, Tim Armstrong one of those "unusuals", yet Gretsch gave him a sig model?

Billy Zoom of the seminal Punk band "X" also has a signature model Gretsch... and I'm pretty sure we hear a Gretsch in a lot of The Dead Kennedys (particularly sounds like one in the DK's original "Holiday in Cambodia").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtq3-rAmTw

[catfish72]

I love Dead Kennedys.

[Dirtymug666]

Originally Posted by catfish72

. It is like saying a piano should only be used for classical music and the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and many others are something of an "unusual situation".

I'm fairly certain that those artists were an unusual situation in their time. Unusual doesn't mean bad, just not what you would typically expect

[WATThouse]

Gretschs ain't afraid o' nobody or no kinda music.