Photo: Michael Putland
Rory Gallagher with his 1960 Silvertone 1323. He used this guitar in the studio a lot in 1973 while recording the Blueprint and Tattoo albums.
“In America, if you looked in the old pawnshops in the old days… I found a fifteen dollar guitar, a Silvertone, which is a Danelectro, and I recorded “A Million Miles Away” and “Cradle Rock” on that guitar.
So I spotted these things earlier than others. Now it’s different, because everyone’s sharp: they see you coming! When you say; ‘Can I have a look at that Danelectro?’, they think: ‘Oh, this guy is from Europe, he can afford to pay a thousand dollars or something.”