The styling was too bizarre for an upmarket instrument in the mid ’60s. The fact is, the S-200 was never an easy sell. What was this odd Frankenstein fusion of Fender Jaguar and Gibson SG? And how could a Guild-this wasn’t the product of some fly-by-night garage operation-be so flipping impossible to find? Those artifacts aside, there wasn’t a lot of information out there for a curious young guitar archeologist. My own fascination with the instrument was born admiring Zal Yanovsky in old Lovin’ Spoonful video clips and snapshots of Jorma Kaukonen, who allegedly used a Thunderbird to record Jefferson Airplane’s masterpiece, Surrealistic Pillow. It was crazy rare, and probably most familiar to record collectors who gazed upon the gatefold of Muddy Waters’ ’68 Electric Mud. Once upon a time, the original Guild Thunderbird-like its mythical namesake-seemed to only exist in legend.
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