Glen’s Guitars | The Original Glen Buxton

GLEN’S GUITARS

Please Note: As you will see, Glen did not stick with one type or model guitar. He also tinkered with his guitars, changing their appearance. This makes it very hard to set up a timeline of all Glen’s guitars. What I have done above is to create a short summary of the main guitars Glen used, into the best chronological order I can work out. I hope it is accurate. I want to thank a lot of Shiny Dime Facebook fans (known affectionately as the Guitar Nerds) for their help in putting this list together. I am sure this will be an on-going endeavor.

Glen getting his first guitar – A Roy Rodgers model – as a Christmas gift in 1956.

Close-up of a Roy Rogers ‘geetar’

Glen’s second guitar. Unknown model…with high quality strap!

Before Glen settled on the Gretsch Tennessean. he tried a Gibson (too bulky he said)

Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennessean – Earwig days

A color picture of the same guitar a little later (as a Spider)

Glen and the Gretsch at the VIP in 1965

GB (Alice Cooper band) with his now modified Gretsch. Using a spoon as a slide.

Pink Les Paul -NO….GB did not give/sell/trade this guitar to Jimi Hendrix (Photo by Skip Ladd)

Detroit. Pink guitar

Rickenbacker 330. 1969 at Wonderland Gardens. Ontario, Canada

Rickenbacker 330. At the Grande Riviera in Detroit 1969

Gibson White SG Custom (Love It To Death) Began using in January 1971?

“Glen’s main guitar was a white SG [Custom] with three humbuckers and a Bigsby B-5 tremolo,” said (Neal) Smith

67/68 model w/stars 1971

These two photos show the restored body of Glen’s Gibson SG Deluxe, done by Neal Smith (with help) in 2017. The original neck survived but was broken off and could not be re-attached. Some of the hardware is original.

According to Neal, it plays well. (Dennis still has the original neck)