

Many businesses are resuming standard operating procedures and Dave’s Guitar Shop is no different. On May 16th, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) published updated mask guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals, in a step towards normalcy for what has been a chaotic and difficult year.
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We’d like to thank our own Mike Turk, for 54 years of service in the musical instrument and pro audio industry, and his last 3 years with Dave’s Guitar Shop. It’s important to acknowledge the people who make the guitar shop experience special.


Harrison explains that when he played the Strat for the first time he wished that he had started playing guitar with a Strat. He mentions that he first wanted a Stratocaster because he wasn’t happy with the guitar sound available to him, but in the 1960s these things were not so easy to find. It’s clear that Rocky was one of George Harrison’s favorite guitars, as he was seen in an interview in 1991 discussing the guitar and how he acquired it. Strangely enough, while Harrison enjoyed using Rocky in the studio and on their television appearances, he never once played the guitar at a Beatles concert, though he did use it live during his solo career. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), and The Beatles (1968). After that it was used extensively during the recording sessions for Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. The first time George played Rocky with the Beatles was during the recording sessions for the 1965 single “Ticket To Ride”, which later appeared on the album Help!. It was his first Stratocaster, though he did play a few others during his solo career as well. When George first got the guitar, however, it did not have the psychedelic paint job, but rather it was a pale blue color known in the arsenal of Fender guitars as Sonic Blue. Harrison bought the guitar in 1965, when he and John Lennon sent Beatles roadie Mal Evans out to purchase two Stratocasters. George Harrison of the Beatles played many different guitars during his career, but perhaps the most iconic is Rocky, the 1961 Fender Stratocaster that is painted with psychedelic colors.
