Larrivee playing artists?

[Mikeymac]

One interesting thing that I've noted (in a few cases at least): when an artist "moves on" from Larrivee, it's to something very high end, like Bruce Cockburn moving to a Manzer (mentioned above) or David Wilcox moving to an Olson (he played Larrivee on a couple CD's way back when...there are pics of him holding one on "Home Again" and on the cover of one of his live CD's...).

They don't move on to another guitar for "name brand recognition." 

[jmhyer]

Brad Paisley now plays a McPherson.

[Daddyo]

You have to be careful putting too much meaning into who plays what. Musicians have to eat and it's an up-and-down business so if a big name guitar manufacturer offers you free guitars and maybe even money to plug their axes - you take it. I also doubt Larrivee has the artist budget of Martin/Gibson/Taylor. I'd be interested to see who picks up what at home when the drapes are drawn. My guess is there may be more than one Larrivee.  :GRN>

[Denis]

You have to be careful putting too much meaning into who plays what. Musicians have to eat and it's an up-and-down business so if a big name guitar manufacturer offers you free guitars and maybe even money to plug their axes - you take it. I also doubt Larrivee has the artist budget of Martin/Gibson/Taylor. I'd be interested to see who picks up what at home when the drapes are drawn. My guess is there may be more than one Larrivee.  :GRN>

Agreed.  But then there are those, say Willie Nelson, that play nothing but that old Martin N-10.  And a lot of these bluegrass and country guys have Martins and Gibsons that date back to before they born.  If I had pre-war Martins and Gibsons I think I could be happy if I ddin't own anything else.

[Cowgirlie]

Western and Cowboy music singer/songwriter Juni Fisher is a new Larrivee endorsed artist, though not listed on the website yet

www.junifisher.net

Don't know how to post the photo, but thereare some on the website.

[Randy_R]

Looks like a OO-10 custom headstock. (later comment, I'm told its an Ls-09 with abalone purfling and a 12 fret neck and a jester headstock inlay, why it wouldn't have been marked a -10 is a mystery to me)



btw. in order to post the picture here, I clicked on properties for the web page photo, and then copied the url. then came back to this thread, clicked the image icon, and then pasted the saved url between the img tags.

[rustychicken]

you know, i've seen a few Larrivees on television, but i didn't always remember the artist. of course, Peter Yarrow, who looked like he was holding an L-09 on the Dylan documentary "No Direction Home",,,and the guitarist in, well i'm going to start another sentence.
the guitarist in Ricky Martin's band...i saw that on one of those shows.  couldn't mention him and Dylan in the same sentence.  :GRN> :GRN>

[Cowgirlie]

Yep, Peter Yarrow is a Larrivee guy.

[mazareth]

I just saw a singer/songwriter named Dorothy Scott. She plays a D-03RE as her main stage guitar. Not sure of the vintage. The serial # was 49,XXX and there was no model # on the label, and it had white bindings. The top was so dark, it almost looked like cedar! Way cool!

http://dorothyscott.com/

FWIW, she no longer owns the T***** in the photo on the home page.