Motown Funk Brother Dennis Coffey Gibson ES-345 1971
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This is Motown Funk Brothers Dennis Coffeys Guitar used on Marvin Gaye's "I want you" among many others including the Temptations, Martha Reeves, Ringo Starr, Quincy Jones, Jackson 5 and the Dramatics. The guitar comes with signed documentation, list of songs played on it, some hand written charts and picks all from the Funk Brother. Really a piece of music history, very clean, sounds and plays amazing!
Dennis Coffey -
When I moved to LA and started doing sessions out there, I still had my Gibson Firebird guitar. I used my Firebird for a while and noticed that a lot of the guitarists were using Gibson 335s. One day I decided to buy a 335 to use on sessions in LA but bought a used 345 instead. That guitar was in stereo so I had my guitar tech take out the stereo gear and make it mono. He also added a pickup phase switch to my guitar so I could switch my pickups out of phase which made the guitar sound like a Fender with single coil pickups. I used that guitar in LA and also used it when I moved back to Detroit.
Later I took off the pickup covers to get a brighter sound on gigs and sessions. I finally decided to put the pickup covers back on to get the guitar to sound like Gibson intended it to sound.
Records
1973: Jimmy Ruffin - Jimmy Ruffins – Polydor
o You and Me Together
o Boy from Mississippi
o Family Affair
o Tears of Joy
o Crying Laughing Loving Lying
o Super Brother
o Mother’s Love
1973: The Temptations – 1990 - Motown
1974: Instant Coffey
1974: Miracles – Do it Baby – Motown
o Do it Baby
1974: Quincy Jones - Body Heat - A&M
o Body Heat
1974: Lonnett Mckee - Lonnett - Motown
1974: Martha Reeves - Martha Reeves – MCA
o Ain't That Peculiar
o Power of love
o Sweet Misery
o Storm In My Soul
1974: Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna – Apple
o Oo-Wee
1975: Arthur Adams - Home Brew – Fantasy
o Home Brew
o We Got An Understanding
o That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be
1975: Eric Mercury - Eric Mercury – Mercury
o Pours When It Pains
o Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring
o Forgive A Fool In Love
o Love Enough
1975: Yvonne Fair - Bitch is Black - Motown
1976: Geoff Muldaur - Motion Reprise
1976: Dramatics - Joy Ride – ABC
o Richest Man Alive
1976: Marvin Gaye - I Want You – Motown
o I Want You
Unknown: Record with Diana Ross producing
Live
Jackson 5 - Century Plaza hotel
Temptations
Tom Jones
Mike Campbell - Mike Champion - Motown – Troubadour
Barbra Streisand
Frankie Avalon
Movies / TV
Black-Belt Jones
S.W.A.T.
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