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Cale, Ronnie Wood, Dave Grohl, and Elvis Costello had been playing Danelectros throughout their careers, and now younger artists were getting in on the fun, too. Legendary guitar heroes like Joe Perry, J.J. With the Evets Corporation bringing Danelectro guitars back into production came a brand new fanbase for the distinctive, affordable instruments. Nowadays, a limited number of new and reissued Danelectro models have been constructed and released each year.

And these new owners wanted to make more guitars. Then, in 2006 the Evets Corporation changed ownership. The initial response was promising, but in 2001 production on Danelectro guitars ceased once again in favor of pedals. These new Danelectros stayed true to their roots as affordable and sturdy tools for musicians. ( Jerry Jones had also been building Dano-style guitars since the late '80s, garnering fans and appearing as a kind of vintage anomaly at the 1991 NAMM show.) That's when the Evets Corporation purchased the Danelectro name and began reissuing Danelectro guitars as well as building new lines of guitar pedals. In the late '90s, this wasn't such a common practice. In recent years, Bond Audio has rereleased famed Supro models as well as new inventions, and BandLabs Technologies has seen success revitalizing the Teisco and Harmony brands as well. In the 2020s, it's not unusual to see older brand names get purchased and reissued by modern companies. In 1969, as MCA's business model shifted to selling products to independent guitar stores rather than massive department stores and catalogs, they ceased production on Danelectro guitars.

In 1966, Daniel sold ownership of Danelectro to Music Corporation of America (MCA), which continued to manufacture instruments under the Danelectro name, mostly to wholesalers like Sears. Over the years, Daniel would continue to experiment with new designs, including the first-ever electric 12-string guitar, 4- and 6-string bass guitars, baritone guitars, double-neck guitars, electric mandolins, and an electric sitar. Multivox released its own tremolo-equipped amp, the Premier 66, in '47.) (Daniel's earliest is said to have been built in 1947, and he received a patent for his design in 1949. Danelectro's early amps were some of the earliest (and in fact maybe the very first) to include a built-in tremolo unit. By the time he launched Danelectro in 1947, he was already an innovator in the guitar world, having previously designed and built Epiphone's Electar amps.

Though most often associated with guitars and the 1960s, Danelectro was founded by Nathan 'Nat' Daniel (the 'Dan' in Danelectro) in New Jersey as an amplifier company. Even though they've long been considered by some to be student- or intermediate-level guitars, Danelectros have found their way into the hands of rock legends and current stars alike.įrom Alana Haim playing a Danelectro guitar at the 2021 Grammy Awards to Phoebe Bridgers giving her Danelectro baritone a whopping 16 thwacks against a prop monitor wedge on Saturday Night Live, Danelectro guitars have recently been featured on some of the biggest stages in music. Julia Steiner isn't the only musician to discover (or rediscover) Danelectro guitars.

Julia Steiner's photograph of her then-new Danelectro DC-3 and Fender amp. 'I have the picture from the day I bought it. True to her word, she bought it and an amp. Sure enough, the Danelectro DC-3 was still for sale a few weeks later when she revisited the shop.

'If it's still there when I come back into town in three months,' she told herself, 'maybe I'll buy it!' It's like a very symmetrical, clean-looking guitar.' But she was about to leave town and wasn't positive the electric guitar was for her. 'I was just really attracted to the way it looks. 'I never performed with an electric guitar all the way up until I was 21,' she says.īut while browsing at her hometown shop, something about the fiery six-string called to her. Despite playing guitar since she was 13 and owning an electric in high school, she considered herself to primarily be an acoustic player. Then she saw the red 1998 Danelectro DC-3 on the wall of The Guitar Emporium in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Photo by: Kevin Winter / Staff, Getty Images.Ĭhicago-based musician Julia Steiner of Ratboys wasn't in the market for an electric guitar.

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