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♪Vintage SoulGuitars
Vintage soul. New stories.

Great guitars.
Even better stories.

Discover the collection of Richard “Dick” Plant — recording engineer, guitarist and a life spent in music. Meet the man behind the console, explore his guitars and find your next chapter.

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Guitars with stories to tell ✦Owner-provided photograph of an orange Gretsch 6121 guitar against a wooden wallIn the spotlight
Meet the owner

The person behind the collection

The guitars are only
half the story.

The other half is the person behind them. The sounds that stay with us. The instruments that catch our imagination. The next chapter waiting to be played.

Read Richard’s story
Some guitars catch your eye. Others make you stop, lean in and imagine the music still waiting inside them. Vintage Soul Guitars is about that moment of connection — and the people on both sides of it. Here, there’s a place for the person behind the collection alongside the instruments: what draws us to a guitar, why it matters and the questions that bring its story to life. Explore the collection, ask the owner a question and imagine where the story could go next.
Pye → De Lane LeaClassic British recordsSlipstream · 2025
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The orange Gretsch 6121 from the collection
From the collection · 1955 Gretsch 6121 Chet Atkins Solid Body
A life in sound

The music. The instruments. The connection.

Explore Richard’s own music and the era behind the first guitar in the collection.

Slipstream album artwork by Dick Plant, showing a stylised aircraft
Slipstream artwork · Source: Leo’s Den / Dick Plant
2025 · Guitar instrumentals

A collection you can hear.

Richard’s Slipstream brings the story back to the guitar. Its release notes describe an album recorded in his home studio, drawing on guitars from his own collection.

It’s a documented link between the collector and the musician. Details of individual instruments’ use will be added where Richard supplies them.

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Original 1955 Gretsch advertisement featuring Chet Atkins, Thumbs Carlille and Martha Carson
1955 Gretsch advertisement · Archive: Vintage Guitar and Bass
1955 · The Gretsch chapter

Character from another era.

This period advertisement places the Chet Atkins models in their original musical world. Richard’s 1955 Gretsch 6121 is the first real guitar featured in Vintage Soul’s collection.

The advert is historical background for the model, rather than a photograph of Richard’s own instrument.

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Hear it from Richard

There’s more to the story.

Listen to his conversation with Tony Lloyd about a life in recording and his own guitar music.

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Biography sources & image credits

Richard’s recording credits describe his career. Instrument-specific provenance is recorded separately in the guitar listings.

The collection

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The Guitar Journal

One good read.
A little more soul.

Monthly stories from the guitar world, ideas that last, and room for Richard’s personal perspective.

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A monthly pause for something interesting.

Stories worth coming back to.

Explore the journal for guitar culture, studio craft and the connections between old instruments and new ideas.

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